Brett Favre finds himself in hot water after new text messages reveal how deeply former Mississippi governor Republican Gov. Phil Bryan was involved in one of the former NFL quarterback’s projects.
The text shows that the state paid more than $1 million in welfare money that was piped via a nonprofit group and spent on a new $5 million volleyball facility at The University of Southern Mississippi.
On Wednesday’s edition of “All In with Chris Hayes,” the MSNBC host labeled the scandal involving the former Green Bay Packers star as “cartoonish.”
After reading one of the text messages from Favre showed that the former quarterback had concerns about the media finding out what the money would be used for by the two.
“I mean, even by the standards of a state that I think is very poorly governed by the ruling Republican Party, this is an almost cartoonish scandal,” Hayes told his viewers. “We’re not so devastating a multimillionaire football star, a guy who doesn’t lack for money, who could, I don’t know, give his daughter to school a check.
“This guy MAGA Brett Favre, Republican governor, appeared to be involved in a scandal with the misuse of federal dollars. Federal dollars for the poorest members of the poorest state diverted to a volleyball facility even as then Governor Phil Bryant, of course, preached the gospel of so-called fiscal responsibility when he was in office.”
Favre and Bryant have not been criminally charged after news showing the text messages exchanged between the two.
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
