Jackson Jambalaya

The Blackmon's are a team of crooks and always have been! You can add this to their growing list of crooked involvments!

Is there any way to split Madison County in two and give the northern half to Homles County. It would be nice to get rid of that bunch.

The incompetent reporter did not research the matter and did not know what questions to ask? Not surprised; the CL does not do well with hiring reporters that can get or accurately report information. Although it is a virtual impossibility what would the town of Canton, um, Blackmons and puppets, do if Nissan packed up and left for greener pastures?
Who keeps electing people like Blackmon? Because of redrawn voting lines he is running against David Jordan,only choice here, as Elmus says, is the "worser or the worst."

to:July 5, 2011 11:12 AM
LOL!! You made an absolutely hysterical observation, wait and let me get off the floor. That would certainly solve the matter and they cannot ruin Holmes county any more than it already is.

The C-L continues to play to its audience in Jackson. Reveue is one reason for splitting Rankin-Madison-Clinton into separate papers but the other is so the main paper could focus on Jackson. Which seems strange since most of the circulation revenue come from outside Jackson.

But who said running a railroad was easy!

The question that's begged even more: Why won't any reporter from the C-L ask Barbara or Ed Blackmon why they each voted FOR the legislation a decade ago?

Simple: Because the Clarion-Ledger knows that its feeble, ever-shrinking readership is made up of black people, and Lord forbid the C-L would ask a tough question of a prominent black person.

Oh, and at the risk of a thread-jack charge, what a handsome bunch of blue-collar types in the new Billy Hewes ad.

:-)

Yep the Blackmons need a new cash infusion to pay for the new Bentley and Mercedes that they all drive.

Never mind that B.Blackmon is a lobbyist for the County and is paid quite handsomely. What Fortune 500 company is going to locate in Madison County after this BS??

Did either lie to a LE Officer, if not all is well. What a Country.

ummm....might want to look at map again and read the pleading. only the pink part of map is what is being possibly annexed, not nissan

Nice try. Nissan is completely surrounded by the pink area.

ummm....read the last paragraph of the pleading...beginning with "less and except". it is clear that the land surrounding the nissan land is being annexed, but not the nissan land. just trying to be helpful

Last time I checked there was no such thing as a donut annexation.

long history of donut hole annexation nationwide, bad practice though. certainly appears that is what is being attempted. possible logic being it may be the statutory nature of nissans expemption from annexation leaves no choice but donut. just a guess. just trying to be helpful again.

If you go through the factors of annexation that are considered by the court, donuts are not looked kindly upon and Ed knows that. Nissan would be within Canton no matter what Ed says.

my only point is that when you say that the above is a "petition to annex nissan" is not true. it is a petition to annex land, some of which abuts and even surrounds nissan plant land. very different. that was my only point, not that donut hole annexation is good etc. by definition "donut" annexation denotes that the land in the "hole" is NOT annexed...

so, canton folks wanted jobs, and jobs came, and check the cars in the parking lot at Nissan, you won't see a lot from canton...looks like those folks that wanted jobs, only want free money....imagine that...

I don't know the actual history, but this sounds a lot like the Mercedes plant in Alabama. A few years after it was built, the city of Tuscaloosa decided to lasso it by allocating the land along the interstate for 15 miles and loop the plant. The town of Vance (one mile away) sued but lost in the Alabama supreme court because, well, Bear Bryant and Toilet Paper Roll/Box of Tide, ya know?

They claimed it was necessary and proper for things such as water, fire, etc. The truth is probably closer to Ed's revenue grab. Someone has to pay for his Bentley - might as well be the Japanese!

People ENOUGH ALREADY with the Bentleys....get over it HATERS and please let it go and "learn from their success!

Damn straight. Me and Robert Smith need to set up a collection agency so we can collect overdue court fines for counties like Michael Guest does or do like Andy taggart and set up a slush fund paid for by the state or I need to set up my own company like Frontier Strategies or better yet, set up a radio/siren maintenance company to get contracts from counties and pay subs to do all the work. Damn, I could be rich off of dat shit.

Haters? What is this, some DJ rap battle (Haters gonna hate)? Please forgo the hood lingo and converse in an adult fashion.

Also, driving a Bentley is not my definition of success. Confidence in one's abilities so that there is no need to flash expensive goods in others' faces is what I admire. I have far more respect for a millionaire who still drives his 2002 Honda than for an overpaid poverty pimp lawyer who has to prove his mettle with a car that cost more than 90% of area homes.

AMEN REED

Every time I see either Blackmon , I laugh.

Canton is nothing but a crack deal that
went bad.

Thanks' Canton,

This lil' town provides hours of free entertainment.

10:33:

money does not mean success. with them, it is greed and amorality--

@Reed get off your high horse for a second, maybe if you worried more about yourself & less about the Blackmons, you could drive nice cars too. Only in Mississippi could a pair of successful people receive so much flack for the fruits of their earnings. Bentleys?!!?! So the hell what! It's 2011 & plenty of people drive them, it's not that big of a deal. The crab in a bucket mentality will continue to keep Mississippi and it's national/international reputation in the mud.

It's 2011 & plenty of people drive them, it's not that big of a deal.

In Mississippi?

People are angry because those two got their money immoral, unethical, and underhanded shenanigans involving taxpayer money (NB: I didn't say illegal).

Maybe we should all march to the Town Square and start Occupy Canton Now in protest against these members of the 1% who exploit the rest of us....

Welcome to America where "behind every great fortune is a great crime" get with the program or get over it