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AZProgressive

(29,322 posts)
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 03:24 PM Apr 2022

Phil Bryant had his sights on a payout as welfare funds flowed to Brett Favre

Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant used the authority of his office, the weight of his political influence and the power of his connections to help his friend and retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre boost a fledgling pharmaceutical venture.

Then he tried to cash in on the project when he left office, text messages show.

Favre believed he could make millions as an early investor in a drug company. He just needed a little more political and financial capital to push the enterprise into the end zone.

“It’s 3rd and long and we need you to make it happen!!” Favre wrote to the governor in late December 2018, according to text messages recently obtained by Mississippi Today.

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/04/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-payout/

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Phil Bryant had his sights on a payout as welfare funds flowed to Brett Favre (Original Post) AZProgressive Apr 2022 OP
Oh Brett... Blue Owl Apr 2022 #1
Not Charged...Why? Me. Apr 2022 #2
And poor folks need to.pull themselves up by their bootstraps Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #3

Demovictory9

(32,475 posts)
3. And poor folks need to.pull themselves up by their bootstraps
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 03:48 PM
Apr 2022

While the well connected grease each others palms with public funds

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