Let’s put on everyone’s common sense hat for a moment.  Let’s pretend that we are a “confidential informant” in an investigation.  Does it make sense that we, in a middle of an investigation, would funnel A HUGE AMOUNT of money to the prosecutor in that case?  This doesn’t pass the straight face test.

Let’s pretend we are now the “prosecutor” - Jim Hood.  Would a prosecutor under normal circumstances accept $400K of money that you know has come from “confidential informants” funnelled through a shell 527 group?

Again, this lies at the heart of the problem and is precisely why Hood will not be able to shake this with his “lies, speculation and innuendo” routine.  There’s just too much smoke . . . too much money . . . too much evidence.

And that’s not even including the direct donation/s made by them as individuals to the Hood campaign, which were nothing to sneeze at either

shocking!  no way!  calls to mind another iron in SF’s golfing bag that’s got to be phony as all get out—something about hood’s 4th grand jury subpoena being issued and served within hours of Mr. R.F. Scruggs getting smacked with Acker’s gavel over in Bama and months after the general told SF he’d be backing off further prosecuting.  That’s got to be some flat-out, pure-dee prevaricating.  Shame on SF for putting that in NEON, FLASHING lights and suggesting it was more than an innocent, out-of-the-blue coincidence.  Well, they’ll get what’s coming to them, all right.  Sonny, my man, your good, strong shoulders are carrying the full burden of detecting whether this rumor of SF’s is on the line or so far out of bounds a nukin’ is in order.

A pretty common rule with dealing with informants as LEO’s or prosecutors, is that you have no social dealings with them, and no business dealings, (outside of their cooperation with the government), with them.  And, you sure don’t take any money from them, no matter how you package it.

DAMN!!!!!

I am really concerned that someone like Jim Hood who is worried about “lies, speculation and innuendo” would not immediately seek to refund all monies coming from Langston and Scruggs directly or indirectly.  That tally is north of $500K in 2007 alone.  Given that he raised less than $2M, that is not an insignificant amount.

To avoid “the appearance of impropriety” as he stated before, Hood must give that money back.  The press and other elected officials should demand it.