Attorney General Jim Hood Releases First Campaign Television Commercial

The Attorney General Jim Hood Campaign has begun airing its first television commercial, focusing on Jim Hood’s efforts to make Mississippi a safer place to live, and on Hood’s experience fighting crime.
“My job is to break up meth labs, lock up sexual predators, and crack down on nursing home abuse. At the end of the day, after time with my family, I like to go out to my shop and just fix things. With me, what you see is what you get. I’ve never been a defense attorney, never defended insurance companies or criminals. My dad was a prosecutor and so am I. It’s really pretty simple. I believe in the law and I’m sworn to uphold it.” —Attorney General Jim Hood

NARRATOR: “Attorney General Jim Hood. Protecting Mississippi Families.”

Below are elements of the script with additional information.

HOOD: “My job is to break up meth labs, lock up sexual predators, and crack down on nursing home abuse…”

FACT: Attorney General Jim Hood secured the passage of HB 607, the Methamphetamine Reduction Act, in 2005 that restricted the access to the ingredients needed to make Methamphetamine. In two shorts years, Mississippi has seen a 75 percent reduction in meth labs.

(Source: Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics as reported in The Clarion-Ledger, 3/2/06)
FACT: Attorney General Jim Hood successfully fought for passage of landmark legislation that allows law enforcement to better track convicted sexual predators, puts tougher restrictions on them, requires them to carry licenses that identifies them as sexual predators, and keeps them away from schools.

(Source: HB1015/SB 2825)

The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office established the first-in-the-nation Cyber Crime Center (CCC) in 2007 to address the growing concern of Cyber-related criminal activity within the State of Mississippi. The CCC investigates and prosecutes crimes involving illegal computer and Internet activity, including child exploitation.
FACT: Attorney General Jim Hood established the “Friendly Nursing Home Visitors Program” to ensure seniors are being properly cared for in the state’s nursing homes, and worked to protect seniors from scams by publishing a newsletter covering senionr issues.

In 2005, Attorney General Jim Hood worked with the legislature to provide annual funding for the office’s Vulnerable Adults Unit that investigates and prosecutes cases of abuse, fraud, and neglect. Since Jan. 2004, the Vulnerable Adults Unit and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit have investigated 945 cases, resulting in 129 charges and indictments. Since 2003, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has recovered $22.5 million in misspent funds, restitution and penalties for teh taxpayers of Mississippi.

(Source: Vulnerable Adults Unit, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit- Office of Attorney General)

HOOD: “I’ve never been a defense attorney, never defended insurance companies or criminals. My dad was a prosecutor and so am I…”

FACT: Prior to being elected Attorney General, Jim Hood was the District Attorney for the Third Circuit Court District in North Mississippi. Before being elected District Attorney, Hood served for five years in the Attorney General’s Office as an Assistant Attorney General where he ran the Drug Asset Forfeiture Unit. Hood’s father, Jimmy Hood, has served as city prosecutor in his hometown of Houston since 1997. He previously served as prosecuting attorney for Chickasaw County.

As Attorney General, Jim Hood has fought big corporations, recovering millions of dollars for the taxpayers of Mississippi. He has taken on the big insurance companies through lawsuits aimed at forcing them to fully pay claims rightfully owed to Mississippi homeowners. And he has won 94 percent of his criminal appeals - keeping dangerous felons behind bars.

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