Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Update

 Another update:85 precincts reporting. 14,137 votes for the tax increase, 1,557 votes against the tax increase.

Several precincts in NE Jackson ran out of ballots. Spann and St. Phillips are confirmed. Don't know the names of the others.


28 comments:

Anonymous said...

34 ran out of ballots too and these are the folks who think they can fix Jackson.

Just me said...

Belhaven fire station asked me to vote in front of them.

Just me said...

Belhaven fire station, the poll workers asked me to vote in front of them

Charlie Ali said...

Praise God! Citizens love their city and have put in place the finance to make it better.

Fondren said...

Seems to me 90% of the voters believe in the city of Jackson and voted to raise their taxes. Haters.....deal with it. We haven't quit and fled to the burbs. This beat up old city, while a struggle, have enough of us white rich folks that care, and we ain't gonna quit. I love this place. Jackson thank you. We rock.

Mid-Life Lawyer said...

Sounds like some Jim Crow antics.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Chokokwe!!

Anonymous said...

15,000 people voted in our capital city. That's the real tragedy.

Anonymous said...

Around 15,ooo voted? Where these the same morons that voted chock a racist chicken in office? Cause he do hate all the white ppl, but loves there money! Hmmm.

Anonymous said...

Marvel the threads that the Fondrenites like 9:20 cling to happy in their "white rich" enclave of racism and snobbery.

Roughly 85% of registered voters didn't even bother to turn out. Yup. You rock.

Anonymous said...

how do you get a "landslide" with only 15,000 voting? I can't get out of here too fast!

Anonymous said...

"Fondren"; Are you serious. These people didn't vote 'to raise their taxes'. They voted, as persuaded, to raise the taxes of 'outsiders' coming to the city.

I'm all for it, but let's be honest, shall we?

As a noted, local high-stepper was heard to say, "This is one giant step for Jackson and one giant leap for Jacksonians!" But, watch your step.

meople said...

Dumbasses... With this much support yall could have passed a nickel tax.

meople said...

As goes Mississippi as a red state.

Anonymous said...

All those poor Rankin County Southern Baptists having to pay an extra 1% on liquor. So sad.

Anonymous said...

I voted against the tax increase. I would like to see them make better use of the funds they already have (the purpose of the water rate hike was to increase funds for infrastructure- now we're being told that we need a sales tax increase. What's next?). I hate that the only solution they can come up with is to increase taxes instead of first seeing how we can pull funds from elsewhere.

Anonymous said...

Lay off all the clerks working for the city who are either cousins or friends of Chokeway and Harvey and you'll free up a huge chunk-O-change.

But, now we'll see a study as to how the committee should be populated and how to insure its insulation from politics. Or rather how to influence the committee with it being obvious.

Darryl Hamilton said...

January 15, 2014 at 8:58 AM,

This Rankin County resident will purchase future liquor/wine elsewhere than within Jackson's city limits, thank you very much.

I wonder if the surrounding communities shouldn't impose a 1% tax on future home purchases/leases for fleeing Jacksonians.

Anonymous said...

@8:58 All those poor Rankin County Southern Baptists having to pay an extra 1% on liquor. So sad.

Not hardly...Discount Wine And Liquor on Lakeland wont get my money as we poor Rankin County Rednecks will just go to Madison...Oh you must have forgotten they were Wet also? All in favor of the 1% Flee Fee as the Real Estate Business is about to pick up (Rankin/Madison) that is.

Anonymous said...

@10:59 So you're going going to drive an extra distance just to stick it to Jackson because you're just such a devout hater? Right. Just don't go through the city, lest you be accused of being a mooch, using Jackson's infrastructure but not wanting to pay for it.

Interesting how Jackson hating suburbanites want us to believe that fixing the city's infrastructure is bad for business. Let's say Jackson addresses its infrastructure woes over the next decade. That, coupled with the trend of young people moving into the city (a local and national trend), doesn't exactly paint a rosy long-term picture for Rankin and Madison. They know that the worst thing that could happen to them is for Jackson to address its problems.

Anonymous said...

@11:57 What if I travel Lakeland drive everyday for work but live at the Reservoir? Could buy it on my way home or cross the Reservoir (3 miles) and get it....not a devout hater at all. Just remember when the Titanic was the most "Grand" ship of all and unsinkable.....People really believed in that. Think about it?

Anonymous said...

... coupled with the trend of young people moving into the city ...

MYTH

Anonymous said...

@11:57 Sounds like a plan. Also, your Titanic analogy can run both ways.

@12:27: Good point, bro.

Anonymous said...

Let the naysayers enjoy themselves while they can.

I heard all this drivel from these kind of folks in Richmond and Raleigh and D.C.

They are simply ignorant and probably think Detroit is the capitol of Michigan since they use that city constantly as their example. They haven't a clue why it's not applicable.

They've never seen suburbs in decline and have apparently missed the news on those that are ghost towns now.

Rankin and Madison are tornado alleys but hey, who worries about population density in tornado alleys?


Anonymous said...

No one loves a tax increase like Democrats and hipsters. (FYI, they're not the same because hipsters are too cool to identify with a party.)

As for the naysayers @2:28 speaks of, there's no rush to enjoy ourselves. We've had years to do that while watching Jacktown collapse, and a $15 million per year contribution toward a $2+ billion problem isn't going to come close to ending that for us. Keep drinking your Kush District kool-aid (made with brown water) and telling yourself that The City With Soul is somehow like Raleigh, Richmond, or D.C. While you're at it, Google "Candlestick Park Tornado" and eliminate some of your meteorological ignorance.

Anonymous said...

3:40 Well said!! The math doesn't even work? Choke Me said the Tax would generate $15Mill/Year?? 1% to get $15 Mill woulf be $1.5 Billion of revenue......Come on man we are nowhere near that. Best I would guess this 1% tax with help get $50,000 but wont help anything.

NICKNAR

Anonymous said...

The biggest surprise of the entire process for me was some kind of automated call from "well known political operative" Greg Brand. That his call was in support of the tax increase was no surprise but just the fact that he is usually "off the radar" with some "dirty trick" but the fact he identified himself was surprising. Don't guess someone just used his name?

Anonymous said...

3:40 Thanks man, was getting worried that the haters wouldn't be able to work "Kush" into this comment string. Good job.

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