Jackson Jambalaya

Spending money on infleunce instead of quality health care.

So, these are our tax dollars once again going to Butler Snow?

When will the REPUBLICAN state leaders stop this practice? Wait, Haley and the good ol’ boys keep filling the politician and staffers pockets so BS will continue to get these tax payer funded contracts.

Word has it that Dan Jones would not hire BS and that is why Feel wanted him fired. That said, if you want effective lobbying, BS is the place. They own state government.

So....what is the total value of ALL Butler Snow's lobbying and bond contracts throughout the state?

BS owns all of the state leaders including Tater and Pheel.

$60,000 a year?? That's a bargain. In exchange for priceless lobbying efforts, Butler Snow will only be able to pay their light bill with that.

There was a fox named Becca. This fox guarded the hen house; feeding the hens, petting the hens, watching over the hens. This fox helped the Haley hen get really, really big. This fox lives in a hen cycle and the cycle benefits the fox and the hens. Especially the big hens.

Speaking of Butler Snow......

This law firm did more damage to the City Of Jackson than anyone in the past, present or future. BS moved from the very city that helped them become the premier law firm in the state. They were the "BELL COW" for Buster Bailey to strip downtown of it's core tenants. Bailey made deals with tenants that almost took him down---in other words,he bought the tenants by assuming their existing leases with hopes of sub-leasing their spaces. Bailey took a chance and MAY have won.

All this fascination with BS is somewhat misplaced. There are plenty of lobbying firms making as much or more than BS some of whOM do as good a job as BS, others that can't touch them..

And $60k a year is fairly standard for someone with significant or regular issues in the legislature.

The bitch should be aimed at any state agency, or school, spending tax dollars to lobby the legislature. The agency head and top staff should be able to address any issues the legislature has, answer their wuestions, and defend their budget. While $60k is pennies in a pond of the total budget of UMMC, what exactly does the state (on either side of this expenditure) gain?

Jackson has been blaming everyone and everything for Jackson's problems for how long now? How's that working out?

BY THE WAY...............

Buster Bailey listed the Butler Snow building with a real estate firm called Marcus Millichap out of St. Louis for a grand total asking price of $93,000,000. Bailey didn't list the property for sale with a local firm----that tells me all I need to know !!!!!!

As always, it's all about Buster......

This is a smaller part of a larger story— why do any tax payer dollars go to any state agency? MDOT hires a contract lobbyist (state tax dollars) ; the Board of Nursing hires a lobbyist (state tax payer dollars); the Board of Medical License hires a lobbyist (tax payer dollars). These are just a few examples, like this one highlighted by KF here today with UMMC hiring a lobbyist (tax dollars), of why our state is in trouble. The people have voted in Republicans in both chambers and all but one statewide elected, and thESE backroom, old guard tricks keep happening. When will our Republican leaders start acting like conservatives and put a stop to this. A bill could be passed in January to stop all of this by February but it won’t happen. Chris McDaniel is a fraud but at least he would take a stand against this BS.

I propose that UMMC instruct its lobby team to cause the legislature to enact legislation to expand the Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Health Care Act and to create a state run health exchange to operate under the AHCA.

It doesn't really matter who the lobbyist is. UMMC has its own lobbyist when Ole Miss already has one through the Foundation and UMMC is paying one directly.

11:48,

You need to spell out BULL SHIT (BS)------it may get confused with BUTLER SNOW (BS).

WOW.....what a remarkable coincidence !!!!!!!!!

I propose that UMMC instruct its lobby team to cause the legislature to enact legislation requiring that any insurer hired as the administrator for the state employee, teacher, retiree health plan also participate as an insurer in Mississippi's individual market health exchange under the AHCA.

Let me get this straight:

State agencies that are directed and controlled by the legislature hire private agencies to speak for them to the legislature and all three (the legislature, the lobbying firm and the state agency) are paid by the tax payers?

I can't figure this out. Guess its why I don't know whether to scratch my watch, or wind my ass!

11:48 it’s sad, but a lobbyist is just about required to do business at the legislature for local governments. Legislators want to be taken care of and the playoffs are washed through lobbying fees.

Sam, stop making sense!

So Ole Miss has a lobbyist, the Ole Miss foundation has a lobbyist, and the Ole Miss Medical Center has a lobbyist.

Why am I not surprised?

Yet another example of how the only source/s of income in Mississippi are government related. There is virtually no private sector job creation and government is our biggest employer, including "law" firms like BS. When are we, as a state, going to wake up and get a grip on the fact that we've got to figure out a way to create jobs and actually grow the economy beyond government and those who nurse from its teat. MDA and "Feel" say they're doing that, but we all know that's just an optically driven dog and pony show.

State $ going in circles to same ole cronies...
Same ole situation...Now, go out and play!

God Bless

@11:22 PM how would you grow the economy? PUT UP.