Bad Larry Buffington Inserts Foot

Y'all Politics acknowledges the BLB Blog, but more than that, it shares some tasty sound bytes of Buffington exhibiting his foot in mouth disease.

Some of the things you can hear Bad Larry Buffington say in his own voice:

I asked this Board to be here today. Three of them agreed; two of them didn't. And so I issued a subpoena. And they didn't let my clerk and I didn't comply with - be honest with you it didn't comply with what the statute said, because I didn't care. I wadn't planning on having a big group here; wadn't planning on having the media here.

Now why did I hire these people? Just like I did Justice Diaz. I hired him because he's competent. Everyone of these people that I hire I feel comfortable with. Everyone of them are my friends. Most people, when you hire people, you're going to hire your friends. So I'm not ashamed of anybody I’ve hired. Because first of all, I know they can do the job. Secondly, I know they're my friends.

Joey McNulty got the contract on my local hospital in Covington County. I would dare to say that he would tell you, if hadn't been for me he wouldn't have gotten that contract, because I asked him to come down. We were having trouble with our local hospital, like a lot of them do, and I asked him to come down, and I arranged for a meeting with a couple of members of the Board of Supervisors and couple of members of the Board of the Hospital to discuss it, before they were fixin to sale the hospital, to give the con-the hospital to somebody else. He was a friend and I knew he was competent and I knew he could do the job. So I went to bat for him, and I don't know exactly what he made off of it, but I know what his contract was for, and I know how much we billed last year. And it generated probably about a little over a million dollars for this community, because what did he do with that million dollars? He hired twenty to twenty-five more people. Local people. People that reside in-in Simpson County. May have hired three or four from Covington County, but most didn't want to drive up there. So I asked him to come today because I was going to use him to show, because I first of all, I care about all my counties.