Jackson Jambalaya

Watching this is painful.

Where is the “like” button?

Here for the invite, bc I’ve been Saved. How do you get invited to Antioch? I’d like a fish fry and political negotiations to be available to me in the back room. Is there a difference in that than 4th avenue cigars? Don’t get me wrong, I despise chokwe and what he’s continuing in this city, but there’s something about that clean hands doctrine that I’m missing.

That woman seems to really know what she is talking about.

@945 - she might know a little, same stuff anybody that keeps up with what's going on - that the city doesn't pay its vendors. That the vendor has picked up the sewer bypass pumps. That the street crews, and the sewer workers, don't have any working equipment, because the shops won't repair pieces that are in the shop --- because the city doesn't pay its bills.

But her ranting about the third party contractor that is taking over the work --- she's totally wrong. Doing nothing but ranting because she and others got let go. They were let go because for years they haven't done their job. The billiing department folks were the dumping ground for employees that couldnt hack it in the positions they were hired for. The water folks - the ones that are let go Friday - include several good workers (who have been hired by the contractor, if they wanted a job), but it also includes the meter readers that had their own little side business of installing straight pipes for 'their' clientelle. Or those that would read the meter and pick up a twenty, and report the service as inactive.

Yeah - those folks that she thinks should now, after twenty or thirty years need what? To be trained!! If after all those years the problem is they need training, she don't acknowledge what the real problem is.

And her assumption that when Henefin leaves (next year, or two/three years, doesn't matter) the contractor will still be here operating the system. Her stupipd argument that at that point the vendor leaves as well doesn't hold water - the whole concept is that the water system will never be back under the city's control. EPA has said so in its decree asking the Judge for the takeover.

In that area, she absolutely doesn't know what she is talking - ranting - about.

But - her and Kenny are right on about the absolute failure of the city to pay its bills. That is an unforgivable sin, and leads to many of today's failures. And that lays at the feet of the Mayor, who now tries to blame that on the folks in accounting needing training. Hell, after the 'new' system has been in operation for years, to just now decide there is a problem and the employees need to be trained - once the shit floated to the top in the Street Commission meeting a few months ago -- was a deflection that didn't deflect. Glad Kenny is out front waving that flag today. Maybe sooner or later the Mayor will get recalled for his absolute deriliction of his duties.

Truth. The Inconvenient Truth.

This is really informative. Two takeaways- 1) the blacks have been in control for 25 years, which means that ALL of Jackson's current problems are owned by black management of Jackson and 2) Kenny Stokes is the best thing going to solve Jackson's problems.

Yes!! Kenny got receipts! Get those clowns out Kenny!

" Kenny Stokes is the best thing going to solve Jackson's problems."

True..which makes it so much more horrifying.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

May 3, 2023 at 10:45 PM
>Maybe sooner or later the Mayor will get recalled for his absolute deriliction of his duties.

That is if legislation for recall ever gets passed.

If a recall statute comes to fruition, I am going to make millions selling "race cards."

Until there is a recall statute, Jackistan will continue to slide until it hits rock bottom. At that point Chowke will have moved on to greener pastures.

The mair will be indicted before the mair resigns.

The mayor won't be indicted, recalled or resigning.

He will leave Jackson of his own will, when he gets ready to ascend to higher office.

It's the unfortunate, though fully predicted, result of a system of rewards that is not based on merit. Or even decency.