The Breakfast Club - DONKEY OF THE DAY: Ex-Governor Phil Bryant Helped Brett Favre Obtain $5 Million In Welfare Funds For Volleyball Stadium

Episode Date: September 19, 2022

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because it's just more proof that regardless of what this country tries to tell us, the powers that be do not care about the poor. Period. Okay, because Phil Bryant is at the center of a welfare scandal. There is a civil lawsuit against him because he used federal welfare funds toward the building of a new volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi. A massive criminal scandal in which prominent officials misspent or stole millions in welfare funds intended for the nation's poorest residents.

Disgusting. Disgusting. A project prosecutors have called a schemeUTORS HAVE CALLED A SCHEME TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT. LET'S GO TO KTLA FOR THE REPORT, PLEASE. BRETT FARVE'S LIFE AFTER FOOTBALL HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON PHILANTHROPY, BUT AS FIRST REPORTED BY MISSISSIPPI TODAY, NEWLY REVEALED TEXT MESSAGES FILED IN AN ONGOING CIVIL LAWSUIT SHOW FARVE WAS PART OF A SCHEME THAT FUNNELLED AT LEAST $5 MILLION OF WELFARE FUNDS TO BUILD A NEW VOLLEYBALL STADIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI WHERE FARVE GRADUATED AND HIS DAUGHTER PLAYED.

THE TAXES SHOW FORMER MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT PUSHED FOR THE FACILITY DESPITE DENYING CLOSE INVOLVEMENT. A FRIEND OF THE FORMER GOVERNOR'S WIFE, NANCY NEW, WOULD SUBMIT A 5 MILLION DOLLAR

UPFRONT LEASE TO USE THE UNIVERSITY'S ATHLETIC FACILITIES FOR HER NON- PROFITS PROGRAMMING. FORMER WELFARE AGENCY DIRECTOR JOHN DAVIS SAYS THE FACILITY WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO INVOLVE THE FACILITY.

FORMER GOVERNOR'S WIFE, NANCY NEW, WOULD SUBMIT A 5 MILLION DOLLAR UPFRONT LEASE TO USE THE UNIVERSITY'S ATHLETIC FACILITIES FOR HER NON-PROFITS PROGRAMMING. knew would submit a $5 million upfront lease to use the university's athletic facilities for her non-profits programming. Former welfare agency director John Davis approved $4 million immediately. Oh, when the scammers is white, the light's not so bright, huh? They don't shine the light on the white scammers like they do the others. This is bigger than PPP loans, baby. This is how the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. You wonder why the people who need relief in this country can't get it? It's because the money that's supposed to go to them is going to rich people's pet projects. As if they can't get the money to build that volleyball stadium from donors already. Hell, if Brett Favre doesn't have the money to do it

himself, all that money Brett Favre made ringless, I know he got it. But why spend your own money when you can spend money meant for the poor and disenfranchised in our society? Now, of course, Phil Bryant denied it, but screenshots will never lie. And there are text messages that show that Bryant guided Favre on how to write a funding proposal so that it would be granted. Now, Brett Favre previously denied that he discussed the volleyball project with Bryant. But the text messages quoted indicate otherwise, suggesting that $5 million was given to the school. Now, Brett Favre's involvement in the welfare scandal first emerged when it was reported that he received $1.1 million for work he allegedly didn't perform. He eventually repaid the money,

but he's been sued for the interest on the money he received and returned. Let's go back to KTLA for more of the report, please. Favre, texting in gray, tells New that the governor has seen the proposal, but hint, hint, you need to reword it to get it accepted. He adds, hopefully she can put more details in the proposal, like how many times the facility will be used and for what specific purpose. Farve also received $1.1 million in welfare funding through the Mississippi Community Education Center for speaking at events he never showed up to. Favre asks New, if you were to pay me, is there any way the media can find out where it came from and how much? Favre has repaid the money, but state auditors want more than $200,000 in interest.

Favre's attorney denies the former QB knew that money came from a welfare fund, describing his client as honorable throughout this whole thing. Twitter, y'all always making noise about the wrong things. Why y'all not making noise about this? Back in July, Mississippi Representative Benny Thompson sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting that the DOJ investigate this situation and that they focus on Brett Favre and Phil O'Brien in particular. Favre has already been questioned by the FBI. I say, hell yes, they need to be investigated because there's not too many things more despicable

than stealing from the have-nots. This is literally like, you know, seeing a homeless person on the street and walking up to them and just taking money out of their Starbucks cup. Like, it's bad enough we live in a country where folks can't even make ends meet, but when you have elected officials who are supposed to be providing relief for these individuals, but instead they are stealing from them, this is why when things really, really, really hit the fan in this country, it's going to be bad because the poor aren't going to continue to cannibalize themselves.

No, they're going to hop those gated fences and start coming to the communities y'all are in. Not only because they know that's where the prosperity at, but now they have even more incentive because not only are y'all not helping the poor and disenfranchised, you're stealing from them as well. I never understood this. The same way I never understood labels not paying artists what the artists are owed. It's not your money. The money is there for who

it's there for. Simply give them what is rightfully theirs. It's simple. There's no need for Phil and Brett to be dipping their hands in the church's money. For what? Now, we all know nothing is going to happen to Phil Bryant or Brett Favre. Because if something happens to them, then it sets a precedent. And now more elected officials will start to get exposed, investigated, and arrested for the same thing.

And we all know Phil Bryant and Brett Favre aren't the first to do things like this. So they're not going to make an example out of them. Because doing that will lead to them making an example out of the whole system or having to make an example out of the whole system. And that's not going to happen. Okay, the good old boys, you know, don't know how to punish the good old boys. Okay, but Benny Thompson is right. You have to push for them to be investigated.

You know why? Because if you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep. And America been past stealing chickens, and they been taking sheep. So, yes, investigate them so it leads, you know, to some type of conviction. But we know it won't because we have a system that feeds off sheep. And once again, they will never punish the good old boys, okay? But I just want to warn America of where we are headed if we're not already there now but we're definitely headed that way if the haves don't start doing right by the have-nots

whoo man matter of fact this ain't even a word for me it's a word from a prophet one of the greatest messengers God has ever sent this dimension to Pax Chikor if I know in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocked on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over the place, I mean, just like throwing food around. They're telling me there's no food in here.

You know what I'm saying? Every day, I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in. You know what I'm saying? We are hungry, please let us in. saying we are hungry please let us in we are hungry please let us in after about a week that song is gonna change the we hungry we need some food after two three weeks it's like you know give me all the food I'm breaking out the door after a year and you just like you know I'm saying I'm picking the lock coming through the door blasting you know it's like you hungry you reached your level you don't want anymore we asked 10 years ago we was asking with the panthers we was asking with

them you know a civil rights movement we was asking you know now that those people that were asking they're all dead and in jail so now what do you think we're gonna do this is where we are headed america and you did it to yourself please give former governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryan, and Brett Favre the biggest hee-haw, please. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Donkey of the Day is brought to you by the law office of Michael S. Lamisoff. Don't be a donkey. Dial pound 250 on your cell and say the bull if you've been hurt in a construction accident.

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