by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today September 13, 2022 Text messages entered Monday into the state’s ongoing civil lawsuit over the welfare scandal reveal that former Gov. Phil Bryant pushed to make NFL legend Brett Favre’s volleyball idea a reality.
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HamnerPam Brett Favre is a retired NFL quarterback Hall of Famer. He did not have to defraud money from welfare to build a volleyball court for his alma mater. He's getting millions and millions of dollars. He could have used his own money to make a volleyball court
Lock them Both Up and Kick Brett Favre out of the Football Hall of Fame!
JeffBezos you don't have a tweet admonishing welfarequeen BrettFavre & lyin' crooked thief PhilBryantMS? BrettFavre WelfareFraud PhilBryant JacksonWaterCrisis
وانتبه جيدا،فان الملاعب الرياضية جزء اساسي من نجاح الطلبة في حياتهم ، وهي ليست بديل عن الرعاية الصحية نهاءيا
الناجحون يهمهم الحلول الناجحة اكثر من المشاكل التي لن تبقى والحل هو بإعطاء المواطنون مع السادة المنتخبون حق الرقابة المالية يوميا، مع إعطاء تقارير مالية يومية الى الجهات المالية الرقابية الحكومية لتحقيق الحياة الافضل
Don’t engage in whataboutism. Take it case by case and look at the evidence. It’s not about owning the libs or repubs. It’s about restoring equitable law and order, along with what ever moral high ground is out there.
cupojan Brett, you owe the poor in Mississippi $$$, an apology and help. How could you do this for a volleyball court?😡😡😡
The people who are eligible to receive these funds are subjected to intrusive questioning, belittled, and then denied benefits. I guess Farve and company sleep well knowing thousands of children are going hungry. They belong in jail.
LockThemAllUp
Is this the swamp that mschlapp keeps talking about?
JoeNunya777 Hall of fame and hall of shame… Thanks Brent. /s
Like 336 of his errant passes, Brett Favre’s texts have been intercepted
That must be where the money went that was supposed to be invested in water infrastructure.
This is fraud. Brett Favre and all these officials need to go to jail.
Last time I checked misuse of Federal Funds was a felony. Where’s the DOJ?
You spelled 'steal' wrong.
ForgiveUsPls
ForgiveUsPls
Lock ‘em up!!!!
Time to charge Bryant and Fabre
I will say it again. Mississippi is a poorly run red state which ranks at the bottom of all social and economic development metrics. To call it a 3rd world state is an insult to 3rd world countries.
Lock these cayenne nex up! Brett too!
Wow! Favre has quite the legacy, dicpics & stealing from the poor. Nancy New, wonder if all her friends are thieves too, (yes). Phil Bryant & Tate Reeves we already know they’re as squeaky clean as the filthy, rotten pipes of the Jackson,MS water system.
NFL - are you going to do ANYTHING to Brett Farve for stealing millions in welfare funds from the needy in Mississippi?
lawindsor Get. Him.
lawindsor Trump family did it. Why can’t they?
lawindsor Texts messages.
Disgusting and disgraceful. I hope more arrests are coming.
lawindsor No surprise there
Not the 1st time Brett incriminated himself with text messages.
Mississippi ok with this? How about paying Favre for speeches he never made, taking away welfare funds?
Another con-artist con-servative, stealing from poorest of the poor while gaslighting their citizens to believe in the “moral fiber”. How many more Mississippians are going to keep trusting these sellout neocons? 4 more decades? LOL
The SouthernMissVB should pay the tax payers back as well as lose their credentials. America has enough educated thieves no thanks to Harvard
When are 90% of people going to wake up and realize that time change.
Love the framing, is it so positive because he is white? call him dishonored EX NFL player, not “NFL legend”. Also why the fuck are you using the word channel, he stole the money from deserving communities. Dishonest framing of the issue
Don’t forget about that investigator who got fired for no reason. Well. There was a reason. These crooks didn’t want to get caught.
Mississippi BrettFavre philbryant
How about criminal prosecution?
Can we please stop the wall to wall coverage of the Queen’s funeral to report on this very important story?!
Brett Favre sucks. Stealing from the poor when you are worth over $100 million. Disgusting.
brucewilson It's swell when there's a much-needed volleyball stadium while an entire city goes without potable water! Well done!
Brett Favre has always been a sucker Punk can't trust it
Brett Favre has always been a sucker Punk can't trust it
Parchman
Parchman
Is anyone surprised?
Eat. The. Rich. 🖕🏼
Favre just dropped an F5
Time to have some fun with the False Claims Act!
welfare 🤴🏼 favre. LOCK HIM UP!
brucewilson They got some nice prisons in Mississippi.
brucewilson
SouthernMissVB SouthernMiss Alumni here, so what is your path to repay that $5 million plus that you helped Brett Favre defraud from poor people in Mississippi I’d expect that Jersey of his to come down too. He’s a crook.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS JUSG WHITE PEOPLE BEING CORRUPT ASF
..AND they took money away from families who definitely could have used it.
💯
It gets depressing watching your two tier justice system, even more so when you realise every “modern” society has this built in. Stop protecting people in power who commit crimes, they should be punished all the harder for abusing their positions
So who is going to jail?... No just giving the money back. If that were the case all those who are locked up for stealing just need to give the money back.
Great job!!!!
Shameful!
Phil Bryant & Favre are both thoughtless, selfish D-bags
Mississippi oligarchy
They need to go to jail for frauds/STEALING!
Time for Bryant and Favre to be charged with misuse of public funds, stealing money designated for welfare recipients, embezzlement, & whatever else is appropriate. I want to be the woman in The Game of Thrones that follows them, walking & shouting 'Shame' while ringing a 🔔.
Somehow, not shocked.
Why is he not in jail
Will he go to JAIL
Found all the welfare fraud that GOP keeps talking about.
No wonder little Kkklany Oakley is rocking Hermés. Daddy Welfarebucks has a welfare slush fund.
hullojess Not just prosecutors, I’m calling it fraud too!
Jail 🥰
Typical Frat boy shenanigans! This is why Jackson, Mississippi is in crisis mode now. And lack the available funding for their water system. Fit all of their arses for an orange jumpsuit! AnitraDa yardtalkhbcu
Why hasn’t BrettFarve been charged!! Hello DOJ and look into the Former Governor Bryant as well!!!
Con$ervative value$
Let the Black folks drink mud, we need a new Volleyball Court!
It's not so funny now is it..
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Optics on this aren’t good.😖
So are they going to prosecute these welfare queens? Lock them up! 😲🤡🗑
Make Favre pay every penny back and donate to charities selected by the citizens not the government.
BiddyBounty While Jackson boils its water
The key word here is 'channeled'. Dont know a thing about it, but there's many a fund that is used for other purposes because nobody ever sends the money back.
I'm so sick of 'elite white people in Mississippi' getting away with doing the illegal & dumb stuff they do but are quit to harshly sentence those who do lesser crimes. What they did was steal from the people of Mississippi & should be punished as any citizen would be punished.
Yet conservatives are mad about student loan forgiveness? Wow
Lock them up. Disgraceful.
Excellent work
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Isn’t this against the law FBI DOJPH
Keep voting Republican though, Mississippi. It’s working out tremendously well for you. You’re ranked dead last in what, like everything?
And people wonder why there is a JacksonWaterCrisis Look at the corruption in Jackson that gaslit poor black FBA people in Mississippi for being 'lazy' while using funds earmarked for them to build a vanity project for Brett Favre and USM
I really don't get all the controversial around this. All they did was try to do something good for the stat
That’s what you get for trusting someone who wears Wranglers.
Wake me up when there is a single consequence
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The sad and scary part is some white people will see nothing wrong with it. I'm waiting for white people to realize all of Mississippi's governors were white and they are still POOR! Wake the hell up, WHITE PEOPLE!
Did shadwhite see this about this liberal stealing Mississippi’s money!?!?
And he will get away with it
Saw a note last week, Brett to his attorney, I’d like to do xyz if that’s legal. That’s the correct approach. Brett isn’t an attorney or government official. He relies on them to know the laws. Then today Brett included in a text: xyz, wink, wink, xyz. Bad form. Wink= deception
Just because they didn't shoot anybody doesn't mean those crooked mfkrs shouldn't go to prison!
Hope the Feds nail everyone of them for long terms in a small room. Especially former and current Govs.
Make this go viral!!!
Yep pretty much
👀😬
Republicans are a crime syndicate, example 75,814
A Nother one!
Boom!
RamonFoster Pathetic
Also, USM needs to pay that money back.
duvy5 packers legend
This isn’t going away
They should get time for this. Anybody else would. They probably won't, smh.
Lock them up!
Fahrenthold He learned from his swindler friend who lost the Presidency.
That’s a new kind of low life!!
Journalists asking questions, is how taxpayers hold people who spend their $$$ accountable. trustbreakdown ethics
I'm starting to think that Shad and his buddies all came from homes without fathers. Sad. So sad.
Fahrenthold Wow! How proud you must be.
BrettFavre BruceMurrayNFL Care to comment? PackersTwitter NFL
Favre is a bad dude
The federal government subsidizes the wealthy whites of Mississippi.
Fahrenthold And there will be ZERO accountability. Zero.
Do the crime, do the time, right?!
Fahrenthold Aaaaand nothing will happen to them.
Who else could have possibly helped with this fraud? Who could 'others' include?
A poor poor state elects poor poor human beings to keep the state poor and its elite rich. Mississippi is not alone in this respect.
Pure evil
Fahrenthold Because Favre’s daughter plays volleyball there.
Fahrenthold Imagine serving time for VOLLEYBALL FRAUD 🤣
Mississippi welfare fraud embezzlement gov
shadwhite what’s your plan to fix this?
I lean a little right, and I have a hard time seeing this any other way.
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