Jackson Jambalaya

The Mayor working on Sunday? I guess he beat Kenny to the punch with this early Sunday Press Conference! Way to go Chicklets!

I do feel for this Charles Williams fellow.

None of this is his fault.

(He has worked wonders with the little he has had to work with)
I'm willing to bet he's out of there . . . once the water issue is semi "back to normal".

Antar should have known this would happen.

Hell, it happens every Winter !
(Only not on this scale).
The same thing will happen next winter.

The Mayor appears to have not to have done a damn thing (or at least prepare) to get water in place for "his people".

I hate it for the innocents that haven't been able to flush their toilet in almost two weeks.

But as is often said, Jacksonians seem to elect their leaders only based on: "If they are Black enough".

If the current administration wanted the water fixed rapidly, he would have temp-hired thousands of able-bodied citizens to get this manual labor work knocked out. Why is this a complicated process? Why does he have money to fund commissions and studies, but no money to expedite these repairs??

If Drake is allowed to enter city hall tomorrow morning it will equate to the citizens of Jackson openly accepting their current pain... period... end of story.
#runhimoutNOW

A damned press conference when the water system fails, another one when it can't be fixed and yet another now...What can we expect as the new week unfolds?

Under the Official Seal of the City with Soul? "People Who Do"? Shouldn't that be "People Hoodoo"? or "People who Boo Boo"?

It may have been in Yarber's term but during one the major outage periods contractors WERE called in to assist with repairs. Antwad doesn't want outsiders in unless they pay him, not him paying their charges.

Williams is the best thing Jackson has going for it. The need to hold on to him at all cost!

Right? Right.

Need money from state and federal governments. Right? Right.

Jackson would rather spend its limited money on other things. Right? Right.

All ouor cultural programs are more important than basic infrastructure. Right? Right.

We have a legacy system, so its somebody else's fault. Right?

No Mayor. You can keep telling us its 'right' but this is on your watch. You can't blame everything on those that went before you. Right?

It's time for the state to step in and rescue the innocent citizens held hostage by a bankrupt city. Shad has plenty of cause to initiate a financial analysis that will likely justify an ultimate complete takeover/receivership by the state.

what burns me up, if he had set his petty radicalism aside, and gone to Washington and met with Trump, he could have gotten some federal motion on our water system........We elect our officials to WORK TOGETHER, but only now does he say we need federal (and state) assistance.

Charles Williams is doing a great job with what he had to work with! Back off and let him finish!

I lived in Jackson for 30 years. Then I moved somewhere else. It was a good idea. Jackson is a really bad city to live in. For the folks who still live there and complain every day about how bad it is, I would suggest that you move. It will solve most of your problems. It's not like your property values are ever going to go back up. So what are you waiting for?

Wrong 8:20. The problem with that is when Jackson residents move, they just bring Jackson’s culture with them. Jackson residents fleeing are just destroying the nice neighboring areas.

The mayor got his hair done. It’s got some waves or lines or Some of it has fallen out. I couldn’t really tell .

@7:34 pm - I have thought for years that the only hope for Jackson is "being taken over" in some form or fashion by the State. However, the more I think about this, I have come to the conclusion that this is an unsolvable problem. The State does not have enough money to solve the problem, the NAACP and every other feel-good organization would demand set-asides for every "minority" you could imagine, and the voters of the State who live outside the Metro Jackson area would vote their Senators and Representatives out of office for saddling them with the cost of what would become yet another boon doggle. It would be cheaper, and more efficient, for the State to move the capital to a more deserving location.

I'm glad someone else noticed his new hair style !

Yet another Marie Antoinette moment for the little Mayor.
(Let them eat cake)

Half of that town still can't flush their waste, but luma-boo-ma has to look pretty in front of the cameras.

If the citizens of Jackson re-elect this clown, they will have no one to blame except themselves during the next crisis.

The new hair style may have something to do with his appearing on CNN over the weekend?! He’s an expert to discuss water issues!

What does the Public Works Director hold a doctorate in? He seems to be doing the best he can with what he has to work with.

All the money in the world can not help Jackson.It is money it is leadership and it is gone forever.