The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority delivered an ultimatum to Jackson commentator Othor Cain: Put up or shut up and oh, save everything you got.
Mr. Cain made some rather strong claims about JMAA two weeks ago on his Facebook page. The JMAA Board of Commissioners took none too kindly to his remarks so it sent a cease and desist letter on May 7. The letter is posted below.
Mr. Cain blew off the letter in a Facebook video on May 12. He said something about how a hit dog will holler. Mr. Cain made it clear he will not stop commenting on the airport.
Kingfish note: As Mr. Cain's comments are the subject of a possible defamation suit, they will not be repeated in this space. So are the Commissioners really trying to shut up Mr. Cain or are they more interested in finding out who is talking to him?
24 comments:
Dorsey Carson....A friend the the Jackson status quo.
A public body cannot be defamed. That is black letter law. This letter is just a bunch of mumbo jumbo meant to intimidate him.
KF, you think Dorky Carson could help you procure those documents you requested, or advise his clients they should give you a copy? Just a thought.
A letter written for the sole purpose of trying to impress your client.
Why are you such a coward, Kingfish?
Just say JJ is a platform and our comments are free speech.
Grow a damn spine!
Keep it up Cain. They be a squirming. By the way, anyone know, Southwest still gonna control crash here in June.
There are several typos in this letter. "Sever" (they meant "severe") and "spoilation" just to name a couple.
Well the Kingfish and Othor have more often sparred than aligned over the years, yet both are targets of the JMAA. What does this indicate? A hit dog does holler - KF, you better be careful or you’ll get a Dorsey letter too!
JMAA brought such bi-partisan scrutiny on itself with poor (at best) management decisions. Seems as if the firings, contracting decisions, trips, withholding public records, runway debacles, etc. are coming home to roost. Hiring Carson as counsel almost in itself confirms what many suspect.
It IS telling that one JMAA board member with something at stake (a bar license, a CPA license) recently resigned. What does that board member know or suspect?
So, I can get a lawyer to send a letter "giving notice" to anyone to demand a person, or firm, "...not to destroy, conceal, or alter any documents, tangible things...relevant to the issues in this cause..." ?
Really? Somehow that seems to need a court edict to have any value. (Not a Cain fan)
Henley can't proclaim any innocence. He and Lawanda did their best imitation of the NWO for years on that board. Ask Carl Newman.
If they were doing what they were supposed to be doing, they would not be worried about the critics... Otha or Kingfish.
I didn't know there was such a thing a "liability in tort for spoilation of evidence."
I'll chalk the misspelling up to autocorrect. Unless I'm missing something, I believe the Spoliation Doctrine may give rise to an evidentiary presumption, but I don't think it actually creates liability.
Generally speaking, I'm more suspect of people who write 7 page letters than I am of people who receive them.
KF, next month you need to do a public records request for the billing records sent to write this frivolous garbage. As a Hinds County taxpayer, I'd love to know how much I spent on this chimeric masterbatory effort.
This is OUR airport.
If by "OUR" you mean the general public, I agree with you.
Last night I found the JMAA board meetings are now posted on the JMAA YouTube channel. Appear to go back about 3 months. I watched portions of the last 2 meetings and the commissioners seem a bit stressed....advising staff and the public that all is OK. It gave the impression that things are not OK.... God bless Paul Brown.
As a public entity, can they even claim defamation? Who is he representing? The board members, individually, or the JMAA entity?
Yeah, I definitely hope Mr. Cain preserves all of his “Lotus 1-2-3” and “WordPerfect” documents.
Jesus, Dorsey. This template is about 25 years old.
Mr. Cain is well within his 1st amendment rights to say whatever he’d like about the JMAA and the board as an entity.
Dorsey keeps taking on these questionable clients... first Rudy and now these guys.... hmmm
I hope y’all keep up the pressure. Can you imagine how well this airport could be if there was competency in staff and on the board? Since Hawkins is their “crown jewel” let the city of Jackson keep it. If I were the state I would give them 50m for the airport and move on. They would make it all back on economic development on the parkway property. Right now JMAA does not stand a chance to get any state economic development grants or any other state funds.
I used JAN for the first time in a year this month. Because the long term parking garage was closed, I had to park in the surface lot near the round-a-bout. Since I was at ground level, I entered the terminal at baggage claim only to find the escalator up out of service. Not wanting to lug a full-sized suitcase up a flight of stairs, I backtracked across the street to the parking garage elevators to find only one of two working. When the doors opened, 5 of the 6 lights in the one working elevator were out.
Just for kicks, I checked on the elevators on my return a week later. Still only the one working. Still only one working light bulb in the one working elevator.
I'm so tired of attacks that fail to specifically describe what mistakes were made and provide proof that evidence existed to avoid the mistake.
Add to that, the absence of better alternatives to whatever decisions made or policies taken are glaring.
11:12 AM - Can you please decipher your post. Thanks.
Libel hasn't been punishable as a crime since 1971.
I'm curious if that's how long it's since Carson's template has been updated.
Where state criminal libel statute did not purport to define the crime of libel but dealt exclusively with punishment, and where there had been no state decisions redefining the crime since the United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment was made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, leaving the law to be made on a case to case basis, the elements of the crime of libel were so indefinite and uncertain that it would not be enforced as a penal offense. Boydstun v. State (Miss. 1971) 249 So.2d 411.
Post a Comment