Jackson Jambalaya

So much winning with Chokwe.

While you are at it, A.G. See if you can’t jail a few of them. We all know there is plenty of incriminating evidence to facilitate that.

Thank You to AG Fitch. Keep up the good work.

Shocker. Who could see this coming after the Mayor has done everything possible to be as abrasive and confrontational with the State as possible.

This is the battle the Mayor started. He can die on this hill, but he's going to find himself very lonely. His supporters are quickly realizing the emperor has no clothes (soon to be an orange jumpsuit, though).

I bet lunch that Lumumba tries to sue in Hinds County circuit court.

Can't wait to see what the state doesn't do with the property!

Good one Lynn. Shad’s scared of the big fish.

Well Belhaven used to play baseball there untl the terms of the lease agreement became insanely crazy. It takes a lot for them to be run off. They even invested their own money into the clubhouse. The mayor is worthless and he always will be.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

I mean, if you aren't driving your leased BMW and a homeless person starts living in it...at least the homeless person is "doing something with the property" that you weren't using, right Theca?

Rules of the lease be damned.

@1:58 PM - I'm in on that bet. Any suit will include the race card, right Rukia?

Jackson is a criminal enterprise.

Win this one Lynn, and you can move into that big house on Capitol street.

Thank you 1:48, and 2:09 now both of you get back to work at your desks in the Sillers Bldg a floor below Lynn's suite.

If you read the letter from AG Fitch, it states that she is taking this action "at the direction of the legislature" following their passage of a bill directing her to do so. This bill was passed and signed by the Governor almost six months ago, and was in effect no later than July 1st. With a large staff of lawyers, why did it take so long to draft this one page letter and a quick-claim deed, especially after the breaking news that the Mayor's buddy had turned the property into a money-making venture but with no benefit to the City.

Glad to see her taking action today; hope she is ready and prepared to act again on October 1st, knowing that the Mayor has probably already tossed this piece of correspondence into his overflowing trash can.

So the city used it to allow a friend of the mayor to grift….and now the mayor got caught grifting….the mayor sounds like a former president…

This little fight is going to be fun! Lumumba is going to throw out all kinds of buzzwords that deal with race at his presser. Mark my words, he will try and use this as a black/white thing and not a competence/incompetence/breach of contract/money making scheme issue.

To 2:04, I can tell you they'll do more with less than Lumumba did. I posted previously I was there after a summer league baseball tournament was relocated. The place was a literal dump.

I wonder if people giggle when they use the word "Honorable" in front of his name?

IF he fights this, it will be a total waste of money. The City is virtually guaranteed to lose. But wasting taxpayer $ is what he does best. I guess there's a donor/lawyer out there who needs to get his or her comeuppance, so the frivolous suit is likely.

He's going to fight it so he can keep getting his cut of the parking money

Maybe the mayor can spend money on stadium lawsuit that was appropriated for THALIA MARA and street potholes that was never spent.

Pinstriped Piranha: Will Kush's stadium parking lot lease to the VA interest the feds?

Paternalistic systemic environmental racists going after the low-hanging fruit.

Equitable estoppel/laches. I’m pretty sure private businesses have operated on that property for decades. Jackson Mets, General, etc. There have also been bars on the property in the past. Last Call was the name maybe? State will lose. This is just bully the Democrat run city nonsense for political reasons. It’s just so old and boring and dumb. Wasting state taxpayer dollars on a legal fight that is baseless.

Now, maybe it would have been successful back when the Mets started playing there. Not all these years later.

It’s similar to a neighborhood HOA having protective covenants that have been in place for decades but not enforced. If HOA takes someone to court for a current violation they will more than likely lose. Laws don’t work that way, but contracts and agreements can, based on equitable principles.

Some of that palm grease may soon dry up a little, right?

Too bad Lynn Fitch is on the case. I suspect it won’t go anywhere except for on her campaign emails.

Melvin, you and the Missus are only allowed ONE homestead exemption.

C.J., Bennett needs you to swing by for another sob story interview. Quick. Since y'all connected and got really close please bring a hankey this time so you can wipe his tears.

As someone currently residing within the city, I think the saddest part and biggest slap of this communication is that in the letter sent to the Mayor, the AG directed the Mayor to work with an assistant attorney general, not with her directly. Our city administration's standing with any bigger State or Federal offices is none. The built this coffin. I just don't want it to bury all of us. It sucks.

I can't wait. I was deleting photos on my phone yesterday and came across a screenshot of Terry Williamson at the City Attorney's Office posting on social media that the mayor would be proven correct on the garbage contract - you know, the lawsuit the City ended up losing. No one with a brain would work for that crook Chokwe.

He's going to fight and appeal as long as the system will let him. Hopefully we get a good judge who can end this swiftly.

A letter from lawyer A making demands of and threats to lawyer B, and neither of them are competent to defend Ray Charles from a peeping Tom accusation. Stock tip of the day: CAG

Quitclaim not Quick-Claim. Dumbass

Why do people criticize Shad? He saved millions of TANF state money and exposed the crooks siphoning it off for personal use. He can’t prosecute, all he can do is lay out the facts. Hell, read his book or listen to it.

When is Lynne Fitch going to demand the four members of Leflore County board of supervisors pay back the misspent funds for hazard pay during Covid?

Should have hired a Land Surveyor to proof read that letter when it comes to the subject parcel and how when and where the document regarding said parcel was recorded.

No; the lease was perpetrated, or at least supported, by our favorite fed -- maybe a congressman who has deep interests in Jackson (or at least a part of Jackson)?

While it seems to be a total waste of money for the VA to rent these parking spaces, it is probably a legal expenditure for the feds. The question is, and the legality is - did Mr. Bennett pay his lease payments due to the city from this income. (Answer, BTW - NO.)

Once the state takes over the property, however, the state can continue this lease arrangement (with either Mr. Bennett or whomever they designate as the operator) and collect revenue from this property. Doesn't mean Bennett will be the beneficiary of this federal largess though - the terms might be negotiated this time with folks that aren't looking for a portion to come back in the form of some palm greasing.

It's hard to be a leader when your only other job experience is that of entitled brat.

7:25 for today's win - in a really big way!!

Chuckway Mumblummum will win in a cakewalk, I am sad to say. A "park" is able to rent to concessionaires. There have been several concessionaires on site since I played pony league ball there in 1970. That's why it took so long to draft a simple, 70-word letter.

I'm no lawyer but was a big fan of Lieutenant Tragg and Della. The A/G does not have the authority to 'order' anything done. And regarding final action in legal matters, neither does the legislature.

How does our distinguished AG find time for such frivolous law suits when she is busy suing China?

"A 'park' is able to rent to concessionaires."

But can it rent to entities that cannot provide "concessions" to park-goers, only its patrons, e.g., a "cigar bar," assuming you cannot smoke cigars in the park nor remove drinks from the (non?)licensed premise (and if there had been a license, what was its terms) and the cigar bar did not offer permissibly-consumable "concessions" to park-goers? What "concessions" did this cigar bar offer to park-goers in general rather than its patrons alone and without regard to their status as "park-goers?" If access to the cigar bar "concession" were restricted to those who had first become reasonably-defined "park-goers," the argument would have some validity, but if the use of the "concession" and being a "park-goer" did not have even a tertiary connection, I doubt "concession" still applies. What about providing alleged "concessions," e.g., parking (assuming it could be argued to be a "concession" in this fact-set), to those who by definition would not become park-goers as proved by their very use of that "concession" for the purpose intended - to go away from the park to work.

I think it is within reasonable argument to say that the city renting space to a "concession stand" to sell food and drink to park-goers/users would not have caused (and did not cause) this situation, as evidenced by the assertion that it did so for many years without it arising. I think it is also within reasonable argument to say that attempting to excuse a material breach via an alleged "loophole" to evade the language/purpose of a contract does sometime succeed but it is not a solid strategy nor certain win. But I have not seen the document(s) that deeded the park nor restricted its uses - have they been posted here or anywhere?

I think I know what Lynn's lackeys spent six months looking for the deed documents but didn't find them. I suspect that might explain the brevity of the letter.

Lynn and Antar holding the positions they do is proof that brain drain is real in Mississippi.

Richmond, Raleigh, Atlanta, Columbia ( as well as some of Charleston) all went through a period of decline. They are all thriving now because unlike Mississippi they had enough pride and good sense to put money into their state capitol city. My friends and family who live in those states assume this sort of " help" is racist. They may have been accused of "gentrification", but our State leaders strike them as economic idiots and wannabe fascists.

"...looking for the deed documents but didn't find them..."

Cleanup on aisle 1944, cleanup...aisle 1944...

Well, a debate about adverse possession of state-owned land should be a short one...assuming the state had good title to argue over, anyway. Dangerous stock tip of the day: CAG, using margin.

The state should give endless money to the leaders in Jackson. It would be racist not to! Tate must save Jackson.

I dont know how anyone types such a thing with actual sincerity, but tell your out of state pals to feel free to come rescue/gentrify Jackson if they want 10:53am.

The AG may or may not be able to order anything done. But she can sue to enforce the law. This letter's tone might could be different, but the end result is Jackson loses Smith-Wills. Also, you do not need a land surveyor to tell someone where to file a Quitclaim deed. You don't have to file a Quitclaim deed, it just makes sense to do it for notice purposes.

I'm amazed that you were able to make enough sense of 10:53's post, to form a reply. Personally, I've noticed several nonsensical posts, in recent days, from what may be an AI entity.

That she hired Dan Smith and worked for Ed Pittman is all I ever need to know about her judgement and motivations. I do not consider her a credible woman rather one motivated entirely by self interest not public service.

"The AG may or may not be able to order anything done."

"may not"? Cite the source of your reluctance. Attorneys; district, state general or otherwise have no enforcement powers. They are prosecutors, not judges.

Sure, Lynn's office can sue, but you will never see her standing at a podium.

Do we know what portion of the $360k was passed under the table to Chokwe?