The high ground can be slippery place sometimes.

Hood’s written newspaper columns complaining about “pundits” and “bloggers” generating criticism of his office and suggested that those critics want to “do them harm” – them being “Mississippi’s families.He’s granted TV and newspaper interviews in which he dismissed suggestions that he return campaign funds donated by at least three sources who have already entered plea bargains in a federal judicial bribery probe. He suggested that it was unfair for him to be asked to return the donations because Republicans had taken political action committee donations and that: “There’s a danger in our politics, when people, corporations are able to buy offices that belong to the people.”Attorney General Jim Hood has gone to great lengths in recent days to quell what he sees as a barrage of criticism from the media and from bloggers.

But in the same breath, Hood draws a distinction between PAC donations from “big corporations” and the $400,000 in legal campaign contributions he received from the Democratic Attorneys General Association’s PAC – which is the same amount donated by Oxford attorney Dickie Scruggs and Booneville attorney Joey Langston.

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