Jackson Jambalaya

Another conference in which he blames everyone but himself?

CoJ announces water distribution locations. Not a damn one in East Jackson.

Thanks. I activated my Lumbubbles lie detector which will start smoking once the presser starts. It's a basic model and signals lies when it detects his lips are moving.

Who is laying odds as to how many times he says 'right?'?

So, if y'all were blessed with a miracle by Chowke resigning, how is the mayor replaced? Does the guv do that?

Jackson's self-induced plight is now national news. Let's see if the mayor will step up his output of false information and blame on others. 16% of Jacksonians voted in the last mayoral election? You asked for this bum and his solid string of crises, now you got it all...

I bet Sista Rukia is acting as fluffer to get his courage up for this one. He needs it after that smack down from Big Tater.

Someone inform the Mayor, I’ve received 6 ONE HUNDREDTHS inches of rain along Dancing Rabbit Creek in the upper Pearl Basin. God must like Lamumbalot giving him yet another water system failure excuse.

Er'time he ends a sentence with the word "right", all playas gotta chug a glass of Jackson tapwater, right.

Haha. That first one was on me.

If his lips are moving...

It’s not your show anymore, Lumumba. The state has already taken over. Oh, wait, you not knowing what a veto is tells me you don’t realize the state is OVER the city.

He's touting transparency? Like the EPA order he covered-up?

Lumumba Press Conference Bingo

The Governor is wrong, right.
It’s climate change, right.
It’s the flood, right.
It’s racism, right.
It’s white flight, right.
It’s decades of deferred maintenance, right.
It’s lack of funding from the state, right.

There will be no mention of the still non-functioning billing system, the 2 year moratorium on cutoffs, or the millions in past due bills.

I LOL’d when he said “we welcome the state as they join the Jackson team” LOL. They don’t work for you, clown!

Totally ducked Kid Judin's question.

Hey Bennie, he's flapping him gums again.

Holy shit! Now he says he needs a new water plant.

He talks like he's still running the show. "...welcome the state to our team."
Dude, you just need to stand aside and let the pros handle this.

We all know he is going to take credit for any work the state does and pretend it was his idea all along.

I'm curious, who are these fellas lined up behind him?

Did the treatment get any flooding into the facility?

Regarding the expansion of the O. B. Curtis plant, a Google search will reveal that the Brasfield & Gorrie construction firm built it and received an award for its work.

I hope that idiot Lubumbashi reads these comments. Lubumbashi, you are an inept, incompetent douche bad of EPIC proportions! I hope charges can be brought against you for something/anything for not doing you due diligence as the “mayor” of the capital city. You have been an abysmal fail and an utter embarrassment. Go to hell you idiot!

Someone needs to get the security footage from OB Curtis before they destroy it.

Mayor refers to EPA Region 4 Director by her first name. Common trick of con artists.

Then he went on to say on no authority what the EPA sees relative to Jackson's recruitment efforts and what the EPA does not see. He's obviously caught in a total fabrication of non-facts once again.

It must be, has to be, the thinking of Mayor Goof that his job is simply and solely to bump his gums and wave his hands while holding a press conference.

Lumumba has been lying to you Judin the whole damn time.

Who is nick asking the questions?

I just want to share with you what I know, right, and to be fair, right, and to be consistent when I share what I know, right, so I’m gonna say I can’t tell you that at this time, right, but when I know I’m gonna be sure to let you know, right, at the appropriate time.

Quite the tiresome dolt.

History will record this as a victory for Mayor Antar Chokwe Lumumba.

His face will be painted on city murals and he will be remembered as saving this city.

None of you will be remembered for shit, because you are nobodies who just hate on a blog.
Kingfish, Clay Edwards, and Kim “Uncle Ruckus” Wade will simply be recorded in a footnote as Lumumba’s failed opposition.

They are already editing his Wikipedia article.

He tried to evade the question about why he blamed the failure yesterday on flooding at the plant. He implied that the photos showing the grounds completely dry might not have been accurate, but at the same time he declined to double down by asserting that there was in fact flood inundation at the plant. He then pivoted by claiming that the flooding changed the "chemical composition" of the water coming into the plant, and that the engineers therefore had to change the treatment method to compensate.

I don't know enough about how the plant works to call BS, but that just doesn't seem right. Do Jackson storm drains lead to the same place as the sanitary sewer system, or do they drain into lakes and rivers? If flood water was getting into the O.B. Curtis intake, then wouldn't it have to have been through the storm drains? And if that's the case, then the plant necessarily would also have to handle the composition of all the rain we've been having (including whatever ground runoff it picks up along the way). It's hard for me to believe that the flood water was so fundamentally different from "normal" storm runoff + raw sewage that it changed the "chemical composition" of the incoming water to such an extent that it was necessary to change the treatment strategy.

None of you will be remembered ...

They'll be remembered long, long after your anonymous comment.

I do not, REPEAT, do not want any of what 2:54 has been smokin!

Y'all ever see broke down cars on the side of the roads in Jackson and wonder why in the hell such a late model car is broken down in the first place? Yeah, it is because the owner didn't take care of the car by regularly performing oil changes and other small maintenance items over time. Well, that is exactly what has happened to the water plant that is only 20-40 years old. Where have the maintenance funds gone to?

Flintonians got a $626 million dollar water settlement due to their incompetent leadership. How much will Jackghanistanians get?

Where have the maintenance funds gone to?

During the current regime the maintenance funds were never collected. So, yes, the current manager, in a dereliction of their duty, did not conduct proper proactive maintenance of the asset and, if this was the private sector, would have been fired long ago.

@3:08
Wrong. It is usually because they ran out of gas because they are sleep deprived from working two jobs and they have to pick up their kids from the sitter and get baby formula, but so many stores are sold out, and before they realize it, they have run out of gas.
I get your thinly veiled racist point though, ignorant bigot.

I thought the governor said he was the one that was going to do press conferences instead of the mayor?

“Flintonians got a $626 million dollar water settlement due to their incompetent leadership. How much will Jackghanistanians get?
August 30, 2022 at 3:11 PM”

So you want to make a broke city pay? To who? And from what money tree will the city be shaking to pay for this?

Lumumba gathered his 10 supporters as a show of force and proceeded down his well-worn road of lies, half-truths, and blame. OB Curtis did not collapse because of age. It collapsed because of the gross incompetency and reckless disregard of the poster boy for laziness and complacency — Chockwe Antar Lumumba. In less than a year, OB Curtis has experienced partial shutdowns due to an electrical panel fire, misapplication of water treatment chemicals, major malfunction of pumps, and God only knows what else. That screams incompetency. Yes, there are those very few Herculean efforts mentioned by the governor. But sadly far too few. Just consider Lumumba’s response about the EPA official who said they’ve been unable to identify or ascertain the extent of the City’s recruitment efforts: “well, we have 10 people training right now to be water operators.” That. For a system with 250,000 customers.

Do I have this right? CAL gave the job of an unqualified black man to an unqualified white woman? Is that right? Can someone tell me why CAL seems to have soooo many problems with his male staffers? Hmmmmmm.

2:54 PM
Shut up fat Melvin.

Can someone PLEASE make him listen to playback and count the time he's makes the UH sound!!
He begins many sentences with Uh and then fills in about every 3 words with UHHH. The city trash collection is horrible. Water crisis after water crisis is horrible. Crime is outrageous and he UH wants a 3rd party to UH run UH Jackson water? UHHH?

What is the salary of the Mayor as on 8-8-22 WAPT aired s press conference where he stated on TV that the water is safe to drink!

This failure is in NO WAY Da Mairs fault. He has been telling people for weeks now that whoever has the authority and responsibility for the Jackson's water system should DO SOMETHING.

Top Secret Jackson MS Mayoral Problem Solving Playbook

1. Can you blame it on the wealthy, whites, elites, or at least someone in DC for intentionally sabotaging you?
2. Can you at least blame it on prior administrations' "deferred issues"?
3. Can you rename whatever the problem is after Bobby Rush?
4. Can you hook up a friend for a big contract with some sweet kickback?
5. Can you sue anyone over it including your own administration?
6. Is it an election year and is there a Fed bail out program we haven't already used?
7. Have you reminded everyone how crazy Frank Melton used to be?
8. Raise Taxes? You know Fondren and Belhaven got all that money.
9. If all else fails there's one flight a day still operating out of the Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport. It will cost you $75/day for parking to catch an $800 one way 30 minute flight to Atlanta, but you'll be safe there.

I think this is the way Chowke is trying to 'splain the whole "treating different water" thing. O. B. Curtis Plant is in Ridgeland. At the southwest corner of the reservoir and below the reservoir. It's not on the Pearl River. The water that supplies Curtis comes from the reservoir itself, more specifically that small building you see when crossing the spillway from Rankin County to Madison County. Yeah, the one with the gaping hole in the roof. That's it. That's the source of the water that is piped under the spillway dam over to the plant. Now Chowke wants you to believe the water in the big lake of the reservoir has all kinds of sediment in it due to the flood waters flowing into the reservoir, mainly from the north end of the lake where the Pearl River enters the reservoir. So the water in the big lake isn't allowing the sediments to fall out to the bottom, nope, they going right on into the pipes to Curtis.

Now what's strange about that is that the Fewell Plant at the waterworks curve in Jackson IS on the actual Pearl River and the water rushing down through the river you would think would have a lot more sediment in it. But Fewell kept on rocking right along.

Antar still talking 3rd party talk, that's his kickback money.
Killia, AKA Consultant Company. They man that's making 750k off internet for Richard's Garbage 🗑

KF, any progress on metering, billing, and collecting? After all, water/sewer is supposed to be self-funding.

He’ll be remembered by the “everything is racist” crew and the oddball liberals that don’t shower. The only way the rest of us will remember lamumbles is for being an epic failure.

@3:24 - see if you get this thinly veiled racist comment. I thought all those cars were abandoned after being carjacked. You bigot!

I own a construction company and when I have had the experience of hiring young males I have found out through training that the way they communicate is through deflection. I don’t know who is teaching them this but is is absolutely the standard procedure when they you approach them about how they performed their task(s) incorrectly. The hand waving, the defensiveness and as the “new” term of ..”pushback”. I came up in a time and many of you here came up where you had to lace your boots up and get it, or you were run over by someone who wanted your job or you were fired. We lost our focus in this country and have let softness take over which in turn has become socialism. Sorry for you younger guys but us “older guys” can work you in the ground because we learned our skill and crafts the hard way. It takes time. We use our knowledge. Your mayor is of the hand flinging deflection group that wants to make excuses and NOT use knowledge because he is not old enough. We don’t have time or the patience for excuses. That doesn’t make things happen. What makes things happen is not what this mayor is doing. He is of a younger generation that just doesn’t understand and they never will. Let the “boomer” comments start in 3….2……1. But ya better be able to keep up with us mentally and physically and not drink your energy drinks to keep up because we drink a strong coffee in the morning and a double single malt scotch after work. We don’t need No stinkin Red Bull. Maybe the Mayor needs to work under an “Old Hand”as we refer to them in the business. And it’s not derogatory.

2:54 said: “None of you will be remembered for shit, because you are nobodies who just hate on a blog.”

@2:54, Mayor Run-at-the-Mouth will certainly be remembered for shit, though, literally.

Congratulations to Jackson for making the headlines in the National news tonight on NBC with race baiting Lester the Fester. According to NBC it's bad and it's also raining again.

Why do you refer to nick without ever telling us his last name

And some lil' WAPT reporter was "on air" crying crocodile tears about
a damn traffic delay at one of the city's free water sites.

If this wasn't so tragic for the innocent kids, I would be laughing
at such reporting.

But I really can't fault the little reporter.
They have to report "news" as they are told how to report "the news".

I was married to a local TV reporter for about five years.
(so I do know a little about that industry).

I remember back when tokers/stoners used to say 'man' every tenth word. Now it's 'right?'

I am tired of looking at that racist dumbass. The "Chocolate City" thing isn't working. Hire and elect someone who can handle the job. Race just can't be the qualification any more. How about just hiring and electing qualified HUMANS. Race has been a weapon to divide us for too long. It needs to stop.

3:24 you apparently are in an alt multiverse of Man in the High Castle

Ahead of signing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act tomorrow, President Biden is naming Mitch Landrieu as senior advisor responsible for coordinating for implementation of this historic bipartisan infrastructure law.

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As Mayor of New Orleans, Landrieu took office at a time when the city’s recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina had stalled. He hit the ground running, fast-tracking over 100 projects and securing billions in federal funding for roads, schools, hospitals, parks and critical infrastructure, turning New Orleans into one of America’s great comeback stories. He also went on to chair the U.S. Conference of Mayors, leading the main bipartisan organization representing mayors across the country, and was recognized by Governing Magazine as the Public Official of the Year in 2015. He also became nationally known for bringing communities together and making racial equity a chief priority.

As the former Lt. Governor of Louisiana, he also knows what it’s like to lead at the state level and will be able to work with and relate to governors and other state officials. And he has strong relationships in the business and labor communities, which will be essential in carrying out this job.

“I am thankful to the President and honored to be tasked with coordinating the largest infrastructure investment in generations,” said Mitch Landrieu. “Our work will require strong partnerships across the government and with state and local leaders, business and labor to create good-paying jobs and rebuild America for the middle class. We will also ensure these major investments achieve the President’s goals of combating climate change and advancing equity.”

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Under Landrieu’s leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories. In 2015, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing, and in 2016 was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Landrieu gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his book, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting the issue of race and institutional racism that still plagues America.

In 2018, he launched E Pluribus Unum, an initiative in the South created to fulfill America’s promise of justice and opportunity for all by breaking down the barriers that divide us by race and class. Prior to serving as Mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He and his wife Cheryl live in New Orleans, where they raised their five children.

Any chance Jackson has to file Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy after all of its citizens and businesses sue them for their inability to provide essential services? Just asking for a friend.

I have a dream that Jackson gets it’s act together and gets a One Lake and a Riverfront and the population grows to 900,000 by 2040.

Metrocenter reopens and provides zoomers with a retro 1980s mall
Industrial development booms along the I-220 corridor
All Jackson wards see a collective real estate boom as crime basically drops to the level of Florence
JSU gets a new indoor stadium and wins a championship in every sport.

I listened to him flap his gums as long as I could stand. What a load of bullshit.

7:24PM that’s funny stuff!

Crime isn’t going away. Crime is how leftist Democrats like Chockwe control Jackson and all of the other high violent crime cities in the US. Crime is on purpose.

If crime plummeted to the exponentially lower levels of Jackson’s surrounding cities run by non-leftist Democrats, what would Chockwe be doing for a living after the next election?

Crime is how leftist Democrats get and keep out those that would not vote/elect leftist Democrats. It really is that simple. But dream away 7:24pm! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You guys need to get out more. "Nick" is Nick Judin, a local journalist.

August 30, 2022 at 6:58 PM, where's the first location of the book signing tour? Do you plan for a sequel?

Nick was interviewed on PBS News Hour tonight. Very impressive!

Looks like everyone commenting here after about 3PM did not listen to the good ole doctor and got their throats raw dogged by the raw reservoir water.

NE Jackson resident here. I can tell you I never want to hear or see the name Lumumba again. Resign you incompetent fool.

Let Jackson go without water another couple of days and we will have riots. The shelves are bare at the grocery stores and the water handouts are a failure. Get ready for looting and riots. Lock and load, it’s all about to happen.

Can we fix this please? Tired of having to get lemonade at Wendy’s. I Want my ice

So tell me 6:58, what does that have to do ANYTHING with having a broken city leadership? A press release about a Biden political appointee? Does he have a Class A water license?

Lumbubbles has water delivered to his gated estate by JPD officers. (Other duties as assigned?)

Why in the hell do all journalists refer to the mayor by his full name? Why not just "Mayor Lumumba," or would that be racist?

"History will record this as a victory for Mayor Antar Chokwe Lumumba."

I suspect that's how Napoleon felt on a certain Sunday morning in June, 1815.

(BTW, troll, Antar is his middle name)

Damn he is a CLOWN!!!!

History will record this as a victory for Mayor Antar Chokwe Lumumba.

His face will be painted on city murals and he will be remembered as saving this city.

None of you will be remembered for shit, because you are nobodies who just hate on a blog.
Kingfish, Clay Edwards, and Kim “Uncle Ruckus” Wade will simply be recorded in a footnote as Lumumba’s failed opposition.

They are already editing his Wikipedia article.

Oh calm down. SMH

He did it on purpose. Master plan to get the state to step in and pay for it. He wasn’t that stupid to destroy it by accident, this was on purpose.

@3:24 what a joke. Ride around in Jackson everyday and look at all the able bodied men and women sitting around doing nothing.

10:22, I’ve asked the same thing. It’s a racial thing for all I can understand. If anyone else cares to explain please do. Mayor Danks, Mayor Ditto…..sounds reasonable to me just to use his last name. I tripped and fell the last time I tried to say all of those in American words

I am a proponent of calling wrong "wrong", regardless of the offender, be they democrat or republican; black or white; liberal or conservative. Leadership that promotes victim hood and division among people,is ineffective leadership. Yes, Mayor Lumumba inherited an aging water system in need of major overhaul. However, his public response (perhaps he was working constructively behind the scenes?) has been to blame: 1) the white power structure, and its unwillingness to help a predominantly black city, even though its predominantly black city leadership has not kept the proper focus (him primarily as he's conducted interview after interview blaming the state for not helping with a municipal responsibility);2) white flight to the suburbs and an eroding tax base, while ignoring black middle class flight to escape the deteriorating urban environment. He has denigrated those who have dared ask for accountability of funds spent on the issue. He has claimed there is a plan, without revealing what it is. Gov. Reeves (of whom I am not a fan) HAS shown leadership in this matter. He has clearly articulated a plan: assess the problem, identify what is needed to solve the problem, develop a plan, implement the plan. And he has hit the ground running. In the meantime, it appears that there are two distinct operations in effect. One led by Gov. Reeves and the coalition HE has assembled (he requested and received emergency declaration from President Biden and the resources that brings). The other, led by Mayor Lumumba who is making rounds on TV saying he's grateful for the assistance that is "FINALLY" being provided by the state after having "gone it alone" for so long. He's learned his lessons well from the current political playbook ---lie, deflect, blame, do nothing and take credit for what others do. AND, he has added the racial twist. However, Mayor Lumumba, don't practice the same tactics you decry in others. Its the people who suffer. Everyone, even those who look like you, can accurately analyze what is, and has gone on. DO BETTER!

Agree with 9:08.

You know its bad on the city side when the Free Press is the one taking you to town at the press conference and writing articles about how you failed to take even step 1 of a plan submitted to the EPA in April 2020: to have a contract in place for how to distribute water in a crisis.

So I am not really sure of anything that was going on behind the scenes. Maybe exhaustion at the enormity of the problem.

How telling that another pump has been found so quickly to help address the problems the Lumumba administration hasn't been able to resolve for weeks/months.

So success to ladumbo is failing so miserably that someone else has to take over your responsibilities while you continue to pantomime relevance.

Mayor should have given up expensive travel, put on his. Work boots and gone to work! Senator Thompson and others offered support & aid but the Mayor had to do his job! Now he does not have assistance as he proudly boast. He has Gov. Reeves doing it for him with the help that was offered two years ago. Isn’t it amazing that equipment has been brought in within a day or two when the Mayor CLAiMS to have worked on for two years. BS I say and. Please play back the August 8 video aired on WAPT and MS Free Press where Mayor says when asked if the water is safe and if he would drink it said “ABSOLUTELY!”

He has claimed there is a plan, without revealing what it is.

There is no Lumumba plan. Yarber produced a plan. After 1887 days in office Lumumba has not.

Chok plan you give us 2 million. we will spend it on consultants and lawsuits. Still No water. Heck when I buy a hamburger in Jackson it costs me 9 cents they have received millions for roads for special sales tax (just saying roads still pretty crappy) any money given to Jackson should be in special account administered by state.

It has been my experience in work when dealing with coworkers and my experience with an issue like the Yazoo Pumps that if you can move the issue to a regional/national stage and it gets some media attention that the local officials and power brokers can't contain or bury or bully the issue any longer. You act like a frog and hop over one level (local level) and go to the state level and if that doesn't work (like with the Yazoo Pumps) have the regional and nationa folks look at it. Every time this is done, action to correct the situation follows. The city of Jackson lacks the resources (money, personnel, expertise) to solve this problem. Either privatize the water and sewer system or let the MDEQ or EPA run it.

I am here to tell you that the City of Jackson is NOT broke, they are spending plenty of your tax dollars. Just not in places that you will see

"Why in the hell do all journalists refer to the mayor by his full name? Why not just "Mayor Lumumba," or would that be racist?"

"It’s a racial thing for all I can understand"

I think it's to distinguish him from his father, who was also Mayor Chokwe Lumumba.

That we, in the absence of information, default to racism to explain everything in Jackson speaks volumes. Jackson is about 85% black, and has had a black mayor for more than 20 years. Whatever's going on in Jackson, it ain't white-on-black racism.

Don’t ask Madison County for help. Their school’s central office can’t pay their property taxes.