Hide your daughters and wives. The Mississippi Legislature is coming back to town next week. Apparently the House and Senate reached a budget agreement. Something they could have and should have gotten done in the three-plus months they were at the Capitol.
Governor Tate Reeves congratulated the knuckleheads:
“Now that we’ve reached an agreement on the budget, today I informed Lieutenant Governor Hosemann and Speaker White that I intend to call a special session for the middle of next week.
“The proposed budget does not materially increase state spending, is fiscally conservative, and will help us to continue Mississippi’s historic economic momentum.
“I’m proud of the work we’ve done to reach this agreement. I’d like to thank Mississippi’s legislative appropriators for working diligently throughout the budget negotiation process. I’m excited to get the special session completed and look forward to quickly passing the budget.
“I will provide more updates next week.”
39 comments:
But a special session pads their pockets with more per diem and an excuse to get out of the house and spend quality time with their other paramour.
Let's go! GET It DONE Governor!
So the leg bought some clues and are fixin to get right back at it?
Jesus take the wheel!
Mississippi is a screwed up place
Yes, hide your daughters and wives -- and lock your liquor cabinet.
When was the last time they DIDN’T call a special session? I would propose a bill that states that those law makers pay their on expenses in special sessions.That would eliminate virtually all of them.
With the State Legislature in town and a slew of recently graduated Troopers we may have to call out the National Guard to protect our wives and daughters.
Lobbyists obtain additional funding for meals and drinks
Daughters and wives?
Mississippi legislators are notorious for being light in the loafers.
"Does not materially increase..."
So it does increase spending?
Just so long as the mens legislators aren't drinking with a straw who cares about all the rest of the noise about what they doing up in there? (IYKYK!)
A bill would never pass because they wont cut that gravy train. We need a referendum for the voters. If the legislators can not complete their job during the allotted time frame and the Governor has to call a special session, there will be no payments made to said legislators. Rewarding legislators for NOT doing their job stops.
"...is fiscally conservative..."
What is the total cost of this special session for them failing to do their job?
We all should pray for the Legislative body as they return to Jackson to finish their important work.
Hope the Guv limits it to one day. It’s bad enough they didn’t do their job in the regular session. It’s ridiculous we have to pay extra for the good-for-nothing “leaders” to do their jobs after the deadline. They should be penalized.
Get the wives, sisters, aunts, and daughters off of the streets. The annual “we didn’t drink as much as we wanted to” group is coming back to throw a few more down.
If they didn’t have the money during their session, where did they find it now.
Totle klown showe.
ticos better double their next liquor order.
They should, if the legislators still actually went there as they used to do. They have moved on to bigger and better places and if their experience is like mine the last two visits, I don't blame them.
They should not be paid for this because they ignored their job. Also, they should report to the Capital at midnight so they can really see how bad Jackson is at night.
legislators dont care about JJ restaurant reviews. none of them are gonna pay for it anyway.
thats what lobbyists are for.
As long as they allocate the funds to complete tying the Reunion Parkway interchange into I55 right now as the overpass is being built. Screw that up Hosemann and you can expect a unified voting bloc in Madison to oppose you at every future turn.
This is no different than union mutts doing little during the day and then getting time and a half overtime to get the work done, or double time on weekends/holidays.
11:14 for today's win!
They got rid of the state income tax on the last goat rodeo of a session, so I'm not surprised they haven't been able to come up with a budget.
"it depends on what your definition of is is"
JJ Claims: "They have moved on to bigger and better places..."
Name these 'bigger and better places'. There are finer places and more expensive places but there ARE no bigger places where one can lounge in front of a fireplace for hours or hole up in a private, low-lit room catered by pretty girls. This is the only place in the metro that offers certain amenities and nobody is trying to 'turn the tables over and get you gone if you're a legislator), where white folk are welcome.
If so, name one.
I see calls to defund the per diem and such. This is why we need the Ballot Initiative restored and at a level citizens can force change. We could limit the government and force the legislature to pass a budget (balance it even) before the regular session ends. But Dembert doesn’t want restrictions on his power.
Will the session be restricted/limited to one subject and if so, what will be the allowable elements of the restriction?
Don't simply say, "The budget". The budget contains a hundred items.
Does this special session bump the SLRP payment to their PERS accounts?
Non-legislator here, but I have followed the process for decades. Truth is, MS has received substantial amounts of federal money for a very long time and since the current Trump administration (and DOGE) took charge, legislators don’t know how much federal money the state will be getting in the future, which makes it hard to come up with a state budget - since our state is so dependent on it. I’m sure leadership contacted decision makers in D.C. before formulating a budget agreement. For all the commenters who think legislators wanted a special session to make money- they don’t make sh*#*t to begin with. Most of them want to do their business during the regular legislative session as quickly as possible and go back home.
The stale mate is because everyone's sick of Delbert. Ask around.
pork
Little Truth Bomb- The House of Representatives DID NOT SHOW UP! Remember that. I am not getting caught up in the politics of the building, but they did not come to work and just went home. That is not the way to govern, and the Speaker is the one to blame. I guess the mature thing to do is to pick up your toys and go home? All these other excuses are BS. I went to the Capitol to see my Senator and House member that weekend about an issue that was supposed to be addressed this session, and the Senate was there working. NOT A SIGNLE HOUSE MEMBER WAS THERE. I will never forget it and it pisses me off that they think so little of the taxpayer.
I guess they were too tired from the Super Bowl or something.
“Fiscally conservative” nowadays is cutting aid programs and running up 4 trillion in debt on top of that to give tax breaks to campaign donors. Merica.
So 40k to 50k in 3.5 months isn’t sh*#*t?? I think they probably do better than you think for the product they put out…
10:32...Are you just uninformed or are you willingly stupid? The House announced adjournment in disgust, saying the Senate had had plenty of time to come to agreements instead of using the old standing 'weekend practice' Delbert tried to use again.
Delbert and his special lieutenants farted around, stalling, protesting, disagreeable for three months.
Is Speakah White also arrogant and self-important? YES! But where we are with a government stalemate in this state is due primarily to Light Guv Hoseman.
was at ticos last night . watched a line of about 30 legislators steam through the bar and then through the kitchen door back to the locker-room for a big party with the lobbyists .
when i left i noticed a 80,000$ mississippi game and fish commission state owned and state tagged pickup truck in the parking lot.
im sure whoever that state fat cat was , he wasn't in there checking hunting licenses.
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