Jackson Jambalaya

He certainly isn't a Pappy "pass the biscuits" O'Daniel kind of governor. Who knows within what fraternal secret societies he might hold membership. Maybe Gov. Reeves needs to openly condemn the KKK to reassure the citizens of this great state that he is NOT secretly a member of those so called White Knights.

Give me what I want or I'll make your life hell! Dysfunctional Family Dynamics 101

Tough shit Mayor and everyone standing up there. Our small office water meter had not been read in 7-10 years, it was in a ditch, and when we got the bill it was screwed up, they went from the last reading to when they hooked the new meter up. We talked to them and it got straightened out based on the fact we only use $50 per month after that and we had been paying the minimum all those years. The people that have a high bill from years past where not paying a bill at all and it caught up with them. I bet most have not paid in years and now they are billing them for several years of water.

Horses&!t!

Anyone else getting fed up with all the ills of the world being the result of "systemic racism", and that just because of your color that you are either "privileged" or a "victim"?

Poor people come in both white and black (and other) colors. Therefore, racism is not the cause of people not paying their water bills.

If some get their unpaid water bills forgiven, does that mean I too get to not pay my bill and get it forgiven?

I fully support Governor Reeves on this and anyone else who believes in things that are fair and just.

The rest of us shouldn't pay for the people who tried to take advantage of the water issues by not paying. I paid $60 a month while my water bill wasn't being sent, and the water department sure cashed that check every month too.

"the Flag was a good thing, but we can't just stop there. We can't stop there, we have a lot more to do..."

Hope the Governor, and our so called leaders learn from this. Once you throw out the law to appease an agenda, you will be expected to do it over and over again. If you don't, then you will find yourself right back in their sights.

For clarification, I was not against changing the flag, but do not agree with "How" it was done.

This woman must have been around a bat lately - her intelligence seems to indicate that.

The bill that Reeves vetoes did not apply to "cities around the state" it only applied to Jackson.

It would provide for writing off water, SEWER, AND GARBAGE fees.

Despite what the Mayor wants to say in trying to defend his incompetent leadership, they have not submitted this bill for years; it was not designed to fix water billing problems since for most people, the water portion of the bill is a small portion of what the folks didn't pay.

The veto of this particular bill was an appropriate action - the bill allowed the Mayor to give away hundreds of thousands, no millions, of dollars to the voters that will be deciding on next year's selection of a Mayor of the Bold New Radical City.

His Highness is a Progressive. You should know that everything is intersectional and a result of Systemic Racism. Thank god I found a house and moved out last month.

Damn the white man and his...(spins the wheel of outrage)

UTILITY BILLS!!!

Oh they take the State Flag and now they are going to call the us white people KKK. Fuck them and Fuck Jackson, Mississippi.

I can assure you more than enough taxpayers have had it with Lumumba... He's a snot nose little spoiled brat. 2nd point, this lady reading in video clip doesn't represent anyone in the part of Jackson I live in. Get a clue you dope! No one owes your ass a dime pay your water bill like I do!!! People in this world always want a handout. Sickening really. Soon these morons will suck up to Tate for another favor. Tate tell them to kiss your a$$

Someone needs to tell these jokers the only KKK are FBI honeypots. The local Grand Wizard is likely an undercover special agent.

@3:19 they'll never learn. Enough is never really enough.

Priester,
Your ads better run for mayor! I went to St. Andrews with you and my sister graduated with you from murrah. Look, I know you want to run so you should.

It's against the rules for any republican to run against Tater just like it's against the rules for any member of the 'home team' to run against Baby Chock.

“waahhhhhh! The racist governor is making water users pay their bill and be accountable. Wahhhhhh!”


This is why Jackson is a mess.

Token white lady with poor fashion sense is chosen to serve as the attack dog and call tater a racist pig.

The irony is that Jackson, in Himds County, has some of the highest taxes in the state (land, car tag, and sales tax). Why is it okay for the government to be greedy?

5:35 - go back to work for Chism Strategies if that is your political observations:

What the hell do you think Dilbert Hosemann has been doing for the past three years, especially stepped up since he had to stand at the podium and read from his notebook?|

And Baby Chock has at least ten people chomping at the bit to file to run next spring. Granted, three or four of these won't scratch, but there are some strong names among the list - and one of them, other than Antwar, will be the next to carry the title, have six bodyguards, and live in a gated white NE community.

"Give them an inch"

For some reason I thought they would at least wait a day or two before they started raising hell about something else.

This time it's free utilities.

If they have a problem with water bills maybe they should take it up with the moron who screwed up the contract for new meters and can't seem to keep the water free of pollutants.

3:18, my thoughts exactly. We did the same. When we called the water department after failing to receive water bills, and expressed fear that not paying anything would cause the past due amount to stack up and get our water turned off... the response from the water department rep was this:

"Honey, they ain't gonna cut your water off. They don't cut NOBODY'S water off."

After expressing doubt, this was reiterated, by several different employees. Come to find out, this was indeed Jackson's policy for YEARS, and all of the service users knew it. So, why be a sucker? Why pay when no one else is, if nothing will happen anyway?

My conscience and risk tolerance wouldn't allow my to use and not pay, so I kept sending in what we'd typically paid whether we were billed or not. Eventually, we started getting an 'estimated usage' bill and some months after that an actual bill that approximated our historical usage.

Good thing, too, because Baby Choke changed the "no cutoffs" policy (probably the ONLY thing he's done I've agreed with). I believe this bill was intended to help him escape the political fallout associated with cleaning up that messing. Easier to sweep it under the rug and move on, right? Especially when many of your constituents are like me -- sick of his mess and very eager to vote for anyone running against him.

Thanks Tate. I haven't been a fan but you did the right thing on this - and the flag.
Signed,
A Jacksonian

Moved from Jacktown 4 years ago to Rankin County.
My water bill is $ 12.24 a month.
Garbage is $ 10.00 a month
total $ 22.24
When I lived in Jacktown my bill total average $ 75.00 a month.

No potholes. No crime. Great schools. Great stores to shop in.
What is it with these Democratic cities?

Based on what I've read about the bill, Gov. Reeves was right to veto it for the reasons he specified. I hope the legislature does not attempt to override his decision. I do not see it as a black/white, poor vs. affluent issue, but one of fairness and equity for all cities ---a slippery slope. Strategically, the Black caucus should not waste good will capital in an effort to override the veto; and shame on the Mayor and the Poor People's Campaign representatives for making it a racial issue rather than addressing opposition on its merits. Doing so helps to negate and minimize those issues that are legitimately discriminatory. City of Jackson, use money obtained in Siemens settlement.

Likewise, I moved from 39202 to Ridgeland after 48 years, being tossed around in my SUV like a wind puppet flailing in front of some auto dealership, cursing the hidden potholes along Riverside Drive when my metal rim smashes the back edge of that rock hard asphalt, Oh, and the surly looks & treatment I got from City or County clerks who believe I’m ‘privileged’ simply for being born Caucasian... 39157 is like heaven in Contrast...

Ok, I'll bite. Say you give them "water forgiveness". What's going to happen when they rack up a huge bill again, because they won't (can't) pay their water bill in the future? You going to "forgive" it again? Why don't they just say what they want? Instead of dancing around it. Free stuff for all. Free water, Free electricity, Free cable, Free internet, Free cell phone, Free food, free clothes, free weed, free house or apartment, free car, and free gas. Such a sense of accomplishment and self-worth that would be.

Amen to 8:49, I left the 39202 after 20yrs and now live in peace. Good streets, good schools, decent neighbors who don’t scold and lecture me about over-the-top woke bullshit. And you speak the truth about surly racist clerks on govt. payroll.

I have friends that live in a nice gated neighborhood across from Whole Foods who have not gotten a water bill in 2 years, despite asking repeatedly for one. The system is so screwed up. Lumbumba is the mayor and should have handled this immediately, instead of traveling to promote his agenda. It's ridiculous. Both poor and wealthy are abused by the pathetic water billing system in Jackson. It appears to be a long running scheme to steal money from Jackson taxpayers and then turn around and punisht them for things the mayor and city council will not fix.

Delusional and self-centered rant by someone who wants to see her =self on the news. She doesn't really want problems solved. She doesn't really want to see the city do the work it needs to do to solve this problem. Which it can.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that this is not the way to solve problems. If you want to communicate to solve problems, you open a dialogue with the governor; acknowledge the arguments he put forth in the veto; and you suggest a common forum to work on the problem of the water bills.

This bitch just wants her face on the news. We really don't need people like her.

Oh. Good. Lord. That's Lea Campbell from Ocean Springs. She has bitched about everything from not enough free-range soy aioli on her artisan vegan authentic street tacos to allowing transgender cats and any other species that self-identify as cats..er, feline persons...the freedom of unisex litter boxes. She's batshit crazy. I have no idea how or why she is mixed up with Jackson water bills, but if she is, there is probably nothing rational or reasonable about "forgiving" them.

Let's hear from the guy who says he lives three-doors-down from Lumumba in 3..2..1

Or the one who says he was in middle school with him in 4..3..2

@ 935
I agree with you... however you must remember that the city of Jackson is made up of the poor and the very wealthy. Not much middle class there. Your either poor or able to send multiple kids to private schools and join country club or river hills CC... most have beach house or Oxford condo... one has a beach house in Martha's vineyard over 28 million dollars and one in pebble beach over 16 million. This is a vast difference. The clarion ledger last year write piece on one area of North side drive vs the other side 10 miles apart. Rich or poor.

I don't live on Baby Chok's street, but we did go to different schools together.

I feel So Woke this morning, so let me Splain this ‘Systemic Racism’ to all you ‘Low Down No Goid Dirty Rotten White People’ as David L Archie says. This ‘Systemic Racism’ is Right in front of you everyday! Explain to me why it is... that all them asphalt streets are Black? Just one more Example of the Symbolism Of Racism! All them White Peopleses just Driving All Over the Blackness to get anywhere do anything! Just like it’s been for the last 450 years! Even when it was just a covered wagon; what color was the Dirt? BLACK! And all them white peoples just Drove All Over It! Just like it is Now! Driving The Black Man Down!

Hop that helps clear things up, so You can be All Woke Too!

this post s proof that all this racer baiting will never end cause there are too many people out there making money at it. they make me wanna puke.

Not to worry.

I really don't see this veto bring over ridden.

These elected good ole boys would have a very difficult time explaining their vote to their home town constituents.

Speaking of white people, where is Bob Miller? I expected him to be involved in this billing matter.