Jackson Jambalaya

Mayor,
You are incompetent to say the least. I saw you eating in Fondren yesterday and nearly lost my appetite. Just a heads up no one that has any education or pays taxes finds you to be worth a damn… your sissy speech on the mud bugs shooting was beyond horrible and you continue to be mocked by those with leadership skills both in public and private sectors.

But yet we must have them in Jackson?

Kingfish -- Just FYI, the full story is behind a NOLA.com pay wall.

Lol, taking advantage of the touched seems to be Richards special perp. NO...Baton Rouge and Jackson all run by touched idiots. Naw, i'm wrong. They are run by slick ass crooks.

A quitter never wins-

Garbage in, garbage out.

Richards will continue their current contract with the city of New Orleans but chose not to bid on contract held by Metro. Correct?

My theory: Richard’s knew they were finished in New Orleans and would be out soon. So they find a corrupt mayor in a corrupt city, grease his palms and then put all of their chips into this basket with the hope of saving their company.

The mayor sure picked a screwed-up company to serve Jacktown.

How in the Hell did Chokeweed Lubamba ever get elected as mayor??

If the fine peoples of Jacktown reelect him than they deserve NO empathy. It will just show their stupidity!

But under Prince Chowke's tutelage they perform differently in the People's Democratic Republic of Jackistan, right?

Mayor Cantrell made it clear back in January she wanted to take garbage collection in a different direction. Richard's and Metro have been using subcontractors just to get the work done.

So Richard's Disposal needs Jackson a lot worse than the reciprocal. Should be strategic leverage for the four amigos to continue their revolt against the boy emperor who should be squeezed like the adolescent zit he is, because Jackson can only fail until that zit of a mayor is gone.

10:12 : The stupid has been here a long long time. Mayor Melton was the only exception and we saw what happened to him.

Thanks Mayor, my Madison home value just went up another $5000.00.

Really? One thing Ladd and I agree on is Frank was an idiot as well as a sicko. Crime got much worse under Frank (and even worse when he hired Mac). He ran off personnel such as Ramey Ford and replaced them with complete and total idiots. He tried to get Jackson to use the same interest rate swaps that bankrupted Jefferson County. He totally screwed up the convention center plans by bringing TCI into the deal and handing over (not literally) all of that land to the company, thereby dooming the project. We won't even get into the sordid stuff.

So who was the last decent mayor of Jackson?

@10:44 Danks

So the current Mayor is way better. Got it KF. Melton died in office and his ideas never had a chance. Now his strong armed tactics were questionable as were some of his hires . Bottom line is the current dude is going on his second term...HIGHEST MURDER RATE EVER and sure as hell hasn't created jobs. And his hires ? LOL.

Who said he was? Did I?

Frank had plenty of time to try his ideas. They were just all hare-brained or downright dumb.

11:01 : No bodies perfect but he sure as hell meant well.

11:01 : No body is. :)

Richards subs Jackson out to WM in 3....2....1......

the freeloaders are always just middlemen playing whatever card they have handy

Melton was an egomaniac. He was smart, but saw the rest of us as suckers. Beyond that, he was depraved in many ways.

Chokwe is mayor because his name is Chokwe. He has his "speech" which he repeats over and over. If only he had moral courage. One thing Melton did right was his "Bottom Line" act on WLBT. Chokwe, you are a cardboard cut-out. Where's the damn beef? What's the bottom line?

When will Richards bail on Baton Rogue? Then we will be it's only source of income.

Just like Melton relied on the nostalgia from his "Bottom Line" commentaries to paint a public persona as some tough-as-nails modern day Buford Pusser, so too has CAL relied on widespread admiration within the black community for his late father to convince the masses that he was the 2nd coming of Daddy Lumumba (reference his first campaign speeches and his early diatribes during council meetings as mayor and notice how often he brings up his father). Both men were/are equally incompetent as mayors, its just that Lumumba is young and charismatic and much less flamboyant.

Danks? Of Rebel Woods apartments fame. Rebel Woods came in and within 3 years Swan Lake, Mayfair, Brookleigh and the rest of deep south Jackson was overrun with crime. But it didn't take long to sell our house back then.

Of course they are leaving Nawlins because Junior Chowke promised Richard's millions to move to Jackistan.

Melton was a 'tough as nails" modern day Buford Pusser, at least for half of the drug boys; those that were not his boys. May be more like CAL than we thought, besides both of them riding in on a false persona. Difference might be that I'm not sure CAL has as much interest in teaching young black boys how to swim as Melton was.

Exactly. Why do you think he tried to get rid of Comstat, kept the police mobile command center at his house, disbanded the drug task force, and appointed unqualified people to run JPD? Why did so many kids get in more trouble after they got around Frank?