Jackson Jambalaya

Just a stall. He isn't interesting in solutions, only anarchy.

Shouldn't he be...busy doing something else right now?

He has to pay for this, correct?

The mayor sent a "Notice To Proceed" to vendor RD whose proposal was wholly rejected by the City Council four times. As an act of utter desperation the Mayor now applies to MS Supreme Court to save him from being personally liable for RD's garbage collection and other fees, which he clearly is.

Only the lawyers win this one. Giant waste of tax money.

11:52 for the win!! Other comments a close second. This thing is DOA, save for the MSSC wanting to spank the mayor harder.

He is getting panicky about the possibility of RD vetoing his knee caps, right?

I am not an attorney, have zero concept of how to formulate a contract, and I use legal zoom when I need something taken care of. In my meager knowledge of the law, I could have advised RD not to initiate services until SOMEONE WITH SOME AUTHORITY over the checkbook, said hey guy..... we'll pay you, no problem!! Just pick up our refuse.......we got you.

But these folks closing deals with a handshake at a 150-dollar steak dinner at Shapley's apparently see the world differently than I do.

I'm 66 years old, Lived in Jackson for 45 years, now I live in Rankin County, I'm so HAPPY & GLAD I moved out of Jackson 21 years ago!!!!!! This has to be the DUMBEST MAYOR in the HISTORY OF JACKSON, MS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just when I thought he couldn't get any more stupid....

Hope the Jackson residents enjoy paying the "stupid tax" for electing this moron.

You guys could have elected an ear of corn and incurred less damage and more prosperity.

Hopefully, Biden's administration will, sooner than later, pick Baby Chok to fill some post with his administration where he can't fuck anything up, just like Obama did with Greenville mayor Heather McTeer. Obama's administration stuck her in some EPA position, and cleared the way for someone halfway competent.

"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose." Walter Lippmann

Clown show, with a ring master who loves the sound of his own voice and that of ignorant sycophants. Sad.

Cut your losses, Chuckles, and start fixing problems, not posturing, race baiting, and blathering.

This is a poor attempt to delay his knee-capping by showing RD that they will get paid.

@12:07,

It stinks to high heaven, doesn't it? Any company willing to do perform those services is not a legitimate company.

Wasn't Mair Chowke just recently bloviating and waving arms, right, at his recent press conference when talking about the garbage and going back to WM being an issue due to legal costs? What up with THAT?!

When this is all finished (if ever) would love to know the total legal fees for the City and for the City Council. Crazy amount of time & taxpayer money wasted with no improvement.

“Talking loud and saying nothing” - James Brown

Didn't the Council pass a resolution requiring the Mayor to pay for the appeal out of his own pocket?

“You [mayor] haven’t done nothing” - Stevie Wonder.

This might get entertaining yet.

I think @12:05 and @12:33 may be correct. Chokwe is fighting awful hard for a company that has a track record such as this one.

I would love for some of Chokwe's supporters on here to list one basic city service that has improved under his leadership.

@12:34pm Cannot agree more. If any due diligence were actually done on a legitimate enterprise, they might have found out that RD was already in hot water in New Orleans, and probably on their way out.

When two desperate entities desperately try to squeeze some influence and money out of each other - it never ends well.

Doesn't Rule 4 require that it be filed with 30 days of the order?

July 15, date of order. This was filed August 26th. 42 days apart.

Looks like settlement talks are going nowhere, to no one's surprise.

@126 - yes, but the rules don't apply to Chockwe and his clan. They follow their own rules and expect others to not complain.

How stupid do you have to be to even pretend that you thought that you could veto something not approved? This is a really good place for the State Auditor to dig in and figure out how a mayor can be so invested in one firm for services that he completely disregards some really basic things to keep from telling them no.

Imagine if the mayor put as much time into competent governing as he does his own appearance

He needs to STOP!
And SOMEBODY needs to pay Richards as a contract vendor as they have provided a needed service. The SOMEBODY needs to rework the WM contract and re-hire them if they will have us!

Bye Felecia: appellate rule 4: in a civil or criminal case in which an appeal or cross-appeal is permitted by law as of right from a trial court to the Supreme Court, the notice of appeal required by Rule 3 shall be filed with the clerk of the trial court within 30 days after the date of entry of the judgment or order appealed from.

The problem is, stupid folks don't know they are stupid and their stupidity does not have limits.

Despite the clear mis-match between the council's lawyers and gumflapper's lawyers, the appeal is not untimely. Gumflapper's lawyers filed post-judgment motions with Judge Roberts and those post-judgment motions tolled the running of the appeal period until ruled upon by Judge Roberts. He ruled on the post-judgment motions on August 1, so the thirty day appeal time started running on August 1.

Dunning-Kruger effect.

How does one say “I’m stupid” w/o actually saying I’m stupid?

#cantmakealivingasalwyer

YOU CAN’T TRIPLE STAMP A DOUBLE STAMP!

At this point if COJ pays RD for anything, wouldn't that show money changing hands thus a contract.

Where is the Mayor getting August 1st? The order was filed on the 15th of July.... meaning he's waited too long to appeal.

The only thing 'stupider' than this mayor is a blog that has nine ongoing threads about the stupid mayor relative to garbage and six ongoing threads about the stupid mayor relative to flood water.

We are fuckin' AWASH in garbage and stink-water!

3:56 PM
No. Do you even know what a contract is?

Surely there is some way to remove him from office. Did I actually read somewhere that a raise in property tax is being proposed? Some of the citizens of Jackson just can't afford to move out. Where is the money coming from to keep the lawsuits going? He SHOULD be paying his own legal fees and he should step down. Jackson has become a jail... Our lack of leadership has run Jackson into the ground. So sad!

In my dreams Prognostication:
1. $2M judgement against Lil Choke to pay RD,
2. RD again competes with WM for Jackson garbage pickup RFP,
3. State run Engineering study to rebuild/ repair Jxn water system per State directive submitted to Army COE for execution.
4. Lil Choke resigns in shame as he cannot get fingers on the billions flowing from feds to the fix.

5:17 - You're right. Only in your dreams.

The mayah, is bound and determined to have his way. It matters not the hostility he is creating between his office and the city council.

He is a very poor example for good leadership.

To 12:15 and the rest of you slow thinkers. I believe this site is made up of a HUGE contingency of Republicans, so please quit spewing your uneducated bull of who WE elected. We're only 10 - 15% of the Jackson population.

2:55, agree and the more hard headed they seem to be.