Jackson Jambalaya

A write in can not win? Who is running on the Repub, Independent and Green party?

Twitterwell can't even get crap done in his Ward. Who in their right mind thinks he can manage Jackson?

What's the point of a write in if it's invalid? I didn't know this.

QW is the biggest joke as a lobbyist. I don't know anyone at the Capitol that doesn't make fun of him.

The point of a write-in "space" on a ballot is to provide for the unlikely, but possible, situation where a candidate dies after the printing of a ballot. MS Code 23-15-365 specifies that write-in 'votes' cast otherwise are not legal votes.

All write-in votes cast on ballots are considered to be "no votes" or blank ballots - for the race(s) that voter has written in a name. Other votes on the ballot are counted, but the voter has wasted his time - and vote - by writing in a name.

We went thru this same discussion in 2011 when someone started the same concept with the sheriff's race following the Dem primary. Whoever is starting this needs to get their head out of wherever it is and deal with reality and law.

There are two independent candidates, to answer 7:51. While not very likely, that would at least be a legally possible alternative than the crap by whoever started this email.

Kingfisher, in his often inaccurate style, is wrong when he says writeins are 'illegal' and wrong again when he says they 'don't count'. As with Ladd, can't make this crap up. They actually believe themselves.

Write in Whitwell? Why? If, and knowing that the process isn't legal, but if write in's worked, why would we do it with Whitwell. As comment at 11:49 said, QW is a joke as a lobbyist. He has reached the Peter Principle in politics - advanced one stage past the level of his competence - as an Alderman.

Anybody know who started this email? Must have been the Chipster.

When Donna claims "her readers demand to know" who wrote the e-mail, who put up the innocuous "vote today" signs, etc., she is lying. The true motivation for this woman is her own prejudice. She is blinded by her ignorance and bigotry.

Donna believes that all white people in the Jackson area (with a few exceptions) are racists. She's like a Bircher...seeing hidden racist messages in everything from voting signs to facebook responses and working desperately to uncover the racists hidden in plain sight.

She uses her laughable position as a "journalist" as cover to allow her to stick her nose in places where she has no welcome nor any cause, all in the name of "transparency" or whatever BS she's spitting out this week.

She is a sad, bitter woman who would rather make 100 enemies than one friend.

Illegal was probably too strong a word. Invalid is the better word.

Per the Quentin Whitwell Official Statement:

"When I run for the Mayoral Office, it will be taken it seriously and I won’t use Shenanigans to get elected."

Sounds like he just announced he will be running for Mayor in the future.

Maybe Pete can jump in here but I seem to remember that there is some threshold -- $150, $200, $250 -- under which one can spend their personal monies on an election and not have to register as a candidate or PAC.

Sounds like black helicopters are invading Fondren and the Bugle.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

"Donna Ladd We just need to find out who sent it, Wendy."

She does not NEED to find out who sent it. She WANTS to find out who sent it.

I'm a Democrat, and I can't stand that fool Ladd. Go be the ethics police someplace else, ma'am.

I SENT THOSE EMAILS DONNA... WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.

Ruh roh... meople......off to the gulag.

6:37 made a very accurate assessment of Laddie. I used to be a regular JFP poster, and probably agreed with her 70% of the time until I saw through her game and realized she's a really sick individual who uses "journalism" as a weapon against white people. Her coverage of this last city election is just another example that she views whites as a far greater threat than any black street gang, black drug dealer, or corrupt black politician who may be just as racist and bigoted.

Accidentally zapped these three anonymous comments:

She would make a good IRS agent.


If Ms. Ladd really wanted to do something constructive to improve Jackson and help her "readers," she would get a real career, writing real stories, with real journalism behind them. She has to be the angriest person I have ever seen, read, or known about.

I agree with 9:14. JJ needs to promote and organize a boycott of her advertisers.

Last comment: Um, no. Not going to happen. I'm all for free speech. I don't like it when that tactic is done to me and I'm not going to do it to someone else.

I AM KEISER SOSEY.... I SHOT JR...

8:16, I'll try. Many different possibilities.

If you spend your own personal money, and aren't 'affilated' with a campaign (don't coordinate, basically don't communicate) with a campaign, you can spend what you want to without reporting requirements - at least as of today - we are still a free country!

If you spend it on your own (state, not federal) campaign, you can spend your own personal money without a reporting requirement.

If you raise or spend more than $200 for a candidate, you are supposed to report it, if you are a registered candidate or PAC. But you don't have to register as a PAC if you want to spend your own money as you decide when and where - again, not in coordination with a candidate or campaign.

I sent the email Donna. Are you going to put me over your knee and give me a spanking?

ROFLMAO ... Jeff Good is so HIGH on himself ... he also has to release a statement ... ROFLMAO

Donna, what if I sent the email? What happens now? I'm not quite sure what your end game is? So if I sent it, is this the big touch down you were hoping for? Will the headline be, "Woman BUSTED for sending out email!!" Sadly, you didn't sniff anything out. You are hot on the trail of nothing. In typical liberal fashion, you have taken something- something legal, grassroots, and actually very American - and have been smug, condescending, and frankly, crazy. You have perfectly demonstrated why the older I get, the more conservative I become.

He needs to be quiet for awhile.

KF at 10:06. You do and she doesn't. Punish her. Break her

Few people revel in their minor celebrity the way Jeff Good does. He apparently has a cadre of bootlickers who will "THUMBS UP!!!" his facebook post, but it's an incredibly deluded piece, both in his overestimation of his influence and his optimism toward a mayor who would love to seize his assets and redistribute them as reparations.

Keep playing the sycophantic eunuch, Jeff. Chokwe hates you and only sees your restaurants as sources of revenue.

Oh, and Ladd...I wrote those e-mails. I dare you to come after me.

Sorry Harpy, nobody has to self-divulge, self-report OR register as a PAC to send out an email encouraging others to participate in an ill-advised write-in campaign.

Jeff Good is obviously admirable, because he never ceases to admire himself.

Show thyself 1:03.

Good did the same thing in the Crisler race. Jeff, and Donna, they all hate you, always will. It's actually been my experience that they hate people like you worse than the run of the mill. QW, not even worth the time.

By the way, They are the militant blacks in Jackson that are now big time in charge.

Without looking, who can state the original point of this thread? Or the first through the fourth derails? No, it ain't 'Stacked Karen'.

3:53 PM looks trollish at this point.

DonnerKay is just mad because she's not on "the" email distribution list.

So left out, so out of touch, so crazy.

Whitwell is a good honest man with a hard job. Why all the rocks being thrown his way

5:16 what a rhetorical question. Sites like this INVITE hurtful comments from titty baby, anon whiners that ain't ever done shit, are jealous of people that care about and are attempting to improve the world, and love to try to keep people riled up. Usually b/c they are racists, and HATE anything good JXN.

Don't believe it? Wait a few hours after the lightweights are liquored up, and read the shit they print about THIS post.

Thank you 5:42. Good answer. Truth. TRUTH.

I would love for Donna Ladd to answer some questions about her unyielding defense of Chokwe. If Chokwe is all about healing and unity, why does he advocate the creation of a separate black nation? How is that creating unity?

Also, why is the top priority of our new Mayor to re-write history books (correct or not)? What does Christopher Columbus have to do with lowering crime in Jackson, trying to keep more taxpayers from fleeing the city, and economic development? I don't understand how re-writing schools books will create one new job in Jackson. I'd love for someone to explain that to me.

Changed the subject. Answer the question. Titty baby.

The comments at the end of Whitwell's Facebook page posting are pretty funny:

https://www.facebook.com/qwhitwell/posts/628485463846594?comment_id=104691608&offset=0&total_comments=63&ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply

Looks like that Blueberry phone is screwing comments up again KF. No you haven't before you state, definitively, yes you have.

Sorry, I'm not publishing slander. Deal with it.

Kingfish the Buddhist.

I have never heard of Donna Ladd until this election. Is she black? Married to a black? Ties to the black community? From her comments, she has a chip on her shoulder the size of the pothole on Old Canton Rd. She sounds like a nut from the posts I have read.

5:42, its been a few hours, I came back and started looking, and couldn't find those "liquored up" comments you promised. While I find many of the thoughts expressed here somewhat curious, funny, ridiculous, or otherwise out of good reasoning, think you lost this one.

And besides, some of us are still up working - not at our regular 8-5 jobs, but just because it is getting into the night doesn't mean that we got 'liquored up' prior to settling down to read thru various diatribes.

OK Team, I'll throw out a diversion to put them off the trail.

Oh Ms. Ladd, the public library just called and said you had 3 overdue books out. You need to come in and pay the fine.

Never will understand why people like 5:42 PM read anything here when they find the content so offensive.

Has anyone actually seen this email?

Shut up 8:20! Her readers are demanding answers!

I'll wager not a single damned 'reader' asked for, much less demanded, the identity of the author. Ladd is all about shooting messengers and ignoring content. If she can paint the author as a deformed midget with bad breath, then nothing he has to say has validity or relevance.

She's accusing Whitwell's wife's partner on her website. She also had pictures posted this morning on her FB page of the wife and partner riding bikes at the beach.

Do I really need to add anything to this FB comment by Mr. Whitwell on May 7:

Quentin Whitwell It is for the democratic primary and there is no one on it. By state law write-ins don't count anyway so I will appear in the general as the only candidate. May 7 at 3:07pm · Like

Now Donna Ladd is trying to smear Quentin Whitwell by "reminding' FB readers that he did some lobbying work for the payday lending industry.

The hate permeates from her being.

She and the JFP are auditioning and performing for presumptive Mayor Lumumba, showing what good media lapdogs they can be for him, as they were for Johnson before him.

Dear DonnerKay: Chokwe doesn't like you, either, because you are WHITE! That's right, you are white! Mr. Lumumba is about to throw all of Jackson, including your blessed Fondren, into a spiraling, ugly mess. He will be investigated and/or indicted before the end of his term. Then you will look as stupid to yourself, as you do to all of us already.

@9:58 Looks like you got called out personally:

BTW: she refers to the JJ as a "local hate blog." Here's the most recent post:

In fact, someone on a local hate blog said this about me yesterday for my refusal to despise Lumumba (and because we had the audacity to report the secret write-in campaign for Whitwell): "Is she black? Married to a black? Ties to the black community? From her comments, she has a chip on her shoulder the size of the pothole on Old Canton Rd."

No, dumbass, I'm not (a) black or (b) "married to a black," but, yes, I have "ties to the black community" because my readers, friends and staffers are of all races. (And, yes, that was a remarkable and ignorant thing to see in my email this morning. Thanks, you-know-who.)

Actually this blog is the website for "Haters Anonymous".

Her latest stunt is to go sneak onto the friends of Ginger Whitwell's Facebook pages, save pictures of her, and post them on her own Facebook page. Don't deny it Donna, someone sent me the screenshots. Pictures of Mrs. Whitwell on a previous vacation riding bikes with a girlfriend by the beach, wearing a swimsuit (conservative one. down guys.). Of course she sees nothing wrong with this. All caused by her mania to nail a Republican for something he didn't do or have anything to do with (Yeah I know, preposition).

Actually, I don't blame her for that response (Got that Donna, I actually took up for you.). Shouldn't have much to do with anything even if true but I will let people be stupid on this website.

Plain and simple Donna Ladd is using Facebook to stalk other people.

I saw those pictures she posted. Does she not think there's anything wrong with that?

You are headed in the right direction Erin. Donna Ladd is cyberstalking the friends and associates of Quentin and Ginger Whitwell.

She is using the Internet, Facebook in particular, to stalk and harass individuals. Her unsubstantiated dropping of names she suspects, supposedly, as behind this write-in campaign email and then drawing dotted connections of those people to Councilman Whitwell to support her conspiracy theory represent false accusations and harassment.

Donna Ladd can not control her animus for people who refuse to see the world through her lens.

Donna Ladd must have been a big fat girl in school who ate boogers, and was picked on. Get over it Donna quit trying to make something out of nothing. Sorry you had a tough childhood but to come after North East Jackson is not the answer.

Donna Ladd, such a delight.(Poster shakes head rolls eyes)

Eason has taken DonnerKay to task on his blog @ the C-L and she has gone, predictably, control freaky!

Thank God we are not the "Self-Haters Anonymous" tablog.

Political imagination is the cause here. Journalists, political junkies, kingmakers, consultants, developers, professional politicians, wannabies, and other party operatives get manic during the political season. This time next week the party will be over.

The comments at the end of Eason's CL blogpost are hilarious:

http://blogs.clarionledger.com/thebuzz/2013/05/31/whitwell-for-mayor-the-maths-a-bit-fuzzy/

Hofstadter identified the 'paranoid style' of traditional American politics. Now that the general government is spying on the journalists, we expect the very journalists who told us not to believe conspiracy theories to peddle them. Ladd had a daily newspaper story that was really only worth a day. She has a longterm eye on Whitwell that might prove wise.

11:30 I am sure Whitwell is worried about you or Neptune Ladd. Last tie I checked, he had NO OPPOSITION in his race, unlike Ladd's hero Harvey, who had 14 opponents.

Donna Ladd has gone off the deep end. Whitwell has publicly rebuked her for stalking his wife. OUCH.

Whole thing seems pretty straightforward. Ladd went up against the Mayor-elect in the primary and knew she was in the doghouse, so she got a gift here to prove herself to the new powers-that-be, she will make a mess of Whitwell, who she most likely isn't too fond of anyway. She gets to hit somebody, and feel like a hero for it, and hope it pays off and makes the next four years a little easier. Practical and fun.

That said, QW or his handlers probably got drunk and were dreaming out loud and some fool made it real and here we are. May not be all bad for him, people actually are considering what QW as mayor would look like. Still, it seems silly, but whatever, I live in NYC and only study Jackson from afar since reading the fantastic article on what to do in Jackson. One day I'm coming, and I am bringing New York dollars, so get me drunk and laid and feed me good and I may come back with my posse, and we'll show you cowbells how to tango.

After reading her twitter feed with COUNCILMAN WHITWELL yesterday, and her total lack of class regarding the discussion of HIS WIFE, I am more convinced than ever that she is trailer trash, hiding behind an affirmative action degree from Columbia (yes they give particular exceptions to POOR WHITE WOMEN from the Deep South).

She, having never MARRIED, but existing in a chicken shit "partnership" with Toad Stauffer, would never comprehend, nor would Toad, the meaning of the vows of MARRIAGE, and what one does or does not do, journalism or not.

She is a classless, demented, narcissistic woman. EVERYTHING is about her.

CONGRATULATIONS, Councilman, for defending your WIFE. Toad, take notes.

Totally agree! Congrats Councilman, for defending your Wife! Donna Ladd needs a lesson in class, and apparently she needs one in journalism. Her reporting is attacking a race and political party that she is against. Really sad, that someone is paying the bill for that horrible paper!