Jackson Jambalaya

Has he paid back his $80k and sent back his Amazon FireTV stick yet?

The man is totally incompetent and a racist.

No he is not. Not when it comes to his harem.

who is he?

Who is that? Is that Kenny Wayne Jones?

Interim? What happened to the other one?

Well the move certainly has entertainment value, as well as other potential.

Most of the big Cities that are really bad are in a decent County but not Jackson. A poor Jackson resident has a triple hit with city county and school district. Would be worst place to live in the entire Country.

City of Jackson and Hinds County synopsis:

Problems: We need better schools. We need water. We need roads fixed. We need less crime.

Answers: Let's elect Lumuba and Stokes. Let's hire Kenny Wayne Jones. Let's give a contract to Marshand Crisler. That will fix it.

And that hire sums up the Hinds County BOS to a T! Perfect! Now, Graham the Legend really will look like the smartest one there.

Oh sh@@! Blind leading Blind is a gentle way to describe that .....

Let's give west of I-55 from Louisiana to Tennessee to Louisiana and Arkansas. Surely that was supposed to be part of the Louisiana Purchase, but if not, we can just do a quitclaim deed.

Well I guess for those of us who don’t have to endure the politics of Jackson it’s a non issue. However for the poor souls who live in or around Little Mogadishu it’s probably a shit sandwich. But then again life itself is a shit sandwich, the more bread you have the less shit you have to eat. There’s an old phrase that comes to mind that extreme incompetence breeds arrogant incompetence absolute. Everyone knows where it comes from and why it’s there, yet there are not enough intelligent people to make a difference or to change things. The real scary crap is the fact that this city and some of the same mental midgets make rules for the entire state. It’s happening across the country. One can see city’s and states with like minded people erode to third world status then demand bailouts from states that know better. It’s going to explode soon. When people realize there’s no option but to change things by any means possible, and that could be a bad thing for those on the fence eating popcorn.

Is it just me, or does it seem like state and local government keeps recycling the same people in spite of poor performance?

Y’all don’t know a darn thing about Kenny Wayne Jones! Just because you hate to see a black man you can’t push around doesn’t make him what you say he is. I’m sick you and your echo chamber. The thing about Kenny is you know where he stands. It just so happens he doesn’t stand with you. This is yet another example of you pathetic low grade attempt at journalism.

Actually I prefer black men I can't push around. No one likes a wimp or a beta.

Carmen Davis is starting to look real good right now. This crew fired her the first day they took office. They hired JRC. What did that last? 9 months? They got tired of pushing her back in her lane so out the door she went. Then they appointed an attorney as interim. That resulted in more than a few employees quitting, 14 transfers, multiple firings, and a pretty irate workforce. Board had enough and replaced her today. Carmen knew how to run things and was fine as long she didn't get political..... which she did.

Big deal. If someone thought this board would make a revolutionary move to hire someone based on pure professional expertise, get real. None of them could function on that level. It's nothing new and it's about the best you can expect. One hand washes the other... Good luck Kenny. Good luck Hinds County.

I’m sick you and your echo chamber. ... This is yet another example of you pathetic low grade attempt at journalism.

Why are you here? If you can't answer that question then your comment can't be taken seriously.

Hinds County chose David Archie over Darrell McQuirter. That's all you need to know. Darrell is a fine man who did a great job. You should have seen this coming.

Say what you want about Hinds County (and most of it will be right), but they had it rolling for a few years around the time the tire plant announced. Roads were paved all over the county. I bet they paved more roads in Jackson than Jackson did. You can't leave Clinton without riding on a smooth county road. Too good to last I suppose. They voted out the best board in decades. Shows you the typical voters mentality.

5:40, easy to pave roads when you pass a $50 million bond issue for roads, the year before election year. I could put a major addition onto my house and new cars in the garage if I took out a second mortgage too. Same deal, except I would have to pay that 2nd mortgage off with my own money, not with other people's taxes.

Election years always brings newly paved roads. Same thing is going on inside city of Jackson right now.

For those of you in the dark. From the Clarion Ledger from a bit over two years ago:

State Auditor Shad White said severance pay for public officials is prohibited by Mississippi statutes and has been addressed by the Mississippi attorney general multiple times. Both electronic items were purchased by Jones using a procurement card belonging to Canton Municipal Utilities during his employment and could not be located during a recent asset inventory, White said.

"When this many people violate purchasing laws, you have an organization that needs to entirely rethink its practices," White said. "Typically we do not have cause to issue this many demands to a single organization, but that is the case here."

White said ratepayers and others who put their faith in Canton Municipal Utilities need to be made whole, and the people receiving these demands are personally responsible for paying this money back.

6:28, what is the issue with using debt for long-lived assets? Who buys a house without using a mortgage? They issued shorter term bonds for paving and longer term bonds for bridge repair. And for the record, the bond issue was the year after the election of 2015, not the year before. That board did a hell of a lot more than the other counties and cities who sat around and waited on Obama to send manna from heaven to fix their problems. Not every county can sit back and watch Tate and Phil send state bond money to fund all of their pet projects.

8:02, WTF has that got to do with anything?

Did Shad get Kenny Wayne to return the items?

Kenny Wayne’s politics don’t line up with mine. But I like him. He’s actually a pretty nice guy. I got to know him in the state senate. But he can’t in no uncertain terms do this job. County administrator in any county is difficult but in a county the size of county you have to really have some smarts.

The internet has made cowards out of a whole generation... I’m old enough to to remember when you had an issue with someone, their politics or anything to that extent we would say it up front, our]t loud without the cover of Anonymous! I’m quite sure Kenny would graciously accept your criticism and kindly give a retort that’s not cowardly! The good ol days.... sure miss them.