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TransportationCommissionhopeful Crislerplays race card

BY SCOTT BOYDMaconBeacon@aol.com

Marshand Crisler knows how toplay the race card literally.

During a recent campaign visitto Macon, Crisler, the Democraticnominee for Central DistrictTransportation Commissioner,handed out different cards to blackand white voters.

C r i s l e r ,who will meetR e p u b l i c a ni n c u m b e n tTransportationCommissionerDick Hall in the

Nov. 8 GeneralElection, usedhis dual cardsystem to try todeliver separatemessages forwhites and

blacks, including a challenge toblack voters that claims the CentralDistrict is now majority Democratand majority African American Itssimple, if we show up we win.

Numerous retail outlets in Maconwere given a stack of cards for theirstore counters - the versions handedout to whites.

nSee Crisler on Page 5

CRISLER

BY SCOTT BOYD

MaconBeacon@aol.com

Noxubee Supt. of Education candidate Roger Liddell has been indicted by aWashington County, Miss. Grand Jury on an embezzlement charge related tomissing electronic equipment while he worked there from 1996 through 2009.

Liddell, a Macon native, turned himself in to the Washington County SheriffsDepartment last Friday in Greenville after learning he had been indicted on theembezzlement charge.

Liddell was apparently released shortly after appearing in Greenville. He wasback in Macon shortly after lunch Friday. The Greenville Delta Democrat Timesreported Sunday that an initial court appearance has been scheduled for Nov. 2 atthe Washington County Courthouse.

Liddell, who is scheduled to face incumbent Noxubee Supt. of Education KevinJones in a Democratic Primary re-do election Nov. 29, is the former longtime

principal at Simmons High School at Hollandale.State Auditor Stacy Pickering rst announced the results of the investigation

Aug. 24 when he issued a letter demanding Liddell pay back $111,581. The actualvalue of the missing equipment is $73,032, Pickering says. The additional moneyowed is for investigation fees and interest. Pickering gave Liddell 30 days to paythe money back, and as of Tuesday he still hadnt paid. His bonding company isexpected to pay $25,000.

nSee Liddell on Page Five

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This is the campaign card that Marshand Crisler handed out to black votersduring his recent visit to Macon.

This is the campaign card that Marshand Crisler handed out to white votersduring his recent visit to Macon.

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The separate campaign messages are notfound on Crislers website. The Beaconattempted to contact Crisler for an explanation,

but at presstime Tuesday the candidate stillhadnt tried to contact the paper.

Crisler, on the card he handed to blacks,promised to increase minority participationin MDOT contracts, but that message isntfound on the card handed to whites. The cardgiven to black voters also urges vote for

change and to elect a true Democrat.Jennifer Hall, a spokesman for the Hall

campaign, said they were not aware of theseparate cards being handed out by Crisler.Youve got to be kidding, she said whencontacted by The Beacon Tuesday.

Crisler is a former Jackson city councilmanand an unsuccessful candidate for Jacksonmayor.

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Pickering said the indictmentfocuses on the embezzlement offve cameras, six camcorders,10 desktop computers, sevenlaptop computers, eight DVD/CD players, seven televisionsand computer monitors, nineprinters, and four project andDVD/CD writers, each valuedat more than $500 or more.

Pickering thanked Districtttorney Dewayne Richardson

for taking the case to theashington grand jury. Our

schools are looking ways to cutcosts and do more with less, saidPickering. I am committed toholding individuals accountable

hen they steal from ourchildrens education.

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