Jackson Jambalaya

"Hit" Piece... by the Lib Press Organized Crime Syndicate against actual journalism... again spouting their trope with little interest in reality.

Calling this a hit piece is pretty reactionary

Thanks for the podcast.

The writer didn’t have to take Henefin’s word for it. Citizen comments to the receivership are public record in the federal court action and heavily back Henefin.

The reminds me of Cliff Johnson’s challenge of the CCID. An idealistic person who used to live in Jackson who’s lost touch with the practicalities of reality on the ground. It’s easy to be idealistic when you choose not to live in the city and have to deal with the day to day of crime and poor water primarily caused by an incompetent administration led by a man who will be in prison 2 years from now. To residents of the city they look like fools at best and tools being played by the Lumumbas at worst.

“Residents fear”…. Ummm this resident WANTED someone else to take over. I have no “fears” now that I have consistently running water.

Everything's racist in Mississippi, yeah yeah, we know, blah blah blah.

The author has two sources. One is Brooke Floyd, "the director of programs and community-led governance initiatives at People’s Advocacy Institute, a Jackson-based nonprofit." So she's a Rukia Lumumba mouthpiece.

The other is "Harvey Johnson Jr., the first Black Mayor of Jackson," who cratered the billing system with the Siemens deal.

I continue to be amazed out how people allow themselves to be used by that crew.

Calling the new republic story a hit piece is fair to the point of being too kind. It's more like yellow journalism.

It’s ridiculous that a story this long in a national magazine has only 2 sources, both of whom are known by Jacksonians to have an agenda on the subject.

He lives in Water Valley. I imagine it has none of Jackson's problems.

Thank You KF JXN Water is fine and it pisses some off cause he shows it can be fixed.

My problem with Ted and KF believing most everything he says is:

1. Collections (and maybe billing). Ted's had 2 plus years and collections are only 70%±. After he got the plants working properly, this should have been his next priority! And by the way how many of the 60,000+ meters are getting a bill every month?
2. Ted chose Jacobs to operate the water plants. Good company, but why didn't he solicit proposals from more than one national company???
3. 2 above has resulted in an O&M budget of $115 and Ted's total budget is $145M±. For 60,000 customers, he needs $200+ per month per customer.
4. Ted went off halfcocked and instituted the $40 availability charge. That coupled with the Lumumba sanitation charge of $37 is killing the poor customers that use very little water.
5. I'm also hearing that Ted is behind paying Jacobs and JXN Water has stopped repairing small water and sewer leaks. We been there and done that already!!!

KF is absolutely right that the City can never be allowed to regain control of the water or sewer systems.

Bottom line! Get collections to 95-98% by any means necessary and also try to figure out how to get the O&M costs down!!!

Maybe kf knows, but he's not paying jacobs $115 per year.

A few notes, in my humble opinion.
I too would like an update on that 60k one. However, we also now know that apartment complexes are causing a huge problem and we've seen how much they owe.

Jacobs is doing a great job. And a huge job. The only folks I see against them are the ones who wanted a minority local firm. That was a big scream for the Lumumba group.

They haven't stopped repairs. I called a leak coming thru the street 4 or 5 days ago and they were on site the next day, already fixed.

I agree, collections need to be higher. But I also think Washington needs to release the funds so Ted can pay off the bond debt. That would kill a lot of the problem. Ted is trying to go forward but is dragged down by that debt.

And I think everybody but the grifters want the water/sewer to NEVER go back to the City.

Never gonna work until they man up and do cutoffs. Cutoffs!!!! Every other citizen in every other normal functioning municipality will get they shit cut the hell off if they stop paying for a month.

What, we were expecting Ray Mabus' kid to NOT side with Democratic leadership?

What you put up with, you tolerate! Initiate CUT OFFS . Maybe cutback on the ridiculous eye lash extensions, hair weaves and long nails and pay your bills!

Lumumba is not democratic leadership. Bennie Thompson is democratic leadership in Mississippi, and he green lit the Lumumba prosecution. Harvey Johnson is on the sideline and worried about his legacy.

Memo to the Mabus girl: Try factual reporting for a change. You might actually like it.

Bond debts beyond the resources to service is the legacy of Harvey Johnson.

Are David Archie & Tariq Abdul-Tawwab still on the payroll? Lumumba gave them no-show jobs a few weeks before his term ended. Surely Hohrn kicked them out.

I appreciate Ted. I do wish someone at Jackson Water would listen to me and remove that $20 sewage access fee since I have no city sewage. I also don't have a new meter. My water usage has been estimated for years.

What happen to state taking Smith Wills?
Is Archey still a Jacktown employee?

20% of U.S. citizens can't afford to pay their water bills and it's not just in Jackson. The average bill has risen 80% in a decade. The system had been neglected for decades and $600 million was never going to be enough here in Jackson to "fix" what you can't see.
Politicians don't get re-elected on " invisible" problems Being underground helps ignore the problem. The trash that gets thrown into our rivers and the Reservoir above us is ridiculous!
And there's no doubt many of us buy water to drink that has dropped bills especially in the wealthier and once larger bill paying homes. My sprinkler bill is higher than my usage bill.
I would remind you all that older homes have been here for a very long time and it's water/sewage not just a water bill. And, then there's Yazoo clay.

8:23am deserves free water, free sewer, and would get orgasmic if offered the Madmania of free grocery stores, free communal rent carved from private homes in White neighborhoods, free child care, free bus and a piece of wealthy people's assets, as per NYC's communist mayor nominee.

How petty of Lumumba to take down essential content from the city's website, like city council minutes & the tool that allows residents to submit public records requests online. Residents use the website to do business with the city, so Antar only hurt them with his petulence. Then again, that's the story of his time in office - ordinary people suffer while he & his grifter crowd profit.