Campaign finance reports for the Jackson municipal elections are due tomorrow. The last deadline for these reports was January 31, 2017. Candidates Mayor Tony Yarber and Robert Graham submitted their January reports. A PAC for Chokwe Lumumba, Jr. submitted one. John Horhn submitted one to the Secretary of State for his State Senator campaign finance account. The reports are posted below. Enjoy.
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Candidates should be reminded that they are also required to file 48 hour reports as well.
Are you suggesting that JJ should do this reminding? Which ones of the candidates do you think care about what is said, commented, or written on JJ?
If they aren't competent enough to know, then they don't deserve to be elected. Besides, if they aren't willing to follow the basic law of filing a report, on time, what makes you think they will decide to start following the law to file the 48-hour reports?
Quite a few of the Candidates advertise on JJ. Why would they do this if they never read it? I think Graham has been reading and replying often.
Graham and Horne are on this website constantly. They just can't admit it
a large majority of candidates for county office in 2015 never filed one single finance report. Nothing. But they were all over the radio and had signs everywhere. The whitey rules don't apply to democrats
Donna Ladd reads JJ everyday. Tom Head also.
Running for the Mayor of Jackson and this is all the candidates can raise? Such political powerhouses we have here! LOL
I didn't know AMR made political donations. Robert Graham must know someone high up in their corporate office in Colorado. Or working at AMR in Jackson.....
I wish we knew how much cash LaMumboJumbo picked up in New York at his recent Payback fund raiser there.
The fundraiser in New York was put together by white folk and it wasnt called the big payback, stop being so gullible and he wasnt even in attendance.
Meet the Radical Workers’ Cooperative Growing in the Heart of the Deep South
...last year, a Republican state legislator hatched a plan to take over Jackson—either through a Detroit-style emergency management bill that would give the governor’s office near-complete control over the city, or piece by piece, starting with its municipal airport.
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But the original ambition behind Lumumba’s election remains, in the form of a group of local black radicals who’ve organized under the banner of Cooperation Jackson.
Mayoral Candidate in Jackson Hopes to Shake Up the Status Quo
In 2013, attorney Chokwe Lumumba was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi on a platform of economic self-determination for the people of Jackson, a plan that as Kali Akuno explained (in Interviews for Resistance #1) focuses on “transforming the economy, creating a democratic economy leading toward the creation and construction of a socialist economy, but through a democratic bottom-up process.”
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Chokwe Antar Lumumba: I am a member of the Malcom X Grassroots Movement and also a member of Cooperation Jackson, the Coalition for Economic Justice and the Human Rights Collective, which are organizations steeped in the idea of creating self-determination and human rights.
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Chokwe Antar Lumumba: We are, by most accounts, the likely victors.
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Chokwe Antar Lumumba: I do not believe electoral politics is the end; it is the means to an end.
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Chokwe Antar Lumumba: Then you have misinformation. You have confusion. You have people who are being told it is not in their best interest.
Yes Antar, we have misinformation and confusion. You are not coming clean with the voters of Jackson, Mississippi. You are not in our best interest because you are dishonest.
Notice Jackson how Kali Akuno is never photographed with Antar Lumumba. Why?
8:54...Grahams daughter runs things at AMR. Also, it's always nice to see who Richard Schwartz is backing.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba Mounts a Political Revolution in Jackson, Mississippi : The upcoming mayoral race pits a radical future against the neoliberal status quo
THIS IS PURE BULLSHIT ANTAR
The high bills from Siemens and other contractors have been used to justify an austerity program, with city workers laid off and furloughed, cuts in bus services, and deferrals of basic maintenance. The sewer system has so deteriorated that tens of thousands of residents lost water service in February.
Smelling blood, the Tea Party-dominated county and state legislature are moving to take control of various parts of Jackson: the school district, the airport and the business district surrounding the Capitol.
COME CLEAN ANTAR
Like his father, the younger Lumumba brings the clout of a local movement for economic justice and Black self-determination, anchored by groups such as the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Cooperation Jackson ...
Kali Akuno spreads the 'state takeover' conspiracy FUD
Kali Akuno: One thing that is coming up, Lumumba’s son, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is running for mayor in May. Right now, by far and away, he is the leading candidate. We fully expect to be back in office come July, but under some new terms that we are really going to have to figure out because the city is under major debt now. We are being threatened with the loss of our school district. The state is likely going to take that over because of some arbitrary grading system that they created several years ago, primarily focusing on black school districts. Jackson is also faced with the threat of losing control over the city’s water system, in part, because of a consent decree that the city was forced to sign with the federal government in 2012. The water situation has been bad going on into the 1970s. They just kind of kicked the can down the road until it became inevitable. Jackson has a water problem similar to Flint, but not as bad. For us, it is a key issue because the sale of water to both the residents of the city and the greater metro region constitutes 44 percent of the city’s annual revenue. So, if we lose control of the water, we are not going to have a municipality to speak of.
We are trying to avoid what I call a Syriza trap, which is having a left-wing government come in to administer the worst forms of austerity. It is a similar situation that we are staring down. We are trying to meet that as best we can, with the most radical democratic ideas to counter it.
WHERE is Jackson's incompetent media?
Seriously AMR?! Who are you trying to buy? Robert Graham for $1,000.00, your contracts must be coming up for renewal
AMR Corporate Headquarters
6363 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, 14th Floor
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Mr. Lumumba went all the way to Harlem for a fundraiser and that is all he has to show for it?
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