Party with Childers, Hood, Presley, Mims

Y'all Politics shares the details about a Monday night party featuring Democratic Congressman Travis Childers, Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood, Democratic Transportation Commissioner Bill Minor, Democratic Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley, and nonpartisan judicial candidate Kelly Mims (who has a picture of Haley Barbour in his campaign commercials). No word if Jamie Franks or Bob Marley were there.

If Barbour had listened to Democrats, we wouldn't have today's announcement from Toyota

What a great announcement from Toyota for Mississippi today. If Mississippi Democrats had their way, our state would have acted in such a way that might have prevented this day from coming.

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, 2010

These 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, 2010

Franks 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, 2009

Today 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.

A Mississippi Democrats Christmas

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MSGOP: "Mr. Franks presents no ideas, no vision, and no solution to Mississippi’s budget challenges"

Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White put the smackdown on Jamie Franks. As we mentioned yesterday, the Mississippi Democratic Party's reaction to Governor Haley Barbour's budget proposal was essentially: "No". Rather than suggest ideas, they only attacked.

GOP Chairman Brad White responded (ht Y'all):

“Jamie Franks shows us the difference between big government, big spending Democrats and the prudent reforms presented by Governor Haley Barbour.”

“Governor Barbour presented a comprehensive recommendation to balance the budget, improve the delivery of services, and not raise taxes. That's real leadership. And the Governor said he's willing to listen to other proposals and work with other perspectives, but Mr. Franks offers no constructive proposals, only negative attacks and tired political rhetoric. Mr. Franks presents no ideas, no vision, and no solution to Mississippi’s budget challenges. I’m sure Governor Barbour fully expects to work with a number of Democrats to hammer out a balanced budget and recognizes that Mr. Franks does not speak for them."

“The governor will have to make more cuts to our current budget, next year’s budget will be even tighter, and 2012 looks to be even worse. His reforms will balance our budget during these tough years, and when the recession ends, Mississippi will be better positioned to grow faster and stronger as a result - but not if we listen to Jamie Franks. His same old, tired, broken-down political rhetoric won’t pay the bills or balance the budget. He needs to sell his Obama-Pelosi style policies somewhere else because Mississippi is simply not buying them.”

Booya.

Majority in Mississippi also has some thoughts on this.

MS Dems become the Party of No

Chairman Jamie Franks responded to Governor Haley Barbour's budget recommendation. What is his vision for Mississippi? "NO"

He doesn't present any ideas on how to solve the budget crisis. All he does is attack the Governor. He says the Governor should cut his own staff. If he had read the budget proposal, he would see the Governor cuts his staff 12 percent on top of previous cuts to his office.

All his other comments are essentially: "NO"

We reread his statement several times to find solutions, ideas, vision, recommendations, just any kind of path or an ounce of leadership for Mississippi. But there was none.

This release is just another example of the wisdom of Mississippi voters in not choosing Franks as lieutenant governor. We guess the Mississippi Democratic Party has now been reduced to becoming the Party of No.

Mississippi Democrats: Sore Losers and Hypocrites

Wonderful posts from Majority In Mississippi, so great we wish we had written them, but likely more tasteful than we would have been, too.

First, Majority posts on Sore Loser Jamie Franks who thinks the 59% of Mississippians who rejected him as lieutenant governor in 2007 now want to hear from him on how that office is being run: Jamie Franks=Sore Loser

Then there is this great post on the Democrats' instant hypocrisy within in one email. The explanation of which is obvious in the title: Democrats Try To Raise Money By Bashing Barbour For Raising Money

Well played, Majority in Mississippi, well played.