Jackson Jambalaya

Hard to fathom this is by design.

In the private sector, a lot of these "public servants" would be in the unemployment line. If any of the citizenry has suffered health issues because of their bumbling, there should be jail time assigned. Where is the accountability?

Zzzzz.

Nobody cares. There was an election during this time and Antar won.

“Where is the accountability?”

Accountability? You really don’t understand politics, do you? Bless your heart.

As 8:39 stated.

In the real world, this would result in someone being fired.

Not the government.

God Bless the USA.

No matter how much he blathers, no one but his inner circle takes this guy seriously. Literally everyone but his handlers laughs at him, to his face, in private, around his home, at his kids school, literally everyone thinks he is a joke and has delusions of grandeur.

Elections have consequences and the consequences of the last election are Harvard Law educated Shuck’N’Jive performances instead of actual tangible results that effect the lives of people whose annual income is less than Antar’s monthly travel expenses.

Who the hell were the gullible Jacksonians that “assumed the Lumumba administration was making the necessary repairs”?

Well Ladumba could say he was in HotLanta meeting with parts distributors or in Washington looking for someone to believe his @#$%.
Anyone up for a trip to Paris for an airshow?

Just last month the former mayor of Detroit was released from prison.

If the election were held today he would still get 70% of the vote. It has nothing to do with building up a community its all about bringing everyone to their level. This is what equality means to them.

I wonder how many suppliers , will actually sell to Jackson ?

Get out! Get out why you can!

Ouch! This is one more example of incompetence by the mayor and his administration. Sooner or later these issues of mismanagement will get down to the citizens of Jackson who suffer from lack of reliable water; water polluted by lead and microbes; lack of a billing system; lack of revenue because of incompetence. And when it does, the mayor will be gone.

"while Jackson jerked around for months.... and months.... and months"

Looks like the author of this blog has just assigned a new nickname to Choke -- the Jackson Jerkoff.

Outstanding.

### Metro Ad Valorem Millage Rates (2020-2021) ###

Jackson = 69.03 mils (Belhaven 'Cameras before water' CID rate)

Jackson = 63.03 mils

Canton = 56.32 mils

Edwards = 47.0 mils
Clinton = 41.49 mils

Bolton = 36.3 mils
Flora = 34.5 mils
Byram = 34.1 mils
Brandon = 33.0 mils
---> Current AVERAGE = 32.94 mils <---
Raymond = 30.72 mils

Madison = 28.8 mils
Florence = 28.4 mils
Terry = 27.85 mils
Pearl = 27.5 mils

Ridgeland = 20.03 mils
Flowood = 20.0 mils

Richland = 19.0 mils
Gluckstadt = 12.0 mils

* excludes County & School District

This guy lumumba needs to be removed or recalled
He’s a total joke! No one takes him seriously except for him of course.

You get the government you deserve......

The poor in Jackson are most affected by Chokwe's policies - they cannot afford bottle water and they cannot escape the violent crime. Yet, this City is full of White liberals proclaiming to "care" about the poor, yet support this clown for Mayor because he says all the "right" things while nothing gets done. To be a primarily college educated population segment, liberals sure are ignorant.

Where's the "It's time for the state to take over" poster?

Maybe Coke Cola could donate the admin et al a working brain.

And the Mayor's number one priority is fixing the garbage pickup system that's NOT BROKEN and doesn't need fixing!
The water system is a mess, and when you don't have potable water, the system is COMPLETELY BROKEN!
What the he!! is going on??? No pocket to pick in water???

I dont get it. You have a broken part. You wait almost a year later to order the replacement part. What am I missing?

Hey Tate… I’m not a overwhelming fan of yours… but, can you please take over services in Jackson or certain areas please

Projection @ rate = 122 YE 2022 murders in Jackson, Mississippi.

Someone above appears to think the mayor has a Harvard law degree (?)
I believe the law degree is from an HBCU in Texas.

This is actually typical in Mississippi government. I work as contractor for a state agency. I can’t count the number of times I get a call from someone’s manager complaining that their subordinate has been waiting weeks for IT support. Typically that person has never actually called in a service ticket. They just sat on their ass for weeks complaining that, “they ‘puter broke” and spending the work days looking at their iPhone and collecting a paycheck. Many such cases.

@11:00 AM
That's just assumed at this point.

To follow up on 10:51, I consider myself liberal and I have a graduate degree. I agree with every statement in that comment except the last sentence.

Has the parts guy been sick for the last 10 months?

1:42 : Well then, handle business. You gotta admit the new aged liberal are involved in some really dumb shit right now. So are you a moderate liberal or a progressive ?

Chockew is nothing more than an adolescent crybaby. He thought he could get get the part from Lowes and it would have taken less than 30 minutes to identify the panels needed, to place the order. Dude is so embarrassing and too stupid to realize it. I’d probably get ambushed by his cronies, but it would be really hard for me Not to get in his face and call him out over his juvenile incompetence. He’s definitely a product of his constituents. And, in fact, he does not understand that being lazy is actually a character flaw. An ass whooping would not help, at this point. I just can’t think of a solution for his incompetence.

There is a company in Ridgeland that could manufacture the panel if it was small enough in terms of horsepower and size.

I work in the water/sewer industry. A few things:

1. I understand that parts and materials are hard to get right now. The supply chain is crazy. That isn't Jackson's fault. But waiting so long to even place an order for the part is absolute incompetence. The part should have been ordered immediately.

2. Many electricians could have rigged up something to work even without the part. Maybe the pumps could have been run on manual, or run without a VFD, or run without measuring all the SCADA points. It could have worked until the proper part arrived.

I'm honestly speechless (but I shouldn't be). How are these folks still employed? I honestly wonder if Lumumba wants it to get worse in order to get more money. Like a teenager wrecking a car on purpose because they don't like what their parents bought them, then hoping the parents replace it with what they really want.

Here is the issue the mayor doesn't care. He doesn't care about anything especially poor people in Stokes ward who have sewage coming into their house. He doesn't care about people in south jackson who have little to no water. These people don't visit the M Bar or apart of the most radical element of the political spectrum. He probably was never going to order the panel until the EPA called him out. He wanted to have an issue to say look here these folks don't have water because the white people left the city. Or don't order the part so things can keep looking very bad so he can blame the issue on the racists. He didn't want to tell you all the had to do was order a part. This is what liberals do, you can call them out in front of God and everybody and they don't care. If you don't believe me look at all the mask business with these libs recently.

9:24, you do realize that 70% of the vote in Jackson, doesn't come out to be a little over 20k........

You need to run back through Jackson's school failure a few more times.

It took a little over 400 days to build the Empire State Building; this nimrod needs over a year to fix an electrical panel?
The mechanical/electric blueprints will have the part information. This could have been ordered and installed in days. You are witnessing an idiocracy

Kingfish. Your favorite Judge is retiring.

https://www.wlbt.com/2022/02/02/longtime-hinds-curcuit-judge-retire/

2:15, I think most of the newly-politically-aware, which by definition includes most young people who are politically active, get off in some "some really dumb shit." This also includes older folks who get interested in politics later in life. It takes practice to sort out the BS and get down to what we really believe in.

Personally, I could be described as conservative on some issues, and progressive on others. Overall, I think I'm probably just left of center at this point.

-1:42

8:52..if you recall, Lamumbalot hid the EPA letter until the day after the election returns. Coincidental? Me thinks not.

I don,t feel sorry for the poor people in Jackson. They don’t pay for water, electricity, trash pick up, or otheramenities. The “Eastover Belhaven, etc. are paying for all of it. I also admire those living in these prominent areas for their unselfishness.

423, hate to tell you but your's is the math that is wrong. 70% of the vote in Jackson is over 60,000.

But that's not the issue, and 9:24 is wrong in his premise. If the filing deadline for the Mayor's race had been a month later, much less almost a year later, there would have been some legitimate opposing candidates in the race and Chockwe would be in trouble. No way he would receive anywhere near 70% - there are folks on all parts of the city that are fed-up with his failures in crime, infrastructure, and just general management of all things.

I hope the parts come with ‘Lego < 5’ instructions

I meant Jackson. Controlsysinc.

6:40, didn't say it was 70%.

What I said was 70% wasn't a little over 20K votes.....the amount the lying shyster boy mayor received. Around 20k votes shows how little most voters think of Jackson and Drake-Way..

Guessing the Jackson population is around 150,000, 70% would be 105,000.
What population number were you using?

I’m just unaware of any sort of consequence the maggotfaced mayor has suffered. His day is coming for all the lies and racial prejudice he was taught and applies. He’s simply pissed off and paranoid because he knows he can’t handle the job competently. What is one thing he does well, besides attempt to be cool and all the poor folks that really could use him. MFer makes me angry.

KF, there are plenty of companies that could produce an acceptable substitute for this panel - might require a few modifications if in fact the Mayor's lie during his press conference was the reason this work had not been done.

But during the press conference he blamed the delay on the shortages, the supply chain, etc. There is no supply chain problem when the idiot and his minions didn't bother to place an order for three fourths of a year.

Yes, there is a company in Jackson. Probably others than the one you named. And substitutes could have been used, or a temporary by-pass thru a substitute that reworked the system but had the pumps up and running.

But not in the City of Soul. We were too interested in getting the zoo reopened, having the Soul Festivals, bailing out the Convention Center while doing nothing about resolving its biggest problem - the shitty parking area that the city could fix but won't, and of course, dismantling the current garbage collection process. Hell, the public utility function of the government is: Water; Sewer: and Garbage collection. He has successfully and almost unilaterally dismantled the Water utility. And the Sewer Utility. Why not go for the trifecta and get rid on the one service that currently works, the garbage collection. Give us all those 96 gallon juggernauts so the streets will look so nice on collection day. Sure, that's the solution for the City of Soul.

How much is 70% of the 13% of eligible voters who voted in the last mayoral election.

Does lumumba read these do you imagine ?

7:46 he may or may not himself, but people in his circle do. I know someone has told him how little respect he has outside of his little circle.

I’m sure he doesn’t read this. The people closest to him just feed his ego and make him think everyone thinks the same way he does. His overuse of the phrase “Right?” in attempt to get someone to agree with him, is evidence that people have a hard time delegating with him and his ideas. Narcissists are difficult to remove from positions of power.

Someone in his administration does. Scroll down in the post.

I'm sure this mayor has someone read every word written about him. Anyone that obsessed and dependent on what other people think about him has to keep his finger on the pulse of perception.

Like all frauds, his only hope for the future is to keep moving and get promoted out of the local reality before it rubs too much stink on him.