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I remember when she was first elected mayor and everyone "in the know" said all she wants to do is ruing the town and stir up a racial divide to avenge her mothers termination after she was caught embezzling money from the town. Everyone knew this kind of stuff was going to happen and all she is there for is to stir up drama. All the faithful JJ readers called the people of Pelahatchie nasty names and took her side. Now her true colors are showing and the faithful are having to eat crow. Also notice her personal council has been eerily quiet here lately after brazenly posting all of her press releases(LOL press release for a Pelahatchie mayor) and trying to "call out" people on social media and enabling her perceived race driven agenda. For the people in the back, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE.

It is hard to imagine that the town of Pelahatchie does not have a lift truck. How do they work on utility/light poles throughout the town?

The Mayor should have just borrowed her friend's credit card and paid for the installation of the damn Christmas lights.

I know this lady has created havoc in the city of Pelahatchie and seems to be irrational and out of control but I do find it interesting that she can be ignored by city employees and told when and what they will or won't work on. She is after all the mayor of the town. In the corporate world she would be considered the CEO and I know what would happen to me if the CEO of our corporation told me to do something and I said I was too busy to do it. FIRED
It's kind of like the deep state and Trump. He instructs his "employees" and they ignore him and go behind his back to undermine him. She may not be a good mayor but she is mayor. Should be at least a rudimentary respect for the office.

11am, maybe if she was more concerned with the infrastructure than the Christmas lights, then she would have a leg to stand on. However she has pissed in everyone's proverbial cheerios in that town and no one respects her. She is an empty suit except for her incessant crowing on Facebook. Once people have enough, just because you hold a title doesn't mean they listen to you.

Funny how the racist majority will attack her and disrupt her ability to govern and then say "see we told you so" when she is unable to do her job.
This entire saga has been an example of white fragility and disruption.

The silver lining in all this is that the town does seem to be coming together in spite of the mayor’s efforts to make it into a race issue. There are those outside the town that continue to fall for the mayor’s Facebook narrative, but it appears that her true colors are starting to show for those wise enough to look at what is really going on. If everyone in city government (from the police chief to the maintenence dept) is against you, there may be a reason. What happened to her outside counsel? Where is he these days?

She'll eventually leave the place and make her way to Canton where she will be revered and put in charge of some made up department. Maybe take over the Municipal Center and have shows and parties out there for her friends from Peel away and Jackhole.

If she were the true leader and healer she CLAIMS to be, she would have handled this like a professional, instead of stomping her feet like a two-year-old. Her biggest mistake was further alienating city employees. Her FB post was ridiculous! This town has been a nightmare for the last couple of years... mostly her doing. Her followers regurgitate the same racial, theft, hateful arguments... many without factual basis and with HORRIFIC spelling and grammar. She likes to blame everyone else without acknowledging HER part in this chaos.

I’ve watched the last few board meetings. She continues to poke the bear on issues like HER pay and a clerk. (She still has a pending lawsuit against the board. This seems like a continued attack advised by her attorney to document her attempts. Anyone with half a brain knows what she is doing!) I truly don’t know how they keep from blowing up at her! (Although, the guy on the end is close!) She conducts herself as if she’s innocent, but I can COMPLETELY understand their behavior towards her. She’s manipulative and doesn’t tell the WHOLE truth. She’s lost any trustworthiness by running to social and news media. (Which she ironically recently invoked Trump’s behavior as an excuse.)

Mayor, if there were issues with money in November and the maintenance crew was backed up with real work issues, WHY didn’t you spearhead an effort in November (when so many have claimed it’s normally handled?) You could have asked for donations of money and time then. Instead, you essentially gave maintenance a one week demand (on the Monday of Thanksgiving week), without any regard for their regular/holiday work schedule or backlog, and called them insubordinate, lazy, and spiteful. You are not a leader or a boss! You are a bully and a crybaby! (She stated in the last board meeting her write-ups weren’t personal... they were business. I wonder if she wrote up maintenance for insubordination after she (improperly) publicly blasted them?)

There are outstanding issues with previous misappropriation of town funds and her lawsuit, yet she keeps asking to blend the MINOR funds in from her Mayor’s Youth Council. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great activity for the kids, but she’s ONLY doing it to try to prove she’s doing something. All of her actions are superficial... festivals, decorating,etc. It’s like smearing icing on shit.

She has stated multiple times the town doesn’t have financial issues. Mayor, if your town has misappropriated funds for years to keep basic services flowing, and you are borrowing $100,000 to function in a BRAND NEW fiscal year, then, YES, your town DOES have financial issues. And, your little media fits will NOT bring more revenue to the town.

I took a screenshot of a now deleted FB comment the mayor’s mother made to a lady speaking against the mayor. Her mother asked if she was the lady that interviewed for the town clerk position. WHY is her mother discussing personnel issues on FB? It was quickly deleted, but just more insight into the mayor’s ways and thinking. The fact that she can’t mentally process people disagreeing with her actions without calling them racists or vindictive proves she’s not cut out for politics.

Most annoyingly, I will never understand the use of Jesus’ name and “won’t he do it” to defend the actions and behavior of this mayor. That is so wrong on so many levels. There are some people who need to read their Bible and understand God’s mission for His people. We are here to lead people to Christ, not to succeed as a mayor.

Mayor please, forget them damn lights. It ain’t worth the headache to even discuss. Are you a shit keeper? Move on to something else!

Yeah, yeah, I'm picking on the Mayor, I'm picking on the Board, yeah yeah yeah. I've criticized both sides and frankly, both sides have a way of shooting themselves in the foot or sticking their feet in their mouths when they are right.

@‘Eerily quiet’ - Litigation is ongoing. We had another court hearing just 2 weeks ago. Our firm does not represent Mayor Beechem on every issue she faces in life or on every issue touching the Town of Pelahatchie, nor is she our sole client.
We represent her relative to ongoing litigation, and make regular updates available to the public.
Where comments and updates are necessary, our firm provides those in its capacity as the Mayor’s private counsel.
Kingfish tends to do his job succinctly enough, without requiring a press release for every story from every side of the fence.

@Mr. Bellinder- You’ve been NOTICEABLY quieter since her check signing brouhaha and now present a much more “professional-as-needed” relationship with the mayor. Honestly, for those of us following the drama, it seems you’ve grown weary of her ways... just stating the optics.

I truly wish the mayor could have a do-over and approach this position without the theatrics. Unfortunately, she and the board have both dug in their heels and this will continue until the election.

That woman has some serious mental issues.

" In my opinion " .

Her actions have hurt the Blacks in that little town WAY more than hurting the White citizens..

"Succinctly" ... "Succinctly"

Would that be under the "S's" ?
Paw didn't believe in no book lurnin

Note to Pelahatchie:

HO, HO, HO! You reap what you sow!
Maybe now you will wake up and get yourselves to the polls next city election.
You brought this foolishness on yourselves and you are the ones who will have to fix it.
Pelahatchie was and still is a great little town, but you need to pull together and fix your problem.

The most egregious and erroneous assumption about this Mayor is that her support among the small, black population in that town is monolithic. Far from it. Many, if not most, of the blacks do not support her or her antics.

Thumbs up on the vocabulary.

Fact is, a mayor doesn't 'issue orders' to departmental employees who are subordinates to a department head who is subordinate to the Board of Aldermen. This egomaniac should get down off the cane chair she perceives as her throne and face reality.

She's created a dysfunctional town hall in a podunk village. She knows she can't work with or get along with anybody - Not the Board, not the department heads, not the subordinate staff. She's no CEO and if she were in the private sector, she'd have been fired two years ago.

If she can keep fanning the flames of the fires she's created, and keep her group of faithful followers convinced it's all a racial conspiracy, she'll (like Canton's Truly) stay in office and you can kiss Pelahatchie's ass goodbye.

Pelahatchie is Mississippi's Mayberry RFD.

Luckily, most of her faithful followers don’t live in Pelahatchie. Those that have seen her actions up close & personal (rather than reading her version on FB) have a better perspective.

I've sat back and read this and listened to report after report of how rotten this woman is supposed to be and I find it remarkably hard to believe how she was voted in, in the first place, if she's so darned horrible!? You know what I think, I think CHANGE for some is difficult and let's just be honest, some would rather not see people like her in any office of leadership, no matter how effective they are! Who voted for her? Who did NOT vote? All taken into consideration and the level of insubordination she has had to deal with, IMO, is awful! I'm with another person who commented. I've bounced back and forth between working in education and corporate and in either instance, whether I liked the leadership or NOT, I did NOT have the option to NOT do as they requested! This mess is beyond me! Any issues with her mom, family aside, the way the police chief and others behave towards her, if you hate your job so much, leave! He has bounced his way around Central MS law enforcement for a while, so in all this bickering, you guys had better believe, there's MUD on both sides!

@9:55- You don’t seem to comprehend what led to “the way the police chief and others behave towards her.” SHE pushes buttons and does ass-backwards things, then runs to social media and gives half the story victimizing herself so people will buy into her racial-bias argument. (Some of her biggest supporters are from Canton. If only she had enough sense to realize that is NOT a good thing.) The city workers in Pelahatchie have been put through the ringer. Now the whole world knows the town can’t support itself, yet they are supposed to be thrilled and submissive to report to her incompetence? It’s WAY bigger than their response to her.

The race argument is SO tired. I know many, many good folk from Pelahatchie who are PROUD to work with people of all races... and do it daily. The reality is, this mayor, who was BARELY elected, cannot even speak a proper sentence or type a proper letter. She came in with an attitude, due to her mother’s history, and wanted heads to roll from the beginning. Her intentions were NEVER pure. She is the poison pill. She is the shit stirrer. She thinks she’s the town savior for running to State Auditor over the misappropriation of seizure funds into general fund (to keep the town afloat!!) While misappropriation is WRONG, she has put Pelahatchie in such a horrific light that NO sane investor will be rushing in to their city limits. If she weren’t so hell bent on being the black victim, she could have used the opportunity to showcase the need for investment in the small town and encouraged new businesses to their quaint town. Instead, the town is frozen in time while her court case plays out... you know the one where she is demanding money from her broke town!

I believe she’s truly convinced she’s being mayoral by posting events and achievements (and template-made videos by Rod, lol)... like she caused the good. The reality is that the public school was already on an uptick in success (thankfully) before she came along, and little to none of the businesses support her shenanigans. You have to follow the police department and newspaper on FB to see the events where the community supports its public servants.

I’m glad there are still people in Pelahatchie who can step up and do the right thing when others won’t.
To those of you who support the mayor, make your case as to why she is in the right. Saying she is mayor and everyone else needs to accept it is not enough. There are plenty of incompetent mayors.

We the people who actually live in Pelahatchie need to continue to pray everyday for the Town. I think that it will take the help of the Lord to fix the bad situation this town has suffer the last 2 years. I pray that when the reign of terror and stink is gone the town will still be intact. I pray that people-funding-revenue ect. will all return back to the peaceful town we know and love. I can not see God letting all of this unnecessary chaos and wrong doing continue.