Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba held his very last press conference while in office today. The presser is streamed below.
* The press conference was held before Thalia Mara Hall.
* Mayor Lumumba announced the reopening of Thalia Mara Hall. It has been closed for nearly a year after microbial growth was discovered. Hizzoner thanked outside engineer Emad Al-Turk for his work on the project.
Mr. Al-Turk said all the remediation work has been approved and the auditorium is "cleared". The State Fire Marshal approved reopening. The engineer said a new fire curtain had been ordered and would be installed later this summer. A second chiller will be installed later this year.
* Mayor Lumumba thanked the citizens of Jackson for allowing him to serve as their Mayor as his wife stood by his side in this unique press conference.
* A reporter asked which project he held "most dear." The Mayor said he was proud of stopping the state takeover of JPS. He said he was grateful for the money secured for the water system.
38 comments:
If no new chillers have been installed, won't the "microbrial" growth return?
He’s irrelevant! He’s done so much damage to the city, it will take decades to recover. Hopefully he will get some federal jail time along with the D. A. Maybe they can room with Marshand Crisler
Narcissism at its best!
Time to watch him float off into the sunset on an FBI-sting yacht...
So desperate to take a victory lap.
Take a hike loser. You are and were an unmitigated failure.
Lying on the way out the door is certainly on brand. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, knows what he holds most dear is the Richards Disposal contract.
He is such a liar! He didn't "stop" jackshit. The governor and the state knew better than to get involved with JPS. They LAUGHED at the suggestion. I think this clown Lumumba is the biggest piece of shit elected official in the history of our state. What a LIAR.
After eight painful years of economic flight, constant water issues, and almost 1,000 murders (think about that number for a minute)...GOOD RIDDANCE!
My biggest accomplishments are getting my buddies a $30M settlement cut and hiding the other $60M
Jackson will never be the same ... I hope.
Unfreakingbelievable he says he's leaving the city better than he found it.
What's with the paunch and the last button on his shirt unbuttoned to accommodate it?
Mark my words: When a certain hostile nation regains control of our own, and its puppets are, once-again, propelled into prominent government positions, BabyChok, in advance of his being given some important job, will be credited, by Legacy Media, with SAVING all the things about Jackson, which he has deliberately allowed to fall into ruin. He will have "saved" the Airport, the traffic lights, the water system, the streets, Thalia Mara Hall....
That's called "skinnyfat", and it never means anything good. Carbs? Booze? Turbo-something-or-other: a dividend from getting lots of (as JP Sears would say it) "schmaxxschmines"? Who knows? Time will tell...
I hope the door hit him in the ass on the way out…
Buttons
I see the stress belly is getting bigger. I wonder if he'll be up to size 40+ pants come next July.
"I leave you gentlemen now, and you will write it. You will interpret. That’s your right. But as I leave you I want you to know—just think how much you’re going to be missing. You won’t have Chowke to kick around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last press conference..." Stolen from Richard Nixon 11/6/1962
The preening peacock fans his feathers a final time to no one’s interest.
What's with the "two tone" beard ?
Is his next gig with the (Just for Men) hair color company ?
5:46 wins the run-on sentence award.
One last “right” for the road! Right.
Mayor Elect Horn you’re next. Just don’t lie to our faces, have a little decency.
Bye Felecia-al-Shaboob!
not unlike a wino in appearance
I thought it was the Zoo.
Hopefully Chokwe will serve time for any crimes he’s committed, but let’s not forget that Jackson’s demise started a long time ago in the 1990’s when then Mayor Kane Ditto hired, from Washington DC, Jimmy Wilson as JPD Chief. The Jackson Police Department become so corrupt in a such very short period of time, it was like a terminal cancer for Jackson, MS.
By all accounts, Kane Ditto is likely a good and decent man; but, is that old school bleeding heart liberal, I’m OK, you’re OK, Kumbaya, full of so much compassion, that he was just too naïve to see that ole wolf in sheep’s clothing - standing plainly in front of him.
On the other hand, Chokwe Antar Lumumba does not appear to be a good person at all. And, he’s stupid. Democrats have been using chaos and crime to take and keep control of cities for a very long time. Their strategy is a simple one; via crime, create the flight to the suburbs required in order to make certain cities like Jackson, MS remain under Democrat Party control forever.
But Chokwe was too stupid to understand that Democrats can’t over play this purposeful high crime hand. You don’t want too many people to leave; and really only the conservatives. But, two very young children dead from stray bullets in ten days, and Jackson, MS becoming the murder capital, was just too much.
Kane Ditto is now on Mayor elect Horne’s transition team. Will Ditto and Horne put the evil Democrat strategy of chaos and crime aside to make Jackson, MS great again? Or will it just be more, or maybe just a little less of the same? Only time will tell.
I'm sadly certain those who are insecure and try to make themselves feel important by criticizing others will still hurl insults.
Some of you need to look in the mirror.
If you don't like a policy, offer a better one.
I you disapprove of a behavior, describe the behavior and why it's bad.
In other words, be a mature, thinking adult instead of a elementary school yard bully.
Here’s the problem. Once this guy is gone…what can the next guy actually do to make Jackson better? Feds are pulling funds previously appropriated and the state has no time or desire to help. Jackson needs to get approval to file for bankruptcy under every chapter.
Some of you need to look in the mirror.
I have and I didn't see you! Hallelujah!!!
Bribery - do I really need to tell you why that's bad?
No one was going to help Chokwe while he was peddling that Black separatist shit and simultaneously grifting his way through eight years of complete incompetence AND collecting awards from idiots while doing so. There's some hope for the future.
The 7:57s of the world are a problem.
Facts are just mean words.
And your only valuable to them if you spend your own money to fix the mess the elected idiot they support created.
That "save me from my own constant bad ideas or your are the devil" just does not work anymore. The middle class is broke and tired of this BS.
Clean up your own mess.
So by all accounts, the Kush movement is officially dead? Who didn’t think that little spiel was silly to begin with. Deuces grifter, and take all your little buddies with you. Jackson may not ever recover, but literally no one around here, sans a few tokens, want to see your ass again. You can only run something into the ground so far. We are pretty much there.
Nicely done, showing incompetence on every level as you all walk out the door. Pamela Scott ( who needs to go back to wherever she came from ) is so giddy to be on camera back there, that not one person noticed the two year old Swan Lake banner hanging in the shadow box. The Swan Lake production lost ALOT of money and time because of that entire pathetic group. At the very least, they could have taken the ratty banner down, and with any effort at all, they could have hung a new Thalia Mara Hall banner. What a f$%^ing joke. Even the two tenured employees could not see past their noses to take it down- AT LEAST TRY. I hope Horhn sees every single face up there, and truly understands that they are all responsible for the FIVE MILLION DOLLAR clean up, only to leave Thalia Mara Hall just as it was when they closed it.
8:15 - You're wrong about the state not wanting and being able to help. The state has a vested interest in Jackson rebounding, only now, there's an incoming mayor that's in good standing with the legislature. Lumumba alienated them all along with others. He destroyed relationships before they began.
He alienated even the Black Caucus. Quite a few of them used to make fun of him, especially his entourages. He threatened one caucus member last year, gave him grief over something and then said he could raise all the money he needed for re election from all over the world. This was pre indictment.
Alfa Mike Foxtrot
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