Thus said JXN Water Manager Ted Henifin as he blasted the city of Jackson's opposition to his proposed increase in water/sewer rates. Some choice quotes:
"This is rich and hard to stomach." "The City ran the system into the ground over decades" "(The city) opposed water-shutoffs from some of the worst offenders." "Now that the systems are being managed by a receiver" "City wants to have it both ways" "Misleading and wrong" "(The city) still does not get it"
Mr. Henifin made the remarks in a response submitted in federal court yesterday after the city of Jackson filed a statement of opposition to the rate increase Monday with U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate.

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"(The city) still does not get it" They never did.
The city wants him to go against the bond covenant. Pay debt first and then
O&M next. Not how it works. Ted said
he would not do it. Good for him.
Henifin is worth every penny of that salary. He's explained, painfully slowly, why the city is retarded, but like Forrest Gump they still don't understand.
There is only one priority for the Jackson elected officials and that is staying in office and making all the money the position will allow. Same with Hinds County. They know the voters are
highly pissed off with the cost of living in this broken city so they will not make hard decisions which might cost them their jobs, even if the decisions are necessary. Someone else must make the decisions. Pitiful.
I can’t imagine wanting to live in Jackson. Jackson believes it’s owed something for nothing. Jackson created its own problems and now wants the state to bail them out!
City wants all the power but none of the responsibility….
I live in Madison - they will get not one red cent over my dead body.
They need to cut off every delinquent account tomorrow. And hire security to accompany them.
Christmas Day - good - cut it off.
Merry Christmas, Ted.
The federal court did the right thing in appointing a competent person to get the water system back on a sound footing, but the City of Jackson continues to foul things up with its usual political grandstanding and bickering. The court may have to issue an injunction against those who seem to be doing their worst to mess things up.
A charge for deliberately interfering with a court order or government operation falls under Obstruction of Justice, involving federal statutes like 18 U.S.C. §1503 (court proceedings), §1505 (agency proceedings), and §1752 (disrupting government business), or state laws like "Obstructing Governmental Administration," requiring proof of knowing and willful acts to impede legal processes or duties, with penalties including fines and imprisonment.
It's time to put the Mayor and Council in their place.
This response should be read to every congregation before the sermon on Sunday. Excellently written in plain English. Psalm 37:21 should be the message. "21 The wicked borrow and never repay,
but the godly are generous givers."
11:02 The city agreed he could raise rates. Maybe someone could remind
the court of that.
@11:02 pm. A federal judge is now part of the problem. He appears to be doing everything he can to delay a rate increase including having ex parte communication with the mayor.
8:03 city not suppose to be involved.
Let’s get a federal judge on it. That’ll make everything better.
The elected officials who run The Bold Old City are beholden to black voters who keep them in office.
The black voters and rabble rousers of Jackson are otherwise known as 'the low information crowd'.
A 'low information crowd' neither understands logic or wishes to.
Low information people are satisfied with being told what to think and how to vote.
First, Lumumba, now Horhn and all city council members, current or in office over past fifteen years, are pandering to black voters and are thumbing their noses at the 'third party administrator' and other logical, reasonable players and observers.
As long as black officials can keep black voters convinced that 'the white man will steal your water and cut your water off', they will remain in power.
This theory of leadership has worked at the federal level for sixty years, has worked for Uncle Ben Thompson for 32 years and will work for them for the next 100.
With the right one, yes.
It’s racist not to give it back to the COJ. As per COJ, WLBT, WJTV, WAPT, Clarion Ledger, NAACP, the Democratic Party, ………
Look- water has been free in Jackson for a decade and will continue to be.
Yesterday, for my Auntie’s Christmas present, I straight piped her house. She live out near the zoo.
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