Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Editorial: Vote Denny

Northeast Jackson lawyer Dorsey Carson has run a very effective campaign for the House seat belonging to Bill Denny. Dorsey is a nice guy, good family man, and obviously very smart. Mr. Carson cares about social issues and clearly is a concerned citizen who wants to do more. However, character and concern are only two thirds of the equation as the choices Mr. Carson will make are the third part of the three "C"'s.

Mr. Carson will likely back Cecil Brown or Bobby Moak for Speaker. If you are in that camp or vote Democrat, then you see nothing wrong with picking Mr. Carson. If you want Republicans to take the House or pick a new speaker and were going to vote for Mr. Carson because he says the right things, ask yourself who he will support for Speaker as a Democrat. Mr. Carson seems to avoid that issue because when you get down to it, the choice he makes will be to vote for a Democrat for Speaker.

Then there is the matter of what happens (which I predict will be the case) if a Democrat is Speaker. When the Speaker calls on Dorsey, a rookie legislator, to vote to raise taxes or do something else that is poisonous to conservatives, do you really think Mr. Carson will say no? Do you think Mr. Carson will buck Ed Blackmon or Steve Holland? When you listen carefully to Mr. Carson's ads, you hear one thing over and over: spend more money. Spend more on fighting crime, more on education, more on this, more on that. No mention about different methods or what should be done differently. Mr. Carson does a good job of recognizing what our problems are. Crime. Illiteracy. Economic development. He knows they are problems, unlike some Democrats. However, there are no new solutions offered or different methods sought. Mr. Carson. Buzzwords taken from polling to appeal to conservative voters in a conservative District. Then make it home to redistricting where he can hopefully get a favorable outcome from a favorable Speaker and presto, you Republicans that voted for him find yourself in a district where the Democrats will treat you the same as those in Bennie Thompson's District.

One final question. Mr. Thompson wants to add Northeast Jackson to his district. What do you think Mr. Carson thinks about that little fact? Will he fight against his party and for his constituents? Just a thought. Just consider this when you are voting today in District #64.

Note: Yes, Mr. Carson advertises on this site. I've opposed others who advertised. I allow candidates of both parties to advertise on this website. If it seems this website promoted Mr. Carson, its because he created a bunch of ads, had a bunch of social events, and sent them in to me to post. He's worked hard for this seat and been very aggressive in campaigning. I will not vote for him today but he has earned my respect.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've lived in NE Jackson for 12 years and followed central MS politics for 25 years. I will not vote for Bill Denney. He's the kind of legislator, Republican or Democrat, who makes it a point to associate the "great unwashed" once every four years -- otherwise, he doesn't care.

The entire time he's been in the Leg he's been associated with one issue only -- voter ID. Given the liklihood that the voter ID proposal will pass, he'd go back in 2012 as a no-issue legislator instead of a one-issue leg.

Dude is 81 years old. Sorry, but that's just too damned old.

Don't know if I am voting for Carson, but I'll skip the race before I am part of sending Denney back to pretend like he represents people.

Kingfish said...

Understand and don't begrudge you one bit.

Anonymous said...

Go ahead and skip the race because you are ignorant about the facts. No, better yet, vote for Carson because that is who the other ignoramuses are voting for.

Anonymous said...

I asked Dorsey to his face at
Broad St if he would vote for
a conservative Speaker and he
avoided giving me any answer.

Then after being pressed he tried
to tell me that he considered
some Democrats being considered
for Speaker as conservative.

When I laughed he went into
his well-worn partisanship dance
and I knew his Speaker commitment
die had been cast.

My husband asked him about his
position on Init 26 & 27. He
didn't want to answer those
questions either.

We thanked him for the coffee
and went on our way.

What Kingfish writes above is
right. Dorsey will say one
thing to voters in order to win
but as a Freshman in the
House he will vote the party line.
Exactly like Brandon Jones did.

Anonymous said...

His name is Denny. And he's a Republican. No doubt about it. On all his signs. I'll be voting for Bill Denny.

stilettoGOP said...

I met both, discussed issues with both. Denny all the way.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish: Voted for you at Spann a few minutes ago. If you win this judge job, you can't quit this blog cause we won't have any news anywhere!

Anonymous said...

Can't vote for the one man "party of no" as I live in Brandon, but if I could I wouldn't.

He needs to move on, for God's sake.

KaptKangaroo said...

Voter turnout HIGH! All reports showing high level of turnout across the board...

Anonymous said...

Can't vote for the one man "party of no" as I live in Brandon, but if I could I wouldn't.

Yada, yada, yada. Thanks godness a vote by a voter such as yourself is drown out by the sea of Republicans in Rankin County.

Denny's record is as good as any other Republican in the Mississippi House.

Anonymous said...

I voted for Denny a few moments ago....his age causes me no concern whatsoever. You know clearly where he stands and he doesn't look down at his shoes when you ask him a direct question.

stilettoGOP said...

Denny had more passion and concern in his 81 year old little finger than I saw all over Carson.

Dude was FIRED UP. On the other hand, Carson was like, "yeah, so, I'm running..(walks off)"

Anonymous said...

I voted for Carson because he is a Democrat and will continue to do the right thing.

Anonymous said...

Doing the 'right thing' would mean that Dorsey would have to actually take a stand on something.

The only stand he made in his campaign was that Denny was too old and that, oddly, Denny was somehow responsible for the partisanship in the Billy McCoy house.



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