Jackson Jambalaya

How is King Chowke going to get through his residential gate when 10,000 NE Jackson residents drop off their garbage there?

Never saw this coming....not.

Jackson needs another form of government.

Yall just find ass big pothole and burn yall trash with some old used cooking oil. if it be out in the screet then it wont catch yalls house on fire. yall just keep yalls chilren from breathing them fumes

If the garbage piles up on the street, is it the result of systemic environmental racism?

Sounds like they REALLY think Jackson residents both black and white will take this lying down. They REALLY think that……..mark my words there will be a mountain of trash in front of city hall

And rightfully so

Let the trash pile on the streets and stink and attract rats like Lil Choke stinks and attracts rats. Media will blame him more than the Council for the debacle because fake mayor should have sent out RFPs three months ago.

The mayor is inviting a state takeover with this foolishness.

6:22, no matter what the form of government is, one cannot fix stupid people. And stupid is a forever thing.

So the Mayor is trying - again - to present a contract at the last minute, without it having been given to the Council members ahead of time so that they could review it, and say you either do it my way or the highway.

Council ought to vote again against this contract, just like they did last year - twice. And then tell the Mayor that all those bad things that he is claiming will result are on his plate. The problem arose under his watch; he has known for a year that the contract with Richards would expire on March 31st, and he waits until March 30 to present a solution? That is the epitome of incompetent leadership.

Well, no maybe not. The epitome of incompetence is allowing a busted water line to spew 5 million gallons a day of treated water. No, that's not the epitome either. The absolute epitome is to allow that 5 million gallons a day spew not just for a little while but for six years! Now, that's problem the absoltue epitome.

But, his non-management of this garbage contract, waiting until the last day to call a special meeting of the council and say "my way or no way" ranks pretty damned high on the incompetent leadership scale.

They voted this Marxist into power and now they have to deal with it. When you pray for rain you gotta deal with the mud. You who voted him in (and we know you all have people to monitor this blog) deserve what you get. NE Jackson residents who actually Tote the Load of the city have the ability and will more than likely go behind the scenes and have their own garbage pickup because they not only live in a civilized society but they actually, believe it or not, contribute to the betterment of society and do it because it is the correct thing to do. When you vote based on color of skin this is what you get. Just remember this current mayor was reared in a Marxist household by a man who was a seditionist. I know that’s hard for some people to comprehend but it is the truth. His disdain for law enforcement comes from his father. His disrespect for humans comes from his father. I really really hope that this is posted and the “spies” read this and lay it in front of the younger Marxist.

Sewage in the streets, water in the streets, garbage in the streets, shooting victims in the streets...Now that's radical.

The stench comes from city gall!

Richard’s will be picking up our garbage on Monday. Mayor Lumumba will spank the 4 obstructionist Council members yet again.

Jackson will have excellent garbage service at the lowest price. Thank you, Mayor.

I remember when garbage was the one and only thing that did function properly.

These idiots couldn’t run a lemonade stand.

KF is right. This is a hostage situation, brought about by an intentional, self-imposed crisis, caused by a crooked mayor who absolutely insists on getting his own way at any cost.

If you listened to this mayor's previous statements you would understand that he has no intention of being subject to a "city council". The ultimate legislative authority in the "radical city" would rest with the "People's Assembly". When does it meet? It's important to know.

I’m truly shocked the mayor understands if/then logic

Let them eat cake.

He must really be unable to pay Richard's back that bribe money. Impressive dedication to getting HIS vendor this contract at all costs.

6:52 PM is 100% correct.
Individuals safely burning their trash will prevent this latest public health crisis caused by Lumumba

Jackson, Mississippi's Mumbai, India.

People should stop the blame game of mayor vs city council. The voters of Jackson are to blame. They are the enablers. The mayor is an extension of their ignorance’s and moral failings. Jacksonsnites are a little people, a silly people. “ Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are.” Lawrence of Arabia

"I’m truly shocked the mayor understands if/then logic"
March 29, 2023 at 8:39 PM

He doesn't. The hundred million allocated for repairing the bridge over the ditch on Colonial Circle, was probably repurposed for hiring out-of-state consultants for wordsmithing and graphic design. In return, I'd imagine those consultants showed their appreciation, to various key City of Jackson functionaries, with hundred-thousand-Dollar gift certificates, redeemable at all Gucci, Chanel, and Hermes retailers. ...or something like that.

Follow Dr. Johnny Fever's lead and the people should dump their garbage in the mayor's yard.

Mayor Chavez will always choose squalor over compromise. We could change our form of government with just a few signatures on a petition and a majority vote. We could let the mayor focus on what he’s truly good at — bullshit — while the council and a professional city manager handle important things like water, sewer, and garbage pickup.

The cost for the everyday burn barrel just went up....

This too will pass! Like the potholes? Like the water purity? Like the lack of running water? Like the highest murder rate IN THE USA? Like the lack of police officers? Like one of the highest car jacking rates? Just wait and keep re-electing the quality of leadership you seem to enjoy.

I believe this is about to hit another level of heat toward the mayor. He got too much attention with the water crisis and a lot of people and media gave him the benefit of the doubt on being the solution and not the problem. This is coming too soon afterwards and he will have to defend both crisis being lumped together to the national media. Benny will reject him and then the floodgates of accountability will open onto the mayor. Of course, individuals with his frame of mind have no shame; the more strife he can create, the more devoted to the cause he appears (in his weak, immature mind).

@5:53 AM
That’s why the advice to burn the neighborhood trash inside the neighborhood potholes is good advice! You will eventually fill the pothole with the carbon debris! Absolutely genius!

Is Councilman Syokes still out of town because of his wife's health? If he can't attend the meeting, what's the likely outcome of the vote on the garbage contract?

6;35am, you're right. He was able to blame, or try to blame, the water crisis on the State. Now he'll try to blame the garbage crisis on the City Council. But there's one problem for him here. There's only one common denominator in both problems....The Mayor himself. The media won't give him a pass this time. In fact, it may cause them to re-examine the cause of and fault for the water issue, then they'll finally look at the high crime and lack of police issue, then they'll see the broken streets issue, and they'll finally begin to see that the common denominator in all of these problems from which the City suffers is his lack of action, his refusal to work with others towards a solution, and his "my way or the highway" approach which is not the sign of an effective leader.

April 1 - Chowke will be on MSNBC and CNN blaming his latest crisis on the state and republicans, right? Well, it will be "April fool's day." Right?

Well said, 7:50 and spot on. The Mayor has known for months that the City Council would not approve a new contract with Richards. It had already rejected the Richards' contract numerous times. Then Richards sued the City which I'm sure caused the Council to not want to deal with Richards any further. But yet rather than plan ahead and issue a new RFP over the past several months and have a new contract and vendor in place and "ready to roll" on April 1, , the Mayor, once again, did NOTHING. He wasted the last few months, and intentionally waited until the last day to submit a contract with a vendor who he knows the Council does not approve of.
But yet, he somehow wants to tell us that the was the Council's fault and that the future lack of pickup will be the Council's fault ?!?! No, Mayor, this is all YOUR fault, and we know it.

Serious question… if the mayor can go off and strike an unapproved deal for trash pick-up due to an emergency, couldn’t neighborhoods do the same and the city would just reimburse them? It would be a way to avoid squalor in the streets, and a little sweet knowing the council, the citizens and WM are just handling business around the mayor’s stupidity.

Couldn’t the council release a statement declaring the city would reimburse citizens for contracting directly with a trash collector after April 1?

At what point does the decay of our capital city reach critical mass? When will enough be enough? A radical departure from civil society with the cessation of basic needs should not be allowed. Alas, the precedent was set long ago. Our tolerance will be out undoing.

This is what happens when a city is run solely based on race. Same thing is going on in Canton. Why do you think the little burg of Gluckstadt just south of Canton is booming?

If the answer to the gun problem is more guns, then I guess the answer to Jackson’s problems is more infighting and more shady contractor deals. It seems that Lumamba is doing exactly what the Republicans would do to fix this crisis.

He will shove RD down the residents throats and they will take it.

Nobody will pile garbage up at City Hall or Lamumbles house.

The few sane working residents in the City are a minority.
WLBT street interviews are very telling. Resident after resident says "I don't care who picks up the garbage, let Richards do it"

They do not care that the emperor is abusing power and awarding contracts illegally. They are not intelligent enough to see the big picture. And they believe every word Chuck says.

The number of people who irrationally think voters care that the RFP process is being abused is hilarious.

You cannot make dumb people suddenly become smart.
And the morons in COJ outnumber the intelligent drastically.

Just let the city fully fail and you can hope to rebuild then.
Until then, you are wasting your time and oxygen on this.

If trash pickup stops, some NE Jackson community organizers will be setting up a trash collection site across the street from the Covenant Presbyterian Church on Ridgewood Road.

It amuses me that Donner Kay is having a Twitter battle with CVS because the burb' employee told her "she should stay out of Jackson for her safety" with genuine concern.

How "Journalists" like her...that claim to be pro-Jackson, ignore the Mayor's endless incompetency and allow the impoverished to live in that cesspool is beyond comprehension.

She seems to be abusing the hell out of her white privilege and patronizing businesses outside of Jackson while minorities in the city suffer.

“At what point does the decay of our capital city reach critical mass?“

Two or three decades ago in my estimation.

Look around. With the exception of a few small pockets of decency, most residents of Jackson can’t maintain their own homes. How do you expect them to maintain a city?

Why are you all pretending that the Council couldn't give the Mayor a RFP they would accept or even tell him exactly what language had to be in his that was absent?
After the mayor took out their first and only objection, my anger with him is that he didn't just say, "Fine!Put up or shut up. I'll put the Concil's up for bids and let's see what happens! My ONLY condidtion is that I'll have private investigators watching to see if you any waste company representatives or employees who want to help you write one".

The city should just ask Ted to fix the garbage issue while he’s handling the water problem.

After the mayor took out their first and only objection ...

What was the objection? Be specific.

Why does anyone want to live in Jackson? Why do the people in the wealthy areas like Eastover remain there?

Jackson also needs a Garbage Czar. Maybe Boston can send one down here. $400,000/year should cover the palm greasing. Right?

As toxic of a mayor as you'll find in America today.

Where is Horhn, Blount, Crudup, et al now?

Is it true that a Chowke pal produced that graphic for $25,000?

March 30, 2023 at 9:26 AM
Lot of bluster for a LuDumba shill.

8:55
There will come a point when our country implodes. The decay of the social order will rise to the level of Federal Governmental Control of municipalities. Failed city governments will be taken over and managed by Federal Authorities to ensure basic needs. America as we know it may be about to become a thing of the past.
Our whole premise of self rule, especially where it applies to everyday living, is threatened with extinction if local populaces fail to engage and take control of their own destinies.

Chokwe has become much better at producing propaganda since hiring Melissa Faith Payne.

9:49 You answered your own question. Who are your going to sell your $500,000+ property to? It may be easy for you to take a quarter million loss but even Eastover types feel stuck.

Anyone still living in Jackson deserves what they get. For many years now we have all seen that Jackson is gone , gone , gone. I use to say get out while still alive. Still that is the only way to stay alive.

@9:26am is ignorant of procedures in our "Strong Mayor-Weak Council" form of municipal government which requires the Mayor to send an RFP or specified performance contract for bids and then the responses are evaluated and scored, then Council approves or rejects the Mayor's choice.

Only a mad marxist wastrel, who hates a tight ship, neglects to solicit RFPs or Bids until the last effing minute and throws his "trash" in the face of the People.

It's funny how the suburbs never have to make posts like this.

Equity

Wonder whos going to pick up the Mayors garbage?? The rules dont apply to me mentality is afoot.

12:38 no, what's funny is the residents of the suburbs who insist on making stupid, irrelevant and unhelpful comments on posts like this! Move along!

11:23
8:55 here and I couldn't agree more. "Citizen" is a vocation that most Americans are currently unqualified for. Places like Jackson are the tip of the spear, a glimpse into our future
We must become as self reliant as possible while building parallel institutions to replace collapsing institutions.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams

@2:00. You're apparently the one still living in Jackson (Yes, I moved), so I think it would be more appropriate to tell you to move along (just not to my suburb)!