U.S. Chamber of Commerce business lobby back with lies
Is the Chamber going to get away again with ignoring the state’s campaign finance disclosure law as in 2000 when it poured over $1 million into Mississippi to pack the state Supreme Court with four handpicked candidates?
Then-Secretary of State Eric Clark and Attorney General Mike Moore, both Democrats, tried vainly to make the gargantuan lobby comply with Mississippi’s campaign law and disclose where the money was coming from. But they were blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals where the Chamber knew it had friends.
Doubtless, however, big corporations bankrolled the ads to implant a corporate imprimatur on this little state’s judicial system. Now, is Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann going to demand the U.S. Chamber comply with state law? It’ll snow next week if that happens.
The Chamber’s anti-Musgrove ads quote from alleged printed “sources.” One that hits me in the eye is taken from a 2003 column by The Clarion-Ledger’s Perspective Editor Sid Salter saying Musgrove spent money “like a drunken sailor.” As a World War II sailor, and on behalf of other sailors, I resent the use of that epithet.
Clarion Ledger
9/18/8
hattip Kingfish
Magnolia Tribune
