Jackson Jambalaya

Louis Watson will take no prisoners. Nor will he take a weak case. The "Sex Preacher" is going down. So to speak.

Salacious? Based on the oral sex reference? Salacious is more clinical than what is detailed in this complaint.

Oops, almost forgot. Yarber is done.

Is the preacher going to pray away this allegation like his mortgage?

Looks like the Jackson Zoo story just got bigger as it involves many more species of animals.

Wonder if we'll have a community outreach town hall meeting with the churches and rest of the community on sexual harrasment? Jackson is burning right before your eyes and the sad part is-is that it will affect the state as a whole.

Hotlanta, NOLA, Skrip clubs? Man he sounds like a pimp not a mayor.

Tony obviously didn't attend any of Bill Clinton's secret Foundation workshops detailing how to pull off this garbage and get away with it. Guess we now know why the Mayor has been so reluctant to include those fundraisers in his campaign finance reports. And how about that Mitzi Bickers!

So is this what they mean City scandals by "straight piping"?

Another story involving Kimberly Bracey.

I want to be invited to the next party Mitzi Bickers throws.

Kingfish: Who would take over if TY has to resign or is forced out? Would that person finish out his term or would there be a special election? If so, curious as to how this might affect next year's general election.

Looks like Duckie was prepping for a job with Fox News!

Well, it is an election year and seems to me like someone (possibly in the Lumumba camp) found an insider who was ready to do some squealing for a nice fat foreseeable settlement.

@1:27. Not KF here, but to answer your question - look at what happened when Daddy Lubumba died. President of council becomes acting Mayor; council calls for special election.

But this late in term I don't expect TY resignation. This lawsuit is far from his legal problems. He should be more worried about fibbies activities and some of these fund raiser attendees.

Geez. No wonder the Water Department can't send out bills with all of these shenanigans going on at City Hall.

But, but, he is a preacher.

Kim campaigned on the clock often...I know. She called my office in doing so.
She was fired for using her position as a self-serving stepping stone. Period.
If she didn't like any advances towards her, she should have sued earlier!
The proper response is not to enter into a long-standing sexual relationship
and then cry foul when you get fired.

She is not a victim, she was a willing participant.

I'm wondering how much of this drama Keisha Powell was involved in? Anything to do with her leaving?

Bracey was married in 2013, separated and boning the mayor by 2014. Sounds like a marriage made in heaven. But she did what she needed to do to put food on the table, so there's that.

I really hope this is the end of Yarber. Wonder what the topic of his sermon will be this week? Something about "don't believe the devil, he tries to twist everything" or some such nonsense.

According to an article in the National Review, Bickers was the one they hired for Cochran's "get out the black voter" campaign that allowed him to win re-election. She's from Atlanta, is pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, past chair of the Atlanta school board, and openly gay(bet she enjoyed the strippers too). Quite a resume!!

You old timers will remember Flip Wilson and his famous " The Church of What's Happnin Now, Brutha". Appears that Mayor Tony sat on the front row. He should have done like Obama and not listened to the sermons. If Da Mare had any hope at all in the next election, it is gone now. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

TY should take his scnittzengruber and slither on out of town.

Come on people, read the other names in the Complaint. The other "participants". Do you actually believe that only Yarber would be doing it? You've got Marshand Crisler, not to mention a Judge's son. Gez, talk about a good time being had by all and on the taxpayer's dime.

It certainly didn't take very long (hello 1:53 p.m.) for the "whore itizing" to begin. Wasn't anyone else's fault - it was the woman's fault. Yea.....right.

First of all, I see the actions of the participants in the lawsuit as being cultural. They've always been that way, and they always will be that way. I'm not condoning them, and I'm not saying there wasn't harm done. I'm just stating my opinion based on observations from living in the south for many decades.

On a related issue: I hope the person who wrote (and worst of all, submitted) that complaint is embarrassed! It is awful! It is rife with grammatical and spelling errors. Do "professionals" (or anyone, for that matter) read what they've written anymore?

Wait a minute! According to the C-L, Yarber officiated Bracey's wedding! Yarber was a friend of her husband's...

He does that to his friend, imagine what he'll do to people he doesn't know or care about.

Lumumba used to say "if you don't love the people, you will betray the people." Yarber appears to love no one but himself. Wife? Nope. Friends? Nope. Employees? Nope. City of Jackson? Nope.

I'm thoroughly disgusted.

Don't get your honey where you get your money.

Welp, its official

The next Jackson Mayor will either be Melvin Priester or Antar Lumumba

Melvin is Harvard educated, spent time on the Jackson city council, well respected by the surrounding suburbanites, but does not warm to kindly to the poor folks in Jackson.

Antar has the "ethnic" name, is a lawyer, speaks with the vigor like his father, but by no means is the same kind of activists for the people like his father. All in all, he wants to become mayor so he will have the experience under his feet to run for Bennie's congressional seat.

But it's safe to say, this is officially a wrap for Tony, he had his chance and messed it up.

As I said, an election year, Lumumba and Priester's camps are already at it. As for 2:25 and 2:29, give me a break - the activity is cultural and Lumumba is now a great philosopher! You've got to be kidding me.

Please let Jackson declare bankruptcy and an administrator have to be appointed. Then it won't matter who the mayor and city council are because they will have no power.

1:58. Catch up. She was named by the McDs and their media folks and tried to tie her to radio ads - due to corporate names. Was proven to be totally different group - local folks who made up a LLC name that matched hers. Local politico ad.itted to making the ads and paying for them. Mitzi was too busy find g strippers in body paint to engage in MS Senate campaign.

When will we be rid of this thoroughly corrupt, dissolute, incompetent and ineffective ass TY? Have we got to wait until next summer while the City's problems continue to mount without solutions?

If Jackson Public Works was laying as much pipe as the mayor the water problems would be fixed in no time.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381365/meet-mitzi-bickers-eliana-johnson

Tony needs to defend himself like Bill Clinton did.
"I did not have sex with that women". "Exactly, what is your definition of sex?" Parahased:Is a blow job sex?

@3:06 PM will believe anything. Nothing was "proven".

Dang! 3:31 beat me to it.

Do we have pictures of the strippers in body paint?

Will the City have to pay for a defense for Tony?

I will say this:

If you're going down over sexual harassment, you might as well go down over "banging the entire office staff six ways to Sunday/strippers in body paint" sexual harassment, as opposed to "off-color remarks" sexual harassment.

Way to not half-ass it, Tony.

Okay, I read the document but I can't keep up. Plaintiff willing had a sexual relationship with the mayor but left husband to move in with another person who was also having a sexual relationship with mayor. Now plaintiff has moved back in with hubby and is sueing? I do not know the protocol here, when you willingly engage in a relationship with a married politician, you can sue them after you are done? I am not sure what Miss Manners has to say about this but the fact that the mayor is also having any affair with another co-worker and subordinate would have woken me up. Hellooooo, if he is an A-hole with one person than most likely he will be an A-hole with you. Where are their mothers? Did they not give them advice about this? How can one sue someone after willingly partaking in an affairs and then claim sexual harassment? The sexual harassment part should have come first. How many voted this idiot into office for mayor of a major southern city? I hope his wife gives an interview on this.

3:31 wins " post of the month".

4:56 -- You can't keep up with the part where she says, "I stopped the affair, but later he told me I had to keep having sex with him"?

Are you just being obtuse for laughs, or do you really think that once you have sex with someone, you're obliged to keep having sex with them on demand forever?

Didn't Tony Yarber admit infidelity with his former school secretary when campaigning - and his wife had forgiven him ??? Sound like more of the same.

In real stressful situations, it ain't that easy to get a boner. Women won't understand this and neither will the Tom Head crowd. But, seriously, when you're conflicted with all kinda mental anquish, guilt, doubt, fear and compromise, you just ain't gonna get the noodle to doodle, try and pray as you might.

So, in defense of the Mayor, I submit it was highly unlikely that he performed at the level suggested. He bein' frame.

The craziest thing to me from the CL story was she was being paid $50k a year for her job as the mayor's assistant. Not bad.

Maybe Trump has a point about cities that are run by Democrats.

But the airport and the sewer system are in good hands.

None of you commentators are dealing the main fact. TY is a sex addict. Many of us in the black community knew this and did not vote for him. Most of you in the white community did not bother to check him out. If you had you would have found out he had these problems at the school at which he was principal.The fault lies some what with you but mostly on those so called black "leaders" who brought TY to you and said he was the one. They knew he was a sex addict. They knew he was unfit to be mayor. But they sold him to you anyway! They hoped he would give them contracts and did not care about what happened to Jackson. Now you see what you have.

There's really no such thing as a 'sex addict'. There is such a thing, though, as horny and out of control. The man has no moral compass, no boundaries, no fences. What's the difference in Yarber's and Bill Clinton's behavior? Both were given passes by the entire Democrat Neighborhood.

I'm enjoying all the moral outrage by those who are going to vote for a man who is married to someone young enough to be his daughter. And, apparently there will be no moral outrage when he trades her in for an even younger model once the plastic surgery can't hide body age.

Jackson- The decay continues from the inside as well as the outside.
What a shame....Reverend? please.

I wondered how long it would take someone to blame the few white people left in Jackson for the Mayor's behavior. Thank you 11:58 for coming through. I wouldn't care how many people he was sleeping with if the City could mail a water bill and fill potholes.

I guess I'll have to get myself happy about living in the Kush District.

11:58
Apparently you're not very good at math. If the votes of white NE Jackson put Yarber over the top because many of you in the black community "did not vote for him", then they would have elected a white mayor. Since the voting power of NE Jackson is greatly diminished due to the demographic makeup of the city, the black vote will always determine who becomes mayor. Nice try blaming our problems on whitey. Thanks for playing.

Sure, it is the white people's fault that Yarber can't keep it in his pants.

11:58

Most men have a sexual appetite... and most of them would probably like more than they get. However, most will work it out with their spouse or maintain a socially, or self-imposed, level of discipline to control.

I tend to agree with 4AM.

You know, we have a daily paper, several TV stations, several radio stations, a Free Press, a Northside Paper, and probably even more, plus the blogs, why are the voters to be blamed and called money hungry when they were not informed of the Mayor's penchant for infidelity, to say the least. I am willing to listen to the replies from the Mayor and whatever else might come out, but unfortunately, the whole sorry tale rings true. His best bet is to go to the same place Tiger Woods went and seek treatment. Still, he will not be elected again.

Are you honestly suprised???? Most of not all men in power have affairs. Especially when the attention their conventions, fund raisers, conferences. I have witnessed, made me question the man that I was dating. It's nothing brand new. Taxpayers dollars being funded for sexcapades and we wonder why real issues of citizens are not dealt with. It's all a ga me and disgrace. It's the world we live in. Stay tuned