Jackson Jambalaya

What good is that going to do, other than getting the council to lose its nerve? Merely puts off the whole issue

Kicking the can down road? Travesty. But at I do t have to go down to the dilapidated mall

This is probably the 12-month emergency contract the mayor tried to push last Monday, with a provision saying if the city wins the appeal RDI filed, the emergency contract will terminate at the end of that month. The city (council) is going to win that suit but the mayor will continue to refuse to issue an new RFP because RDI is going to appeal that loss to the MS Supreme Court. Garbage pickup will cease again and the council will be forced to approve another emergency contract with RDI while their appeal of their appeal plays out. RDI will lose that appeal as well. Then we might finally see a new RFP, but that will take a long time so we'll need another emergency contract with RDI while that new RFP is handled. Then maybe the mayor will present another RDI contract to the council. Or maybe he'll reject all proposals and issue another RFP. Either way, until the mayor and a majority of the council can come to an agreement, there's going to be a continuing state of emergency that requires a continuing "emergency contract."

This is why the council didn't want to approve the 12-month emergency contract last week. It sends the signal that the mayor can get his way by continuing to play these infantile games forever. But now that it's obvious that the chancery court isn't going to come to their rescue, the council has no choice but to agree to the "emergency contract" because they actually care about the citizens more than the mayor does.

This just reinforces the message to any legitimate company that Jackson is to be avoided at all costs and isn't worth the effort to work up a RFP or bid entry.

Fold.

Do they still have to buy those large garbage cans with rollers on them for the one year contract?

This was the right move. But we really need to vote the mayor out next election.

Well, his nibs will live to see another day. I think RDI will get tired of "Good Behavior" during the next 12 months. May the light shine brightly through the mayor's deviance for all to see and he is found exposed.

Once again, the mayor made fools out of those spineless council people. Aren’t people about tired of this? Now, how about some water?

Does she really think that every garbage can in Jackson is not already on the street?

Jackson, MS: another Leftist Democrat American Freak Show.

This was my comment below. These incompetent clowns are so predictable.

"Jackson has a weak council form of government, and it shows. RDI back in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

April 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM"

Cave…

The big guy in Detroit sends his concurrence. The grease is en route.

Once again Jackson has the Mayor and Council it deserves.

Recall legislation passes next session.

Same time, same place, same problem in 12 months, huh guys?

Now we can look forward to the same thing again. By then there will be some more money in the budget for paying lawyers. Look at all of the money and time wasted. The city has taken a step backward. Jackson better elect a white mayor so they can get a little money ahead for the next black mayor to waste.

I knew the city county would pussy out and give the mayor his way.

Another year of palm grease. Right? Someone will be able to make his Porsche payment. Right?

Lumumba Stench covers the City.

Not impressed with the councils lawyer at all.

And I was so hoping for a Detroit visit.

So when this emergency contract ends in April 2024, the original October 2021 RDI pricing will be 30 months old. There is no way RDI can honor those prices in April 2024. I don’t see how a new RFP is not required even by RDI at that point. Then again, RDI reduced their price for the new emergency contract by $2,000,000 in a week. I guess RDI will figure out their actual costs at a later date.

You people wanting a recall, you do realize he won by an overwhelming margin? The people of Jxn have who they want, stop trying to apply your personal expectations onto Jxn voters. Just stop it. The State already has a police in place (at tax payer's expense) to protect state assets, state employees and the select few rich people who still live in Jxn.

Let it go, the voters of Jxn love him, likely in their eyes, he's sticking it to the man and standing up against racists.

Bad, Bad move. Looked to me like the CC had the Mayor on the ropes . This will become the contractor forever. Forever, however for Jackson in only a couple more years.

Didn't we do this last year? Are we expecting a different result?

The Detroit bag man will be busy.

Folded like a cheap plastic chair.

Will a one year deal be enough for the bribes or will kneecaps still be shattered?

This should turn out well, as the record indicates that someone in the mayor's inane clown posse didn't find any comlants about RD in New Orleans.

Also calling: There will be a big bill landing soon from RD to cover their demobilization and remoblization costs due to council preventing the mayor from keeping them on the job.

April 17, 2023 at 4:45 PM
Once again only 17,000 votes were cast in a city of 150,000.

4:45 PM
The racist in this case holds mayors office.

Spineless

So much for the rule of law and integrity.

It must be the culture.

So the Mair has a one year extension from Guido on his life.
Now what? He will not bring another company up for consideration.
But the council's case was dismissed so they can't issue an RFP to select from other companies. Chockwe has basically blackmailed this city and its citizens. Go ahead. Put your cans on the street and wait. These poor Richard's employees will take weeks catching up from all of this literal and figurative GARBAGE. #TeamWM

Emergency garbage collection, emergency water czar, emergency police protection. Not a good look for Jackson, but it's what everybody expects.

Time to start the countdown for Chok going in front of MSM cameras to explain the long line of environmental racism that caused all of these problems.

Yaawwwlll! I don’t know yawls legal jargon but I’m about to get some folks together and sing a chorus of “We are The World”! This is fastasimo! I don’t know who wants to sing Michael Jackson’s part but I wanna sing Bruce Springsteins part! Cause y’all know little Michael was the only person born a black kid and died as a white woman! Oooopppsss, that might not hold true in todays time but!!! I’m ready to sing, clap and raise my hands in joyous adoration for the “hoppers” and their hard work!!! You go boys!!!!!

Anyone making a deal with Lumumba is a fool. He will certainly renege on any promises he might have made - guaranteed.

I live in Madison and I was in New Orleans last week and the guy at dinner next to me said - Jackson is the most horrible place in the country.

That’s what they wanted. Total chaos!

@4:45 - You evidently don't understand elections.

In 2021 Lumumba won because there was no high wire act at the circus; only the clown show with the third rate clowns showing up.

Choose between Charlotte (I'll run for anything and qualilfied for nothing) Reeves or Chockwe?

Les Tannihill with all his resume or Baby Chock?

Nobody came to the circus in 2021 because there was no lion tamer; no acrobats; no nothing. Just the clowns that couldn't ride the train to the next big tent extravaganza.

In a recall election, its Lumumba against - the world. "Yes, Lumumba" or "No, Lumumaba". Hell, for that one I would love to sell tickets - and have the cotton candy concession as well.

... you do realize he won by an overwhelming margin?

Why are you compelled to repeat yourself over and over again? You've said it a thousand times. Move f'ing on.

At his outset, Judge Clark resented a "dictator", yet now has enabled our marxist dictator.

This was a meaningless outcome that only postpones a real judgment against a marxist tyrant and a desperate, substandard outfit that was run out of New Orleans.

Council needs to pry into Mayor's relationship with RDI.

@4:45

And that my friends is the "bottom line". Nuff said

The Judge had no legal grounds to rule on behalf of the Council (4-3 council vote split on the garbage matter, which is a slim margin), and he likely conveyed that to their counsel. So Antar wins again with his strategy of creating a train wreck. The next legislative session will fix his ability to benefit from his incompetence.

The city's lawyer dropped their opposition faster than panties on prom night.

Its not a done deal yet..they vote o. Tuesday..

The next time Kingfish grovels for funds, remember - this is the daily bullshit you get day after day after day, repetitive and without end.

And YOU pay him to crank out this shit. But YOU bought him a high-dollar Mac computer and Sunday lunch every week at ....

If the City Council approves the one year emergency contract, does Richards drop the lawsuit?

In my lowly opinion, extending a one year contract to Richards who has sued the city twice is just bad business.

Crabs in a bucket.

Read on WLBT the emergency contract is at $808,000/month vs the $970,000/month lumumba had proposed.

Either 4:45 doesn’t live in Jackson and spends no time in it, lives in some small Jackson bubble, or he or she is a troll.

Somebody not named Charlotte Reeves or Gwendolyn Chapman will say f it and
run against the Mayor and likely win.

The firefighter who ran against the Mayor last time seemed pretty normal. That was before all the Mayor’s major f ups though.

While I'm in favor of recall legislation, who in their right minds thinks the mayor would get the boot? He will win next time by at least 65% against the field.

Jackson wants a Marxist child and it gets a Marxist child. I have no sympathy for Jackson.

Yes… LuDUMBa is gone next election. I’m certain he knows it

“I will win the crowd. I will give them something they have never seen before. Garbage service.”

Maximus Decimus Meridius

7:10 - seeing as how you are monitoring enough of his posts to make your comment, I know at least two people, you and I, are happy with his covering the local FUBAR for us. Now off to your free food events that never state when they are going to start!

The city won't vote for an unknown, no-name, who appears out of nowhere in 2025. You want to win in 2025? What are you doing NOW to get your name out, and to improve the city?

Y'all forget, even Chokwe didn't win the first time he ran...

Watch Angelique Lee 15k lawsuit from A2Z magical disappear.
So the 160k that Sis. Lumumba was getting from contract, were will it go and how will she now run her campaign.

Lumumba wins again!

April 17, 2023 at 7:10 PM, do you have any idea how you look? Petty, and childish are the first two words to my mind. Damn, get a grip.

So is Virgi going to be proud to be Antard's bitch now?

I’m going to email the Federal investigators every day until someone comes and audits this deal.

"April 17, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Read on WLBT the emergency contract is at $808,000/month vs the $970,000/month lumumba had proposed."

That a big reduction in palm grease. Someone will have to settle for the pork chop vs. the filet at Char. Right?

Interpreting/reading April 17, 2023 at 7:10 PM‘s comment is why many consistently frequent this blog. Sincerely, thank you! Cheers, genius.

So somebody is finally taking the trash out of Jackson.

But there's no chance that the real trash, the people in charge, gets their come-up-ance.

Think about it folks. Saying Jackson is disfunctional is a forgone conclusion. Any attempt to address Jackson as a functional municipality was a lost cause years ago.

I'm not a robot.

The next time Kingfish ...

KF lives rent free in your head. You come by to read and complain and therefore help pay the freight here. So, who's the chump?

7:10, It is Lumumba who cranks this bullshit out day after day. KF just covers it as a local journalist, and he does a damn good job of it.

Bumble says “checkmate”.

Thank you, Kingfish. You provide the citizens of Jackson with what little truth is available to the public.

Did the Mayor and the City Council just work this deal out behind closed doors (without public oversight)?

Y’all shouldn’t ever doubt that a Lumumba is going to win. Lumumba Senior was a Winner. Rukia is worth millions too. Most of you suburban hayseeds couldn’t pull together $100k. This family has a dynasty that crosses state lines.

Given the demographics of the city the mayor will be reelected as the man that "solved the garbage crisis" and "brought the feds in to fix the water". Between the ignorant poor and the ersatz black intelligentsia that siphon money from the underclass while vomiting a plethora of platitudes promising help Jackson is effectively a self locking ice cream cone from a political perspective.

Jackson is BROKE - and I'm not talking financially (though that would also appear to be the case).

The citizens of Jackson should be able to reliably have running water and garbage pickup. Isn't that the minimum a municipality should be able to offer?

It will never end. . .and it will not get fixed anytime soon.

"The next time Kingfish grovels for funds, remember - this is the daily bullshit you get day after day after day, repetitive and without end.

And YOU pay him to crank out this shit. But YOU bought him a high-dollar Mac computer and Sunday lunch every week at ...."

Kingfish wrote a total of 20 words and then quoted the city attorney. Are angry at KF or the commenters in this thread? It is completely voluntary as to whether you read this blog or not. I would suggest you make a different choice or at the very least switch to decaf!

So what happens 1 year from now ? Is the Mayor required, as a part of the settlement, to issue a new RFP during the next year ? If not, we'll be right back in this same position 1 year from now, with he Mayor having not issued a new RFP and once again submitting a bid from Richards on the last day of the 1 year extension. If the Council does not make issuing a new RFP a part of this settlement, then they are fools.

6:32 - $100,000 - dynasty across state lines. Whew, that’s some steep comparisons. Catch up, pal, this is not 1930.

But Melvin and Kaze are worth zilch.

Lying Lumumba is a crooked lawyer who got in off his father's name. Nobody credible ran against him. P!ease don't think all this chaos is a coincidence. This is exactly what the powers that be planned and everybody fell for it.

There has not been so much as a pathetic, low-turn-out protest attempt to even HINT that the city is fed up with Chuckles.

The opposite if anything.

If he runs again he wins.
The apathy from the few remaining wealthy citizens and the street interviews from low IQ voters blaming Tate for Jackson's woes is all you need to see.

Yall are stuck with the dictator until he goes to DC.

Im sad 6:32 missed an opportunity to call us "Green Teeth".

But regardless, I do appreciate the trolling.

After all has been said and done, the real and only remaining question is...What will this blog do for 'breaking news' every day now?

Of course there's the very real possibility that some of you will go into a deep withdrawal state without your daily dose of Richards/Chokwe.

@ April 18, 2023 at 6:32 AM

Something to be proud of, is it?

On to the next ladumbass crisis.

What will this blog do for 'breaking news' every day now?

The publisher will follow the same model that has been profitably working for 16 years.

Why don't you slink back to the shadows and return to what you do best ... which is nothing.

Any respectable company should take note of the disaster known as the City of Jackson / Jackson City Council & stay away!!

Jackson's new City motto:

Jackson The City of Soul, We Don't Want You Here. We Just Want Your Money.

@ April 18, 2023 at 8:31 AM

Really? There will be plenty of opportunities to report on the continuous crime, water & sewer woes, poor roads, underwhelming JPS, understaffed JPD, incapable mayor, and other elements of applied stupidity and corruption going-on within the city limits of Jackson, MS. All this in addition to the periodic report card on how RDI is or is not performing.

Why would anyone even consider going to Jackson? I can't think of any reason. Maybe there are a few that will drive their jeep on the streets to get training for off roading. There might be a few that want the thrill of danger that will visit Jackson. Some might just drive through for a laugh. I did know of a couple who drove down the streets of Jackson as part of their wedding. They had frented a limousine and had the driver take them through Jackson as they were never brave enough or crazy enough to drive through Jackson in their own cars.