Friday, July 18, 2014

Melanie Sojourner fined $500 for failure to file campaign finance report

Secretary of State Eggbert Hosemann issued a $500 fine against State Senator Melanie Sojourner for failure to file her 2013 campaign finance report. State law requires legislators to file annual campaign finance reports by January 31. JJ obtained notices to the State Senator through a public records request. They are posted below. The Secretary of State's office said she was the only elected official who had not filed the required report.






41 comments:

Anonymous said...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The irony here is beautiful.

Anonymous said...

Good catch! Looks like the tea party trolls at Chuck E. Cheese's twitter page missed this one. What's the scoop? Why won't she file?

Anonymous said...

Disclosure rules only apply to opponents of the tea party! Somebody tell Delbert that Mel is exempt.

Kingfish said...

Probably because she is a micromanager who bogged herself down. Seriously. The McDaniel campaign had a fund-raiser in Jackson a few months ago. Melanie didn't deposit the checks within the required ten days and we are talking 5 figures. They had to go back and get donors to re-cut the checks.

Just think Gerry Dinardo.

Anonymous said...

Is there anyone with any degree of adult responsibility attached to Chrissie?

Anonymous said...

She was busy working on McDaniel's staff.

Anonymous said...

We have state lawmakers complaining about the election process when they have had the authority for years to change it. We have state elected officials who preach integrity while they blow off campaign filings. We have candidates who lose an election and continue to campaign around the state. And there's the tea partiers swallowing the kool-aid faster than Jim Jones followers. Maybe they should change the name to the kool-aid party. Oh Yeah!

Anonymous said...

Or Curley Hallman

Anonymous said...

She could have been "up most of the night" after receiving a call about Kelly from someone. Was it Mark Mayfield?

Anonymous said...

Melanie has not had a very good week. And I predict that within the next couple of weeks it will get even worse!

Anonymous said...

This is Cochran's fault. Somehow

Kingfish said...

Where is Enoch Sanders? We need him.

Anonymous said...

1974: "Intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, who surrendered on Lubang Island in the Philippines in March 1974, and Teruo Nakamura, who surrendered on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974, appear to have been the last confirmed holdouts."

2024: "Senator Christopher McDaniel, and Senator Melanie Sojourner, not seen in years, and just emerged from the piney woods in reenactment costume to concede the 2014 primary race to Senator Thad Cochran, appear to have been the last confirmed holdouts."

Anonymous said...

Melanie Sojourner also did not file in 2012 a "Statement of Economic Interest" with the Mississippi Ethics Commission. Af far as I know, the Commission has not contacted her about this violation of the law which requires candidates and office holders to file every year! Maybe she's just going to file every other year!

Anonymous said...

The filing deadline is May 1st of every year with the Mississippi Ethics Commission. According to their website "Anyone who fails to file within one year of the applicable deadline or who knowingly fails to disclose required information is guilty of a crime and can be fined up to $10,000". So Sojourner was supposed to file by May 1, 2013 for the year 2012 - SHE DID NOT FILE and it has been over 15 MONTHS! So Senator Melanie Sojourner is GUILTY OF A CRIME! The AG needs to bring criminal charges against her today!

Anonymous said...

3:13 Do you think the Mississippi Ethics Commission is being unethical by not doing their job?
Hmmm.

Anonymous said...

She did file for a permit to have a Toga party in MMMMMMAAAAAADISON

Anonymous said...

That sure didn't take long for Thad to receive the benefit for his payment to Dilbert. While Dilbert is as corrupt as the rest of them, at least he has some dignity in that he honors the terms of his payoff.

Anonymous said...

Come on Tom Hood - do your job or maybe Jim will step in and have to do it for you! At least Delbert grew some balls and fined her!

Anonymous said...

"She did file for a permit to have a Toga party in MMMMMMAAAAAADISON"

Thanks for the warning. We'll dig a moat around the city and draw up the bridges.

Anonymous said...

The local news didn't have any coverage of McDaniel's truth and justice tour stop; however, a bus did crash into a bridge but unfortunately it wasn't the McDaniel Express.

Anonymous said...

I read Der Furher's gave a recent interview in Tupelo where he called for the Republican Party to undergo a "purge"! I wonder what kinda of arsenal is in the bunker?

Anonymous said...

4:45pm: You sure didn't take long to lay blame to Thad for Sojourner's lack of responsibility. How about we hold Sojourner accountable for Sojourner's filings. And unlike certain FEC filings, this isn't a "screw up". It is a cover up! She is hiding something. Can't wait to see what it is.

Anonymous said...

She cost the City of Natchez $3 million by voting AGAINST a bill that was going to easily pass. She will be handily defeated by former Sen. Bob Dearing and none too soon.

Anonymous said...

If you goddamned kids can't play nice, I'm turnin' this fuckin' car around and NOBODY'S goin' to Disneyworld !!!



Have a nice weekend.

Anonymous said...

My gawd ya'll! You thad trolls are pitiful !!

Anonymous said...

"954. What a filthy low life mouth. Go to church sometime.

Anonymous said...

"PURGE": According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot - an average of 1,000 executions a day (in comparison, the Tsarists executed 3,932 persons for political crimes from 1825 to 1910 - an average of less than 1 execution per week).[76]

So McDaniel is a student of history, is he? Hardly comforting to those of us who are moderate, not zealot TP Republicans.

Anonymous said...

"North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un have each periodically purged their political rivals or perceived threats, beginning on the 1950s. The most senior Kim purged those who opposed his son's succession to the supreme leadership of North Korea. Kim Jong-un purged a number of high officials installed by his father Kim Jong-il in the former's first years in power, including, most prominently, his uncle Jang Sung-taek."

Has it ever occurred to anyone that a fanatic like McDaniel who speaks of needing to "purge" the Republican Party might be dangerous?

Newz 2 Me said...

Kingfish: Regarding your 10:24 post, since when is a check void if not cashed or deposited within 10 days? Did Enoch Sanders tell you that?

Anonymous said...

9:09 yeah....
Umm we kind of saw that way before this senate campaign battle was waged.
They seek to replace a secular constitutional republic that's based on Jueo Christian principles with a Christian theocracy/dictatorship.

No rule of law. Public hangings. You get the idea.
They actually want that citing places like china as an example of a more efficient form of government.







Anonymous said...

Really, this guy and his intense look and cult like following and ideological emphasis, along with talk of a purge, are beginning to get me quite concerned. We must never let this guy reach executive power. Seriously. Not funny any more. A fanatic who would be dangerous to our liberties and a real danger to minorities and anyone who does not think just like him.

Anonymous said...

Paranoid much 11:10? Seek medical help and demand good drugs.

Anonymous said...

"Kingfish: Regarding your 10:24 post, since when is a check void if not cashed or deposited within 10 days? Did Enoch Sanders tell you that?"

The checks were not void, they were late being deposited within the 10 day time limit, which is in violation, so they had the donors re-issue the checks with more current dates so they could deposit within 10 days of the date of the newly issued
checks.

Anonymous said...

What's the fine for husband stealing these days?

Anonymous said...

12:49 I surely don't know, however I am sure at least one of our illustrious former politicians can share that with you.

Anonymous said...

Is Melonie S. the girlfriend of McDaniel? I have heard whispers for months that he has been having a long running affair, just curious at to who the other woman was, and why the McD people are so holier than thou.

Anonymous said...

7:16, That's beyond the pale.

Anonymous said...

Has MCDizzle been photo'd with his wife since the 24th

chaz reid said...

I am a Cochran supporter, but personal attacks on Melanie Sojourner and Chris McDaniel and their families is out of bounds.

Kingfish said...

Well, let me see. It was only a couple of months ago but when the Thad/Kay story was all the rage, I was trashed all over the place because I would not allow people to make say on my site that they were having an affair and make other lurid allegations. In fact, a certain person whose initials are RM and is paid by the McDaniel campaign made it a point to trash me. Go look at Kim Wade's FB page if you don't believe me.

So you know what? I decided to allow it. However, what is good for one side is good for the other. If the McDaniel people want to say Thad and Kay are doing things, not a problem. I'm allowing it. However, if the Cochran people and others want to make certain insinuations and jokes about a candidate and his campaign manager, not a problem. I'm allowing it.

You clowns wanted it, don't bitch when I give you what you want. Now shut up. I don't want to hear any bitching when this is what many of you wanted to do. You were just so smug when you were trashing me about not allowing Kay/Thad stuff that you never dreamed the opposite could be said about your team.

You asked for it, you wanted it, now live with it.



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