Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Director Sam Hall, just under two months ago, criticized Mississippi's policies toward Toyota and suggested Toyota was years away from coming to Mississippi, "if ever".
Even in the case of Toyota, who has failed to hold up their end of the bargain and who look like they are years away from coming to the state, if ever. Nonetheless, we continue to pay on their debt services. - Sam Hall: April 23, 2010These comments echoed the criticisms of Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Franks earlier this year.
In the meantime, the State of Mississippi is hurting, and we are continuing to pay the debt services on a deal Gov. Barbour struck with Toyota despite the automakers’ failure to fulfill their obligations. Recalls for Camry’s have dominated the news. Now comes another round of recalls, which is a harbinger of more fiscal woes for the company. These recalls affect the Prius, the model expected to be built in Mississippi. The longer Toyota struggles financially, the longer it will be before they open the Mississippi plant. And the longer Mississippians will continue to throw their tax dollars at an empty site in North Mississippi. Gov. Barbour needs to go back to Toyota and tell them that they should pay their own debt services until the time they can open the Mississippi plant. - Jamie Franks: February 8, 2010Franks had said the same a couple of months before that.
Today, we’re spending tens of millions of tax dollars on debt services for Toyota, and we have not one job to show for it. None of this is smart fiscal policy, and it obviously isn’t effective job creation policy either. - Jamie Franks: December, 11, 2009Today is a day to celebrate. First that more jobs are coming to Mississippi. And second that Republican Haley Barbour is in charge, and not Democrats who would have cut and run and cost us the deal they could not have even attracted to begin with. Jamie...it IS effective job creation policy.
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