Jackson Jambalaya

It's time for a gay mayor

For Robert Graham's prospects - who is running on the theory that 35% of city has voted for him - this doesn't look good. JJ's readership probably knows Graham as good as most of these clowns (except Good, that doesn't count since he can't win a citywide election anyway). If there is anything to be gleaned from this poll, I'd say its bad news for Graham and Stamps. Nothing else of interest.

You didn't have Enoch Sanders as a choice..he would have won hands down

This election will go down just like all the others. North Jackson whites will get behind a candidate and he or she will get the highest percentage of votes out of a large field of candidates. Time for a runoff. Whites get all excited at the prospect of a white mayor. The second place finisher becomes the defacto "black" candidate. Runoff election day arrives, here come the church buses, black candidate wins with over 70% of the vote.

I would rather have Chockwe Lumbubmba's kid's dog's pile of dung than have to listen to Jeff Good run on at the mouth about anything.

Jeff would love to be mayor. That way he could get his face on TV and in the papers constantly.

Q: How do you get trampled in Jackson, Mississippi?
A: Stand between Jeff Good and a camera crew.

He truly does revel in his minor celebrity, doesn't he?

This election will go down just like all the others. North Jackson whites will get behind a candidate and he or she will get the highest percentage of votes out of a large field of candidates. Time for a runoff. Whites get all excited at the prospect of a white mayor.

You obviously are a troll and not from Jackson because your hypothetical hasn't been a factor in the last 4 or 5 election cycles.

Jeff Good's role in city government should be that he can cater the inauguration reception of the next mayor.

What about city council? Is Margaret Barrett running? I think her health may be a roadblock in her getting reelected.

You split the colored vote - what did you expect?
Racist.

Put some sugar in your britches and vote Jeffrey "Sugarbritches" Good for mayor.

"I'll pave the streets of Jackson with month old biscotti!"

Jeff will lucky if he does not go broke keeping a business going in Jackson.

Why would Belhaven send Barrett-Simon back to the council? Exactly what has she accomplished? Does she even attend 50% of the meetings? Hell, she can't even get the street that the subdivision is named for paved.

Leave it to JJ commenters to hate success. Jeff Good sells plenty of cheese to go with that whine and makes hand over fist doing it.

Too bad he's white and doesn't have a chance. Moreover, I don't know why any qualified person in his/her right mind would want the job.

This Fondren resident says Jackson would be damn lucky to have Jeff as mayor. He knows how to run a business, work across racial lines and he truly cares about this forsaken town. Pretty good qualifications in my book. I think a platform pounding on streets and water might even get the attention of all the voters who drive cars with 22inch wheels! (Have you noticed how slowly they have to drive? That's good fodder for a funny ad.) If nothing else, it might make the other candidates discuss these basic issues in a detailed way about which streets should be repaired with the 1% funds.

Most people I talk to about the state of affairs in Jackson say that there has been no discernible progress in this city since Tony Yarber took office. But I am shocked to see that only 4% of the Northeast Jackson crowd voted for him in this informal poll.

An even bigger surprise is that Boy Wonder Priester did not poll better. He in the #1 or #2 position with 40 or more people I have talked with about the upcoming mayoral election.

Getting back to our current mayor, I have followed Tony's development since he was a school principal. I had such great hope for our city when I heard him make a passionate plea to the city council, challenging a proposed ordinance. I told my colleagues that this young man may become the mayor of our city someday, and I was excited about the possibilities for Jackson's future.

Fast-forward about six years later and Tony Yarber is elected mayor. He somehow became connected with Mitzi Bickers, and now the city is truly on its way to a hellish conclusion.

Mayor Yarber wasn't smart enough to surround himself with capable staff and administrators. He only wanted to give his friends and cronies the hook-up at the public's expense.

But the tragedy of all of this is that Tony Yarber was a good person before caving in to the world of power and money that Bickers placed before him. His unyielding efforts to reward/repay Bickers will lead to his unpleasant end--as it has for so many other good people who get turned on and turned out by a life of corruption.

Alas, who is next?

As we like to call it...Jokeson!
Reality is out there folks, maybe Jeff Good can get
one of the folks who runs his restaurants to run the city for him too.
Senator Horhn?!? Why would he leave all that fat lobbyists cash he receives as a senator, and is that what you even want?...
Wake Up!
Follow Melvin Priester, do your homework as a citizen, it's time for a change and not the guy with the biggest pile of B$ to sell you.
He cares and understands what Jackson needs, is the smartest guy in the bunch(Harvard Law anyone?) and light years more capable.

Jeff would be a great mayor. Unfortunately the brainless thugs that follow the likes of the Stokes of our city will stop that. Jackson will never improve when you have this mindless group just blaming the man for all their problems.

No argument here, I can certainly support Priester for Mayor of Jackson!

Is there any white people in senior executive positions in the Yarber administration?

Or - who is the highest ranking white person working for the City of Jackson?

Senator Horhn?!? Why would he leave all that fat lobbyists cash he receives as a senator, and is that what you even want?...

Mayor Horhn wants JPD rides home from the local bar or tavern or Fondren friendly drinking establishment.

More disappointing to me than Yarber's failure as a mayor is his moral and ethical failures. And he professes to be a Minister of the Gospel, as does his partner in crime, Mitzi Bickers.

They will be allowed to mock God for only so long.

The only Jeff I want for mayor is Jeff Weill.

While Jeff good might make a great mayor, there will never be another white mayor of the city of Jackson. You hipsters can butch and moan all you want, but it is what it is. Then again, why do I care? I enjoy watching the City continue to fall. I was smart enough to get my family out, and have never looked back.

Kingfish, please run another poll for mayor of Joketown that only includes Yarber and City Council members, and make it a 3-day event.

I wonder how having Tyrone Hendrix affects the picture.

While Jeff good might make a great mayor, there will never be another white mayor of the city of Jackson. You hipsters can butch and moan all you want, but it is what it is.

Please tell us something new or stop commenting. Us hipsters haven't been butching and moaning about that reality for nearly 20 years now.

Re: 7:26 a.m.: " I enjoy watching the City continue to fall." That is some cold shit, you smug bastard. If you pull your head out of your Madison/Rankin County Yazoo clay soil, you might start to understand that without a strong capitol city, all of you runaways will suffer too. You can run, but you can't hide.

10:15, sometimes a person watches things happen knowing exactly what the out come will be. After it happens so many times people just want the whole thing over with. We have had enough of the crime ridden cesspool. The quicker the city crumbles the faster we can rebuild it. The leadership in the last 20 years have all lined their pockets and the pockets of their friends and we can't see any of that changing in the future.

... you might start to understand that without a strong capitol city, all of you runaways will suffer too.

FALLACY

Mumble ready to rumble.

Greasy pizza and fatty ice cream. Mmmmmgooood

Love it 10:15.
That's no fallacy, 11:42.

How does one suppose that Jeff Good might (1) be qualified to be mayor, or (2) might be a decent mayor? That he's a cheerleader for loft apartments, sidewalk eateries, low-wage pastry 'chefs' and jobs that do not ever require drug testing.....besides those things, what is there to support the notion that he can do ANYthing?

Do we really need a group of men (Good, Allen, Hal/Mal types) sitting around an oak barrel planning parades, pizza evening out, Fondren patio parties, A Walk To The Amtrak Station, Sunday Sidewalk, Art For The Elderly and Let's Paint The Parking Meters Pastel.....running the state's largest city that is already 3/4 of the way slid down the hill into the proverbial lost river?

The only white man qualified to run as mayor of Jackistan is dead. His name was Marlin Perkins.

These are really interesting comments, but can someone think of a person who would be a good mayor for Jackson--a person who is electable.

I live in Jackson, but I will move if a good person isn't elected in 2017.

Has Jackson progressed enough socially to elect a woman as Mayor?

2:25, you need to start packing, just a few months before you will be leaving Jackson.
Why would a good person want to be mayor of Jackson and is there a single person who would vote for a good person?

DonnerKay for Mayor. She can pave the streets with her rag and pay all city employees with Mange Bene and Cups gift cards. Winning!

How does electing a woman equal 'progressed enough socially'. I'm sure nobody gives a flappin' shit what the sex of the next mayor is. Seriously!

11:19, many people think the sex of the person is the only reason to vote for them and the most important reason. Usually they are right in the first reason and wrong in the last. Sex does not matter, qualifications is the thing most people forget and the most important thing. It has been a long time since qualifications have mattered.

This has nothing to do with mayor. Jeff Good was featured speaker at UMC White Coat Dinner for graduating doctors last Thursday. He was a very poor choice for at least two reasons:
1. A very large % of people in the room could not understand what he was saying.
2. These new doctors are entering a world where Obomacare has taken root. If Hilary is elected Obomacare will soon move to phase #2. That is where all insurance companies admit that Obomacare is rigged so that insurance companies cannot even break even, much less earn a profit. So then the government takes over for insurance companies. When the government can no longer blame insurance companies for high costs they will blame doctors and hospitals. In the world of socialized medicine, where the government decides how much doctors are paid, Jeff Good's marketing and community development message is totally irreverent.

Jeff who?