Tunica Times AGAIN....Argh....

1 January 2016 issue....Surprise, Meg Coker is signing her name to her Opinion.  Thank you so very much.

I'm not going to go paragraph by paragraph through this opinion.  Here's the deal: Judge Lackey vacated the Primary election on 26 Oct 2015.  This was not made public by the Circuit Clerk until 2 Nov 2015.  Why was that and how many people stayed away from the polls because they were waiting for the Special Election?

Mildred Conley's letter is dated either the 5th or the 7th of Nov.  I can't remember which.  To say that Conley's letter was written "in mid November" is incorrect.  It was not until the 7th of Dec that the Gov's Office sent a response telling the DEC to get clarification from Judge Lackey.  What took the Gov so long?  Look elsewhere on this blog and you will find that I predicted Gov Bryant would not call a Special Election which he did not.

The point is: Judge Lackey vacated the Primary so there could be no General.  Oh, BTW, how about expanding on Judge Lackey's sanction of the DEC for not putting Boykin on the ballot when she won the Primary?  Who gave Judge Lackey this faulty information?  Is it okay with you to have citizens who are attempting to have fair and honest elections be taken to task on false information?  Have you any idea how much money it has cost these citizens to stand up for what is right?  Do you even care?  Do you really believe that Boykin should have been on the Primary ballot?

Meg, IMHO your reporting and your opinions come up with the conclusion you want and you write toward that conclusion instead of the other way around.

And here I will quote from your Opinion: "On Monday, Dec 28, the Tunica County Board of Supervisors met.  Their attorney, Melvin Miller, claimed to have been in contact with the Secretary of State's office and Attorney General's office over the matter of the Beat 5 Supervisor seat.  Miller told officials that he received an email from Phillip Carter in the Attorney General's office providing guidance."

Claimed?  Are you serious?  Are you implying that Melvin was not telling the truth?  Unbelievable!

To put it mildly, the only confusion and frustration is all in the heads of those who choose to be confused and frustrated.  The Primary was vacated.  Therefore, there was no General for the Beat 5 Supervisor position.

BTW, from your newspaper's OPINION article on 19 Dec 2014, you all still owe Michael Thompson an apology; front page above the fold.