Your red state government has problems too

https://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2025/05/partying-on-health-department-dime.html

The Mississippi Department of Health had quite the party.

Today State Auditor Shad White released a report showing taxpayer funds were spent on a “Queerceanara” (which was described as a “Latinx pride month event that highlights LGBTQ Latinx and Indigenous community members”)

$17,380.19 for hosting a “Queerceanera.” Of that, they spent $327.36 on Bud Light and Coronita beer, $2,500 on gift cards for “Queerceanera” attendees, and $14,126.84 on the venue, food, supplies, DJ, photographer, and travel for the event.

$699.79 for 19 spa gift baskets “for women” from Amazon.

$137.79 for five Lyft rideshares in New York City at 10:12 pm and 4:08 am on 4-5 March 2023, which included a two-hour stop at “the longest running lesbian bar in the country.”

$82.50 for dinner at a “restaurant in Baltimore” despite the receipt address being for a tobacco/vape store.

Love Inside for Everyone (LIFE, Inc) was given $4,000 to cover rental fees for a nightclub (run by the nonprofit’s director) to host monthly “diva brunches” Over $90,000 with no receipts or supporting documentation provided to the Department of Health Funds to host Gay Pride Weekend in Jackson, MS, in 2023

Love Me Unlimited 4 Life was given over $140,000, which they spent entirely on salaries with a requirement to hire people who identify “as Gender Non-Conformant (GNC), Aged 17-34 that are People with HIV (PWH), members of the LGBTQIA community, and/or at risk for acquiring HIV.”

Here are the photos from the party, still on social media: