Jackson Jambalaya

Citizens just have to laugh at the administration. We have been lied to, hidden from facts and plainly ignored by this mayoral administration when they simply can't be bothered to be open and truthful about the state of the water system and their actions relative to.

We couldn't even get releases like this until 3 days after a boil water notice and no releases or updates thereto.

Now, the State comes in and takes action and the city jumps up and is trying to pre-empt the State's press conferences like they are "on the job."

This is just sad.

There are way to many "we" listings in this press release. Should do find and replace to take out "we" and insert "the State."

Bobby Boucheaux for Mayor.

Jackson leadership, past and present, are the sole people at fault for everything that has happened\is happening. Plain and simple. This isn't news, it has been happening for decades.

He is laying the groundwork for his BILLION DOLLAR windfall from the Xiden administration.

Once again Lumumba thinks sending a letter or table napkin with a dollar amount included is sufficient to receive funding. He just doesn't get it.

He will get away with it and no one will care about the truth

Biden is going to send Jackson a billion dollars? NOPE.

Choky sure is animated today, right.

This article was published on cnn Friday:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/02/us/jackson-mississippi-water-department/index.html

Maybe the national news media is finally waking up and realizing they’ve been given the Jussie Smolett treatment from Mayor Choke?

When you lose uncle Bennie you might as well pack it up and look for new employment. Godfather Bennie T is gonna find a replacement for this clown if he’s dumb enough to run for re-election.

The Wall Street Journal's main editorial today addresses the politics of Jackson's crisis. I'd say it is fairly accurate.
Even considering the source, it's fairly accurate.

We need a receivership. Little doubt remains.

Just have Joey reroute some of that money going to Ukraine and send it to Jackson. Both are a waste but Mississippi is what’s hot right now in the news.

Ok so the Mayor just held a presser & yet again said privatizing the COJ would cost taxpayers additional $$. And your point is in while not collecting fees from citizens and or running up legal fees to fight your inadequate ability to run the COJ doesn’t cost taxpayers more money. Amazing that simple math taught to us in elementary school does not Apply to Your Bookkeeping Chokwe! RESIGN Immediately and save the city

Martha Raddatz Shame on you for pushing False narratives!

The pic of Lumumba in the still of the video in this post is poetic. Caption opportunities are endless. I'll start:

That look when you realize the gig is up?

When you finally realize no one is buying your BS?

Endless I say. Endless.

I didn't hear if reporters asked why the mayor is just now providing so-called plans for repairing the water system - if indeed a plan has existed for several years, why not provide it to the congressman & governor when they first asked for it months if not years ago? Why just now?

Will someone please ask him how costly it is to have cop sitting across the street from his residence each night?

Socialist Government at its best.
Lumumba is a Con Artist.
Detroit Born, theif!!

How are you coming on replacing the water meters and fixing the billing system, Mayor?

Antar has spoken. I counted 41 RIGHTS as he mentioned a letter to the governor and a few photos and documents to say “LOOK AT ALL THIS WORK I’VE DONE.” He flailed around an awful lot and appeared to be swatting at a swarm of gnats.

This much was clear — “if the state is in talks with the same people I’ve been in talks with, then we’re on all on the same page, so I don’t understand why the state won’t just let me do it?!?!”

He’s like a child who can’t take NO for an answer. Which just happens to be one reason why the grownups want him to shut up, go to his room, and break little child toys.

“consistently avoided opportunities to take shots.”, the mayor is fully aware of the news media doing the heavy lifting for him. No need to dirty his soft little hands with politics.

His advisers are much better equipped to handle the optics of politics, but are useless when needed for guidance on operating the city.

I'm no Tate apologist, nor Lumumba fan, but the mayor, with help from the news media, is using the black, white dynamics to his advantage.

While in the real world results, that means correcting the problem, the governor is running circles around the mayor. At least, that's the way it looks to me.

Do not be deceived, the radical mayor is at war with the governor. What we have up till now are skirmishes. The winner will be decided by the final arrangement of the water governing decision.

I hope, for the citizens of Jackson's benefit, and the state, that sanity prevails.

Be sure and report any issue you’re having. The city will get right to you.🥴

“It’s not if but when the system will fail again,” he says for the 99th time. Chumpwe, we know exactly when it will fail again and that’s the minute your grubby little hands touch the controls. And fuck you double for trying to insinuate that the Herculean effort to clean up your mess is a “stop gap effort.” Matter of fact, do us a big one and go lick your wounds in private.

Okay. It’s official. He is the village fucking idiot, a bona fide public spectacle. “How was so much progress made in a week? Professionals were finally brought in.” That is so painfully dumb it almost hurts.

Does anyone care what this fool has to say? Nothing that comes out of his mouth is news worthy. This is the first time he has admitted any fault albeit, not his. When is his run up? I dont live in Jackson, but I am employed in Jackson.. The city has gotten more and more vacant since Covid.

Can the Legislature suspend Jackson's charter and have DFA run the place from the WorldCom building?

The solution is simple. It’s called a budget. Give the Mayor King $2m a year to handle his politics and hire 5 special assistants with PHDs to handle the media and special appearances at liberal colleges and progressive media interviews.No need to handle ribbon cuttings since no new business will come to Jackson. Give the 5 a budget each of $200k for a salary and expenses. The Mayor King can keep the rest. Then hire a competent City Manager with successful experience to run the daily operation (approval by City Council and Governor Tate) save millions of dollars to be used for basic services. Governor Tate is meant as a joke but that would be a good plan.

If the city can't patch a hole in the Rez pump house for starters, how in the name of God can they fix OB.

4:05.... The %$&! "l e g i s l a ture" can do whatever the hell they want...
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/06/26/landmark-tobacco-lawsuit-settled-25-years-ago-what-happened-to-money/

Buy out his contract like they did Orgeron or Les Miles. Then he could sit out a year and try again in another year or two somewhere far off

One of the things I learned too late in life is that you can't deal with a dishonest person. They don't intend to be honorable or ethical, much less truthful. That's the situation we have with this mayor.

I listened to Shortwave LaMumbles and was struck by how many times he claimed that he hadn’t cast any aspersions, that he’s been open and rarin’ to go all along and that he would never say anything derogatory about the guv. Oddly, every time he made such a statement, it would end with a backhanded swipe at everyone else.

He’s passive aggressive. A child. “The Boy Who Would Be Mayor”.

I called it weeks ago. Lumumba is putting on an old fashioned minstrel show. It was effective since the media was bamboozled.

Hopefully the legislature, including the Jackson delegation, is locking and loading to geld Antar.

The media has not been 'bamboozled'. The fact is THIS: The media, cumulatively, has a set narrative about every subject. For the past twenty years that's been apparent. The media has the facts and goes about the task of searching for theories and lies to match up with its version of the facts. Then they present it for the low information crowd.

Chokwe has not tricked them into falling for his bullshit. Quite the contrary. His bullshit has fit their narrative. So, it's a matter of which is the spider and which is the web. And, who among the plebes will buy the narrative.

Fact is, Chockwe is the spider who has fallen right into the media's pre-ordained narrative. And while he gets some degree of sympathy and lots of attention, the media gets what they always get...validation of a false narrative.

Now I only expect about 19% of you to understand this, but that's OK.

Save us from Antar.

Local hospitals smartened up 15 years ago when COJ proved time after time that they could not support infrastructure needed for healthcare…. There is a CON argument for them to get out of Jackson…..

@5:18 The media was not bamboozled. They were willing accomplices in the deception.

I hope this does not increase my country club of Jackson monthly bill!,

Anyone else getting flooded with sponsored ads from CBS News and Antar about adult Vaccinations on Facebook???

I guess that opportunity is more important than anything else he has going on…

A list of projects with placeholder amounts is not a plan.

4:11 PM, why should they go to all of that expense. Just vote the fool out. Everyone should be able to see he does not know anything about anything except talking and blaming others. How many months this year has Jackson been on a boil watrer notice or not even a drop of water? In just a week that has all changed and still he complains.

I'm just wondering why you even bother to mention what Lumumba might be saying about this. The man is ground-zero for the crisis, the State has stabilized things, and Lumumba had nothing to do with dealing with the problem. Lumumba is the man standing outside the house waving his arms and asking to be let in. He has been busy with nothing but damage control for himself. The man has nothing useful or important to say on any substantive issues that has not already been said by the people in charge of actually digging him out of the mess he created.

For those who haven't already figured it out...

The national media is using this story to gin up hate among blacks. It's their only hope of getting blacks out to vote in the upcoming midterms. Listen to Biden's angry, hate-filled speech and you'll hear more of this effort.

It doesn't matter that it's all a lie.

All that matters is that it provokes emotion. Hate is a powerful emotion.

The clock is running on the mayor's money grab. Biden and the media will have no use for him after the November election.

How can Chokwe give a briefing on what is going on with the water plant. He is not in on any part of it. All he can do is listen when the people doing the work and making the decisions give a briefing. He don't know what work they are doing. He doesn't know what the plan is. He doesn't know anything that he does not get from the briefing of others. We know as much or more than he does.

News stations, I also hold you accountable for creating false narratives in allowing The Mayor to continue spewing racism along with the Democratic Party as well! Everyone in the State knows Governor Reeves is NOT the Mayor of Jackson, nor is he Responsible for Running the city. Remember back in 2016 when the Mayor of. Greenville got on the news telling about a church on Clay Street being burned down by Trump supporters before the fire marshal had performed the investigation. Fast forward it was a church member from that very church who burned it down after people from all over donated upward of approximately $250,000. Also FBC Greenville allowed the congregation to use their church while Hopewell MissionRy Baptist Church was rebuilt! Fellow Mississippians love one another and race, nor politics has ONE THING to do with water crisis or the flow of water. Obviously you missed Science Class in all of the equations involving this crisis and who, what and how it happened and will continue as long as the current administration is in charge! Blaming as opposed to implementing work plans that have occurred in the past week is a fine example as Andy Griffith would say.

2:51 Antar Lumumba is the biggest one-trick pony I’ve ever seen. If Antar owns a deck of cards, I guarantee you 51 of them are missing. The race card is his only play, the only trick up his sleeve. Fits him to a T. It’s the easy way out for a lazy person and it comes with a ready-made audience for an insecure person in need of an ego boost. Antar blows hot air because he desperately needs the smokescreen it creates. Fan it away and there’s nothing there. He will go down squeezing every last drop out of that one card he holds.

I have NEVER voted for this current Mayor and I'm about now so sick of him, it's ridiculous! The COJ hardly turned out at all to vote him back in, but he got back in, due to the LOW/NO votes! Jackson, MS, DO BETTER! I'm NO Tate fan, but now that Rep. John Horne has come out and said what Tate has said, A PLAN IS NEEDED Mayor Lumumba! You will NO LONGER have funds thrown at this city, unfettered and controlled by YOU, because YOU have proven to not be a trusted entity in leading the cause to get the COJ's infrastructure to a point of some decency for its citizens. You talk, that's what you do, talk. Be radical enough to come up with a plan to submit to those who want to help this city. Today on WJTV, his interview stated only what's been wrong and how things are going now, NOT ONE mention of a plan on how this will be taken care of, moving forward and prevention. Citizens of Jackson, MS, lets stop these uneducated voters in their tracks and vote in a viable candidate for office. We need a candidate for ALL people.

Anyone who says "Right?" repeatedly is only attempting to sound convincing but in all honesty sounds nothing but trying to conceal their deceit

WSJ gave a factual account of the State's rescue of Jackson's water debacle, the Mayor's fairy tales notwithstanding.

Lil Choke's letters to the Governor, Senators, and Bennie T were not plans. They were cost engineered line items to justify sending the mayor a fat check for his disbursement without controls.

In fact, the mayor was still breaking the water system by his own neglect and ineptitude even as he wanted money to fix it

I am so sick of Antar I could scream. This little performance is about as pitiful and groveling as it gets. He’s waving around the City’s 2019 Strategic Capitol Improvement Plan, EPA’s conclusions, an incomplete draft assessment from yet another Kellogg- backed study, and an 18 month old letter to the governor and calling it the plan. He’d should’ve just cried and wailed, “Bennie, I promise, brother, I’d never lie to you, esp not to your face. I’ve dusted off all this old work other people did just for you, Bennie.

If there was a “Who Can Do Less With More” competition, he’d take gold, silver, and bronze. He’s got a sum total of NOTHING to show for all the “team members he’s brought to the table,” the “coalition of the willing” he’s assembled, and the various years old, still underway studies he “commissioned.”

He’s pathetic.