Monday, August 2, 2021

Showing You the Money

 Contractors, vendors, and anonymous donors bankrolled Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's successful re-election campaign.  Nightclub owners opened up their wallets for the Mayor as well.  The Mayor raised $321,608 and spent $305,758. JJ obtained the Mayor's campaign finance report (singular) through a public records request.

Utility Constructors owner Terry Lovelace led the way with $45,000 in contributions to the Mayor.  Birmingham law firm Lightfoot, Franklin, & White placed second among the Mayor's donors at $20,000.  The firm represents Jackson in the lucrative Siemens and Gold Cost Commodities lawsuits.   Gregory Pafford gave $20,000.  Pafford owns Pafford EMS.  

Richard Bradley and his M-Bar donated $10,000, placing the combination seventh among the campaign contributors.  Other bars gave sizeable contributions to the Mayor.  4th Avenue gave $4,000 while Last Call contributed $2,000. 

Actblue donors gave $51,000 to Mayor Lumumba.  Actlue is a Democratic fund-raising website.  Unfortunately, the contributions do not include the donors names on the campaign finance reports.  The contributions include the following donations: 

$20,000

$5,000

$1,900

$2,350

$2,575

$3,275

The Mayor did not submit any campaign finance reports until the day of the general election on June 1.  Hizzoner learned the lesson well from the says of when Harvey Johnson beat up Marshand Crisler with his campaign donor list.  However, the Mayor and most of his opponents repeatedly violated the law this year as they didn't file campaign finance reports as required by law. State law requires 2021 municipal candidates to file reports for each of the deadlines listed below: 

January 29, 2021: Annual Report

March 30, 2021: Primary Pre-election report (opposed candidates)

April 20, 2021: Primary Runoff Election Report

June 1, 2021: Pre-election report (opposed candidates)

Section 23-15-813 of the Mississippi Code spells out the penalties for failure to file campaign finance reports.  A candidate has ten days to file the report after it is due.  The Mississippi Ethics Commission will (notice that is not a "may") fine the "delinquent candidate" to to $50 per day the report is delinquent.  The maximum fine is $500.  

Although the Ethics Commission may fine wayward candidates, it is the Attorney General who must actually take the necessary legal actions to enforce the law.

 Section 23-15-811 of the Mississippi Code states an intentional violation is a misdemeanor with a maximum fine of $3,000 and six months in the county jail.

 However, this is Mississippi where the Attorney General, be it Republican or Democrat, shows little, if any inclination to actually enforce the law. 

List of major campaign contributors

  Actblue: $51,000

Terry Lovelace: $45,000

Lightfoot, Franklin, & White: $20,000

Gregory Pafford (Pafford EMS): $17,500

Samuel Agnew (B.R. La, V.P. of Environmental Technical Sales): $12,500

Gerald Evelyn (Detroit, MI): $11,400

Richard Bradley & M-Bar: $10,000

Waggoner Engineering: $5,000

Trey Hairston (Butler Snow): $5,000

FCC Environmental Services: $5,000

Andrew Jenkins: $5,000

Kimberly Banks, Esq.: $4,000

4th Avenue, LLC: $4,000

Brian K. Johnson: $3,500

MS Geographic Info: $3,000

Mo-Spicer: $2,500

Fondren Village: $2,500

NGE Properties: $2,500

Samuel Jason Hewitt: $2,500

Douglas Inc.: $2,000

Andrew Mattiace: $2,000

Last Call, LLC: $2,000

 Kingfish note: The use of Actblue is troubling. Money-laundering?  The state should ban the use of such online fund-raising tools unless the donors are identified per state law for other donations.  

 

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

So the out of state law firm gets the job to sue Siemens and collects 30 MILLION DOLLARS contingency and all they have to give in return is a 20 grand campaign check?

Talk about getting shafted on a deal. Lumumba is getting played like a child

Anonymous said...

Rules and laws are made by racists therefore they do not apply

Anonymous said...

Ya gotsta pay to play!

Anonymous said...

@11:23 Another analysis is that it's a down payment to hep get the next contingency fee lawsuit!

Anonymous said...

@11:23
Anonymous money orders mailed each week in envelops with no return address.

Anonymous said...

How are these contributions NOT “a direct benefit to a public official stemming from a relationship made from the office, thus constituting a dual relationship” and getting the auditor involved. Those words are from s state auditors ppt slides , not an internet education.

Anonymous said...

Business as usual. Nothing to see here. /waves goodbye to all our kids as they move out of this 3rd world shithole state.

Anonymous said...

So now we know who the "dope boys" are at least. M-BAR.

Anonymous said...

Act Blue requires disclosure data before taking a donation and campaigns have access to it. It's up to the candidate/campaign to disclose from there That's not money laundering.

Anonymous said...

M-Bar's owner donated ! Maybe thats why nothing will be done
about that cesspool

Money is the Mother's Milk of Politics said...

It takes money to make Jackson “the most radical city on the planet.”

Anonymous said...

Now if he would only pick up all his campaign signs he left...

Anonymous said...

Mississippi has an Attorney General?

Kingfish said...

and Melvin is trying to throw trash but I'm not approving his comment. The difference between me and your boss, Melvin, is he is repeatedly breaking the law and I"m not.

Doesn't really matter. Lynn Fitch is too busy reading the news articles over her Supreme Court lawsuits to worry about enforcing the law in Mississippi.

Anonymous said...

12:23! Yes! You are correct!!!
Kenny Stokes was right!

Anonymous said...

Who does Melvin work for?

Anonymous said...

This is no different from the Republicans. Go check out their reports on the SOS website. Once a person is elected, the money solicitation machine cranks up in order to outraise any future opponents. It's how the game is played on both sides of the aisle, and the only way to stop it is having term limits with a total "sitting out of elected office period" mandate.

Anonymous said...

Lot of out of state money for a mayor in Mississippi. Must have some other aspirations they want him for. He's playing Jackson, Mississippi for the big time. When the right moment comes along, he'll(with the help of people outside of Mississippi) throw Jackson under the bus and move onto the national Progressive Socialist Democrat stage. He's posturing for it now at the hands of tax payers and campaign donors. Look at his out of state donations and his payments. Fundraising in Atlanta, Washington DC, Detroit, New Orleans. For the Mayor of Jackson, MS? Get real. All the while the white apologists who live in Belhaven & Fondren are donating to his campaign while getting mugged, robbed, cars stolen, held at gun point, and watching their property values fall to nothing right before their very eyes. The only way to stop this nonsense is to look at that list and tell those people exactly what you think of them donating to a do nothing mayor.

Anonymous said...

11:23, they also seemed to have purchased a house off Old Canton Road from foreclosure - I'm sure as an investment opportunity that they decided didn't warrant holding on to for the long term. Check it out and you might find more interesting details.

Anonymous said...

Reading between the lines, Waddell Nejam gave $5000. I guess he is atoning for his previous sins.

Thomas Gentry said...

I asked a simple question:Why would the President of the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors
Donate $5000 to the Mayor's campaign. And you censored it!

Anonymous said...

Samuel Agnew (B.R. La, V.P. of Environmental Technical Sales): $12,500 Is the new distributor for Kamstrump meters that Jackson is using guess who he is paying 750,0000 too (Jackson lobbyists Quincy Mukoro.) First time for ETEC to sell this meter Follow the Money

Kingfish said...

Gentry, you referred to Trip Hairston. The donations are from Trey Hairston. Read.

Anonymous said...

Everybody wants to dump on Jackson.
Jackson is not woke like the other cities in our country.
The mayor accepted contributions from people that would
be cancelled in other cities.
Proof it. OK
Just a simple google search would do that.
You mentioned Terry Lovelace & Wadel Nejam.
Lovelace, owner UCI, had a pretty serious racial lawsuit.
I’ve seen UCI trucks all over Jackson.
Nejam, signs on property in Fonderan and rental housing all
over Jackson, had a major racial discrimination case in Jackson.
This is wonderful that Jackson gives people a second chance.

Anonymous said...

Andrew Mattiace....Neel Schaffer...Burns Cooley Dennis...giving $ to this idoit! I've done business with all 3 of these groups but i won't in the future. Good grief!

Kingfish said...

Gentry, I"m not approving your comment. You are sounding dumber with each passing comment.

So the folks will know what is going on, Gentry keeps trying to say a Trip Hairston is giving money to Lumumba through Butler Snow. A Trip Hairston is a Lowndes County Supervisor.

Apparently, Gentry either can't read or is blind. Trey Hairston live in the Jackson area and is a bond guru over at Lord Snow. He has worked several bond deals for Jackson under the Mayor's reign. Of course rather than admit his mistake, Gentry claims Trip's name is misspelled and doubles down.

Well, a quick look at the pictures of both men will show one immediate, striking difference between the two. Hence why it is suspected Gentry might be actually blind.

Anonymous said...

Who bought the mayor the hot, new, shiny-white Porsche?


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