Thalia Mara Hall to open Friday
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is holding his regular press conference. The briefing is live-streamed below.
* The Mayor thanked Shower Power, Wooten Ministries, and other partners for their help with the cold weather shelters last week. Over 150 people used the shelters.
* It is time for March of the Mayors. The Mayors of the Jackson metro area provide food donations to Extra Table. he Mayor is asking residents to donate the food item he has been given – peanut butter - to several locations across the city. He is optimistic Jackson residents will again show their charitable spirit in this fun competition between cities.
The food drive is now underway and will extend to Friday, February 21.
Peanut butter can be dropped off at the following locations:
- Corner Market -1220 E. Northside Drive
- Kroger - 4910 Interstate 55 North
- JPD Precinct 4 - 4940 Old Canton Road
- JFD Fire Station 20 - 4445 Medgar Evers Boulevard
- Fire Station 23 - 2640 Raymond Road
- Fire Station 28 - 611 Terry Road
- VFW Post 9832 – 4610 Sunray Drive
- Jackson City Hall - 219 S. President Street
* JPD Chief Joseph Wade said a pedestrian was struck and killed on I-55 South at the Savannah Street exit. JPD arrested the driver yesterday and charged him with hit and run. The suspect was a Jackson fire-fighter who was off-duty. He is currently being held without bond.
* The Mayor announced all remediation testing is "cleared" at Thalia Mara Hall. The auditorium will open Friday if it passes the Fire Marshal's inspection Thursday.
* WLBT's Anthony Warren asked about efforts to bring shows back to Thalia Mara Hall. Hizzoner said the city is looking at new management for the auditorium. He said there have been missed opportunities for concessions.
* Clarion-Ledger's Charlie Drape asked the Mayor if he intended to qualify for the Mayoral election. Hizzoner said he will qualify to run for re-election. The deadline to qualify is 5 PM Friday.
* WLBT's Anthony Warren said zoo revenues are down. He asked what the city's plan to improve revenues is.
36 comments:
A Jackson fire fighter? WTF? DUI and panicked?
"I'll be filing to run for re-election as soon as I polish my "fuzzy math" entries in my campaign finance report. Right?
Churchill Cigars at Thalia Mara? That would really help ticket sales.
Come on, Chowke. Let's see those campaign finance reports. Let's do a compare and contrast with the federal indictment.
1:41 bingo. However, he doesn’t need to furnish the report to qualify. They just happen to be due on the same day.
Lil Choke will not submit trutful, factual Campaign Finance Reports. That would bust his modus operandi. And maybe also help the Feds send him to a twenty year federal retreat in Atlanta.
KF, your 'headline' is possibly misleading. You state as a fact that Baby Chock will qualify this week, evidently based on nothing more than Baby Chock saying so - and we all know that he has a propensity to lie. What's to believe this from this weekly conference any more than the crap he's fed his sheeple over the past eight years.
He will be handily re-elected. His vast Jackson voter base love his indictment. It's like icing on the cake or a badge of honor.
If you find this hard to believe, you simply have no understanding of the City of Jackson electorate.
Wouldn't advise dropping that peanut butter off at a Jackson fire station.
The big question is will Baby Chok need a runoff to win. Last time he beat a crowded field without a runoff a whopping 15,000 total voter turnout. I have no sympathy for Jackson. Elect a doofus get a doofus city.
Of course he will qualify this week, right? When has he ever lied to the public, right? Wait, his lips were moving...lying.
Definition of insanity = re-electing Chowke and expecting different results. Right?
Why are there so many people walking in and around and across interstate highways in the Jackson area?
Chowke will not submit his campaign finance report as the law requires. Instead he will sue the State alleging that having to file the report is unconstitutional, violates his civil rights, or some other nonsense. That way he can continue to hide the reports until after the election.
State law is clear.
Technical, but very important difference, his filing an Intent is *not* qualifying. It is an "application", if you will, to run that the D committee of Jackson will have to qualify to appear on the ballot. Sorry if it seems nit picking, but it is a meaningful distinction.
Except is there any enforcement mechanism?
So he is filing suit because there's no enforcement. LOL
I'll bet my understanding of the City of Jackson electorate will at least measure up to your knee, with you having obviously the absolute and accurate measure of it --- but still, I'll take that bet and even though you are so sure, I won't require odds.
Want to come on and identify yourself -- even discretely through KF if you choose, and lay your wager on your understanding of this electorate?
I predict Chokwe will say he cannot file the reports because the reports are part of ongoing litigation and he cannot comment on the reports any more until the litigation is settled.
Chowke will raise the race card in 3, 2, 1...
My money says 4:39 has an eagle eye on this.
Mississippi Code § 23-15-811 states that persons who fail to file campaign finance disclosures “shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine in a sum not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) or imprisoned for not longer than six (6) months or by both fine and imprisonment.”
The statute goes on to note that, “No candidate who is elected to office shall receive any salary or other remuneration for the office until he or she files all reports required by this article that are due as of the date the salary or remuneration is payable.”
The law also disqualifies a candidate who has not filed campaign finance reports from the ballot.
Of course he is running for re-election. He doesn't want to give up his palace guard, city car with armed driver, lots of sycophants at his beck and call, local media carrying his water, business jet trips to Ft. Lauderdale, meetings on luxury yachts, partying at strip clubs in Miami... Right?
Chowke will qualif this week and run for Mayor. He will win the election and mjga(make Jackson Great again). Get ready and lets move on to a new day.
4:39am
Although the filing deadline does not have a "Dog Ate My Delinquent Report" option, your scenario is an authentically Lamumbish cya, resulting in Lil Choke not running for mayor, which is a blessed outcome.
Chowke is not as big as the criminal in the white house
The police precinct at 4940 Old Canton Rd no longer even exists.
How is all this going to affect Chalkline's plans to succeed Bennie after he's grifted enough to retire?
I agree with your statement, 100%
Chowke is not as big as the criminal that just vacated the white house.
There I fixed it for you.
LMAO- Gone from this location since about 2016 and Precinct 4 has been relocated again within the past year.
Addresses are hard and websites are harder!
Thalia Mara open for what? A shelter for the homeless. Maybe.
Labumbla will run again and win handily, and he can resume work to Make Kush Great Again.
Cope and seethe.
why is that ?
He and Owen’s stole from the poorest and the poorest in the Nation. With PRIDE!
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