Jackson Jambalaya

I hope this will eventually come to and end!!
And the council needs a backup plan this time.

Really, it should say Banks caves, since he was the swing vote.

Unbelievable incompetence by the City Council. Now, the Mayor will continue to pull this same scam over and over to make sure his preferred vendors get the City contracts.

They just became Chuckie Jr.’s bitches.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Jackson residents, Enjoy!

And the alternative was? Sounds like the adults arrived

How much Bitcoin just got wired to chokwe?

5:20 pm said it all. Imagine the indignity of servicing that impious, odious imposter, who should have been personally liable for $5M!

Feckless cuckolds.

How are they going to do this without effectively agreeing to a contract? If there is no contract, how can this be lawful?

Is this legal?

So how much was wasted on attorney fees for various parties just to get to this foolishness juncture? Beyond f’ed up and dysfunctional. There are no consent decrees or administrative actions powerful enough to curb this level of idiocy.

Jackson, the village idiot of state capitals. Hinds, it’s country cousin (think Dumb and Dumber).

Didn't I predict this earlier? Right?

Now Chowke's knee caps will remain intact, and his bank account will smile.

Isn't this payment contrary to law?

Does the city even have that kind of money in the appropriate line item?

Chowke has these bitches by the short hairs, forever.

We are be assured that Chowke will not veto this payment. Bwa, ha, ha.

Hey 507 - keep up. The Council has a back up plan, and has had all along.

The problem is that with Jackson's form of government, the Council cannot implement anything. The Mayor has to present the plan for the Council to act. All they can do is refuse to agree to what the Mayor says or to agree. In this case, they refused to agree, and the Mayor ignored it (illegally - but he is still trying to use the Trump method of getting his way by continually appealing to a higher court).

The problem here is not that the Council doesn't have a plan; its that the Mayor refused to do anything other than what he wants.

Mayor Lumumba +1000 points
Jackson Jambalaya -500 points

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Mission Accomplished!

Hey Jackson non-voters, you did this to yourself. Enjoy LaDUMBa's dictatorship!

Nicely played by Lumumba et.al. The city council was between a rock and a hard place ---hold out based on principle, or face the ire of residents if garbage was not picked up, in addition to the potential environmental and safety issues caused by garbage pile up. Lumumba effectively deflected the issue from his unethical behavior in selecting Richards in the first place, to the city council and their refusal to pay a contract they had not authorized. All the citizens care about is that someone/anyone will continue to pick up garbage. Same playbook for the water crisis ...deflect and blame the state for not helping poor, disadvantaged Jackson. Shrewd or lucky? I don't know which, but the Mayor has joined the big boys in the gas lighting strategy. Different constituencies, but same methods, and same dishonesty and corruption. It doesn't feel good whether its done by the left or the right. Those who support the narrative of either with whom they identify without doing due diligence and looking at the facts,do a disservice to themselves and the process. This sets an awful precedent for the council in future disagreements with the mayor, who always tells only part of the story. The majority of citizens will not hold him accountable and the games will continue. Shame!

YEA !!!

The seafood waste has been liberated !

Now Jacksonians don't have to freeze their spent Maine Lobster shells.

Great move Mista Mayor. Keep up the great work !

KF called this play perfectly.

Antar just successfully "bitch slapped" the few council members ... that until now ... would have stood up to him.

You can rest assured everybody who had voting authority, got a check. Why not let the state audit authority take a look at these payments, before he looks at the Canton Ms. misappropiationions?

@5:39pm - You don’t “wire” bitcoin you moran

Schock-Way for the WIN!

Jive-ass Jackson.

Total clown show.

5:50 concur. NOW, can a lawsuit be filed to prevent illegal payment? What happens with the yearly audit with no legal contract Shad?

I was hoping the city council wouldn't pussy out, but they did.

The state auditor's office needs to investigate. The city council has said before they couldn't pay RDS because it would violate state purchasing law

Banks been bought out by Picket. Polo should have slapped Banks.

I’m not sure this is legal. The position all along has been that there is no contract approved by the council. So they are going to pay for unauthorized services?

We're gonna reload them ink pens and come right back

I agree that Richard's should get paid by someone for the work it has done.

Once this payment is declared illegal, perhaps the city can seek contribution from the mayor, personally.

But he loses with the Supremes.

So if they pay are they saying the mayor CAN override their vetos??? And why didn’t these clowns on the city council come up with a plan all these months after saying they weren’t going to pay???

Jackson, including the city council and the mayor are good candidates for a case study on how not to govern.

Ole Chokee knew he would get his cut eventually. Question is how much? He has out smarted the council again and did it in plain sight!

Serious question here. Will not the state auditor be promoted to seek repayment for spending money without authority?
RMQ

Can we kick Jackson out of the state? Who knows what hackwar and his cronies on the council do next? I think today, I moved past caring. Let them eat cake and walk naked down the street.

I hope the mayor and the cadre of whatever council folk got a million dollars from Richard's. They have certainly worked hard for it!

Council's counsel says it's a settlement payment in response to a lawsuit, which is permitted, whereas a payment for work without an approved contract is not permitted.

Richard's, for their part in the settlement terms, agrees to pick up trash for same rate until the Supreme Court of MS rules on the relevant case, at which time the settlement terms cease and next step to be determined.

BTW, Stokes will never forgive Jackson's little despot for slandering Stokes's character, publicly stating on steps of City Hall to cameras that Stokes was being bribed by WM.

Deppity Pheel and the mysterious TAnf whistleblower thank you for the distraction!

The council fought all this time not to pay, but ultimately will pay and wants to sign some type of agreement for them to stay a while longer only to kick them to the curb in the end? Dear Jackson, VOTE for better leaders!

You can't complain and still allow this to continue year after year.

Wow, Trump Derangement Syndrome hits new heights. They now lump Orange Man with Lumumba. Strange bedfellows indeed!

The city council should now be held personally liable for this payment. And yes they have lost any credibility they may have had- better no trash collection then giving in to Chokwe. The entire admin can't be voted out soon enough. Unfortunately that won't happen.

Meanwhile Madison property values continue to fall. Sad day for Madison county and the Jackson metro

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@10:30 PM
All property values on this entire planet are dropping. If you haven’t noticed, we are entering a global recession and all interest rates are rising! The property values are falling to make the homes more affordable to potential buyers! Car prices are also finally falling. There is a glut of semiconductors. Demand destruction is real. Meanwhile prices on all essential items are climbing while the un-essential fall.

I agree the Mayor is incompetent and may be on the take. However, Richards did the work and should be paid a fair sum for that work.

Political game playing causes those we elect to forget about CONSEQUENCES.

It should have been NO surprise to anyone using their brain that both Republicans and Democrats need usable water and garbage collection.

But, testosterone combined with oversized egos apparently erases rational thought.
Among the consequences you are ignoring are the costs to all of us for the waste of our tax dollars in lawsuits and in paying these idiots on both sides of the political "divisions" to rant in public.
What we need and seem to only have in a Quixotic attempt by Priester is a problem solver who tried to lure us away from seeing public office as a football game with a winner and loser with us as "fans".
And, those of you who just make up stuff or are too lazy or stupid to actually bother to verify your hair salon/barber shop stories are not helping. Worse,it's obvious few of you even live in Jackson.
Richards has been far better in my neighborhood than Waste Management. Unlike WM, they came at a predictable time, didn't strew bits and pieces of garbage on the street and picked up the less that 4' limbs and branch cuttings.
And, I bought the garbage can y'all think is "too big". It rolls just as easily and it's one trip to the street not two or three.
But, if you can't find an actual flaw, you just invent one and like the gossiping biddy, you make repetition work to overcome fact.
GARBAGE COLLECTION AND WATER and countless other issues like SAFETY USED TO BE BIPARTISAN!
But, no you want to be about race or party or some other "us vs them" so you can feel superior to somebody or something. It's ALL about YOU and your FEELINGS and being busybodies tending to everyone else's business but ignoring your own. That's the definition of being a KAREN or SNOWFLAKE.
Way to go! Really! Our divisions made Putin and Xi (who played you like puppets with misinformation) feel we were a weak Nation and so now we may all get to see that we all get cold in winter and sicken and die from radiation carried in the wind.
And, to those thinking you can pray this away, please spend a little more time with the Bible passages about using the blessings and "talents" God gave YOU instead of expecting Divine rescue from the deals you made with the Devil in worshipping money and power and self-aggrandizement.

What these clowns have done to this City and this State is irreparable. The reputation of Jackson and Mississippi suffers because of corrupt, racist politicians wanting to get their reparations from whoever they can. They are to short sighted to see that they have so much more to gain if the City is operating well.

It is now a proven fact that the council consists of Chowke's bitches. He owns each and everyone of them.

I just got paid today
Got me a pocket full of change
Said, I just got paid today
Got me a pocket full of change
If you believe like workin' hard all day
Just step in my shoes and take my pay
I was born my papa's son
When I hit the ground I was on the run
I had one glad hand and the other behind
You can have yours, just give me mine
When the hound dog barkin' in the black of the night
Stick my hand in my pocket, everything's all right
I just got paid today
Got me a pocket full of change
Said, black sheep, black, do you got some wool?
Yes, I do, man, my bag is full
It's the root of evil and you know the rest
But it's way ahead of what's second best

Dumbest people in the dumbest state.

@8:07PM
No doubt.

... testosterone combined with oversized egos apparently erases rational thought

Based on the rapidly growing size of the Emperor's paunch I doubt he's suffering from too much testosterone.

I bought the garbage can y'all think is "too big". It rolls just as easily and it's one trip to the street not two or three.

The can that is designed for automated collection? You're making RD employees lift a single can containing the equivalent weight of 'two or three' cans? That doesn't seem to be an example of one "using their brain".

This town is at a potential point of civil unrest. And I unfortunately am a resident of the city. I can’t wait to get the hell out of here, which means out of the city and the State.

How about the people wanting a Stokes hat? Where are you hiding that hat now?

8:41:
Your sermon boils down to "eat the mayor's dicta and call it a blessing".

Nah thanks, I want lawful, not awful. This marxist despotic fake mayor is destroying Jackson to create a dependent population whose misery he ensures so he can sell his tyranny as "equity-expertise" at symposia and seminars, among other self enrichment weasel scams.

All of ya’ll implying “this is done”, are you saying the Supremes will rule in favor of Chuckcheese and Richard’s? That is where it now sits, correct? (I didn’t say “right” instead of correct as I don’t want to speak like Chuckcheese).

If the Supremes rule against the current position, then I guess it will go back to the city council for a proper vote presented by Chuckcheese?

Question is, then what?

According to an article in the October 6 Northside Sun, the City has not collected enough money to pay RDI in full. (That’s what happens when the billing system remains in shambles.)

7:41 am is too early for heavy drinking. What planet are you living on?

Has Stokes traded his "Stokes" hat in for a "cuck" hat?

What happens to the money people have paid for garbage collection?

I've never seen someone screw up at this level, and still come out ahead. He'll end up serving another term.

11:14:
John Scanlon seems a competent attorney who will present path forward to Council privately, before SCMS rules.

IMO, SCMS wants to weigh in to prevent any other mayor in MS acting as if a no vote can be vetoed.

Perhaps Scanlon will recommend a new RFP to include WM and Richard's to Council before SCMS rules.

Please publish how each City Council member voted. We deserve to know that information!!

if no contract was made and spread on the minutes, the city doesn’t owe a cent. not even quantum meruit.

anyone who deals with a local government without getting the minutes in hand, does so at their own peril.

Come on Jackson sheeple, obtain an injunction to stop this illegal payment. Grow a pair you bitches.

Chickwee just became the pimp and the city council are his hoes.
But at least they got paid.
Dumbles keeping that pimp hand strong and Stokes just working the corner for him.
How embarrassing for the insane residents. Lol!

I dunno that Richards would not ultimately get paid for pick up until the court case between the Revolution Mayor and the council is finally decided, hopefully in the council's favor.

The mayor designed the RFP for Richards, that's obvious, but does he have a legal right to change the terms of twice weekly no trash can from the terms the city's had for years? Or did WM have the lowest bid?

WAPT news at 9 tonight on MeTv channel showed Kenneth Stokes saying that a vote for a settlement was never taken and that he's "not paying four million dollars to nobody."
Do what's the deal Kingfish?

Jimmy Dore weighs in: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZP-Vn5FAJA

I don't know Mr. Stokes, personally, but I don't always know what to think of people that speak of themselves in the third person. Maybe someone can help me with that.

Stokes has squandered any political capital he gained with the semi-intelligent voters. No need to try to save face now.

Just take the Ladumble Dollars your paid to bow down the emperor.

He will still get elected by the morons so I don't really blame him or any council member for this.

They would gain nothing by doing the right thing (refusing to pay an illegal contract) and they will not be punished in any way for doing the wrong thing (giving Chuckles his way) so I get it.

This is the result of voters who vote based on skin color only.

It's so odd to me, how that level of racism is encouraged...even to the detriment of the constituents.

Weird world.

5:37 Prove your claim.
What language in the RFP favors one bidder?
Put up or shut up.
And, yeah, I'll know if you make it up.