Jackson Jambalaya

He’s suiting up. Let’s see what he does with it.

Big Daddy Kane? Game over. More of the same Jackson malaise.

Mississippi deserves a capital city that they can be proud of. Jackson is a embarrassment. I’m very serious we need to have a conversation about moving the capital out of jackson

Glad to see he's getting rid of Melissa Faith Psyne as his media contact - she's the Karine Jean-Pierre of Jackson.

Why a transition team? Already starting with the bullshit! You know who you want in those positions, if you don’t, you’re already lying! This ain’t the White House or the Governors Office. Pick them 20 or so people and call it a day!
I bet y’all had a committee to pick the transition team! As long as you pick the Police Chief for your spokesperson I am good! He goes into detail and I understand what he is trying to combobulate!

He needs to replace every department Director with competent qualified people.

He needs to replace every department head in the city. Get some competent people around you to lead.

A strong transition team. And that’s a great start. Hope the Lumumba team will start transitioning out!

Wish him and his transition team lots of luck! Stay prayed up Jackson MS! Hang onto yours hopes of a better Jackson. Mississippi needs a better City of Jackson. Yes we do.

Ye correspondent has turned on his torch-radar. Back to his usual bullshit self.

Transition, Transparent and the Bishop now ain’t that some shigity, y’all done started!
When I saw these words in the press release, I just shook my head.
Ain’t nothing going to change!
Please let the Bishop run his church and stay out of the city business. We did not vote for the Bishop!
Mayor elect, you made promises, don’t let your transition team do your bidding on these jobs. A cop out!

Now if we now get Bo Luckey as the Sheriff and over Capitol Police too. Wishful thinking.

I'd hoped it wasn't true, but Kim Wade is right. Horne is going to do the same crap that's failed for the last 30 years. Definition of insanity.

Guess I'll go ahead and drill a water well, because the water system is going to collapse again as soon as the feds transfer it back to city management. Or lack thereof.

Danks is unavailable.

Enjoy your property tax increase.

Mayor Elect get with your grinders/foot soldiers and do what you were elected to do! Please don’t start with these do nothing committees. I sure you made a lot of job promises and now you want a damn transition team to do what we elected you to do! If you don’t know what to do ask Kenneth Stokes! I bet he is laughing his ass off with this bullshit transition team!

Any truth to the rumor that Rukia will be his chief of staff?



Just kidding.

Go big or go home!

Silbrina Wright is probably available for something.

Kane Ditto on Horhn’s leadership team is interesting. When Ditto was Mayor of Jackson and stated in front of news cameras that the next police chief would be “black,” some of us wondered, who cares about the skin color?

But it was during Kane Ditto’s 8 years as Mayor that we saw the corruption of Jackson’s police department, violent criminals emboldened, and crime skyrocket.

This is Kane Ditto’s indisputable legacy. If he wants to change it, Kane needs to be a major part of getting Jackson’s unacceptable violent crime under control. Mayor elect Horhn has an opportunity to become a Jackson, MS hero, but in order to do so, the safety of Jackson’s citizens, especially Jackson’s children, must be the priority.

Let us all pray for these men and all on Jackson’s new team; and let us all pray that they succeed in making Jackson, MS a safe and fun city again.

Give Horhn a chance people. Removing Melissa as Chief of staff is the first step & others too. I wish him well and the COJ success!

Kane Ditto is back to destroy Jackson even further. Not surprise to see crudup sr, I knew when he was endorsing him; back room job deal was had. Jackson went from one crook to another one. Time to move the state capital to another city. Jackson doesn’t want better. If Jackson did, it would have elected one of the independent candidates on the ballot. Grab your popcorn the new circus begins in July.

6:51 pm It would be so much more impressive to have some tacky new government buildings built with inferior materials than historic ones that cannot be moved or duplicated.
Rather than have easy access where Interstates and there's a major airport, you want to have one Interstate only? How stupid and tasteless are you and all the others who would destroy your own capital city because of your love of white pointy hats ( did the KKK not know they were put on the classic dunce hat?

But "it's for the children."

Too many retreads here but damn anything’s better than lumbumba

RIP Dale

I wish him the best of success, but don't be shocked when you see decision$ made to fulfill multiple quid pro quos. Don't forget that he has been a politician for 30-year$.

People will complain about anything. Kane is miles more knowledgeable, measured, and qualified in city management than any of the numb skulls Chokwe had in office.

That white smoke you see coming out of the chimney is the Lumumba "transition team" burning documents.

Some of you need to take a break. That's not a bad team. He's not even in office yet.

JAN is such a total dump.

Did they borrow some BleachBit software from HRC?

Everyone knows Horhn knows little and has no management experience, but it is a positive that he also knows this, which is why there is a committee. Kane Ditto is the one that started the proverbial snowball known as Jackson headed downhill for hell, so that is not comforting. Anyone genuinely trying to do the job will be a huge positive over Taliaferro. But the cast of characters on the committee says the grift is already in progress. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

First, foremost, and above all: Crime. If crime can’t (won’t) be brought under control, everything else is for naught. Unfortunately, the administration that was in second place for high crime behind the Baby Chik administration was Ditto’s. Clearly, Kane isn’t a good source for advice on that topic (and maybe on quite a few more).

Jackson has a long, uphill road before it. The people listed in this team don’t give me a lot of confidence they’ll have the horsepower to get up it (or even to find the right road in the first place!)

I can smell some grifting already. Contract steering in 3, 2, 1...

Serious question:

Would efficient competent crooks running the show be better than inefficient incompetent crooks running the show?

bahh!!! yea was thinking the same thing!! Burn documents and the Bleachbit software

If crime can’t (won’t) be brought under control, everything else is for naught.

It is the whole ballgame. Incessant talking from Joseph Wade doesn't get it done.

Maybe, but certainly better at not getting caught on some yacht.

Kane spend all his time on tennis courts at RHC now days. I’m curious as to what he will actually do

I've lived here for 35 years. Not once have I awakened and said, "gosh, I like this place!"

Jackson isn't going to change. Too many poor people, too much racism, too much psychic baggage.

There's no vitality here. No growth. Just stagnation and deterioration. And the people who talk about what a great place it used to be have clearly never traveled outside the state.

It may be the capital, but its reputation as such may be the thing that keeps us in last place in just about everything.

So don't look for miracles with Horhn. He's a tired old man who got the mercy vote. I rejoice that little lord Lumumba is gone, but John Horhn is not a miracle worker. And that what it would take to change Jackson.

Let's just hope (and pray) that Horhn is motivated to leave a legacy of his time as Mayor of Jackson. The one that had the drive, the leadership skills, and the network of resources to turn it around.

If you are somewhere for 35 years you want to be there.

Amen!

Kane Ditto + 04/26/1996 = all you need to know.

Yea if you hate a place for 35 years and can’t leave there’s something wrong with you. The inabilities may not be your fault, but something’s wrong because there’s some great non-Democrat controlled burbs to live and raise a family in.

Been traveling out of state and out of the country for more than 1:02 PM’s 35 years and can attest that Jackson was a lot of fun before Ditto and Chief Hollywood started its demise. So, 1:02’s statement “have clearly never traveled outside the state,” is a complete falsehood.

Electing career politicians over and over again and expecting different results?

They are the A+++ Team. Gotta start by cleaning out the inefficiency that Lumumba put in place. And watch how many of them go back to position at JSU & JPS.

People, come on. Let's give the man a fighting chance. It appears that he is approaching this with at least some deliberation and forethought. And can we be honest just this once and agree that we all know exactly what "improve the city's reputation" means. I'll come right out and say it. Chokwe Antar Lumumba was nothing but a big, fat black eye on the city. He was egregiously incompetent; worse, he was a lying, no-good grifter. The single handful of the ride or die with Antar crowd will remain in attack mode. They will hurl their cheap insults at the city's overwhelming TWELVE PERCENT of white folks and perpetuate the lie that the governor and the legislature were hell bent on "taking over" Jackson despite the fact that their guy got steamrolled in the election because the actual vast majority of Jacksonians -- black, white, or indifferent -- were (a) on to his scam, (b) sick and tired of his lies and empty rhetoric, and (c) showed up and showed out at the polls.

I have a feeling that the trolls and Jackson haters on this thread are some of the same ones who weighed in at every opportunity to tell us that Lumumba would be reelected in a landslide and that we got what we wanted, just another handful of malcontents who love the sound of their voices.

5:26 I agree with, give him a fighting chance. The Transition Team is bullshit! He knows who he wants in Administration, now these ain’t rocket scientist jobs! The Mayor Elect been round long enough to know who’s the best talent and a good fit for his Admin. I wish him well!
But enough of the BS and leave the Bishop at the Church!

If Horhn were such a visionary leader, he wouldn’t be trying to get back control of the water system. Jackson has no talent pool to properly manage a large water system. Why would he want the headache in the first place when there are so many other more presssing items that need attention?

I agree totally, mississippi is an absolute embarrassment.

U.S. News & World Report
In 2025, Mississippi ranked 48th overall in the "Best States" rankings, according to The Clarion-Ledger.
Healthcare:
Mississippi consistently ranks last in healthcare, with poor access, quality, and public health outcomes being cited as contributing factors.
Education:
The state's education system faces challenges, particularly in K-12 education and early childhood services, with low graduation rates also negatively impacting the state's overall score according to the Biloxi Sun Herald.
Infrastructure:
Mississippi's infrastructure, including energy, internet access, and transportation, also receives low rankings, contributing to its overall poor performance according to The Clarion-Ledger.

You can take the so-called capital out of jackson, but you can't take the inept, incompetent, backwards lack of melanin confederates out of mississippi.

He is pandering to a certain crowd.

Definitely needs to replace Wade, all he does is talk and post FB videos highlighting his talks. He has no skill in actually running JPD.

New mayor, same as old mayor, but with a normal haircut, lacking "right" after every sentence, and who has a sister who pays her taxes.

June 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM; your post had some validity, until you blamed everything wrong with mississippi on white people.

so, based on your statement, then any place run solely by black people should be the perfect place to live.

no need to try and provide any examples.

"Too many poor people, too much racism, too much psychic baggage.

There's no vitality here. No growth. Just stagnation and deterioration. And the people who talk about what a great place it used to be have clearly never traveled outside the state."

That's a very generic description of every Democratically controlled city in the country.

For those of you thinking this team will re- make the COJ a shining city on a hill—think again. There is too much rot and decay underneath to recover.

It would be very easy to get crime under control. Instead of putting anyone who tries to protect themselves or others from crime under the jail you could give an reward to anyone who stopped a crime and dealt with the criminal themselves. Dead or alive, dead will increase the reward.

Expected that one of Jackson's finest Sunday preachers would be in the mix.

It's usually failed mayors who join the ministry in order to escape the long arm of the law.

How can you be chasing whores one minute and holding The Bible high, the next? Or vice versa.

What is it about government jobs?

I would not touch an ink pen until an internal audit was in place. How much money is left😂🤓