Well, someone decided to take his ball and go home. WLBT's Anthony Warren reported:
Days after Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba was indicted on federal bribery charges, he is attending the National League of City’s City Summit in Tampa Bay.
Director of Communications Melissa Faith Payne confirmed on Wednesday that the mayor, Chief Financial Officer Fidelis Malembeka, and Chief Administrative Officer Louis Wright were at the conference.
As a result, the three were no-shows at Jackson’s monthly One-Percent Infrastructure Sales Tax meeting.
One-Percent Commissioner Pete Perry said the mayor wanted to cancel the meeting because he wasn’t going to attend. However, he says the mayor doesn’t have the authority to do so if a quorum can meet.
“In talking to everybody else, I found that the other six were planning to be here,” he said. “The statute says a quorum is six. There’s six here.”
Perry learned the mayor was at the National League of Cities after speaking to WLBT.
“Tampa Bay? Is that where the yacht is?” he asked. “No, that’s where Tootsies is,”.....
Lock-out?
Perry said he was notified by a mayor’s staffer on Friday that several members could not attend, and the meeting needed to be rescheduled.
“We’ve been through this before with the city and thought we had it resolved a year and a half ago,” he said. “You can’t cancel it just for some people’s convenience... If somebody can’t come, they just don’t come.”...
Five commissioners attended Wednesday’s meeting in person. A sixth commissioner, Ted Duckworth, attending via cell phone.
Commissioners were not able to meet in the Andrew Jackson Conference Room where the gatherings are typically held. Instead, they met in the lobby of the Warren Hood Building.
Perry asked the security guard if he had a key to the conference room. His response was, “I don’t have nothing to do with that.”
The meeting lasted about 30 minutes, and little work was done, in part, because the city’s contract engineer also was not present.
Commissioners had several time-sensitive questions regarding bids on two major street resurfacing projects. They also had questions about a bridge replacement project on Swan Lake Drive, and about sidewalk repairs along Woodrow Wilson Avenue.
Said Perry, “Evidently, they don’t care about the one-percent money or getting the streets fixed... It speaks to how they want to cooperate with the commission... They don’t give a damn about us.”
33 comments:
Sic 'em Pete. To no avail. Getchu a bourbon and coke!
Bogus Headline. Mayor did not 'lock out' the commission. The meeting was held.
“Tampa Bay? Is that where the yacht is?” he asked. “No, that’s where Tootsies is,”..... hahahahahaha. Go Pete
Where was the city's contract engineer?
Looks like this is something else that needs to be addressed during the legislative session.
Pete Perry has an attitude problem...no business like manners whatsoever
Yall gonna miss Pete when he’s gone I promise
The mayor will not sacrifice his position on the national stage for a few relatively unimportant issues in the troublesome city of Jackson. One must keep matters in their proper perspective.
Bogus mayor more like it…trying to get those last trips in 😆😆
Folks when we have a serious discussion about moving the capital out of Jackson
5:06, putting up with trolls like you is tiresome. Yes, the mayor did lock the commission out of their meeting room, so the headline is accurate. Whether or not they met elsewhere is immaterial.
The mayor won't be a problem by the end of January 2025.
Need to sweeten the pot for attendance.
LMFAO Grow a pair, Snowflake. “Business like manners”…bwahahaha! He is dealing with Americans who openly express treasonous policy (“free the land”) not to mention being INDICTED by the FBI.
If there's nothing in it for him and his, Lumumba couldn't care less about it. That's why the water system and the garbage contract are so curious. He took a very special interest in both.
We know the water system is now off-limits to Lumumba, thanks to a certain federal judge (named Henry Wingate). But that garbage contract . . .
I can't help but wonder about all the people who sacrificed their professional credibility over the last couple of years by publicly aligning themselves with Cockwe Lumumba. What do they think about the indictment?
Specifically, I'm thinking about the folks at the EPA and DOJ Civil Rights division, who backed him up on his lies about the water system. And then there are the journalists (national and local), the NAACP (Derrick Johnson notwithstanding), and the people at Harvard . . .
Is he allowed to leave the jurisdiction of the court while on bail?
He's going to jail. Only unknown is for how long.
Was it the $700,000 engineer who failed to show?
The Mayor was in Tampa visiting potential jails where he and his ‘gang’ will be handling business soon.
I get furious when I read this stuff, and I live in Madison.
Paster Banks is attending the conference as well. He is speaking on a panel about economic development. You can’t make this up!
Does anyone out there know how many out of state (out of country) conventions this clown has attended. The city of Jackson should change the name of the airport for all of the flights he has taken to and from the airport.
Business like "manners"....only in Mississippi - where they don't know the first thing about business. Real business people are straight talkers and don't flutter around each other being nice.
Like the current president on his worldwide victory tour.
Or Ronnie Milsaps' 'farewell tour' that, so far, has lasted three years.
Michelle took a bunch of girlfriends overseas, purse-shopping (she called it), on Air Force One as Barack lame-ducked.
Sorry, Pal, but the time for protocol and gentle formalities, as relates to Chokwe, is long gone.
If YOU don't display an attitude when it comes to The Mair, you're dumb as a stump.
Is the Mayor of Jackson at the Summit to teach a class on “Content of Character?”
Tell that to the Japanese and Koreans. Chinese and Arabs too. In fact, I doubt you know much about business because I learned about “saving-face” cultures when i got my business degree.
How many f*****g meetings has this lame duck, mayor been to? They probably know him by name in Canada and Paris.
Has this mayor ever brought back a single goos idea that he has put to use in Jackson that has generated positive results? There should be a benefit to residents from these trips.
The whole deal could have been handled differently by all concerned. Conflicts are not that unusual in a Mayor’s schedule.
I hope the Feds are keeping tabs on Chokwe. He's probably trying to figure out how to hop onto a boat to take him to a Caribbean country to fly to a non-extradition country!
The Mayor is going to need have a nice gentlemen discussion with ole Pete once he gets back.
Why does Virgie support the vermin mayor? Is she being extorted/blackmailed, is she that malignant, is she stupidly infatuated with the little tyrant?
I believe the Mayor's counsel got permission from the Court at arraignment for the Mayor to leave the state for functions like this.
What is he going to tell his children when he goes to jail?
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