Jackson Jambalaya

Bored and want something to watch on a Sunday afternoon? Try this. Very entertaining.

A Mr. Buddy Jenkins of the Bay Park subdivision submitted this email complaining about harassment of boaters by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife & Fisheries last night on the Rez:

The Hinds County Sheriff's Office issued the following press release:

See end of post for latest updates. 

There is more crime taking place in the Bold New City and unfortunately the perps are getting more bold. This FB message was posted last night:

Holly Ivy of Madison County appeared on the first half hour of the show to discuss the Park in the middle of Nowhere. We discussed the Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act in the second half hour.

Looks like some Stokes voters decided to steal the AC unit from the Animal Rescue Fund. The ARF posted on its Facebook page:

That is wasting money. See the letter below. Most special elections don't list party affiliations for candidates. Everyone runs in one primary and then in a runoff if one is needed. Not these guys. Nope. They have to have a primary for the two Supervisor districts and then runoffs. THEN there will be a general election if there are candidates from the two parties. Nice.

Speaker of the House Philip Gunn just issue the following statements:

Here are the police reports for the armed robbery that took place at St. Richard's Catholic Church several weeks ago.   Reports don't say anything about a black Camaro. Nor anything about Coors.

The Mississippi Supreme Court appointed retired circuit judge William Coleman to preside over the challenge to the Hattiesburg Mayoral election filed by David Ware in Forrest County. Judge Coleman was last seen on this website as the subject of discussion in this video:

The Mississippi Secretary of State issued this statement yesterday on the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act:

Readers will remember the controversy that arose when the Madison County Board of Supervisors voted to build a park up in Sulphur Springs. The park will cost over $1.5 million and will be financed by the sale of bonds. The Board waxed eloquently over how this would be a benefit to the taxpayers of Madison County and was a chance to do something for the more rural areas. JJ decided to give you a full picture, literally, of the park.

Shelby County, Alabama filed suit against the Justice Department seeking relief from Sections 4 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court held today that Section 4 is unconstitutional and can no longer be used "as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to pre-clearance." The vote was 5-4. You can probably figure who was the five and who was the four.

Is there nothing Barbara Blackmon touches she doesn't corrupt or destroy? The Madison County Journal reports:

Copy of lawsuit published at bottom of the post.

The David Ware campaign challenged the results of the Hattiesburg Mayoral election in Forrest and Lamar County Circuit Courts yesterday.  The campaign asked the courts to throw out all of the absentee ballots and declare Ware the winner. The campaign filed lawsuits alleging over half of the 581 absentee ballots cast were invalid but were commingled with the other ballots.  The complaints also allege over thirty ballots came from the jailhouse and several came from disenfranchised convicted felons. The Ware campaign also charges the Mayor's wife improperly delivered over thirty absentee ballots. Mayor Dupree won the election by a thirty-seven vote margin while winning 343 of the absentee ballots cast (59%). Mr. Dupree received 4,775 votes while Mr. Ware received 4,738. **

Read the middle sign. The one about pre-paying for gas. Taken at a gas station in Canton.

Trillion dollar "farm bill".  80% of it goes for food stamps.  Guess who votes for it?  Pallazo, Nunalee, and Harper.  Got to make Thad look good, I guess. Thompson votes against it. Is Thompson the conservative in the whole group? Vote.

NOPD released this video of an attempted robbery.  Dude wasn't going to be a victim as he took the shotgun away from the would-be robber while it was pointed at his face:

I have to admit, this contract below is pretty funny.

Jackson native Matt Bollian wrote urban living is here to stay and is the next big wave in residential real estate in a column published on the Team Jackson website. Lieutenant Bollian (West Point grad) opined:

Rebel Nation is feeling the butthurt over baseball. The website offered some um, therapy to Ole Miss fans who think they should pull for Mississippi State against UCLA next week. Rebel Nation asked Ole Miss fans to imagine the shoe being on the other foot:

Irish politician goes off about Obama. Rather colorful in her speech. She didn't pull any punches.

Nice job.  No happy to be there, go in there and take the %*#(#*$ trophy.  And where exactly is Tommy Raffo right  now?  Blast from the past.  Good thing State didn't listen to Polk.  Cohen brings home the trophy, maybe they should say sure thing Ron, we will take your name off the stadium and put Cohen's up there.

The Rankin County Sheriff's Office issued the following press release:

JPD arrested the church bandits. WLBT reported:

Lost in all the Medicaid scrumming is Governor Kirk Fordice's little executive order allowing him to run Medicaid:

Attorney General Hood issued an opinion stating the Guvnah cannot operate Medicaid through executive order.  Governor Bryant's press secretary said thank ya much but that is just an opinion and you know what they say about opinions.  The opinion is posted below.  The Medicaid scrum continues.

Believe it or not, there is a mayor who is worse than William Truly or Frank Melton.  Meet the Mayor of Port Allen, Louisiana. She's only been in office a few months and is already breaking records in well, I'll let you figure it out.  Here is a thread on Tigerdroppings.com. New info is added throughout the pages and is worth reading.  Nothing like a minister who has an S class Benz for the home, runs a church out of the home, and then drives a 20 year old Honda to city hall so she can look like common folk.  Pour a drink and enjoy this thread.

Anyone want to bet Stokes will raise hell about this at the next board meeting?

Hinds County Court Judge Bill Skinner and Clinton Mayor-Elect, District 4 Supervisor, Retired Brigadier General, and First Man of Clinton Phil Fisher appeared on the show yesterday.

The Mississippi Constitution directs the Auditor to publish an annual report on legislative expenses. Here it is.

Check this list to see if your hood gets a Chokwe Tour Stop. No word if Kenny Wayne and J-Rock Horhn will attend.

Hinds County Youth Court Judge Bill Skinner blasted the state for cutbacks in funding for drug courts in an address to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors Monday. The board awarded $50,000 to the Hinds County Youth Drug Court to keep it operating for the rest of the fiscal year.

WLBT  reports several people were held up at Northminister Baptist Church last night. 

David Blount (D-St. Andrews) tweet:

Dr. Pieter Cohen of the Harvard Medical School and Dr. Nicolas Rasmussen (Ph.D.) attacked the increasing use of drugs to handle problems such as ADHD in the Wall Street Journal:

As soon as Phil Fisher leaves on June 30, 40% of Hinds County voters will not have representation on the board. Watch the videos below to see what I mean, as Robert Graham gavels down all opposition and refuses to let anyone in the audience speak.

Miss South Carolina moved to Utah:

Local blogger Stacey Spiehler had a few things to say about the matter on A Housewife in Flip-Flops:

Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives Philip Gunn said no to Medicaid expansion in this editorial submitted to JJ:

Wyatt Emmerich (Northside Sun) and Donna Ladd (Jackson Free Press) decided to tie one on on the JFP website.  Then when Donna stalls out, Ronni Mott jumps in to help her boss.

MDOT sent out the following bulletin:

How are the academic progress rates for the other universities in Mississippi? Let's take a look.

A telecom executive disclosed some rather um, interesting capabilities of how far technology has advanced in terms of data mining on Rush Limbaugh's show yesterday. Yeah, I know, the libs will say its Limbaugh. Read the transcript for yourself:

Wednesday was Perry Day as Brian came on in the first half hour and Pete  came on in the second half.  Pete gave us an update on the Hattiesburg election contest. 

Chokwe supporter arrested. Credit: WLBT.

Mississippi Power Company's Kemper County clean coal plant is following in the foot steps of Duke Energy's Edwardsport clean coal plant, which has been riddled by cost overruns and startup problems.

The NCAA banned Mississippi Valley State University from participating in postseason play in baseball, football, and men's basketball in the 2013-2014 academic year due to low academic progress scores.

Jon Stewart on the IRS:

Update: The official opinion is posted below. I have not had time to review it in regards to this post. 

The Mississippi Attorney General stated firearms can be banned from courthouses and private property in an opinion drafted for Sheriff Brad Lance. The A.G. said such restrictions can take place even under the "open-carry" law that goes into effect on July 1. The opinion is in draft form and is not an official statement of the Attorney General.

AP reporter Jeff Amy discusses Mississippi's weak campaign finance laws in his weekly column:

The Mississippi Republican Party issued this resolution opposing Medicaid expansion:

Update: It gets MUCH better. 55 minutes of surveillance footage from that night is missing. Just routine. City says cameras shut down after a long period of inactivity. Um, yeah.


600 absentees. Unlocked City Hall and Vault. Nearly half the affidavit ballots tossed. Now a Hattiesburg resident says Dupree people voted for Dupree in his place. WDAM reports:

Attorney Herb Irvin, Don Hewitt, and Advanced Technology Building Solutions filed an objection to the validation of $90 million in special obligation bonds for the city of Jackson in Hinds County Chancery Court last week. The sale of the bonds will fund work on Jackson's water and sewer system. Siemens is the contractor on the project.

Kids over at North Jackson Elementary had a little pep rally for MCT2 tests:

State Representative Andy Gipson submitted this column on open-carry legislation for your review. Note: That is open-carry of firearms, not open containers of beer. 

Nice video of the bikers riding for Blair Batson last weekend:

A Maine doctor decided to quit accepting all insurance and require his patients to pay for all services out of their pocket. The doctor discovers his services became much cheaper as he was able to lower his overhead:

Thought I'd dig through Bennie's campaign finance reports. Think his donors are all liberal Democrats, unions, and other similarly-thinking groups? Nope. His donors have a certain corporate, maybe even Republican air about them, you know, what he accused Jonathan Lee of being. Here are the donors since 2012 that gave over $1,000:

Some posts from another site about youth baseball. Are the parents really this bad? This particular thread was about "travel ball".

Beckel explodes about the NSA:

It happens.

NCAA announced sanctions against the Mississippi State University football program today:

Unlocked City Hall. Opened vault. Ballot boxes inside. What could possibly go wrong?

Discussed the Governor's comments and other minutia on then worst radio show in Mississippi.

Rankin-Madison District Attorney Michael Guest announced the following convictions in the 2011 Sand Dollar robbery:

The Democrats held a press conference and announced a "new" plan for Medicaid expansion that supposedly is similar to the "Arkansas plan":

Interesting night last night.  Richard White became Mayor of Byram.  Phil Fisher kicked ass in Clinton. Bolden held on to win in a squeaker against Fire legend Chip Matthews  as he only got over 90% of the vote.  Greg Davis went down and went down in a way he'd not prefer.  The Republicans lost Tupelo and Meridian. GOP spin doctors will probably say this is good to challenge the party or something like that. Then there is Hattiesburg. Johnny lost by over 150 votes when the regular votes were counted last night. BUT after counting part of the absentee and affidavit ballots, he now has a 33 vote lead. If I read the news correctly last night, there were nearly 600 such ballots... almost as many as there were in Jackson two weeks ago.  Then there is Chokwe. He is now the Mayor-elect of Jackson. He worked for it, took nothing for granted, and earned the victory.  Feel free to comment.

Stokes raised hell about the Byram-Clinton-Bolton corridor project Monday at the regular meeting of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors. Mr. Stokes said the county was wasting "millions" on a parkway that would never be finished while the county ignored mosquito spraying, summer jobs programs for teens, and other pet projects of his.

No word of this in a certain "local tabloid" but there is a write-in campaign currently underway for Mayor Truly in Canton today. It even has a Facebook page:

Hinds County District 4 Supervisor Phil Fisher had a heated exchange with Hinds County Justice Court Judge Ivory Britton at the board meeting. The topic of discussion was using $276,000 of unspent stimulus money the Board awarded to justice court in 2010. Judge Britton told the board it could use the money as the judges had not spent approximately $900,000 of the $1.1 million allocation. 

Our Governor made the Washington ****:

Great guy. Shows his more poetic side in this commercial.

The Law School Tuition Bubble blog reported Mississippi has the worst ratio of law school graduates to available jobs in the country. The blog estimated there are over 10 law grads for every available job. The closest state was Michigan.... at 6.48:1. Check out the rankings here.

Supervisors fire Overby and Hall. Votes to buy bank building for tax assessor and collector.

Pete Perry came on the show last week.  I think you will enjoy the second half of the show as he discussed the shenanigans that took place in Canton.

The trials for Spencer Copeland, Cresco (C.E.) Frazier, Jr., Austin Frazier, and Claiborne Frazier are continued until September 30, 2013. The latest entry in the case states:

A filmmaker is producing a horror film in Canton.  Here is the story first seen on Local 98:

Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Rickey L. Cole sent the following letter to the Ethics Commission:

Check out how brilliant this congressman is in explaining his opposition to the Keystone pipeline.

Yup. Food fight between.......... the Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Free Press. A media war. Now we're talking.

Here are the final and earlier proposals for the Landmark Building to be used as a future home of the Department of Revenue.

Attorney Theodore Boutrous, Jr. blasted the Obama administration on the pages of the Wall Street Journal for "running roughshod" over the press as it attempts to criminalize basic reporting. Mr. Boutrous has represented Dow Jones, the Associated Press, and other news organizations.  The esquire wrote:

Finally got my hands on the other two proposals for the DOR site that was awarded to Clinton. Here is the Ergon proposal. I will post the Landmark proposal tomorrow.