Friday, April 5, 2024

WLBT Takes Apart Lyin' Lumumba

There is a reason Jackson's Mayor is called "Lyin' Lumumba."  The Mayor's latest fairy tale involves Jackson's water system.  Anthony Warren at WLBT reported: 


Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said JXN Water will have to improve collections, or garbage rates could be increased to cover the cost of a new long-term waste-hauling contract.

In the city’s latest episode of Ask Antar, Lumumba said the city will be able to pay for the new trash contact with Richard’s Disposal using the current sanitation rates if collections with JXN Water improve.

However, he said if that doesn’t happen, the monthly rate for sanitation will have to be raised from $37 to $40.

Currently, he’s collecting at about 52 percent, which is the worst in the history of our water enterprise,” he said. “The city of Jackson, after everything we dealt with, with stranded water bills, the lowest we ever went to, which is not ideal, was 72 percent.

Not one word of this statement was true.  Not one, as the numbers tell a different story.  
According to the December 2023 quarterly report, the latest available, JXN Water collected nearly 64 percent of billed residential and commercial revenues, about 12 percentage points higher than the mayor’s claims.

Officials with JXN Water are optimistic collections will continue to improve, saying that they’ve recently switched over to a new billing system, and are about to begin severance on commercial customers who don’t pay....

In 2017, Lumumba’s first year in office, Jackson brought in $61,027,825 in revenue from “sales to customers.” In 2021, the year before Henifin was appointed, the city logged just $33,091,148 in water and sewer revenue, audits state. Rest of article and story.

It was Mayor Lumumba who secretly instituted a moratorium on cutoffs for non-payments that lasted nearly two years.  When people realize they don't have to pay their bills, guess what happens? They don't pay their bills.  Collections plunged under the Lumumba administration.  For him to lie about Henifin is par for the course. 

 

38 comments:

Anonymous said...

Even the local news is against him.

He doesn't stand a chance at reelection.

Anonymous said...

11:09 - you are correct. However, knowing the voters of Jackson as I do, they will elect someone equally incompetent.

Anonymous said...

Lumumba family needs to GO!!! No one wants them around. They’re a menace to society and that is putting it nicely

Anonymous said...

@11:09

I wish that were true but that dude will win by an absolute landslide.

He is an obvious crook and incompetent as one can be BUT he is a gifted orator and could sell snow to an eskimo.

he won't have any problems

Anonymous said...

11:09, do really think that the voters who supported Antar watch or read the local news? Or even care that he is likely the worst mayor in Jackson's history?

Anonymous said...

Do his ignorant loyal voters own a TV? Oh wait, sure they do and it receives CNN and MSNBC only.

Anonymous said...

It tells me all I need to know that Jackson voters have never staged a single protest, balloon launch, freedom march or fish fry in support of running Lamumbles out of town.

That crowd will assemble to protest damn near anything.

But not once have they spoken out, demanding a decent mayor.

It's so sad that they welcome the fox in the hen house with a ticker tape parade. But who am I to tell them they deserve better.

Anonymous said...

He's gonna carry the NOLA and Detroit vote easily and WIN.

Anonymous said...

Lumumba's collection rate was 52%. Henifin got it up to 64% in 18 months.

I wish Lumumba had been made a party to the federal receivership case. Then Judge Wingate could call him out directly on this BS.

Anonymous said...

Why doesn't the press ever ask him about these lies at one of his press conferences?

Anonymous said...



He will be re elected by a landslide and he knows it.
This is "our" City.

Anonymous said...

“Why doesn't the press ever ask him about these lies at one of his press conferences?
April 5, 2024 at 11:55 AM”

Because 1) reporters like getting paychecks. 2) Reporters don’t do much other than re-read press releases.

Anonymous said...

April 5, 2024 at 11:55 AM
They don't want the racial backlash.

Anonymous said...

"water enterprise..."

utilities are not an enterprise, and it's not "our's" either

Anonymous said...

WLBT article shows collections going back to 2017 ($61M). Everything on that table regarding percent collected is off. City projected the same dollar amount in 2019, 2020, and 2021 ($58.8M - a bogus number)!

In either 2014 or 2015 (after Siemens meter installation) revenue was $70+M! Problems started when the signal transmitters started failing and no one was maintaining them. That's why customers stopped getting bills! They just send bills to people they had usage info on. Forget the rest of them!

Anonymous said...

Yes, it's very telling that there were no protests over the water utility until there was someone else to blame besides the Lumumba Administration, and someone who fortuitously happens to be white.

Anonymous said...

In my opinion, WLBT is taking a risk just telling the truth about the psychotic marxist mayor. His default position is to lie. He would rather climb a tree backwards, and tell a lie, than stand on the ground and speak truth.

Rukia Pay Your Taxes said...

It's a no brainer to determine when Chowke Lumbubba is lying - his lips be moving. Right?

Anonymous said...

Lumumba, who two years ago brazenly and falsely disparaged the Council members Stokes and Foote for being bribed by WM, directly into the microphones and cameras surrounding him on the steps of City Hall, last week threatened to sue any one and every one, for all they have or don't have, who dares to suggest he, Lord of the Flies, has taken or propositioned for kickbacks, such as for forced imposition of 45,000 96 gallon garbage carts no one wants.

Anonymous said...

Can Mr. Henifen sue Lumumba for slander?

Saltwaterpappy said...

This is a good example of why we need a professional to lead the day-to-day management of the city operations. The citizens of Jackson need to rise up and demand that we convert to a "city manager" form of government. Let's get rid of the corruption that is endemic in the current culture at city hall!

Anonymous said...

For 12:19pm, in fairness to Mayor Dumbass, I think he meant water is an “enterprise fund”, which is a government accounting way of describing a good or service to the public for which fees are charged and collected.

Anonymous said...

This water system isn’t going to work until someone has the balls to CUT OFF DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS! Lil Choke is taking advantage of this by threatening to add more $ for trash collection. How convenient that he will have to increase rates to his bucket of grease with Richards. Or if Teddy ever actually commits to cutoffs, it will be major outcry time for all the protesters and rukia and they’ll cry racism that the white man is cutting off water to the po people and the bills ain’t right.

Anonymous said...

The Rukia posse numbering a dozen or so, outfitted in like-colored tee shirts, are duped into marching and shouting marxist slogans (Free the Poor, Free the Water, etc) in the largely deserted streets of downtown, a vulgar display of ignorance, a disgrace that should make Judge Wingate wince in shame. Only he is positioned to halt Lumumbas' degradation of Jackson. So pray for Wingate to summon the courage he needs to be Jackson's savior.

Anonymous said...

@11:26am - I completely agree with you. He will be re-elected by a landslide. My mom has lived in North Jackson since 1965. She agrees.

Anonymous said...

Actually, enterprise is the correct term for the water system.

https://www.superfastcpa.com/what-is-an-enterprise-fund/

Anonymous said...

Eventually everyone gets tired of being lied to, even Democrat voters, who are taught to lie even when the truth will do.

Anonymous said...

Good for WLBT for speaking up. Here's what I want from my three local channels (WAPT, WJTV, WLBT): Actually report all of the lies. Press conference--question him while the camera's are rolling. Investigative pieces. If all you do is report press releases, then I just change my channel. Why watch that and why go to your websites.

Anonymous said...

@12:59, exactly! No idea why he hasn't started the cutoffs. Just delays and delays it.

Anonymous said...

With Rukia having a seat at the table, what will that change?

Anonymous said...

They need to build a beltway type bypass road to avoid going straight through the city proper as one now has to do.

Anonymous said...

Could this just be a back door way of getting the Richards Disposal numbers back to the cost with the carts that was voted out by the city council?

👏 said...

Keep riding it all the way down Jackson

Anonymous said...

He has something in common with Trump; projection and saying something over and over again until everyone believes it.

Anonymous said...

I hope I live long enough to get out of Jackson with the clothes on my back. For now, I am just stuck. What possible reason would anyone want to live here? My water, sewer, and garbage are now right around $100 a month. I am retired and living on a fixed income. Old Jackson water was not only filthy and dangerous, but it wasn't billed correctly or billed at all. New Jackson Water is now charging me $20 a month for sewage service and still estimating the water. I've never even had sewage service. I have a septic tank. I am being billed the $40 to include sewage just because I live in the last annexed part of the city. Who's water bill am I subsidizing? The people at Jackson Water (wherever they are) tell me they don't know when I will get a new meter. My bills will remain estimated until whenever and there will be no refunds if I've been over billed. I can't appeal the sewage fee. I am a one person household. Between the outrageous taxes for schools that no longer have students and the new improved garbage and water system, I can't afford to live here. Ain't nobody looking out for the taxpayers. I'd vote for Donald Duck if he could offer something besides more problems. Just where does the money go?

Anonymous said...

10:31
Just dont pay it.
Or pay the amount you feel is just.
Regardless, they are not going to cut you off.
Join the crowd.

Anonymous said...

Well. I guess JacksonMS, the capital of our state, will go under. What a shame!!

Anonymous said...

12:31 And fortuitously, fortuitously happens to be INTELLIGENT!!!


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