Jackson Jambalaya

3rd world nation.

He must be feeling quite a bit of pressure from RDI and Detroit. Busted knee caps hurt like hell. Know from personal experience. Wasn't assaulted but landed on a rock during a jump. I guess it's like getting hit with a blunt object like a bat or pipe. Same outcome.

I wonder if we will be able to see the smoke coming from his pants from this camera angle.

Damn, Mayor Failure is sure getting tubby.

Mayor Lumumba called the use of dumpsters an imperfect solution but said he was trying to mitigate the problem THAT HE CAUSED.

It's difficult to get a full understanding if you can't HEAR the questions.

Ok, but what was really said. He's lied so much I don't believe him. One of those if he said the sky was blue I'd have to go outside to look for myself.
After reading the KF post, I believe he is as crooked as the day is long and Don Lumumba feels he can have his way, only.

What other city or town in our state has trouble providing water or garbage service? Why are the basic things so hard in Jackson?

Add another $30k to my Madison home value.

Remember, y’all voted for this fool.

Grifters will grift, including those who live in gated compounds with 24/7 armed security and own two Mercedes Benzes. Right?

So, Mayah has refused to start a new RFP process now that the self created emergency is ended so that the Council can consider a long term contract based on current prices and circumstances. Instead, he wants to magically convert the emergency contract with RDI, which has ended, into a standard non-emergency 6 year contract which the Council has repeatedly refused to approve, a decision which the Mayah illegally vetoed. And, to try and make this happen, the Mayah rightfully refused a meeting with three holdout council members because a meeting between the Mayah and less than a quorum of council members to discuss public business would have to be an open meeting; yet, he believes he can meet with these three individually to discuss public business and not do so openly and in public. This is direct evidence of his intent to violate the open meetings law and strong arm at least one of the holdouts to support the contract with RDI based on a two year old RFP that none of the original vendors will honor because of significant, intervening inflationary realities; none except RDI that is, which is curious to say the least. Ultimately, however, the City is privately hoping that through their neglect, the federal government through the EPA will ultimately swoop in and use millions more of taxpayer dollars to rescue the City from it’s garbage problem. As the Mayah said, he doesn’t think there is an “immediate path” for the EPA to step in, but he’s not closed to idea of big government help sooner or later. If he plays his cards right, and continues his war of words press conferences with the Council, enough garbage may pile up so that the federal government will graciously step in to help.

The law he "knows" is his law, not ours.

"I am an attorney. I know the law."

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. The Supreme Court of MS says otherwise. Carlos the Clown is also an attorney...

Shockway don't need no legal help. He is THE authority.

Elections have consequences.

Meanwhile Comrade Ted is certainly happy this garbage imbroglio has taken the focus off this growing list of missteps. With his divisive equity billing mistake now DOA there's been scant media attention to his hiring a firm to actually read the water meters.

This administration must do little else but sit in their offices composing talking points and arguments. And they do it far away from the rising stench of accumulating garbage.

Ladumbles fans on Facebook staunchly defend him. They are too stupid to understand he is the reason for this whole mess. Some blame to the Virgi and the idiot council, of course, for letting him run over them so consistently. Chuck is smart enough to know his idiot voters are so gullible that it makes him infallible in their eyes.

Much like the Todd Mardis' wife situation, the majority of the city of Jackson support their own abuser.

All we can do to is step back and let them enjoy the mess they are addicted to.

Competent custodians do. Incompetent custodians talk.

@11:01. Fascism at its finest.

"I am an attorney. I know the law."

I feel like when someone is so pressed they have to say this...they already know they are losing control of the situation!

"Richard's Disposal could sue Jackson if it issued a new RFP."

This is completely, utterly, and entirely false, and I refuse to accept that the Mayor genuinely believes it.

How has this fool managed to be elected not once, but TWICE?! Was it because he has had no real competition?

"The only thing on the agenda this morning is TRASH. Here is our first piece of it. Welcome to the podium, mayor!"

@10:51. Stress will do that to you. I guess HB 1020 really got to him! Before that little glitch came along, all was smooth sailing for him and his dope boys!

Y’all are playing checkers, Bumble is playing chess.

11:50 noted: "Richard's Disposal could sue Jackson if it issued a new RFP."
This is completely, utterly, and entirely false, and I refuse to accept that the Mayor genuinely believes it.

You are 100% correct, 11:50. The RFP which the Mayor refers to is from 2021, 2 years ago. The Council rejected Richards' bid under that RFP, and the other 2 bidders (WM and FCC) have withdrawn their bids and indicated they can no longer honor them. So that 2021 RFP is dead. That said, if the Mayor truly believes that the 2021 RFP and bids for it are still valid and that Richards could sue the City based on that RFP, then the Mayor and City could sue WM and FCC to honor their bids under it and then propose one of their bids, which have not been rejected, to the Council. But he hasn't done that because he knows that RFP is no longer valid or enforceable.

Someone please get a photo of this. I predict 2 whole dumpsters, filled to overflowing, in under 30 minutes. Followed by a lot full of garbage that makes NOLA after a hurricane look like a sterile operating room.

The Jackson media is so weak. None of them will ask the difficult questions, which really aren't that difficult to ask:

-Mayor, why did you not issue a new RFP months ago ?
-Mayor, knowing that the City Council had already rejected the Richards' proposal 3-4 times, why do you keep resubmitting it over and over again ?
-Mayor, if your goal is to get the lowest price, why do you keep submitting a proposal with carts which is much more expensive than the proposal without carts ?
-Mayor, you say you're worried about the Richards' employees losing their jobs. Why weren't you as equally concerned about the WM employees losing their jobs ? And if the requirement is that any new vendor must hire the former vendor's employees, then the Richards' employees would not lose their jobs if a new vendor was to be hired.
-Mayor, will you tell us exactly what you and the State Auditor discussed ?

There are plenty more which can be asked, but none of the local media members seem smart enough to ask. They only want sound bites and to repeat what the Mayor says, not do any actual investigative reporting or to think for themselves.

“I am an attorney. I know the law.”, let me get this straight. This is the same lawyer that thought it legal to veto, a no vote in a democratic process. Really? Really?

It's a good thing he's adeft at political subterfuge, because he couldn't make it as an actual practicing lawyer.

I wonder what the federal receiver put in charge of the city's water system, Mr. Hanifan, thinks of the mayor now. He has bought some of the mayor's narrative that the eater crisis is the result of racism, but now comes the garbage crisis - the direct fault of the mayor. The water crisis is one thing (partially the mayor's fault) followed by a garbage crisis. Surely Hanifan can add one & one & recognize that the mayor is the one common thread in all of the city's crises & that Lumumba only makes things worse. Add violent crime, a pitiful excuse for roads & infrastructure, a zoo that tortures the poor animals there - well, we all know the story. Hopefully Hanifan realizes who he's dealing with by now.

"Richard's Disposal could sue Jackson if it issued a new RFP."

Translation: "I found another horse's head on my pillow last night, along with a set of concrete shoes."

It’s so easy for the mayor to tell lie after lie. After all, the complicit media never confronts or contradicts him. THAT’S why he still has supporters. All they see is the mayor’s version of the story on the news. They don’t read sources like this blog so they don’t know the truth. All they’ve heard are the lies.

I bet the state auditor gave Lumumba a friendly warning during their meeting and I also bet the mayor is totally ignoring it. I hope he winds up in Parchman. That’s where he belongs.

in bags; those bags are expensive; is the mayor getting money from Glad now too????

"No tires, bulk items, no construction material or hazardous waste will be accepted."

Inquiring minds want to know if the bags have to be securely contained and tied, how are they going to know if the bags have any hazardous waste in them. Someone going to open and look in each bag?

"I am an attorney. I know the law."


OPINIONS VARY!

"I am an attorney. I know the law."

Most people convicted of robbing a bank knew it was illegal to rob the bank.
Yet banks still get robbed, and people are frequently convicted and locked up for robbing banks.


Knowing the law is no guarantee one is following the law.

@12:09 PM - You are 100% correct. The dumpsters will fill up in 30 minutes but the garbage bags will continue to be dumped on the ground, because it's free, right?

April 6, 2023 at 11:53 AM

Priceless!

The Jackson media is so weak. ...

Then you have the Free Press fraud Donna Ladd who has repeated over and over again over the years that she and hers will hold administrations accountable. Distorted reality.

Hes an attorney and knows the law..yet he dont follow the law

The only thing that rivals his stupidity is his fucking arrogance

Is any member of the press going to ask this idiot what his PLAN is? Does he have a PLAN? The veto of a no vote was the illegal act that started this mess. This is all on choke. The governor needs to declare another emergency and take the city away from this criminal moron.

Chris Farley Voice: "For the love of God, please settle this"

I think that meeting was Shad firing a warning shot over the bow.

Time for a new cartoon, mayor peaking out of a 96 gal. can. To be disseminated liberally.

People will drive to these dumpsters with trash bags piled on the hood and trunk of their cars. This is where an enterprising sole could make money with a pickup. Anyway, just like at the apartments where folks do the same with their garbage they will suddenly or forgetfully drive off disposing their trash on the roads. Guess the cops could go through the trash to get addresses to charge the offender(s). Naw, what the hell am I thinking of, this is Jackson.

How does Donner Kay sleep at night knowing impoverished COJ citizens are being abused by the like of Ladumbles, on her watch?

Why does she and WLBT refuse to champion the people who are being harmed?

Why does she and CJ only care when the villain is white?

As an attorney you know these contracts have Expired Anna new RFP was required months ago as March 31 was approaching. Ethics laws frown on meeting individually with COJ council as it gets into he said, she said. Grown up and DO The Right thing. Start a RFP process immediately under state law while working on a short term Emergency Contract. Stay off Social & National News as you created this Situation without prayerfully taking others into consideration.

And so...Ahhhh....ummmm....uhhhh....you know....RIIIIIGHT?

Thousands of Jackson residents driving through town on Easter weekend in the rain with loose trash flying off back of trucks and trailer’s further littering the city of Jackson landscape and then fighting in the Metrocenter parking lot. Yeh, I don’t see anything that could go wrong with that.

They mayor looks like I do when I'm flat broke and some MAJOR bills are coming due that I hadnt mentioned to anyone.....RIGHT

The new 1%, folks with trash service.

They are just gonna blame any trash spillage on Rankin residents, illegally dumping...because THAT is the biggest problem the good mayor has decided to tackle.

Thankfully, the city has no other pressing issues, that perhaps should have taken priority.

@12:18pm "...Hanifan..."
It's actually Henifin, as in ChickenFish.

The Mayor and all his supporters forget that all of this could have been avoided and lower prices locked in had the Mayor simply followed the RFP process back in 2021. He whines about the prices potential going up under a new RFP. Well, Mayor, had you continued working under the 2021 RFP back in 2021, instead of trying to pull the BS stunt of vetoing a No vote of the Council which delayed the process, those bids and lower prices from 2021 could have been accepted in 2021. The Council rejected the Richards' bid in 2021, and you could and should have then proposed a contract with ether WM or FCC. But no, you tried the BS stunt with your improper veto, and now look, the prices have gone up. That's all your fault, Mayor. Had you not tried to play a silly game, we would have a new 6 year contract already in place and with lower prices than we're now going to have to pay. "Play stupid games and win stupid prizes".

Can Hinds County take over garbage pickup?

“His staff is researching whether a credit can be applied to residents' accounts.”

It would be a shame if the Lee County DA wanted to pull an Alvin Bragg, and investigate the mayor for mail fraud since Chokwe is knowingly accepting payment for garbage pickup from residents without providing the service. Remember, the bills are mailed to a Tupelo P.O. Box for processing. It appears that the DA for this area is a Republican….

Who the heck is able to drop their trash off from 8am-2pm, doesn't the city know people have jobs... oh wait, nvm

@11:50, I reckon Richards could sue if they wanted to. All they need is a petition, a check in the amount of the clerk's filing fee, and a mouthpiece in good standing with the state bar association. That "They've got no case" kind of comment we sometimes hear from others, that's just TV talk.

Metrocenter Parking lot, 8:am until 2pm.

I saw thirty+ cars in line so a couple trash guys could reach into their truck beds and car trunks to grab their bags.
Very slow process so I drove through a maze of adjacent driveways until I parked behind a giant gravel trailer, where the others couldn't see me, threw my one densely packed bag up over its rim and quickly drove off.
Incredible craters all over Metro Center, have the Russians flown bombing drills out there?

Apply a credit to customer's bills? Seriously! They can't send a correct water bill, and didn't issue credits for unavailable, unusable water; so how are they going to calculate the amount of a credit for thousands of residents for garbage not picked up. Seriously! It sounds good to those who are drinking the Kool Aid.

The only thing that is dumber this clown, is a Rock!!!!

@2:47pm - surely you jest. Graham the Legend and his band of clowns. Lord help us all.

God help us. This mayor is the most disingenuous, dishonest person I have ever come across. This fiasco is 100% on him. It’s too scary to contemplate what his long game is when his short one has been the utter destruction of a once livable city.

Where is the effing city land fill?

I found the website for the city’s landfill. It’s in Byram, so prepare for the 40-50 mile round trip and take $$ because you have to pay to leave your trash there.

I’m getting angry and that’s not a good place for me. It’s directed at a single person who I do not know but have come to despise (as in HATE, another toxic emotion).

At the latest council meeting, Grizzle kept saying “this was by design, by design, design.” He was right. It was by design of a megalomaniac mayor whose own greed is his sole priority.