Jackson Jambalaya

Mayor Incompetent's weekly preening.

He is taking credit for (Hal and Mal) St Patrick day. 18% vacancy rate in the city. Compare that to Madison, Ridgeland,Raymond, etc.

Cliff's Notes please. (I did notice he's stopped putting boot-black on his beard.)

Thanks for the warning so that I could take an anti-nausea pill.

Just inside the killing fields of West Jackson, Murder Capitol of USA, a useless weed grown Convention Center is rented by taxpayers for the inept mayor's midnight party to celebrate his emasculation by the same feds he beggingly prostrated himself to for direct cash?

How desperate is the finally gelded Lil Choke for attention? Why can't the Council kill this wastrel ingrate's costly foolishness and get on with fixing collapsed bridges, cratered streets, rampant killings, retrograde schools, sewer saturated neighborhoods and police recruit deficit (to name but a few of Jackson's attributes)?

Normal vacancy rates for metro areas hover between 2%-4%. Not saying that this is his fault, but I wonder what it was when he entered into office.

"Two" NYE parties downtown? Does Jackson have the police force to adequately cover this event(s) AND maintain personnel for patrols on regular beats?

The Mayor is all talk with no action. 100 to 1 odds this falls through.

I heard the bathrooms at the Convention Center were almost inoperable at the recent cheer convention so I wont be surprised when that money maker goes elsewhere next year.
But...They will probably have them all fixed for the Sneaker Ball though. I'm sure the hosts are already getting the venue for free too.
But that would be typical of Jackson, for the treatment of people who actually bring tax revenue to be especially horrific.
And by all means, continue to be shocked as to why the folks with the means left and your tax coffers are dry. Its a real mystery.

Attn 2:16 If you believe that 2% to 4% is the average non occupancy rate, go visit the luxurious accommodations in our Capitol city. Make them an offer. Ask that brilliant female entrepreneur who “bought” the old Jackson mall for advice. Assuming you have money (Ha Ha). I have been told you can’t rent a truck to haul your furniture out of Jackson, because people don’t bring the trucks back.

@2:16 PM - does that include the ~500 abandoned homes?

Does he listen to himself? Does he realize how full of shit he sounds? Really?. Can anybody help here?

Just watched 6:30am WLBT this morning. The Mayor said yesterday that he is wanting to charge water billing rates based on “property value”

What on earth????
If you drive an expensive cari… does your gas cost more??? NO!!!
What does property value have to do with the rate per gallon of water in a home???

Any lawyers reading??? How could this be legal?
Kingfish, any thoughts?
I can’t wrap my head around how this could possibly happen.

Kat Williams has a comedy skit about being smart and dumb at the same time. It fits Chokewe to a "T". "Ain't nothing worse than a smart dumb....."

How would a policy be legal to require that a rental unit use a Jackson resident as the realtor for the rental unit? What fee would be charged on that local realtor to increase code enforcement? Where is the draft policy? It's a little wild.

Having a local registered agent and someone who could appear on 5 days notice seems fine. But what is advantageous for requiring the realtor to "live" in the city limits?

@2:16 here. I was referring to the nationwide average for vacancies. Compared to the numbers Lumumba referenced, Jackson is horrid.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. -Abe Lincoln

@8:44am
Most of Jackson residential Landlords, ie home or apartment rental property owners, do not involve a "real estate agent property manager" like commercial properties often do.

Such a requirement will add about 20% to rent:
10% for the real estate manager and 10% for City bureaucracy.

Current law allows City Code enforcement to inspect rentals on an as need basis, without real estate agents. If a property owner is out of compliance, fine the owner.

7:07, this is an attempt to put the majority of the cost of water and sewer on the more expensive homes and the businesses. They would be subsidizing these use of these utilities for others in Jackson. Good way for the Mayor to escape responsibility from the mess he created with the water & sewer system. This will protect the majority of his voters from having to start paying the monthly bills. Not sure it is legal, but if it is, the legislature needs to change the law.

So many legitimate needs in the city of Jackson and the mayor decides that rather than spending money to make the quality of life better for his constituents daily lives, he will throw a party.

Of those vacant properties, I wonder if the mayor is including all the burned out shells of homes in Jackson.

Many of the homes worth $200,000+ that LaMamba and Henifin want to tax based on value for water and sewer are occupied by owners who have lived modestly to pay off their mortgages entirely, are now retired on less income and live even more modestly, with additional medical expenses, and cannot afford to move out of Jackson.

Why should these frugal, law abiding people pay for the water of the reckless to advance EPA and LaMamba marxist utopian fantasies?

Why should these frugal, law abiding people pay for the water of the reckless to advance EPA and LaMamba marxist utopian fantasies?

Equity extraction means there is always someone needed to endure the continuing punishment. Part of Lumumba's ongoing campaign to drive the remaining wealth holdouts out of the city so his Kush dreams can be realized.

Does the Belhaven residential neighborhood have their own water system? You know, like they do their own police force.

Let me help you better understand 1:03. Those of you who now own paid-off $200K homes have been living off of the local inhabitants for long enough. The local residents who do not own a house have been discriminated against for so long you have had enough time to retired. It is now time to free the land and free the water and for good measure, the sewer and garbage as well.
If you do not pay promptly your fair share towards the continued support of the local residents, the 200K home will be seized as a partial payment of the reparations that are expected to be paid. Free the Land means just that. Free the land from the oppression of the WPS and allow others the opportunity now own a 200K house.

@2:30pm
Northeast Jackson and Bellhaven and Fondren and the Home Depot-Target shopping center should secede from Downtown, West and South Jackson, create their own city government, drill water wells, buy a police force and jail space, fix sewers and water without marxist EPA racist mandates.

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs (or need) is a slogan that Karl Marx made popular in his writing Critique of the Gotha program, published in 1875.”

This proposal is straight up Marxism.