Thursday, June 8, 2023

Hickingbottom is OUT!

Bob Hickingbottom will have to run for Governor another day. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Bob Hickingbottom waited too long to challenge the Mississippi Democratic Party's disqualification of him in the gubernatorial primary. The opinion is posted below. 

31 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Democrats own the court system!

Anonymous said...

Too long? Last time I checked we are very far from the election, so I don't know how this is a moot issue, and dude definitely has standing so what gives?!

This is pure election interference.

Anonymous said...

A headline:

“Mississippi Democrats go to Supreme Court to Remove Black Man from Gubernatorial Ballot”

Liberal media won’t do it—not for this political party.

Anonymous said...

This is racist-

Anonymous said...

Why would anyone want to be a democrat anyway?

Anonymous said...

Big loss for the Republicans.

Anonymous said...

Presley loses in November. The notion he can do what Jim Hood couldn't with only a fraction the funding is laughable.

Anonymous said...

Headline: Mississippi Republicans outraged as black man kicked off ballot.

That’s not a headline that’s ever been printed before. It’s a new day that so many here have completely ended their racist and bigoted thinking and are outraged over the fact that a black man was excluded from a ballot. Now get back to gerrymandering the voting districts to limit their voting power.

Anonymous said...

This is a democracy. We can't have just any old shirt-tail wannabe politician-types running for office.

Anonymous said...

Wonder how much it took to buy them off? Part of the cut being sent by Biden and Co.

Anonymous said...

Big loss for fair election procedures.

Anonymous said...

too long
not
to long

Anonymous said...

Democrats admitted in their filing to the Supremes that they disqualified Hickingbottom, and the other black candidate, because they wanted to clear the field for Presley and needed to 'unite' the party for the November electio

IF the republicans admitted to anything as blatant as this - forgetting the racial aspect of it - the Democratic Mouthpiece claiming to be a non-profit and non-partisan "NEWS" source would be shouting in the streets. Throw in the fact that the Democrats needed to remove the black candidate hoping to help the white chosen one ---- while at the same time depending on the black vote to support their chosen 'white golden knight' ---- and the story would have attracted national media to join in with Mississippi Today in lambasting the Republicans if the case was reversed.

But alas, there is no peep from the Presley mouthpiece. Not even Anna Wolfe and her backchannel bothered to look at the bogus basis on which Chairman Irvin used to 'clear the field' which was totally illegal. But of course to the Democrats, illegality doesn't matter.

MS Democratic Party did not follow the law regarding the deadline to file their candidates qualifing papers - ignored it, but didn't receive even a slap on the hand.

MS Democratic Party did not file the May Campaign Finance Report, as required by law to be done on May 10th (and still has not been filed) but no slap on the hand here.

MS Democratic Party makes up some bullshit as a way to disqualify the black guys they don't want, claims a violation of not timely filing the contest in court - butt kicks the black guy out of the way.

Priceless.

Anonymous said...

@3:05

"... to remove ONLY Black Candidate..."

Mississippi Democrats took their efforts to remove the only black candidate for Governor from the ballet, despite Mississippi having the highest percentage of black voters of any state...

Anonymous said...

3:42 Bingo. this was gop's big opportunity to drain presley's already thin pockets before the general. not saying he'll win, but he's a bigger threat than jim hood was.
if he plucks away at all of tater's enemies, you've got a real dog fight.

Anonymous said...

Cue the Demo truck driver…. Lol

Anonymous said...

Now Presley will have no one else to blame when he gets his ass whipped.

Anonymous said...

A bigger threat than Jim Hood was? A bigger threat than a four term Attorney General who didn't need to drop a single penny establishing name recognition in the state? A bigger threat running against an battleship funded incumbent versus Hood's running for an open office? Give us a break and save the naïveté act for the Barksdaler crowd.

Anonymous said...

June 8, 2023 at 4:57 PM
LMAO no he's not. And I voted for Hood. This time I'm voting for Reeves.

Anonymous said...

What I haven't heard from Higginbottom is why he missed a deadline that was seemingly a no-brainer & easy to meet.

Anonymous said...

6:49, Bennie has endorsed Presley but didn't endorse Hood. If the national Dems send buckets of money, Tate is toast.

Anonymous said...

June 8, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Well there's the second reason I won't vote for Presley.

Anonymous said...

Obviously most of the folks on here refuse to actually read. He had a deadline to appeal within a certain amount of days and he didn’t. Any competent attorney could have told him this but he is a shell of a candidate and doesn’t actually run for his own benefit. He just runs because Republicans pay him to run.

Anonymous said...

Presley was sore afraid of a debate.

Anonymous said...

4:39

We know it is you, Russ. You should really review campaign finance report requirements more carefully.

Anonymous said...

John Reeves, Esquire, never has been a very bright bulb. And he's about as sharp as a butter-knife.

But, he's on his way to the bank. Again.

Anonymous said...

@4:41pm
Tutu true, Higginbottom should have competed in Ballet, not Ballot.

Some slips are Freudian, Ballet International is in Jxn, after all.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the Democrats of old.

Anonymous said...

@8:05pm
So GOP paid him too early, hence he appealed his rejection too late? If he was compensated, the payer would have prompted his timely performance and paid on completion.

Anonymous said...

12:40 there's something called a deposit. He was too busy blowing that, that’s why he missed the deadline.

Anonymous said...

658, I would bet that Hickingbottom missed the deadline because he either (1) didn't know there was a deadline (he's not a lawyer, or an A- student either) or (2) he had to raise some money in order to be able to hire a lawyer. The amount of time the law allows to file a complaint was in this case less than a week. To raise the money to retain a lawyer, who would then have to put together a full-fledged detailed brief is difficult for even the best of candidates.

Despite the beliefs expressed here and elsewhere, the Repubs weren't paying for this candidate's entry into the race or for his legal fees.

But whatever, the Democrats made up a reason to oust him to give their chosen white haired candidate a free ride to November hoping that would be the case - that he didn't have the cash to hire a lawyer and fight them in court. They won, as they often do, by skirting the law (or in this case, flouting it) and hoping that a technicality will give them a free pass.


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