Jackson Jambalaya

Rumor has it their health insurance and liability insurance is canceling in the coming days.

No employees received their pay checks today and check Channel 12 and 3 for press conference held by the employees!!

The leghumpers are squirming today.

Ryshonda has got to go. She has ruined this town. She is hurting innocent people. She has run off good employees and she is not paying others now. Get gone now.

The mayor sucks at life

Bellinder likes to get all preachy and holy and compassionate on Facebook when it concerns certain people, I wonder what he could to help out these people while the Mayor obeys his orders? That's because he is #alltalk. All the while the Mayor's "enemy's" are collecting donations to help them get by until this circus clown and her puppet master get this sorted out.

The mayor posted something saying that the Board has stripped her of her right to make these pay decisions and that the Board now has the authority to sign the checks and issue payment. What's that all about?

What's Mississippi State got to do with this?

What a shit show; has the mayor been communicating with her employees, or has she gone to ground?

There have to be some big time laws being broken. Where is the AG??

I know that the state can take over failing school systems but is there any way that the state could step in an take over the town until a new mayor is elected?

OK girrrl, you got elected, now DO YOUR JOB! In the real world when shit gets crazy, you just can't sky up...

I wonder if SHE got paid??

Another high tech digital lynch mob led by KKKingfish. This is a a legitimate social justice protest. It isn't Mayor Beecham's fault if city employees don't have 6 months salary saved up. Same goes for Federal Employees during Trump's shutdown.

It's Bendiller @ 1:07.

The AG is running for guv, so he's too busy to give a shit about poor litle ole Pelahatchie. All kidding aside, there has to be some higher-up government elected official, entity, etc. that should be able to step in and take control of that disaster. Does anybody have the power to remove a sitting mayor and replace him/her with an interim mayor?

Taking bets on Pelahatchie becoming the next Canton.

2:02 ... no she hasn’t gotten paid.

This is not all on her but she needs to step up and do right by the city employees.

Comparing this sophomoric shit-show to a federal shut-down (which has happened with regularity over the past forty years) is about as nincompoop-ignorant as posts get.

the best mayor for a rankin county town. this could all have been avoided if they didn’t half her pay in an effort to get her to resign

If this happened in Brandon, this would have caught the attention of someone in state government. But I guess Pelahatchie is politically unimportant.

2:40 Never happen. Way too many European Americans in P'hatchie.

Mayor says the board has all the power and she hasn't got paid either!

https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/city-workers-in-pelahatchie-have-not-been-paid-in-a-month/

I'm surprised that the US Wage & Hour division of US Department of Labor hasn't stepped in on this. If I missed my check I would have been calling them the next day. There are penalties for not paying employees in the private sector. I assume the same applies to municipalities.

She has refused to sign paychecks for law enforcement personnel for a month now. She refuses to carry out even the most menial of the mayoral duties. And her failure is jeopardizing the safety of Pelahatchie citizens and leaving their property unprotected. She has failed to sign checks to pay for electricity that will keep the town’s sewage system functioning, thereby endangering public health. At what point does it occur to the Aldermen and their learned town attorney that this incompetent woman has abandoned her post and that the office of mayor has been vacated? Hello????? Declare the f*cking office vacant and appoint an interim mayor. Just do it.

Certainly no excuse for the mayor from me here. BUT, it is hard to find an employer any where now that will write a physical payroll check Those affected should go ahead and submit to be paid by an ACH draft (auto deposit). That should be required anyway.

In reply to the following @2:22

"It isn't Mayor Beecham's fault if city employees don't have 6 months salary saved up."

No matter where you want to place the blame, whether or not the employees have 6 months salary saved is of no concern to anyone. These people worked for this money and deserve to be paid in a timely manner. Period. This whole situation is just the mayor acting like a 2 year old.

All the members of the Board, and the members of the Mayor's family, have posted on here taking shots at one another but there are a couple of questions that need to be asked that are being ignored as everyone takes pot shots across the bow at the other side.

1) Does the city have money in their account to make the checks good if they were issued? If the bank was requiring a financial audit before they would accept the signatures of Board members, it appears that the bank may be worried about making good checks that would bounce.

2) If not, who had the authority to lay these employees off prior to this pay period for which they are not getting paid?

3) If the employees are not getting timely paid, have any of them given up their government job and looked for employment in the private sector?

4) What is the Mayor's given reason for not signing the checks? Is she just protesting, or is she questioning the propriety of the expenditure?

Inquiring minds want to know. And they don't give a damn about what the family members of the Mayor, or the family members of the Board all want to chime in and say.

For my money, they should all resign. Can't figure out who is the worse - the Mayor or the various board members.

If her honor isn't being paid, how is she paying restitution? Abdication and/or dereliction of duty by an elected official in the name of protest, or over a childish disagreement tells us all we need to know about the character of these fools. Real people are suffering and can't pay their bills because of this bullshit - its time for Pelahatchie to start over.

Will someone PLEASE put real butter in the popcorn squirt machine!

Correction I don’t think the Aldermen are on here, at least none of the ones I know but to clear things up. I think it’s quite selfish for the mayor to say she hasn’t received her pay either when.... why should she she hasn’t paid the employees. She keeps dropping this mess about misappropriation being her reason for not signing truth is that’s old news that she keeps going so she can try to embarrass the board and divert the public. The issue is that she had a high risk bond from the beginning due to her personal history of bad credit and evictions, due to her trying to sue EVERYONE her bond dropped her and she had to get a new one. All of this done behind the boards back. Now her new bond is dismissing her with a end date nearing and the board discovered that she, Ryshonda hAs been moving funds around. Once they found that out she would not sign checks and started screaming about misappropriation of funds by the board. Notice she continues to go up on the misappropriation amount every time she’s caught up I just read where she said 2million dollars. Truth be told Hood, white, Pickering and Bryant are lame ducks because they will not step in and correct her or Bellinder. They will not address Special investigator attorney James BoBo. In there words it’s all due to a couple of them running for office and they don’t want to mess up getting the black vote. These are your feitce leaders. They will allow James Bono, Thomas Bellinder and Ryshonda to bankrupt a town. Think.... she only said 2 and 1/2 weeks ago that she wasn’t signing checks but the bills haven’t been paid for months. Hence disconnect notices southern pine, Aflac, fuel man, Pers are some of the major bills despite her putting the claim docket before the board every month. I say the public, media, news and kingfish should ask shad white, Jim Hood and Phil Bryant about this set ep and the public corruption in the AGs office James BoBo that is influencing heavily the state auditors office. By the way the town has receipts to prove no wrong doing in the misappropriation case if you ask them they will show you they have been wrongly accused but James BoBo will not allow it to be as evidence. He has led this crusade with Ryshonda from behind the scenes personally hiring his friend Bellinder for her and feeding him what to do. Call these people out. Read the online article” without board approval, Pearl sues over drug bust” and it will explain a lot. All of this was planned by The AG’s office special investigator attorney James BoBo and Ryshonda happened to be a vessel with a vendetta and she fell in place. One day the truth will prevail. Ryshonda is quick to speak I’ll about the board but she’s not quick to state that she didn’t pay one dime of rent from the 80 something year old she was renting from in pelahatchie and she did this by threatening to sue for what she said were bugs in the house when she left she flooded the place as she did the rental space she had for a year and didn’t pay one dime but flooded that place when she was evicted. Not to mention she stole a credit card from someone and had to go to court but Bellinder had that watered down. Committing federal fraud Toby getting grant money for daycares that are only open overnight then reopening in others name getting money and closing again. Go pull her records from the court house this is a career criminal with bad credit and will use your credit if you leave your information laying around. Look into this guys.