Jackson Jambalaya

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

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

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

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

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.

Sounds like some Jim Crow antics.

Thank you Chokokwe!!

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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

As goes Mississippi as a red state.

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

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.

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.

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.

@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.

@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.

@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?

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

MYTH

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

@12:27: Good point, bro.

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?

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.

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

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?

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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