Jackson Jambalaya

Lot of incompetence in Madison County, and apparently it pays pretty damn good.

I like Na son and she got scammed trying to do her job. I get she made a mistake, but as far as mistakes go, this was an honest, yet expensive one.

Crime pays. Doing the "right" thing is idiotic in this world. Fuck this women.

Job performance is not the primary consideration for raises and other benefits. If it were the board would be setting a precedent they cannot follow, not in the good ole boy system which still controls county politics. This is typical and consistent.

Yep. In the private sector Ms. White would’ve been shitcanned for being this lazy and retarded. Instead of being humble and grateful to still have a job, she is shameless. Since her management are likely equally as lazy and retarded as she is, and they all get raises despite being worthless government teat suckers, they think she deserves a raise as well.

Always good to see that the Madison County Board of Supervisors has one sane voice (Baxter) amongst the thieves; but with the history of the five member board of this county, all it takes is one turncoat to switch and join up with the two Democrats (Banks and Griffin) to gain control when all is required to keep them happy is to reward their buddies with other people's money.

With those democrats the money is "free"

Rise to the highest level of incompetence, Madison Co. version.

Nason is Paul Griffin’s incompetent employee. Banks of course went along with her raise. Gerald Steen, who is Madison County’s biggest problem, provided the third vote. Steen needs to go. He needs a quality opponent in the next election.

The majority of White's staff is female democrat and they can get anything they want with the MCBOS......FACT

Being a female democrat is the only reason White was not terminated for giving away 2.7 million.

$108,763.20 / year, not a bad income for being foolish with other peoples money.

Spot on. The dirty little secret in Madison County is how many people "fail upwards." Take a look at all of the administrators in the Madison County School District office. Many principals that were horrible at their jobs. Instead of firing them, they make a Director of Something job at the County Office and give them a raise.

Take a look at Germantown High and Middle Schools. Both were profiled on this site a couple years ago for all the trouble. Take a look at where all of those principals ended up.

And I believe Steen can be counted on as the turncoat.

Who amongst us has not wired several million dollars overseas to a scammer??? Retardation should not be celebrated.

Welcome to Madison, the County of disfunction.

Gerald Steen is a Democrat and the definition of a RHINO that teams up with Democrats Banks and Griffin to run Madison County. Steen scratches the Democrats backs, while the Democrats scratch his. Same ____ing song and dance that was happening when Tim Johnson was there, and their pal Rudy Warnock was getting rich off of Madison County.

Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee is obviously in on the Steen Banks Griffin scam since he could certainly have someone run against and oust Steen, if he wanted to. Maybe Gene McGee’s reason for supporting Steen is that wants the rest of Madison County to become like the Old Canton RD part of Ridgeland.

Democrat Banks would not be there if not for the IDIOTS wanting a visual deed to 500 acres of land off of Stribling RD; then when they didn’t get the vote they wanted, since the development was approved, they ousted Republican Bishop in the primary only to lose to Democrat Banks in the general. After Steen helped Banks with redistricting, Banks will be a fixture on the Madison County Board of Supervisors until he dies, and another incompetent Democrat takes over.

When Madison County falls let’s make certain everyone knows it was due to RHINO Democrat Gerald Steen and his supporters like Gene McGee teaming up with the other two Democrats Banks and Griffin. Democrats destroy everything they get involved in. One only has to watch Canton Municipal Utilities dump raw sewage into lakes - and look at the Murder Capital City of Jackson, MS for proof of this beyond any doubt.

P.S. While he certainly did the right thing on this vote, word is Baxter is arrogant and may have an opponent come next election.

Banks, Griffin, and Steen are absolutely holding Madison back with their corrupt politics and backdoor deals to line the pockets of their cronies and themselves. Leftover trash from the Rudy days. Get them out or more of the same garbage is in store.

Don’t leave out that weasel Steen.

Fake/AI

Wow. I guess I should never be surprised by the level of vitriol aimed at public employees or elected officials, as if they are somehow these alien creatures who dropped out of deep space to torment us. These folks are our neighbors, fellow citizens, fellow tax-payers (except Rukia), friends and family members. They are not above criticism, but, Jesus Christ, give them a break from the incessant, unrelenting hate-filled calls for lynching.

I was told that Steen votes with Banks and Griffin so he can get what he wants in his district. A lot of this is Gene McGee versus Mary Hawkins in play.

It is surprising that someone hasn’t challenged Steen in the primary.

Man…it’s a sad day when your work gets scrutinized by a bunch of bigots and when your work actually sucks.

Clean sweep the entire bunch!

@3:10 - how about just a little competency from our elected
officials? Do you think that is asking too much? Ms White's lack of intelligence for falling for this scam is breath taking - you must also be an elected official or public employee who thinks "money is free".

at the end of the day the county or its insurance was out $600 k because she was stupid enough to fall for a con ! Lets hope some Nigerian Minister of Finance doesn't need help moving 200 million out of country

Steen has always been a maneuvering weasel. If his opponent brings this up next election, I think it'll stick.

@3:10, I wish "these folks" were somebody else's neighbors instead! Then maybe we wouldn't be missing nearly $3 million!

It was a terrible mistake, but not an uncommon one. Most county and municipal governments are not investing in cybersecurity training for their employees. That leaves many of employees with no idea what to watch out for with scams. Local governments and school districts are among the most likely victims of cybercrime precisely because the staffs there have not gotten any training. Google "local government cyber attacks" and see how common this problem is across the US.

Calling for this person's head does nothing to prevent the same thing from happening elsewhere.

SHE should've never gotten past the next meeting as an employee after the Admin and board knew about it. Nice lady but dayum. It was all so messed up from the beginning. Don't blame Mr. Baxter for having this opinion. Yea Mr. Steen is doing Mr. Steen as he has always.

Yes, Steen was the false prophet I was referring to - runs as a "republican" but acts and votes as a democrat. He learned the process a couple of decades earlier from similar bad actors.

She should have been fired. period. Deserves no raise. I am sure she would have done more fact finding before sending the money if it had been her money!!

>lynching

Who's laying it on thick now?

4:35 - Hit it on the head. To append, if there hasn't been any documented security training without an explicit segment based on social engineering, this woman would likely have a winning lawsuit on her hands for wrongful termination and clean up. The first reason to have these trainings isn't specifically focused on how to deal with each instance, rather to put and keep it in the trainee's forethought so that they know to ask more questions and to even be aware that such a thing exists. This woman likely learned the hard way.

@2:38 take a breath red hat.

Steen is the biggest crook and scoundrel Madison County has ever seen, and, God knows the county has seen some crooked-assed politicians over the past 40 years.

The Three Amigos (Banks, Steen, Griffin) have a lock on incompetence and graft, all sporting FOR SALE signs on their foreheads when they enter the board room.

I had never considered the Magee connection, but that is an interesting possibility.

Win!

When watching the promotion and money trails among county employees, don't forget that Griffin's daughter in law was placed in HR as a clerk, got promoted and is in line for the director's job in that department.

And Banks' daughter in law, fired a few years back while running the garbage department, was slid into a newly created job in Planning and Zoning and will wind up as director of that department.

The only salvation for the taxpayers will be if Rudy's corruption trial bleeds over into this bunch.

Hello 4:35...I dropped by to tell you none of this had a damned thing to do with cybersecurity. Not idea why you're rambling on about that.

Settle down, Don Drane. There was a lot of shady shit in Madison County way before Steen was elected. He’s just part of the family tradition.

So @$600,000 short that Sheriff could not collect . Payroll deduct at 25% until paid back.

Who are you calling bigots? White folks criticizing Steen (who is white)? This dire situation is political maneuvering for personal gain, not racial.

8:28: That's why I added this: "God knows the county has seen some crooked-assed politicians over the past 40 years."

Steen didn't invent the art of self-serving chicanery - He just perfected it.

proof only government on every level reward incompetence.

One must question every email request for funds received. Most are easily spotted. Simply looking at the email address stops most in their tracks. It’s not that hard to spot the scams. It has nothing to do with cybersecurity. It takes a lick of common sense and heathy skepticism. Ms. White is a gullible fool who should have been fired.

Gerald Steen always loses in Madison but his Ridgeland base keeps him in office. For Ridgeland to keep re-electing Gerald Steen is the equivalent of Jackson re-electing Chokwe Antar Lumumba.

6:41 AM, RINO Gerald Steen’s Ridgeland base keeps him in office because RINO Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee wants them to.

The writing on the wall seems plain as day; long term, don’t plan on living anywhere in the Jackson, MS metro area. The Democrat Party cancer will continue to spread with the help of RINO’s like Madison County Supervisor Gerald Steen, and Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee.

Democrats (that claim to be the party of environmentalism), with assistance from RINOS, will continue to put incompetents in charge of little kingdoms like Canton Municipal Utilities, that allow raw sewage to flow into a lake where children swim, over and over and over.

And worse than the incompetent that sent millions to a suspect with a thick Middle-Eastern accent, and the incompetents in charge of CMU, the Democrat Party of Defund and Abolish the Police - will eventually use its love of crime and criminals to put that final nail in the Jackson, MS metro area coffin, including the county of Madison.

Try failing like this at your job and mistakenly sending $27,000 to a scammer and see if you get a raise. I'm not calling for her head, but I could absolutely understand White getting terminated. It was an egregious error. But the lack of accountability some people (*cough* Democrats *cough*) have for their own behavior is no long astonishing. It's normal today. THEY didn't train me well enough so I f**ked up to the tune of $2.7 million. Not that you're a complete dumbass that fell for an obvious scam that shows you are to f**king ignorant to qualify for the position.

Hello, 7:52. I dropped by to tell you that comprehensive cybersecurity training actually focuses as much on employee behavior as it does technical infrastructure. A robust training curriculum covers phishing, social engineering, and other email-driven threats. What the Madison County employee fell for was called "pretexting," a specific type of social engineering attack that non-trained employees can be most vulnerable to. In fact, CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security), strongly recommends that ALL government organizations, at every level, implement social engineering and phishing training for employees as a first line of defense against cybersecurity threats.

So, yeah, it does have to do with cybersecurity.

Recently stated in another post, “Madison County has the best politicians that money can buy.” Fits in this one as well. So damn true.

There's no such thing as wrongful termination in Mississippi unless one has credible evidence to support an Employment Law violation charge or lawsuit.

Otherwise, that was a really sketchy post full of absurdities.

She makes $109,000 per year? What does Greg make?

Top-heavy, don't you think?

You are directly over their target. These dictator mayors stayed long enough to get paid to allow Jackson to collapse into the burbs. They failed to contain the cancer. I blame my generations hatred of their boomer parents and grandparents for the apathy.

Not sure what they pay Greg but I can assure you that it’s not enough!

Justice Court Chief Deputy Clerk was given a choice of retirement or termination for a couple thousand dollars missing after $2.7 millions mistake.

The lady took the retirement. If I were her I'd lawyer up and go after the board