Jackson Jambalaya

Get your popcorn ready and hold onto your wallet.

KF, you forgot to add Harvey to your poll. You know he wants to run as he can't help himself.

I do not see how any of them could be any worse than Phil Bryant, Tate Reeves or Gunn. I am a Republican. Hopefully the winner will serve Jackson well.

I would give anything just to have two or three consecutive months without being bombarded by gibberish from the so called "entitled political class" that we are plagued with.

And Graham's slogan is "Elect a Crook"?

Will Longwitz for Mayor!

WHITES NEED NOT APPLY

I know the solution for Jackson---All the white folks need to pack up and move---not to Madison---not to Flowood but out of the State. I say let THEM have it. The state is almost like a third world country now. Name the city JACKFRICA !!!!!! We won another award yesterday---Jackson is the Number one city in the USA for cases of HIV---that really is a third word distinction.

Quentin Dickerson, has he announced yet?

Didn't see my choice on the list.

Now, I am corrupt - that's right - just like the rest of you. But I am honest about it. Now, you VOTE for Mr. Clarence, you know exactly what you gettin'!
-Brubaker,1980

@10:14 AM - Did you mean Quentin "Whitwell?"...

I left the state after my family had been here for well over 150 years. This was 2 years ago and it is so sad what this state has become. I visited some friends in Jackson last week and it was spooky how much worse things has gotten in just 2 years. Good new is there is another world out there much different from the 3rd world of Jackson.

10:07, whites ARE leaving Jackson, and moving as far away from Mississippi as they can get. People who cannot afford private school tuition have not choice but to leave. People just starting out (those who have no relatives to give them down-payments for purchasing homes) generally find it easier, to find jobs in safe parts of the country, than to find safe-but-affordable apartments in Mississippi.

And people with wealth, or with above-average certifications and job skills, frequently cannot find viable reasons for staying, when so many other states offer them so much more.

Some people are stuck here, because of sub-par job skills. Some are stuck here, because their speech is just too 'Mississippi White Trash'. Some postpone leaving, "Until Mama dies", or "Until Mamaw dies". The years pass, and they find that it's too late to leave. They pay a heavy price for their familial loyalty.

TO 1:19, I wanted to get out but my 52 year business would not let me go---I can not express how sorry I am that I did not move my business to Nashville or Atlanta 20 years ago. Two of my children moved and are very successful and swear they will never move back to Mississippi. They don't even like to come back to visit because of the crime and the way they are treated at some retail stores and restaurants by angry black employees. I plead with the Governor to call out the National Guard to help stop this madness. There is going to be nothing left if we don't put a stop to it now. There is not a single block of Capitol Street that does not have several dilapidated buildings---this is the State Capitol. HELP !!!!!

Gentrification is coming to a Jackson near you!!!!!!

Jackson will become another Memphis, Detroit, or whatever slum lord town you pick because many of our brightest and most educated children leave for Dallas, Nashville, or wherever.

The major differences........race and economics....you'll never see
a front page article in the Dallas Morning news about race..it's only about money and who is making lots of it!!

We are a broke city and fast approaching a bankrupt state because we are the only state in the SE without a Fortune 500 company HQ here if you can believe that! Its true. Thanks Phil!

Graham: “If citizens allow me to be their next mayor then they are going to get a little Kane Ditto, a little of Dale Danks, a little of Harvey Johnson, a little of Frank Melton, all wrapped up into one big bow, that’s who I am going to be,”.

10:07, are you even for real??? And the rest of you encouraging him? Attitudes like yours are what is wrong with Jackson. If you live here, shut up and do something. If you don't, just shut up, please.

Enoch Sanders!

Is Kimberly Campbell running? She would be a great Mayor.

Akuno and the Kush gang push the same message @5:19. Please get up to speed.

Sure are a lot of people wanting to be the mayor of the #1 HIV city in the U.S.

Sadly, the response from black people to most of the above posts is, "You all just hate blacks!" They truly do not see the problem or understand the roots of the problem. And the few who do, have no desire to solve the problem. You'd think some of them might eventually say, "We need to do something to stop this shit!"

But, nope. All they can talk about is 'haters'.

I see Detroit reject Kwame Kenyatta is still hanging on hoping that BabaHappyKushManJR will give him another city hall job. How coincidental that Kenyatta lives only a couple doors down from the JrChuckster behind the safe confines of a gated NEJackson neighborhood.

Free the Land and Stay the Hell Out of their private gated Kush enclave.

I'd vote for Sohcrates (think Bill and Ted). Anyone so interested in removing load after load of crap from Jackson is the man for me.

Truly a race to the bottom.

Vote for pocket-man and legend Graham! At least Hinds County would be rid of him. His corruption would fit in well at the city.

The goal of any person seeking public office in Jackson is now about one thing and one thing only. Running an employment/contracting office. Nothing else matters. Nothing. Say it with me, "Nothing else matters!"

The majority of the people I know who live outside the city of Jackson have a fairly high quality of life That said young people (under 40) would probably be well served to make a move to other states. To do so they need to have the skills and work ethic to succeed in a more competitive environment. Also be prepared to cope with more traffic, higher priced homes and taxes. There is an offset as many areas have excellent public schools that save the expense of private education. I'll probably move back (Rankin or Madison) as I can sell my current home for a significant profit buy an equivalent home for much less and reduce my property taxes be a few thousand.

During reconstruction there was a saying "the bottom rail is no on top". Problem is the damn fence is falling down. At some point the black community has got to realize that their leadership is using them for personal gain.

They don't give a shit 5:24.

The way to keep people pacified is to provide them with pacifiers.