Jackson Jambalaya

Yep, word on the street in Madison County is that GERALD STEEN, and his County Administrator, David Overby, is behind the proposed TAX INCREASE.

This tax increase issue is going to show the true colors and back bone of our South Madison County "conservative" Republican(???) Supervisors.

In fact, some may be "Blue Dog" Democrats and falsely qualified to run as Republicans. Hopefully, the Madison County Republican Executive Committee will censure those who said they would not raise taxes, but in fact vote for a TAX INCREASE!

There can't be a "free ride" for lying to the voters!

King Fish You got it wrong!! John Bell wanted to adopted the budget as presented with no tax increase-Duh!! Just about 1.6 million short-Overby went into melt down!!

Everybody knew John Bell would not support a tax increase because of his bid for Mayor!! Shadowfox looks like there is some merit to the post you questioned--

It was an email from someone who was there so sorry for any errors.

It is not good for Madison County when you have Supervisors who don't know the lenghth, amount, terms, etc. of a $40 million dollar PID that Banks and Griffin voted for. They put the hardworking taxpayers on the hook instead of a developer. The Madison Federation of Homeowners presented a great case...it is illegal to pursue this as it was presented to the taxpayers. We need to pack the meeting room next Monday!

How much does the City of Ridgeland need to finish the Lake Harbour Drive project? Coincidence?
I think NOT!

You want the County GOP executive committee to censure anybody for voting like a Democrat, dream on. They watched Tim Johnson form a coalition & vote with Karl & Paul for 6 years AND DID NOTHING. Said NOTHING. Nobody on the county executive committee has any backbone, and it's run by a bankrupt.

What's the value of executive committee censure? It's at least as valuable as Mary calling Kroger HQ to complain that John Bell is campaigning by the kumquats.

All it will take for the county to be able to make the $1.7 million PID payment is to reduce their proposed expenditures by 3.5%. That's not that much, especially when you consider that the budget includes each supervisor's pet projects. I've never seen a budget without some fluff, so let's see how much they can cut between now and Monday. Bill Billingsley

Whoa! Hold on just a minute September 5, 2012 9:20 AM! I worked hard as Chairman of the MCGOP Ex. Committee and still stand up for good goverment in Madison County, our State and Country. I would like to know who you are so I can see if you showed up for the 2008 tax hike protests where the MC Republican Ex. Committee led the charge and 7,000 hardworking taxpaying citizens submitted petitions to fight the 6.3 mil tax hike that you may be enjoying a reduction of 3 mils now. We also held a $50,000,000 Tax Revolt in 2009 and fought the wasteful spending of these RINO's. The Madison County GOP hired attorneys that fought the redistricting fight against these RINO's after they changed the districts after their they found out where their opponents lived. The MCGOP Ex. Committee had attorneys that worked tiresly on this issue alone. Russ Latino, Cory Wilson, Jim Herring and others donated countless hours of time to our causes. The MS. Legislature passed a bill and the Governor signed it this year making sure that this never happens again because of what happened in Madison County. We did all of this while we were extremely busy putting on primary elections in our county so people like you would be able to just show up and vote if you chose to do so. We are constantly fighting for better government in our county and will not give up. We cannot do this by ourselves. Show yourself on Monday at the next meeting and be known and get involved. My e-mail is marymclaurin@rocketmail.com if you are brave enough to e-mail me.