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Jackson elections: Newcomer bests incumbent as 2 council seats decided

Jackson runoff election: Incumbent Tillman ousted, Ward 4 decided by slim margin

Mississippi politicians continue to enrich themselves with campaign funds, documents show

JACKSON • Mississippi politicians continue to personally profit from their campaign funds, new state filings show, a practice that’s illegal in many other states and at the federal level. In November, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney paid himself $30,000 from his campaign account. “Personal,” Chaney wrote as the purpose of the expenditure, according to his finance report filed last week. Before he wrapped up a 16-year career in the state Senate last year, J.P. Wilemon, a Democrat from Belmont, pocketed $12,016 that was leftover in his campaign account, a filing shows. Lawmakers passed campaign finance reforms in 2017 following embarrassing reports by the Clarion Ledger that showed how officials had spent donations on everything from children’s parties, to cars, to an $800 pair of cowboy boots. Yet a grandfather clause inserted into the legislation essentially let the unregulated spending continue – as long as politicians used money raise

Readers, here are your top complaints for Festivus 2020

Readers, here are your top complaints for Festivus 2020 The airing of grievances was more cathartic than ever this year.     The alternative holiday known as Festivus can be traced to the classic 1997 episode of Seinfeld called “The Strike.” (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television Inc.) Updated Jan. 19 Why are we and others around the world still celebrating Festivus, a made-up holiday from a beloved ’90s Seinfeld episode? It’s because we like it. It’s funny. It’s a good way to see what’s on people’s minds in a given year, because there is no Festivus tradition more important than “the airing of grievances.”

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