Jackson Jambalaya

it's so touching to see that some of our supervisors have, all of a sudden, acquired fiscal responsibility. that would have come in handy when they were spending $140,000.00 on a video conferencing system, tens of thousands on new cars, ipads, iphones, ....etc....

Gubment can not go in the red. Gubment can not spend money they don't have. You can say conflict of laws all you want to, to someone that can read it. Caint do it, caint do it. You can talk to you turn black.

I see the problem. As many have said, Jackson and Hinds County are lost.

Every time I see Kenny I think he looks like a cabbage patch doll? A fiscally responsible Kennyyyyyy............sorry I just feel in a big ass hole on Fortification.

Gumment can to go in de red. I thinks wes in the red around 18,000,000,000,000 last time I looked.

Doesn't get much funnier than when the serial police impersonating supervisor tells everyone he wants to stick to the "issues".

Surreal. We're actually watching Milton Berle, Red Skelton and Red Foxx playing out a 1962 script. We all been fooled.

What do you see as the stategery here Kingfish? I thought the Wild Samoans were on board with the concept of having primaries for these specials to increase the odds that Donkeys would get elected. Now it looks like they are working to sabotage the primaries by conspiring to miss the ballot deadlines.

The Police Impersonating Supervisor from Hinds County District 1:

"Good morning. I am your instructor for the morning. I'm Lieutenant Robert Graham of the Jackson Police Department and I'd like to talk for an hour. I'm going to move pretty quickly about a subject that is very near and dear to my heart. The subject is called "Officer Down". For over 35 years I spent in the dispatch center as a dispatcher I'm a little but unusual type of police officer. The reason why I'm kind of unusual is every time the chief would put me on the street, I would mess up bad enough for them to put me back in dispatch.

Robert Graham was a civilian employee of JPD. Robert Graham was never a certified law enforcement officer and was never put on the street by any Chief. Robert Graham is a police impersonating liar.

Maybe Phil Fisher should pay for the special election. Why did he run for Supervisor if he knew he would abandon the seat? He is a great guy, but if you take party and race out of it, he did cost the county this money.

Suggestion for the website....it's hard for most viewers to watch 20 to 60 minute videos in search of the 30 second fireworks. Would love to know where the good parts are. Maybe we can take a wiki approach to this

Maybe August 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM also thinks that Doug Anderson's estate should pay since he died in office and now is costing the county money.

August 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM = idiot

Tell you what 9:08. You run with the ball and take the first pass at the wiki. You can start with the videos above. Let us know when you've got the beta complete for our review. Thanks.

@ 9:06 maybe Phil fisher could split the cost with the estate of Doug Anderson. What a stupid suggestion!

9:06 - by your theory, should Doug Anderson's family pay for the election in District 2? He knew he was in bad health when he ran again in 2011. Sorry to talk about the dead, but it shows how stupid your comment is.

Robert Graham, working with and thru his stooge, Kenny Stokes, appear to be trying to convolute the special election required in November so that Graham's hand-picked appointees can keep their position for another year. By trying to stop the primaries, they can throw the special election into a fray since the filing deadlines will have passed. That way, Graham can keep his all black ("you can say it 'til you turn black" - Stokes) board for another year. At least, that is his plan. Too bad Perry is there to stop his crap.

Can somebody please point me to the section in the Mississippi Code that authorizes primary elections before a special election?

I just don't ever remember that being possible. I don't see how a primary election can bar a candidate from filing qualifying papers to run in the special election and declaring himself a Democrat or Republican. As I recall, multiple persons of all parties are permitted to run with their party labels in special elections, and there is no authority to call primary elections beforehand.

If that is the case, then the primary elections themselves would be unlawful, and the county would be barred from paying for them, as they would be nullities.

Somebody please help me locate the code section that authorizes primary elections in this instance.

John Pittman Hey
Greenwood, MS

I found a section that allows parties to call primaries even in special elections, as long as the vacancy is a county or county district office. It's 23-15-841.

Apparently, it's almost never been used. Up until the recent Supreme Court gutting of Section 4, the parties would have to get pre-clearance before they could schedule such primaries, but now that is no longer an impediment.

After watching those videos, I felt like I had just visited the old monkey palace at the Jackson Zoo.

JPH, the Hinds County Democratic Party, in their letter to the BOS attorney, requested that he proceed to file the necessary paperwork for Section V preclearance. However events overtook their letter with SCOTUS ruling that Mississippi (and other states/areas) should no longer be discriminated against. But since 23-15-833 had been precleared by DOJ years ago, it is not clear that conducting an election primary in accordance with a previously approved statute would require such preclearance.

Is John Pittman Hey talking to himself?

Nope, but I found the answer myself after posting my question, so I wanted to post a follow up.

Can we get an AG opinion on this dumbass board?

who would have ever thought that Peggy Calhoun would one day be the best supervisor in Hinds County? God help us all.

Can we get an AG opinion on this dumbass board?

No, dumbass opinions come from the Hinds County Board -- specifically two members of that board.

Haven't you figured that out yet or are you a dumbass too?