It appears the Mayor is fiddling away while Northeast Jackson while Northeast Jackson washes away.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba scheduled a meeting of the 1% Sales Tax Commission for 2 yesterday. However, Hizzoner turned around Tuesday and called the City Council to meet yesterday at 1. The Council met for nearly two hours and the Mayor held a twenty-minute press conference afterwards. The Mayor and Council thrashed each other over the garbage disaster for nearly two hours. Mayor Lumumba trashed Northeast Jackson at a twenty minute press conference after the Council meeting.
Remember the Commission meeting? It never took place because Mayor Lumumba and his appointees were at the City Council Meeting. Want to take a guess what was on the Commission's agenda?
Your eyes are not deceiving you. It was more important for the Mayor to blame Northeast Jackson for everything than to fix Northeast Jackson's bridges. The Mayor could have scheduled the Council meeting to take place so it would not interfere with the Commission meeting but that would require basic management skills, something he has never earned or possessed. Blowing off the Commission meeting and throwing tantrums yesterday showed he is more interested in playing politics than fixing problems.
Remember, it was more important for him to do this:
than to fix this:
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| Credit: WLBT |
Kingfish note: Incompetence, arrogance, neglect, what do you call this?
51 comments:
Thank you kingfish for bringing this to our attention! We would have no information without kingfish. The TV media refuses to cover the real facts. We need national media to pick up this story! Someone call Tucker!!! Who has a contact???
What do you call this? I call it typical Democratic do nothing leadership.
The answer is 'D'. All of the above.
Well; just like the mayor once said, "WELCOME TO THE NEW RADICAL CITY"!!!!!!
Narcissism on Steroids-
All kidding aside, it's time to split the city. Baby Chok makes no bones about the fact that he believes the white citizenry of Jackson are the root of the City's problems. Therefore, I believe he shouldn't be forced to have to deal with them. Let NE Jackson become a separate city, and then BC can have the utopia he so desires. Granted, that would be giving him what he's been wanting since his father founded the idea......but I say, so be it. The city, under BC's, well, whatever he calls what he's doing, has become unlivable. It's beyond awful.
That being said, he can't expect to have it both ways. BC can no longer expect the revenue from the new city, nor can he expect his citizens to be tolerated to continue terrorizing the "new city." He gets to run "his" city like he wishes, but he can't push his ills into the new one.
So, since NEJ apparently isn't capable of appreciating the way BC sees a city should "operate," I say NEJ should separate and run the new city in that old, boring model of smooth streets, operable water systems, contracted trash pickup, drastically reduced crime, etc. You know, an orderly society. Yes, I realize that's a boring model, but it appears the people in NEJ don't know any better than to like it that way.
Basically the same thing we are seeing in Washington.
Did he forget to mention HE lives in NEJ? Ironic.
I lived in those apartments in the background years ago. Don't recommend.
Why not promote the positive elements of Jackson Ms., We have the “Per Capita” highest murder rate in the U.S.A.! We also have some of the fastest declining property values in the U. S. A.
Mamma Mia!
Someone needs to explain that’s not a bridge! It’s a concrete box culvert. Wing wall appears to have sheared off. It’s not a million dollar fix! But keep dragging your feet and it will be!
I think maybe I missed something. The Mayor is busy blaming the Council, but I have yet to hear anyone (press) ask him a very simple question. It goes like this:
Mr. Mayor, why are you married to Richard's? They lost New Orleans and by some reports if they lose Jackson the company will pretty much be toast. Sooooooooooo, why are you married to them? Come on now in 25 words or less.
Attn 5:31 P M . There is nothing Democratic about of which you speak. The misuse of the word versus the word “Democrat” is indicative of your educational level. P.S. that is not a compliment.
Attn 6:45 P M After all of the luxurious trips (for example, Paris (for all of you illiterates, that is in France) there just isn’t a whole lot of money left over. Oh what about the teams of almost illiterate “lawyers?” On the payroll?
Where is the national media on this latest fiasco? Have they been unable to come up with a way to blame the governor? They man who spoke at the last circus suggested that Ashby Foote somehow holds power over Banks and Hartley, who apparently the speaker believes are unable to think for themselves, in a conspiracy for the Republicans to take over the gem that is Jackson.
The Mayor should be charged and held criminally liable for endangering lives of residents for:
A). failure to immediately provide adequate traffic warning lights and barricades to keep someone from driving into this extremely dangerous situation that has been unattended for months;
B). allowing massive amounts of raw sewage to continuously drain across yards and roadways directly into the streams and waters of the state of Mississippi
C).creating this garbage crisis - ( the council should kick his ass to the curb and take care of business)
D).Gross and Willful waste of tax dollars-If the State Auditor can't audit the COJ, who can?
Shall I go on??
Attn 7:06pm, I get it now, ‘Democrat’ means loser, ‘Democratic’ means how ‘Democrat’ losers get elected. Thanks for the tutelage!
‘Democrat’ means loser
BINGO.
Just like a lot of other issues, the city could have addressed this six months ago before the slide took half a street lane into the creek. Every public works department in the surrounding suburbs would have spotted this when it first started to erode last year and taken action.. However, in Jackson, just like dangerous manhole covers, they have no clue what to do. So they just bury their heads in the sand until it reaches catastrophic proportions
The mayor lives in the middle of one of, if not the whitest, areas in the metro. Of the 2500 houses closest to him it's 95% white.
As I recall, there are still two federal judges who have open cases with the City of Jackson as a party. I have to believe they are paying attention, and are not blind to this administration's growing track record of (mis)managing city assets and services.
Hartley has much honor also & great knowledge from working at MDEQ with what the COJ is responsible in daily regulations to Environmental Laws. Also Banks, Hartley, Stokes and Foote are EXACTLY right & not the ones who are letting the city go unmanaged in such a dangerous way. Under Federal Law a company is REQUIRED to give written notice of ANY and all SUBCONTRACTORS. Just know they are liable if they DO Not Follow the LAW and all of you know the Mayor would throw them to the back yard line. Just like you must submit a DL, SS card for employment etc, so employers can fill out and submit an I9 as required by Federal Law, Each CONTRACT requires this information.Right? Why are you allowing Richard’s to bypass rules that each working person and school also requires for admission. Right?It doesn’t pass the smell test. Stop blaming the (4) honest men on City Council and ask yourselves if you would pull $ out of your pocket for your employers refusal when entities get fined. In seeing this road brings up the question did MAC ever resolve lawsuit with the Fortner family? This road is the same stinking mess that caused Frances to be killed because the COJ did not keep the Roads safe for drivers. NO More Excuses! KF is the only one telling the truth!
This situation has been getting worse for months. Public Works didn’t even try to divert traffic away from the slide until a few weeks ago. And the lack of adequate advance warning signs to direct traffic to the two-lane barreled zone is shameful and dangerous. Isn’t the interim director also a traffic engineer?
5:58 -Tired of hearing the "split the city from NEJ crap." I don't live in NEJ. I didn't vote for the crook. I pay my taxes and my water bill. It is unacceptable to punish citizens just because they don't reside in NEJ. My house wasn't even in the city when it was built. We were annexed years ago and the city still can't handle what was grabbed. The "keep them divided and in total chaos" concept seems to be working very well in Jackson.
The Fortner case - the engineer who signed a contract to maintain all the manhole covers testified that, notwithstanding the contract, he was only supposed to COUNT them for $250,000 a year. That's an example of why Jackson is one broken piece of shit city with an incompetent crook of a dictator at its helm.
You are wrong to suggest that all Democrats support the Mayor. That is wrong. We do not.
Test questions:
What do Rome and Jackson have in common?
What do Nero and Antar have in common?
Which is/was of Italian descent?
a) Nero
b) Antar
c) both a and b
What instrument did either of them play?
What do a lyre and a liar have in common?
Bonus Question: Who wins the golden fiddle?
a) Antar
b) Nero
c) Charlie Daniels
I bet Chowke's neighbors living next to him on his gated cul-de-sac must be thrilled having him live there. Right?
King is spot on. He possesses zero management skills. Couple that with a complete ignorance of organization structure, no human resource or hiring skills, and lack of empathy and you get this mess. He is a terrible leader. Just a political hack. The state of Mississippi’s capital city is crumbling under his watch.
7:15 - I don't believe that. Produce copies of the contract and testimony.
This Friday morning Metro dumpsters were better organized than last week, no line at 7:45am. However, on way out, dense parade of cars at 7:55 am.
This reminds one of last year when they were screaming they needed Class A operators yet weren't posting them on the city website. When called on it, they claimed they posted them on Indeed.com only it was Class D operators. No management skills whatsoever.
@7:25am, you are wrong to suggest there are enough Democrats in Jackson that don’t support Lubumba to make a difference. In a city where only 10% of the population votes in its local elections, he’s been elected twice. Bumble won in 2017 with 93% of the city’s vote and was re-elected in 2021 with 70% of the city’s vote, which by all accounts in any election would be considered an overwhelming majority. Lubumba owns Jackson.
Isn’t that what a CAO and department directors are for? To manage the daily aspects of city government that as a mayor can’t?
The solution to both problems is simple, fill in the hole with all the uncollected garbage.
Good or even mediocre management skills are lost on the Bumble administration, identifying and fixing problems that reduce the citizens quality of life.
On Monday the 17th, in addition to Council being granted opportunity to issue RFPs since Mayor refuses, hope Judge Clark also permits Council to use idle garbage fees to fund 20+ dumpsters all over the city.
Thousands of businesses across Mississippi can rent dumpsters, but Lil Choke says it can't be done by Jackson. Worthless brat.
KF, please report when Chowke actually says something that is true. That would be newsworthy.
9:09am
Lamumba is running out of things to ruin and 100% of 155,000+/- in Jackson have been harmed and insulted by this psychotically incompetent little tyrant. Only his sister and her rabble could vote for him again. Admittedly, someone decent needs to step up as an alternative.
@8:08 is looking in the right direction. The mayor is an articulate and presentable suit with no knowledge of how things get done. I sense some background in student government in his past. Too, his ignorance of how things work and get done leads to his inability to serve as an executive to carry out what the council decides. In short Mayor Lumumba doesn’t have the knowledge and experience to even pull his thumb out of his ass.
But that’s not because he’s a Democrat. If the mayor and all those under him were to flip and become Republicans tomorrow — admittedly, the chance of such conversion being so small as to approach the infinitesimal, but work through with me the hypothet — the trash wouldn’t be picked up, the potholes wouldn’t get repaired, the water system wouldn’t be brought right again. Because there’s nothing in simply being a Republican that makes one competent and responsible. There is no Republican U that imparts that.
No, competency and responsibility don’t come as part of the swag bag one receives in deciding to be a Republican. It goes deeper than that, to the very marrow of the individual. But we dare not speak of it.
Republicans, Democrats, I’m sick to my effin’ gills with all of both of them. It’s way to Hell and gone past time for massive, earth-moving change across the land.
There's a bright side to all this if you're open to see it.
The potholes are a good place to push in the dead bodies AND the piled up garbage will mask the smell. Roses from rhubarbs !
Projecting Lumumba onto all to the left of center is like projecting Trump onto all to the right. Neither is accurate. Doing that amounts to nothing more than reaffirming one's "gut" feelings about disliking the other side.
Genius has limits, stupidity has none.
Paraphrase Albert E.
I'm sick of all this what-about-ism. "They're all the same, R vs. D, Republicans are just as bad".
Ok, name a Republican-managed city or town that has this level or depth of incompetence and failure and apathy and ignorance and just plain nastiness. Obviously there IS something in conservatives that leads to better management practices.
Anybody who votes for this clown(or his associates) for any office , ever, needs to be banned from voting ever again.
7:25 "You are wrong to suggest that all Democrats support the Mayor. That is wrong. We do not."
Soooooo, who DO you support.... in times like these?
Jackson residents and business owners: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
This section of the road, and curb, and gutter seem to be new construction. Like Humpty Dumpty, it cannot be repaired to look like it did before the slump. It will always be a patch and it will always behave as a patch. We cannot have anything nice for very long. Sad.
If no one supports the mayor how did he get elected the first time and reelected? I can understand people not wanting to admit doing such a thing as voting for the mayor but some people other than the mayor is lying. Who wants to bet he will not be reelected again?
I got into an argument with an idiot from Ridgeland who claimed to vote for him. So apparently all of his support is from illegal voters from outside of Jackson who want it to fail.
The white guy in back with the hair down to his ankles is Terry Williamson. He used to not be totally insane.
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