Jackson Jambalaya

Adults in charge.

Thanks to Biden things are happening, right? Bwa ha ha ha ha. Note: Biden couldn't find Mississippi on a map with his sycophants pointing at it.

Yay!!! Thank you for letting us know.

Good news for Jackson, thanks to Tate Reeves and the Incident Command team at OB Curtis. This is something that Baby Chock could have done over a week ago when the first pump failed. Or when the second pump failed. But no. All Baby Chock did was talk about the rain water was causing problems at the plant; no mention of the failed pumps (which by the way are off site, but nothing has been done by the city over the past couple of weeks toward getting them repaired.)

Simple solutions. Does it take effort? Yes. Does it take money? Yes. But is it necessary and proper management? Absolutely. And that is the difference between what real leaders do and what idiots that only flap their gums at press conferences blaming others do.

What say you, Lyin’ Ludumbda?

The Governor needs to take over billing and the accounts receivable until he collects enough to pay back the taxpayers of Mississippi. I as a taxpayer should not be held responsible for the total incompetence on the part of Chokwe and his staff. If the City of Jackson does not have to pay a price for their failures this governor or the next one will have to step in and fix something else.

Put Republicans in charge and look what happens.... progress!

Where's the rest of it

I’m no fan of Tate, but his leadership in this matter is appreciated. The obvious question is why can he get this done in less than a week while the “mayor” has not been able to do anything except blame others?

Good to get some pros working instead of Chock-O-Nuts. Never send a boy after a man’s job.

It's sad that the State had to step in to make common sense decisions to get the plant operational. Like seriously, no one at the City or Public Works could say, "hey why don't we rent some pumps and contract labor to get the plant operational."

Thank you Governor Reeves!

Apparently not that hard to do. Just need to get folks off of their collective asses and work the problem.

tater is anti-turbid. I'm triggered

Chokwe will be on tv soon to take all of the credit for getting the pump in.

That pump certainly looks like it will provide plenty of water for the 160,000 people living in Jackson.

Just need qualified, competent boss men.

Headline on WLBT “President Biden calls Jackson mayor to hear firsthand about water crisis”, shouldn’t he be calling Tate? Antar hadn’t done squat except neglect the problem.

Thanks CAL for bringing negative attention to this state. Why didn’t you comply with the EPA order? Was this too federal for you?

Thank you Governorfor renting and installing this toy pump, an important intermediate partial 10% fix. When do 2 newly purchased big mama pumps arrive on site?

I think the state would have stepped up much earlier if what’s his name )Mayor) had agreed to let the state manage the recovery. It would have been sheer folly to just provide money, lots of money, to the city to contract their favorite unqualified stooges to correct the problems. It would have been akin to giving your drug addicted brother in law $150,000 in cash to enroll in a rehab program. It’s amazing how much qualified organized people can do.

That’s a small air operated water pump. You can go rent one almost anywhere. It will not do anything whatsoever to provide pressure to the water mains in Jackson.

I heard the governor say that some $8 million has been spent so far to fix all the problems. The mayor has said the city agrees in principal to split the costs 50-50 with the state. Does anybody believe he'll actually honor his commitment, given how much he lies about everything?

Antar said that his people fixed it.

Wonder if Tate consulted with the landscape architect who was in charge of public works? This, for me, is the biggest issue I have with Lumumba. Why not put a plumber in charge instead of an architect? Possibly a cardiothoracic surgeon, teacher, electrician maybe, but why a architect to run public works? That doesn't make sense.

Watch the Governor’s press conference. Prepare to be blown away by the contrast between the mayor’s dog and pony shows and
the State’s deliberate sense of urgency. It’s breathtaking.

I don’t see how Antar lasts his term.

Damn. The Public Works department certainly knows how to rent pumps. They have been renting pumps - dozens of them - over the past four years to use as bypass pumps for the failed sewer lines. Why couldn't they rent a pump for the water treatment plant. Certainly they realize that pumps can move regular water just like they can s**t filled water.

Maybe its because no respectable company will rent anything to the city any longer - they only recently paid a company for three years of rental on sewer pumps. And then a meeting later, had to pay another company for over two years worth of past due bills for sewer bypass pumps.

But we can't talk about incompetence - this is nothing but systemic (whatever that is) racism here. Nothing to do with ability or lack thereof.

You call THAT a PUMP?

Next up..........

Running Richard's disposal out of town and getting Waste Management back on the job.

Then, we can move onto hiring SEAL Team 6 to address the crime problem.

Who knows? Jackson might make it !!

The children have had their little fun. Now it’s time for the grown ups to come in and clean up the mess.

Didn’t the Mayor of Jackson recently state publicly that the water was safe to drink? I wonder if his children were “lifted up” and drank that “safe” water?

Why Landscape architect? He could provide a system of outdoor human defecation converted into marxist manure for vegetable equity sufficient to please Lil Choke's free vitamin program for all recipients of free water. Rudebagas sprouting in rotting libraries.⁶

@5:50 PM, the plumber is in charge of bond refinancing and tax accounting.

@6:08 PM, which explains Reeves' assurances in the pressers that vendors are going to get paid.

O boy! Tucker Carlson is doing a profile on Baby Chok!

5:46 says, "I heard the governor say that some $8 million has been spent so far to fix all the problems. The mayor has said the city agrees in principle to split the costs 50-50 with the state. Does anybody believe he'll actually honor his commitment, given how much he lies about everything?"

Mr. Mayor will honor Jackson's commitment because the City's half is coming from the Biden Administration.

Never waste a crisis. Now is the perfect time to put Jackson into receivership and fix our capitol city.

Did ole Chuck never think of renting a pump? How in the heck could chuck set back and do nothing. The gov took over and a day latter things are happening. Citizens of Jackson wake up. We are the laughing stock of the country!!! Another Dem city out of control. First the zoo. Then trash. Now no WATER. Think about it.

Tucker Carlson just skewered the Chokester and showed in 2017 his declaration that Jackson will be the most liberal city in the Universe.

I suppose, 5:50, that Hillman will come up with ways to make worthless water and sewer pipes pretty -- and make cute decorations for Richards garbage cans...

Look! Look at the picture. See the pump. A water pump on the hoist! Jackson’s water plant failed because it needs a pump. A pump to pump the water to all the homes in Jackson. See the pump! The Governor sent the pump! Wait. Look at the pump. It is a small pump. Half the size of a man. Or less. A tiny pump. Not big enough to pump the bilges of a shrimp boat. No matter. The picture worked. It makes it look like the Governor rescued Jackson just like that. And it worked! Read all these comments!

For those of you whose only contribution to this blog is to give the Mayor yet another nickname, please go away. The Mayor deserves much criticism, but using a nickname is a childish way to criticize. More on topic, I have never thanked Tate Reeves for anything, but I do appreciate his leadership on this issue.