Jackson Jambalaya

I understand his humility, but, Lord...He's set the bar pretty low if he wants to only do a fraction of the work those who went before him did. If that's the case, he should receive only a fraction of the job's salary.

Ole Flubber at it again

Since you have no actual experience Jonathan, really at anything, your decision to not apply for the job makes good sense.

Parker's a good guy. With the enemies his boss has gone out of his way to make over the years, he has an impossible job.

Maybe this guy will remind Tate he IS the actual Gov. And push Tate to follow Texas lead and shutdown these dadgum mandates the county and state dept heads are un-constitutionally forcing on it's employees. Delta is seemingly petering out. Losing half your staff in these offices will be a very bad thing. Especialy if most have natural immunity already.

When are you going to fire Dobbs??

He can't fire Dobbs you dummy

"My aspiration is to bring a fraction of the ability and integrity of my predecessors and colleagues to the job."

I get what I think he's saying, but dang. Don't turn in a first draft.

@KF - so who can fire Doomsday Dobbie?? I’ve never quite understood some of these positions and where they get their power. Seems my civics classes over the years overlooked the positions like “State Health Officer”. :)

He is appointed by a Board. Most of them are Phil appointees.

@11:47am - I have a feeling you don’t understand a lot of things.

Well ? Work day is almost over. Has the new guy convinced Tate that he is more powerful than Dr Dobbs yet ?

2:55 - Yes, Tate is more 'powerful' than Dobbs, but Tate is also smart enough to know that (unlike you) he is not an epidemologist or virologist and that Dobbs is doing the job he was hired to do. And, for that matter, despite your tin-foil degree, doing it quite well.

No, even though the new COS thinks he is God's gift to social media still recognizes that he is not a virologist either. His specialty is in pissing off the legislative leadership with his expertise at posting messages on Facebook and Twitter, not in trying to keep Mississippians - even the idiots like you who think horse pills can stop your crapping problems as well as protect you from a virus - safe and healthy.

Good luck in anonymously expressing your hatred (and your ignorance along with many other JJ posters) for those who's intelligence pisses you off because you think it 'infringes on your freedoms'. May you RIP in your other friends that think the virus is a hoax, the vaccinations are a hoax, and that it is all propoganda and made up number games.

This guy is a complete wise ass on social media. Certainly doesn’t make chess moves .

Meanwhile: I listened to the new Highway Department head other day on talk radio and am very impressed with him. We have come a long way from the guy who fell asleep at the slot machine.

For the “fire Dobbs” crowd that complain about his mandates —What mandates has Dobbs put on anyone? There isn’t a state mask mandate. Dobbs has even said that he’s skeptical of the benefits of a mask mandate. There isn’t a state vaccine mandate. UMMC put a vaccine mandate on its employees but that was decided by the UMMC leadership. There isn’t a state mandate restricting any sort of business activity. So what is it that’s bothering you?

Dobbs has been encouraging people to get vaccinated, as he should. But how is that infringing on your freedom?

9:53 - You already know this, but...If people claim often enough about non-existent mandates, soon, everybody will believe they exist. Like with carbon footprints and global warming.

@9:53am It infringes on an individual's freedom when you're knowingly fanning the flames of hysteria that if you DON'T get the vaccine, you must be a hateful, moronic, selfish, racist person.

With all of Tate's faults, he IS trying to tamp down this deliberately engineered fear related to the politically driven hysteria to keep people afraid.

@12:58. That is a real stretch. We have a virus that has killed thousands in Mississippi and more Americans in 18 months than the total of who died in all of World War II. It has stretched the limits of our health care system in Mississippi, taking up so many hospital beds that routine care is threatened. That’s not “deliberately engineered fear,” those are facts.

You think it is fanning the flames of hysteria to encourage people to take a vaccine that has been proven to significantly reduce the risk of death and hospitalization? Not mandating the vaccine, mind you, but trying to show people the merits of taking it to protect themselves, their families and their neighbors. If that’s what you think, I’m not going to say that you are racist, selfish or hateful…but moronic may be appropriate.

@4:06pm You do realize that C19 was engineered in a lab, and deliberately leaked to the U.S. as a biological weapon to disrupt the American election? Please say you understand this. Yes, the virus has killed exponentially as you said, and almost collapsed America's economy - which may kill far more than the virus. The world is waking up to the reality of what the Greatest Generation were told to accept - "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." If we don't over come this fear as a nation, and get back to securing our leadership - then a far more destructive and desolate future awaits Americans than a virus. The Greatest Generation was also far more accustomed to death, dying, and loss. They were quite used to going without, and not living past 65 really. The present generation had better get a grip or the country is lost. I'm not going to say that you're ignorant if you don't deeply understand this history, but you short sighted may be appropriate. And that lack of mature perspective has brought America to the brink.

All these junior players being put in place, some interim...Just waitin' to see if Tate can out-do Phil in that monumental F/U involving Hyde-Smythe. My guess is no...nobody will ever surpass that Charlie Foxtrot.

It was almost as if Phil wanted to blow up the dorm commode during his last semester.

Parker was a joke the first time around as communications director - smug and arrogant with a complete lack of understanding of MS politics, not to mention most days he showed up at work looking (or maybe being?) completely hung over. That he's back as Chief of Staff shows either no one in MS wants to work for Tate or that Tater's time in office has generated a serious lack in judgment.