THREAD: Today's protest against vaccines in Oxford appears to have been organized by Dr. John Witcher—an MD from Flowood, pictured below, with a lengthy history of ethical violations that resulted in his license to practice medicine being suspended in 2011. 1/
The MS State Board of Medical Licensure's investigative director filed charges against Witcher in an affidavit available here: gateway.msbml.ms.gov/File/fileDispl… 2/
The 2011 affidavit begins with a recitation of background information about Witcher's prior incidents, including arrests for domestic violence, trespassing, assault, and other charges. 3/
The background information also describes a period when Witcher was ordered not to practice due to mental health problems. 4/
The affidavit then describes a 2001 investigation when Witcher appears to have been involved in unlawful prescribing of controlled substances to individuals out of state. 5/
Witcher somehow admitted to signing the illicit prescriptions while also claiming that he wasn't practicing medicine and that he was, instead, delivering pizzas for a living. 6/
This is admitting quite a lot. 7/
Witcher was allowed to resume practicing in 2002.
After that, the board's investigative division identified Witcher with reference to suspicious prescriptions of narcotics in 2008. 8/
Next, the Laird Hospital reported Witcher to the board in 2011 after they found him asleep and sluggish on the job. A urine sample found marijuana in Witcher's system.
(This is far from the most troubling thing in Witcher's record, but it is what led to his 2011 suspension.) 9/
The Laird Hospital report to the board resulted in these two counts against Witcher.
Scrolling back a few weeks on Witcher's Telegram profile, I see a great deal of anti-vax information as well as information Witcher shared from Sidney Powell and Lin Wood and—you all knew this was coming—of course he believes in Ivermectin. 🤦♂️ 11/
Witcher last week formed "MS Against Mandates LLC" and claims that Simone Gold from the anti-vax "America's Frontline Doctors" disinformation organization provided the website for MS Against Mandates, which recently went live. 12/
Witcher says he is putting up billboards. 13/
Witcher hopes you will join him in donating to his LLC. Witcher appears to be promoting his new organization by appearing on WYAB radio. 14/
Witcher (pictured below) is now affiliated with Baptist-Yazoo according to his current licensure data, although his FB says he lives in Flowood. 15/
Witcher posted this video of his protest against vaccines on his FB.
The "NO TO MEDICAL SLAVERY" sign 50 seconds in leads me to believe we don't teach about slavery effectively in schools. Slaves did not have the option to quit if they didn't like workplace conditions. 19/
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"My savior was betrayed by one of his chosen, and I believe we've experienced the same," a weeping Wendell Ladner told Madison County's board today, speaking against rental property.
"Judas was honorable enough to recognize the magnitude of his betrayal and committed suicide." https://t.co/FaBWhHlotz
Brian Flowers intends to contest his loss to Bennie Thompson and is looking for a lawyer.
Michael Watson is the go-to lawyer for delegitimizing Mississippi elections and for shredding black votes, but Watson is not currently available to sign up clients for election contests.
MSians overwhelmingly adopted Initiative 65, yet three of MS's four Congressional reps still oppose:
➡️ Decriminalizing marijuana under federal law
➡️ Allowing banks to serve cannabis businesses operating lawfully under state law
➡️ Allowing even medical marijuana *research* 2/
Moreover, the votes Palazzo, Kelly, and Guest cast against their voters on marijuana policy also run against their own purported view of government—they each claim to value deregulation, a limited federal role, states' rights, and individual liberty. 3/
🧵 Tate cracked me up at "I don't recall EXACTLY what occurred then" because Tate's memory is not bad enough that he completely forgot his 2011 campaign. 😂
Anyway, Tate says the thing he doesn't recall is former Mayor Harvey Johnson's fault. But the good news is that... 1/4
...Tate says Jackson simply isn't going to need to take out more bond debt since enough other funds and better forms of debt will be available for Jackson's water/sewer system to be repaired.
Great! Let's hold him to it. 2/4
BTW here are the remarks at issue from Tate's 2011 run.
Tate can't "recall" this except that it's Johnson's fault. If Jackson won't need any bad debt, I'll agree to settle and "recall" everything was fmr. Mayor Melton's fault even though he was dead. 3/4
Gov. @TateReeves is proud that he signed into law HB1365, which according to Lynn Fitch either did or didn't ban @MississippiSOS from continuing to offer Mississippi's #PromoteTheVote program as is.
For his part, then-Sec./now-Lt. Gov. @DelbertHosemann touted expanding the #PromoteTheVote program as an accomplishment he is passionate about in his 2019 responses to Ballotpedia's candidate questionnaire.
"In Mississippi, a state of three million people with the highest poverty rate in the nation, just about 200 adults receive welfare." —@ayewolfe
The page count of Mississippi's TANF manual is more than 4x bigger than the number of adults who receive TANF benefits in Mississippi. See: sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/AC…