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Jul 18, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
"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
This group of speakers got started with: "I want to remind each of you why most of us left the Jackson area." 🙄

"This development by D.R. Horton, allegedly, will be the very avenue that begins the destruction of Madison," Regina Edwards concluded.
Nov 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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. Flowers and his team are working to identify the Hinds County officials who were bribed.

Flowers appears to have ruled out the possibility that no one was bribed.
Nov 8, 2022 • 25 tweets • 14 min read
🧵 Declaring that democracy either is or is not on the ballot is too simplistic.

We are at risk of democratic backsliding, and many of today's elections will either increase or decrease our risk. I'll thread some thoughts. 1/ 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/
Sep 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 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
Sep 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
WATSON: Does this new law I supported prohibit me from continuing to offer my office's #PromoteTheVote program, which I also support, as is?

FITCH: Could be, or maybe not. 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.
Sep 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"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…
Jul 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Reacting to Shad's report, Madison County Schools:

➡️ Blocked social media games and streaming services like Netflix, even when students are at home
➡️ Bought a new web filter from Linewize
➡️ Blocked internet use from 8:30pm to 6:30am 1/ IT vendors like Linewize will be enriched if more school districts purchase more of their filters and services in reaction to Shad's report.

The administration said they also use filters to detect self-harm and sounded like they believe they prevented two suicides. 2/
Jun 12, 2022 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: I hope every Michael Guest supporter in the June 28 primary runoff watches this debate between @JeremyEnglandMS and Chris McDaniel.

Here's why. 🧵👇
1/3 of the voters in MS's 3rd district are black, and since the GOP primary was the only contested primary on June 7, every voter in the district can vote in the June 28 primary.

To that end, Guest & Cassidy should compete for all voters, both white and black. 2/
Jun 10, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: Michael Watson writes that "in Mississippi, you can always TRUST that your vote will be counted!"

Listed below are some (but not all!) of the reasons why votes don't count in Mississippi. 1/ Image If your polling place changed and you weren't notified, you will be offered an affidavit ballot, but it will not count. 2/

Jun 7, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Apart from the 70 precincts moved, voters in cities that don't use the same precincts as their county will have to remember to return to the polling place where they voted in 2020 and NOT the polling place where they voted in last year's municipal elections.

E.g. Ridgeland: Image For example, these are Ridgeland's precincts for municipal elections (top) and for county/state/federal elections (bottom).

(The western boundary differs between the two images due to an annexation.) Image
Jun 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 The MS Constitution says: "The right of every citizen to keep and bear arm...shall not be called in question." So how can we have a state law banning felons from possessing guns even if they're citizens?

Well, here's all I can tell you... 1/ Officers responding to a burglary call in Coahoma County in 1996 found Latrenda James threatening suicide.

They arrested James for burglary and felon-in-possession of a firearm. The firearm charge was dropped, and James was sentenced to three years for possessing the gun. 2/
May 31, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Not only does Mississippi have a shortage of 3,000 teachers, but we also have vacancies in law enforcement agencies throughout the state.

Michael Guest believes we should add young, energetic, not-near-retirement officers in schools throughout the state. Mississippi's schools don't all have sufficient water service for students to go to the bathroom at school.

But Michael Guest believes they will be able to prevent or stop school shootings through surveillance technology.

May 30, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: If you are a Mississippi taxpayer, then the #MSleg and DA Doug Evans lit $300,000 of your hard-earned money on fire.

Here's how. 🧵👇 Christopher Blount was born in 1981 and is clearly a meth addict.

Blount was charged with meth possession twice when he was about 20. Blount was sentenced to 5 years on the Grenada County charge in 2002—then, he was sentenced to 8 years on the Carroll County charge in 2003. 2/
May 15, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: @RepMichaelGuest represents the state w/ the highest black population and is @HomelandGOP's vice-ranking member.

Yet, Guest lacks concern about domestic terror threats against minorities, often skipping hearings on the topic, like the one below. 1/homeland.house.gov/activities/hea… Guest also skipped the committee's hearing on domestic terrorism threats in the wake of the January 6 insurrection. 2/
homeland.house.gov/activities/hea…
Apr 7, 2022 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: Marvin Howell's death sentence relies on a 1999 sentence to serve three years for simple possession of less than ¼ oz. of marijuana.

At the request of no party, a 7-2 MS Supreme Court proposes overturning precedent to block Howell from challenging the 1999 conviction. 1/ Howell filed a petition in 2016 challenging his 1999 sentence to serve three years for possession of 0.24 ounces of marijuana at the age of 17

Howell argued his 1999 sentence was illegal because it exceeded the maximum penalty authorized by statute. 2/
Mar 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
VOTER INFO ALERT 🚨 SecState Michael Watson says Mississippi voters need to check their voter registration status online "as often as you can."

The burden is on you to continually check your status in case you are wrongfully purged: msegov.com/sos/voter_regi… This is a link to voter purge legislation currently pending in the Mississippi Legislature: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo…
Mar 4, 2022 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
THREAD: Not only did the Senate pass SB2120 unanimously to raise starting pay @MSHwyPatrol to $45,950, but every member signed on to cosponsor—it's so popular, @DelbertHosemann joked @SenDTSimmons about it.

But the House wants to amend SB2120 with a lower payscale instead. 👎 1/ To start, a bit of history...MHP's payscale was originally enacted in SB2500 (2015), sponsored by then-Sen. @TindellSean @DavidParkerSen and a few other senators.

SB2500 provided a starting salary of $38,000 when it took effect in January 2016. billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2015/pdf/histo… 2/
Mar 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Why didn't Mississippi get a contract with Sea-Land Shipping? The Port of Gulfport supports 16% of Mississippi's GSP—sounds like something we should invest in!

But losing shipping contracts like this is a policy decision that we made on our own here in Mississippi. 1/ Until 2016, ships crossing the Panama Canal had to meet Panamax specs, and the maximum draft was ~39 feet. (The draft is the depth below waterline of the ship's hull.)

But now, the canal can service "post-Panamax" ships with drafts up to ~50 feet. 2/
Jan 15, 2022 • 33 tweets • 10 min read
THREAD: Multiple Yazooans say the city is not providing ballots to absentee-by-mail voters ahead of its February 1 primary elections.

A citizen raised the issue at a city council meeting. There was no response. A subsequent response to the Herald does not address the issue. 1/ As set out in the @MississippiSOS training materials for municipal elections,* absentee ballot applications must be available 60 days before an election and absentee ballots must be available 45 days before an election.

*sos.ms.gov/content/docume… 2/
Jan 14, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
A new abortion bill filed in the #MSleg would expand Mississippi's prohibitions on abortion to ban all abortions including abortions necessary to preserve the life of the mother.

See: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo… The bill would amend several a number of code sections, but I'll use the first section the bill would amend as an example.

The current text* of MS Code § 97-3-3 appears on the left, and the text as HB 580 would amend it appears on the right.

*casetext.com/statute/missis… ImageImage
Jan 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: I invite everyone to compare/contrast HB 437* with SB 2113** and congratulate the Senate for producing a superior bill.

As opposed to the House bill, the Senate bill does not:

☑️ Prohibit speech vaguely or overbroadly
☑️ Impose costly regulatory requirements 1/5 ImageImage ☑️ Threaten undue and draconian enforcement measures
☑️ Exclude protection for ethnicity, religion, or national origin

*billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo…
**billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo… 2/5