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Brett Favre And The Mississippi Welfare Scandal

- another example of White privilege taking advantage of the poor

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NFL football icon Brett Favre is involved in a Mississippi welfare scandal — and it’s not pretty.

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Like most states, Mississippi earmarks a certain portion of its state budget for poor welfare recipients. However, the former Green Bay Packers quarterback apparently doesn’t think using those funds for the underprivileged is all that important or necessary. For you see, Brett Favre petitioned then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant to divert money from the public welfare fund in order to build his daughter an elite volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Can you spell PRIVILEGED?

Brett Favre
former Gov. Bryant with Favre

Interestingly, investigative journalists uncovered text messages between Brett Favre and Gov. Bryant wherein Favre warned the governor to make sure their scheme wasn’t leaked to the media.

“So let me understand this right, the former Republican Gov of Mississippi Phil Bryant, multimillionaire Brett Favre and others made a scheme to funnel nearly $5M in welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at a college that Favre’s daughter played at? That is a crime yes?” a Twitter user asked upon hearing news of the welfare scandal.

Yes, one of the richest athletes in the world (who earned more than $140 million over 2 decades and millions more in product endorsements) looted nearly $77 million from one of the poorest states in the US — and the governor of Mississippi allowed it to happen.

So, how did the money get secretly moved, you ask?

The Mississippi governor used the welfare funds to pay Favre millions in 2017 and 2018 for “motivational speeches.” Favre then funneled the money to build his daughter a college stadium.

Brett Favre
Shad White

However, according to Mississippi state auditor Shad White, Favre never gave the speeches which prompted the state to demand the money back with interest. Although Favre has repaid the fees, he did not repay nearly $228,000 in interest as the auditor demanded.

“The notion of tens of millions of dollars that was intended by the country to go to the alleviation of poverty — and to see it going toward very different purposes — was appalling to many of us,” said attorney Brad Pigott, who was hired by state auditor White to investigate the mishandled funds — but was fired by the current GOP governor for apparently knowing too much. “Mr. Favre was a very great quarterback, but having been a great NFL quarterback, he is not well acquainted with poverty.”

Brett Favre
Brad Pigott

“Governor Bryant gave tens of millions of dollars of this TANF welfare money to a nonprofit led by a person who he knew well and who had more connections with his political party than with the good people in Mississippi who have the heart and the skills to actually cajole people out of poverty or prevent teenage pregnancies,” Pigott added.

As expected, Brett Favre is (weakly) fighting back.

“I would never knowingly take funds meant to help our neighbors in need, but for Shad White to continue to push out this lie that the money was for no-show events is something I cannot stay silent about,” the NFL star tweeted.

Can you spell PRIVILEGED?


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Mr.BD

You already said it right. This is nothing but white privilege. All that money needs to be paid back and somebody needs to go to jail.

Truthiz1

“All that money needs to be paid back and somebody needs to go to jail.”

Now there you go BD being much too kind.

All that money needs to be paid back and EVERYBODY involved needs to go to jail.

There. I fixed it for you BD

Truthiz1

Pull back the covers on many, if not most, rich people, you’ll find Trash.

Brett Farve is a liar, a crook, and pure trash. White trash. And yes, he benefits greatly form White priveledge! Him and his serial lying, trashy-azz, corrupt president, Trump!

And they don’t want to live by me!?! HAH!

Puleeze!..(TRIPLE eye roll ..and I’m not one to roll my eyes)

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Truthiz1

Pull back the covers on many, if not most, rich people, you’ll find Trash.

Brett Farve is a liar and pure trash. White trash. And yes, he benefits greatly form White priveledge! Him and his serial lying, trashy-azz president, Trump!

And they don’t want to live by me!?! HAH!

Puleeze!..(TRIPLE eye roll ..and I’m not one to roll my eyes)

Truthiz1

Breaking News: ‘Brett Favre’s Sirius XM Show Put On Hold After Welfare Fraud Scandal’

People won’t be hearing much from Brett Farve in the near future.

Sirius XM has put the former NFL quarterback’s weekly radio show on hold after his involvement in a Mississippi welfare fraud scandal came to light, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The move comes after Milwaukee radio station WKTI (which brands itself as ESPN Milwaukee) announced that it has suspended Favre’s weekly Green Bay Packers recap program on the station, NBC Sports reported.

The decision also comes just days after John Davis, a former director of Mississippi’s welfare agency, pleaded guilty to new federal charges in a conspiracy to misspend tens of millions of dollars that were intended to help needy families. […] 

“Favre has not been charged in the welfare misspending case”…..YET!   

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Wil

I was just going to post about this.

Truthiz1

Wil, I only beat you by about 4 minutes. Okay 5…lol

Last edited 2 years ago by Truthiz1
Truthiz1

I was just about to say THIS probably AIN’T the first time Favre has pulled this sh*t. When lo and behold:

‘Brett Favre sought MORE welfare money in 2019 to help recruit Deion Sanders’ son’

New court documents in the Mississippi welfare scam revealed that Brett Favre tried to misappropriate funds again in 2019, this time for a new football practice facility for Southern Mississippi University.

Text messages between Favre and former governor Phil Bryant detail how Favre sought to duplicate the funding he received for the university’s volleyball court, applying it this time to the football program. The efforts came amidst a major recruiting push by Favre to try and bring quarterback Shedeur Sanders to Hattisburg, notably the son of Deion Sanders, who eventually signed with Jackson State after his father was named head coach of the HBCU. […] SB Nation, Sept. 26, 2022

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