{"id":11006,"date":"2013-09-01T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2013-09-01T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T10:12:09","slug":"republicans-on-parade912013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/republicans-on-parade912013\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;9\/1\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RepublicansOnParade\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"RepublicansOnParade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RepublicansOnParade.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the twenty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is<\/font> <font color=\"#0000ff\">Jackson County MS Sheriff Mike Byrd.&#160; He is so honored, because his approach to the law is so obviously Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1Mike-Byrd\" style=\"float: left; display: inline\" alt=\"1Mike-Byrd\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1Mike-Byrd.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" \/>A south Mississippi sheriff has been <strong>indicted on 31 counts<\/strong>, including charges accusing him of pushing an arrest in a murder case, even though a detective thought the suspect was innocent, and of snooping on employees at a restaurant that refused to accept a check from him.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment against longtime Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd was dated Thursday and made public Friday. It charges him with <strong>using his office to retaliate against people he considered political and personal foes<\/strong>, including the police chief and a city alderman in Ocean Springs, one of the cities in Jackson County. The charges include fraud, extortion, embezzlement, witness tampering and perjury.<\/p>\n<p>One of the charges said <strong>Byrd pressured a detective to sign a criminal affidavit and seek an arrest warrant against a man in a murder investigation in 2007 when the detective did not believe the man committed the crime<\/strong>. The indictment said Byrd was running for re-election at the time and wanted to be able to say there were no unsolved murders in the coastal Mississippi county of about 140,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>An extortion charge in the indictment said Byrd pressured a female deputy to engage in sexual acts and threatened to give her a bad recommendation if she left his department\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/mississippi-sheriff-indicted-31-charges-20122250\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s video of him turning himself in.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zeza0blftMk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2013\/08\/30\/4914134\/mike-byrd-biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">loyal Republican and gospel song leader<\/a> for Republican Supply Side Jesus (the haters\u2019 Jesus, not the real Jesus).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Byrd is a perfect example of how Republicans in power view the law.&#160; It may be used as a weapon against enemies, political or personal.&#160; Ruining the lives of innocent people is fine, if it provides a political advantage.&#160; Most important, it certainly does not apply to them, for they consider themselves above the law.&#160; Byrd is one more reason why\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Every Republican in office<\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">is one Republican TOO MANY!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the twenty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Jackson County MS Sheriff Mike Byrd.&#160; He is so honored, because his approach to the law is so obviously Republican. A south Mississippi sheriff has been indicted on 31 counts, including <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/republicans-on-parade912013\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}