Jackson Jambalaya

Lame duck. Remainder of his term. Worst Mayor in Jackson's history.

Why is he so desperate? Are they connected to the mafia? Is he afraid for his life? It is over. The CITIZENS don’t want Richard’s Disposal! Give it up and fix the water, roads, and crime, Antar! We don’t give a damn about climate change! You are black so we don’t need to overthrow a white male oligarchy! Get to work! Stop flying around the country on our tax dollar!

Are these the attorneys that he was authorized to hire yesterday? I was so confused about that part of the meeting.

Wow, just when you think the mayor couldn't get any more desperate. He is REALLY grabbing at straws now.

The state of emergency is a transparent attempt to ignore the rules and FORCE the city to accept a contract that council and the citizens of Jackson don't want.

Guess what Mayor, you're not king and you don't get to issue decrees just because the vote didn't go your way.

Thank you, council members, for listening to your constituents and protecting our interests. WM has done a great job picking up our trash for years and they deserve to be awarded this contract. We DO NOT WANT this shady outfit that lacks the resources to perform the work, and we cannot afford another fiasco like the $90 million water meter debacle!

Who is paying for this waste of time? Oh that's right we all are. Prediction: Chokwe takes an L here and in the Waste Management suit.

Quite a turnaround as Capt Petulant was claiming on Monday that he's not accountable to the City Council. Now he's suing them to get his way.

Wasn't aware the Mayor had term limits

That complaint is hysterically awful.

This mayor is so dumb he can't even pick a halfway decent lawyer!

So the honeymoon is over? No more swapping spit, right? Another reality program...The Real Jackwagons of Jackistan city hall.

Felicia Perkins is not the attorney for this job. Big mistake especially since the case was assigned to Judge Grove.

This petulant child mayor couldn’t lead his way out of a paper bag. How can this be the mayor of our capital city?

7:34 - You assume that a halfway decent lawyer wants anything to do with this nonsense.

Dollar store Obama lol

What an embarrassment for Jackson and Mississippi. Something is terribly wrong with Chuck. Not sure how this cluster will end. But not a good look for everyone involved.

Horrible choice for a lawyer!!! Just call him Lame duck Lumumba

Go take your drug test, Antar!

What a tantrum looks like I'm guessing.

Who knew that garbage would take up so much of the Council/Mayor’s time.
Wish this much discussion went into infrastructure contracts.
Should we start logging hours per contract, cause I think this is a record - or a close second to the water meter debacle.
I’m just glad that Richards has a local landfill to haul the garbage to in this “Emergency”
oh wait - oops, WM owns the closest landfill.
I’m sure Richards has that worked out already.

After Lumumba wins in a Hinds County court the City Council will win on appeal when the case hits a real court of law.

I’ve been practicing law for 30 years.

This is a load of shit.

If a mayor can declare an emergency at his leisure then there is no need for a council…..he is indeed a king.

No real chancellor will grant the mayors relief and the SC surely won’t go along with it.

What really needs to happen is some discovery of finances of all involved….get any and all text messages by and between the mayor / his help and Richards. That will shed light on why we are here.

I still think " Khaleesi Virgi of The Fondren"... or is it
"The Belhaven"?

(No matter, they are the same thing).

Anyway, I think she will fly into into City Hall on a dragon
and solve everything at last minute.

My popcorn is ready

Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. Yesterday we got to see just how unprofessional the mayor's staff is--not to speak of their inability to comprehend basic principles of government. Now this. Since Waste Management has a suit already in circuit court that involves the same or similar issues, one court or the other should stay proceedings. I feel sure that this whole mess is going to end up in the appellate courts. The question is, which company is going to pick up garbage while this needless, silly litigation goes on. Just wait till April 1st rolls around, if one court or another hasn't dealt with this issue. What a mess. If one does issue a ruling before April 1st, an appeal will likely be filed, so there is the problem of who if anyone will be picking up the garbage while that goes on.

The only good thing coming out of this debacle is that the mayor and his staff are showing who and what they truly are, or aren't.

Where can I get a Stokes sign to put in my frontyard?

There aren't term limits but his ability to move matters through the Council, especially the non-infrastructure bullshit he chases, goes nowhere until the next election. He'll be about as effective as a lame duck.

Hahaha I bet he thought he'd draw Judge Sweet-Owens. This should be fun to watch.

By the time summer sets in this garbage dispute mess will be really ripening.

Can Richards just get the Mayor to write the city checks direct to Waste Management for the landfill charges? That way no one at WM would know what was going on.

Wait WAIT DONT TELL ME!!!

Tomorrow the mayor sues Waste Management to force them to take the trash Richards hauls?!

Whoever wrote the complaint thought she was counsel for council.

Hey, Beeve, har - Kingfish thinks the only way to be a lame duck is with term limits, har. Yuck.

Right on, Butthead. Da Mair ain't the only one lame. Chortle.

If Feel Brant was still gubnor, Madison County would have a third landfill and Deuce McAllister would have this concrack.

Just read this nonsense as well as as Lummy’s column in the CL.

The writing of this suit as well as his column are like a 7th grader wrote them.

Is this guy really a “lawyer”. It’s like he has the legal trading and writing skills of a JUCO grad.

9:53, A final judgment of a trial court's order is in force while an appeal is pending, unless it is stayed, which usually has to be done by the trial court that rendered the final judgment.

Jackistan is going to smell more than a little ripe come Summer, except within Baby Chowke's secure compound. He will have his palace guards haul off his garbage that will be dumped somewhere.

That column first ran three weeks ago in other media. Damn C-L is timely and desperate for content.

Meanwhile, boy mayor has told Richard's to proceed with start-up to begin Apr 1st. Richard's claims all but trucks, which are being outfitted in NOLA, are now set up and ready to go in Jackson.

Doesn't this obligate Jackson to pay Richard's "start-up costs", unless proven mythical?

If the election was today, LaBumbles would easily win again.

He does not have to impress anyone.

The people with intelligence left because this is quite literally hopeless.

The remaining majority sees nothing wrong here.

Where is Richard's going to dump the garbage that they collect? They don't own a landfill, right? We don't want your Jackistan garbage in Madison County!

Come April 1st if there is no one to pick up my trash, I'm just going to dump it out in front of City Hall.

Tiffany Grove is the person who now has to deal with garbage.

I know exactly where I will be taking my garbage when it doesn’t get picked up. Right over Baby Choks gate.

Jackson lost nearly an entire House seat in population and over 40% of a Senate seat. Yates and Blount won't carry the day over the LBC members when the smoke clears.

Has Richard's Disposal provided a loan to Lamumba? During Hinds County Court proceedings, is there time for discovery? How appropos for boy mayor's debacle to center on April Fool's Day.

The Feds are in town threatening to take over the Hinds Co Detention Center. I say let them have it and while they're here let them have the City of Jackson as well

It is stupid. It is embarrassing. It is not surprising. It IS a really great example of where we are as a society....of course this is the extreme but it's mighty close.

March 9 @ 7:51
What an embarrassment for Jackson and Mississippi.

This is great a great thing. It lets people traveling through jackson and turn on the local news see this sh*t show and go back home to tell everyone just how stupid the Dim-O-krats are and what they've done to once viable & prosperous city. Especially if they have to interact with the locals due to being victim of a crime while in the "hood of jackson".

Along with seeing the numbers for crime and conditions of the city compared to the surrounding area, yep they now know, if you vote "blue" then this is what you're going to get.

Yea, jackson is rating right up there with Portland, Seattle, and the left news is really helping spread the word by broadcasting the comics of Dim-O-Krat government 24/7.

AND yes I know I didn't capitalize "jackson", but it no longer deserves that designation of a capitol!!!!!

I know exactly where I will be taking my garbage when it doesn’t get picked up. Right over Baby Choks gate.

Get in line. That location will be a popular transfer station.

What a friggin' clown show, but the unwashed masses continue to vote for this racist.

8:28 : Seen this question asked a hundred times on this blog and have yet to see an answer. Lol, I guess they got some county side roads scoped out.

10:43 - The answer is there if you read the contract attached in a other post. Section 14.2. City reimburses them for tipping fees. That’s in addition to cost per residence.

Little Dixie landfill is open, and owned by BFI. But they will take the trash of anyone who pays them. Every trash company doesn't have their own private dump.

Jackson attorney friend thinks this is Junior's face saving out. There never was an emergency. He can't sign a contract without Council approval. He eventually gets slapped down by the Supremes. He blames it all on white supremacy denying dignity and equity.

Honk your horn when you pass his “palace”. Day and night.

@1:07 PM
Beep. Beep.

Why is the mayor so intent on awarding a contract to a company whose google reviews look nothing if not nightmarish.

I'm totally confused. Someone please enlighten me. At the last city council meeting, didn't the council approve the hiring of an attorney for the mayor? If so, what was the attorney hired for - (1) this case we are talking about where the mayor is now suing the council members or (2) to defend the mayor in the lawsuit Waste Management filed against the City? I'm so confused as to why the city council approved to pay an attorney for the mayor. Can anyone fill me in? Thanks.

@9:56
Former Seattle and Portland resident here. I live in Jackson. Not a black person hardly in Seattle or Portland as they’re basically asking for more diversity in there populations. They claim it’s too white. Also it’s sad nothing but white guilted leftist vote the way they do. They mayor of Jackson is racist however.

Should this not get resolved before the end of the month who's betting Lumumba issues some edict forbidding WM from collecting garbage on April 1st?

Once the original "Emergency Contract" gets tied up in the courts, it will be prime time for....another brand spanking new "Emergency Contract"!

Is it really a deadlock? I mean the council did what they have authority to do. Isn't it just that the child mayor seeks to exceed his?

Somebody better hurry up with the temporary injunction, lest we have a REAL emergency on April Fool's Day. Then the Council will have to extend the BFI contract.

What is so insane is that 1) Waste Management is the only service that works and 2) Jackson has so many real problems. Why is this idiot willing to go to war over something that isn't broke? I wish the national media outlets that were giving him so much attention for his radical bullshit would come back and see who he really is: a little whiny incredibly incompetent Putin.

AGAIN whenever bleeding hearts say lets give Baby Chok and the gang some money for roads and infrastructure, remember stuff like this. This is how money gets spent. The 1% setaside tax has collected millions by now. I have to tell vistors watch the potholes How much do they spend on attorneys and consultants instead of infrastructure. Waste waste waste

8:42 I can tell you why. $$$$$.

Ironically, the city exemplifies a lot of WASTE and very little MANAGEMENT.