Billy Pegram is a proven leader. He was willing to face hard issues and deal with them. When he left office four years ago, the County had money in the bank (millions of dollars). He left the new board with resources to be able to continue to operate the County effectively. Under Billy Pegram the County's finances were able to be audited. Why is it that James Dunn is fighting so hard to keep an honest, proven leader who won the election off of the Board? Why doesn't James Dunn want a man with integrity on the Board?
Another blog has posted in part the
following:
“Tonight's [January 14, 2016] meeting began
with Board Attorney John Perry explaining his research surrounding the Beat 5
Supervisor position. Perry has also requested an Attorney General's
Opinion on the same.
From what Perry reported, it was clear that Billy Pegram is not the Supervisor for Beat 5. . . . . “
From what Perry reported, it was clear that Billy Pegram is not the Supervisor for Beat 5. . . . . “
James Dunn will do whatever is required to
keep Billy Pegram out of office. What is
James Dunn trying to hide? He is
attempting to manipulate the election process.
James Dunn would rather do away with elections and just anoint himself “President”
of Tunica County. How can Mr. Pegram win the
election and be certified and ANYONE think it is right that the LOSER is
continuing to serve? If Mac Daley
is paid anything, James Dunn and the others who vote to pay him should be
required to reimburse the County. Tax dollars
should not be used to paid those who lost the election. What would James Dunn and crew be saying if
Mac Daley had won the election and Billy Pegram was sitting at the table
voting?
James Dunn has been around for
decades. Surely, by now, he knows the
law. He simply has no excuse for
violating any law. The taxpayers have
paid tens of thousands of dollars for Mr. Dunn to attend literally hundreds of
meetings and seminars about government and laws. Mr. Dunn himself solicited an opinion from the
Attorney General in order to verify that the Board acted illegal with regard to
the housing program. Check out this link
from the Attorney General’s website:
JAMES DUNN KNOWS HOW TO GET AN ATTORNEY
GENERAL’S RULING. (Another topic for
another day – should James Dunn himself be involved in housing in Tunica County
as he is a Supervisor and his non profit has dealings with Tunica County? Hmmmm?)
So, why did James Dunn not get an Attorney
General opinion back in November? Why
would he wait until now? An “informal
opinion” (telephone call) is meaningless.
Oh,
and by the way, the Attorney General should NOT be issuing any opinion anyway
at this time. Not
only should Mr. Dunn know this, but we would all think Mr. Perry, our Board’s FIFTH
attorney in 3 years, would know this.
All you have to do is read the Attorney General’s
webpage (assuming you don’t want to take the time to look at the actual
law). From the Attorney General’s
webpage:
“The Attorney
General is required by Section 7-5-25 to provide an opinion in writing to
certain public officials and agencies “when requested in writing, upon any
question of law relating to their respective offices.”
Section 7-5-25 limits the Attorney
General’s responsibility and authority to provide official opinions in
several respects:
1.
Official opinions are provided only to the public officials or
boards or agencies designated by statute.
2.
The Attorney General may only address questions of law related
the office of the requestor, not questions of law which relate to other
officials or their offices.
3.
The question of law must relate to future action.
4.
The matter which is the
subject of the request must not be in litigation.”
Don’t believe
us - here is the link so you can read it yourself: http://www.ago.state.ms.us/divisions/opinions-and-local-government-2/
Someone needs
to make sure the Attorney General’s office has all of the facts this time
including that the action of the Board has already been taken and is being
litigated.
It seems as though incompetent (at the best – more likely
criminal) public officials with less than competent advice will continue. Sad, very sad.
They are scared of him because he will not sit idly by and continue to break laws/rules at their discrimination.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the articles in this weeks Tunica Times Mr Pegram has taken action and Mr Jones also....maybe the fiasco will soon be over.... King James may be de-throned or at least put in his place ...what arrogance... If one digs enough one will probably find underlying motive behind his actions... James Dunn does nothing that doesn't benefit himself in some way.
ReplyDeletejames dunn runs on the democratic ticket/holds his office as supervisor as a Democrat. In doing this he is and HAS BEEN in direct violation of the federal Hatch Act by being on the board/in charge/Director of his housing non-profit which recieves federal grants and funding. The federal law is very clear on this yet FOR YEARS not one thing has been done about it or him....
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