Please post people who know who are endorsing, supporting or have given money to challenger Robert Smith on this thread.

Here's [/url=http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/eis_images.asp?ID=23819&Rpt=1] a link to Smith's campaign reports[/url]. And I've duplicated posts from the Truthwatch about Smith's cases that have to do with campaign donations:

From Pikersam:

Some notable donors besides Smith himself who donated the most to his campaign:

Wilson Carroll - Republican who ran last time for DA.
The Can Man - Hmmmm ?
William Winter - obviously delusional as he gets older.
Waller & Waller - This one smacks of conflict of interest considering the high court, with a Waller, granted all kinds of leeway to the Mayor, and his bodyguards. It was a Waller relative that told me during the trial this was just a Thompson political witch hunt. That should tell ya where they're at!

ladd 08/12/07 11:44 PM:
I just glanced over Smith's campaign report quickly, and a few things popped out at me:

1. Bill Minor gave him a little money.

2. Stuart Irby gave money to both Purvis and Smith (and had supported Melton).

3. Most intriguing is the coincidence that Statewide General Insurance on Lynch gave Smith money—and is the agency Melton took Jermaine Brunson/Butler to for the insurance certificate for the Wood Street Lawn Service, as we reported here. Smith was also an attorney for Michael Taylor, Brunson's friend and "partner" in the lawn service.

And aren't Miller, Hamer & Cory Melton attorneys?

Anyone know who owns/runs Statewide?

chimneyville 08/13/07 2:16 AM:
matt thomas owns statewide.And, MHC attorneys are in partnership with danks and cory represents melton in the meridian case
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OK, y'all take it from here.

Another problem with the Waller & Waller contribution is that it seems to violate Canon 5 of the Code of Judicial Conduct. Canon 5(A)(1)(c) states in part that: All Judges and Candidates shall not solicit funds for or pay an assessment or make a contribution to a political organization or candidate, attend political gatherings, or purchase tickets for political party dinners, or other political functions.

Count Marcus Wright as a Smith supporter. He called into Kim Wade to say that he wasn't at Ridgeway when 'the incident' happened. Of course, he can say that now that he's been acquitted. Regardless, he was claiming that no one from the investigation ever came and asked him what happened.

pikersam... Marcus Wright can talk really big now. The cat seemed to have his tongue during the Melton trial. In fact all three defendants sat mute. Certainly they have the right not to testify and not have their non-testimony held against them. But I don't want to hear from any of the three defendants AFTER the trial, when they didn't want to talk DURING the trial.

I recall that during the trial, several witnesses not only put Wright at the scene but named him as the cop that kicked in Welch's door while carrying a machine gun. I can't believe that FM would have a bodyguard that's a liar.

I can't believe that FM would have a bodyguard that's a liar.


Please, being a liar is a requirement! You don't really think FM would want someone who sees and hears all kinda stuff to be an honest person, do ya?

Truth, that is what I thought. I was wondering why he said he came up after the fact.

That said, you can count Mounger as a donor. He is the one of the main ones who got us into the Melton mess we are in now. Also, Ed Peter's contribution is listed just after Mounger's.

Then this morning Ben Allen had a Faye or Smith call in show where he proceeded to tell the listeners NOT to believe the stats being mailed around or that you read during a political race. Then he goes on to say something to the effect of, "if Adam Lynch wrote something you can rest assured it is true."

So which is it? <rolls eyes> Adam is the one who has had the best access to the stats and the history of the DA's office. Faye called in to Ben's show just after he said that to say she has put together these stats, and emailed them out to counter much of the misinformation that many are spreading.

Sure would like to know what Ben's motive was? If he doesn't think Smith as DA is a bad thing - a Melton thing, then we are right back to the days of him and Larry bad mouthing Johnson, and pumping up Melton before the election. I guess we don't learn from our mistakes?

What? Is he talking about the stats that Purvis was showing around? We know those weren't true.

Anyone have a tape of this show?

I still would like to see the source on Ed Peters' 90 percent conviction rate. I asked Smith about it, and he said he got it in The Clarion-Ledger. That's helpful.

I suspect it meant 90 percent of the cases he chose to pursue, if the number is correct.

We know what the backlog looked like when he left that office, and we know he chose not to pursue a sh!t-ton of cases.

That's what I am asking too. What stats? Faye's or other candidates? I know he threw in 'all politics' as a side note; but, he was specifically talking about the DA's race in todays show. What stats aren't we supposed to believe?

That's why I'm glad Faye called in.

That was a nice comment about Adam, though. ;-)