Jackson Jambalaya

Nail meet hammer. Henifin is shucking the corn with 'em.

how much longer till Ted says "eff" this BS and heads home ?
I would love to hear /read Ted's take on all of this when he is done...

Why does Jackson always take the route of letting everything rot?

He's right. City failure. Like you say KF.

Henifin is worth every penny. Man I hope he stays but shocked he has held out this long. Raise the rates!! We pay less for water than Brandon and our infrastructure is a hundred years old!!

It's business. The council and the mayor are only concerned with politics. The can was kicked down the road by previous administrations who also were only concerned with politics and now the time has come to put up or shut up. Jackson dug a hole and now it must dig it's way out and it requires tough business decisions which jive politicians cannot make. That's why a receiver is in charge. Do what has to be done!

It seems that very few, if any, Jackson pols can get reelected unless they run out the trope "water is a right so you don't have to pay for it."

And our State leaders are going to change next election.

I had high hopes for the new adminstration. After this they are no better than the previous adminstration.

Little Detroit gonna Little Detroit.

9:22 apparently you aren't on the West Rankin billing....

The city interfering is why he's in court.

Ted is correct. We have a bunch of city morons who can't run a lemonade stand, and have PROVEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN that they can't run a lemonade stand, trying to tell Ted how to run a lemonade stand. Ted is correctly telling them to shut the f**k up. The city council is made up of idiots. They wouldn't understand or recognize effective government and management if they were staring it in the face. Ted still has work to do. Rome wasn't built in a day. He is having to totally fix everything that the city of Jackson screwed up. The city got $800 million and they can't just say "thank you" and shut the hell up.

City Council gone get spanked.

Why the hell can't COJ understand this bit of (oversimplified for the low IQ) common sense. Ted shouldn't even have to say this.
What a bunch of dumbasses! smh

Did all of the city council members ride the short bus in school?

You can’t expect the people in city government to be any more intelligent or capable than the voters who elected them. Nothing will change until the demographics change, and there is nothing to indicate that might happen in the foreseeable future. The State should yank the city’s charter and govern it directly through a commission or board.

Ted has a brass set.

Ted seems to have the traction for the action in Jackson. He just needs to go on and take care of business.

If you first can't correctly identify the problem, then your solution isn't a solution, it's an addition to the problem. This is why this all happened to begin with, why it will continue to be a problem for Jackson, and why I live in Madison.

Ted's right. Again.

Jackson needs to get the hell out of his way and let him continue the Herculean task of fixing their version of the Augean Stables

Henifin is correct. It's absurd that the Jackson City council now seeks to inject itself into this.

I agree with 9:14. I cannot believe Ted has not hauled ass. He ain't a quitter and all that sh*t but damn, dealing with these "slow", insulting, disrespectful people has got to be a burden of biblical proportions.

9:34 Stop insulting Detroit. Detroit will be up and running again while Jackson is still in a death spiral. Different situations.

Likely the COJ doesn't really want the systems back at this point, just the revenue so they can spend it on non-water/sewer expenditures.

The COJ political posturing is so they can tell their constituents, "Well, we tried but (fill in blank with any outside entity) overrode our wishes".

Also, whomever is paying the garbage contractor should get the garbage revenue, and whomever is getting the water/sewer revenue should be making the bond payments, only makes sense.

Jackson's elected moron class need to remember how Detroit got fixed.

Hint- It starts with hiting bottom in 2008 with a worsening financial crisis due to local and nation economic developments followed by the resignation of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on September 2008 after the first of many criminal convictions for both state and then federal charges.

In 2013 the City of Detroit filed for bankruptcy.

Jackson's leadershio should be careful what they wish and work towards.

It's beyond crazy that the federal receiver has to remind the dullards at City Hall why he's the federal receiver.

Kwame Kilpatrick: The Rise and Fall
WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAioSrD_MQ

I agree with Ted. This group of morons have no clue. Problem is previous tactics of inflating the contracts by acting as general contractor who aren't capable or qualified to do the job thereby subbing out work to competent contractors just to collect their cut ain't out lately. So now you lowdown idiots want to railroad Ted. Ted, my bathroom works after you came on board. I don't have to use Walmart bags as a toilet. Don't chicken out! We're depending on you! I've felt comfortable enough to purchase a new white porcelain bathtub after 20 years. I don't want mud and dirty water to stain it. Garbage collectors leave more trash than they pick up and they leave cans in street for cars to damage. Why can't the morons realize that if the city could become cleaner and safer, improve the quality of education, deport the savages commiting all these crimes, engage intelligent people in positions of leadership, stop race baiting, maybe just maybe, lucrative and sustainable businesses might consider locating here which would bolster the tax base and contribute to the overall growth and well-being of the city. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out!

@grok How to remove Henry Wingate from JXN Water?

What Sister R doing?

Then elected a white mayor who is turning it around.

Why is every issue in the COJ a black v white issue.

If the only tool you have is a hammer then screws and bolts start looking like nails.

Henifin was hired to do a job. He was given the power to do what is needed. Why in the hell does he keep letting jackson tell him what to do and how to do it?

2:15 The city runs to the judge.

Ted before he came here: Let me go save these struggling poor minorities in Jackson that don't have clean water and are surely being abused by racist policies!

Ted when he finally leaves: Dear God, I was wrong.

@12:16 I agree with much of what you say. But your solution includes "deport the savages committing all these crimes," . How does that work? Deport? You mean deport them to Madison or Brandon? Please explain.

How many Christmas envelopes did the Siemens money fill?

A. Jackson is rotten to its core, the more so for smearing its misplaced fecal matter on the one Angel that is essential for its redemption and survival.

B. The Mamdani virus is already inspiring Jackson Democrat Communists in Jackson, including Horhn, who feel entitled to the taxes of producers to pay their bills & bonds and use such terms as "equity & justice & affordability" and even "progressive policing" (to embrace thieves, freeloaders, murderers and carjackers).

2:15, Henifin should tell the judge what he is going to do then do it. According to what I have been reading Henifin is the one who has the job of deciding what needs to be done.

No we use these ships we are seizing to send them back to the continent from where they originated. Trump can cancel their birthright citizenship and get rid of them before the Supreme Court can overturn it.

Sleepy Wingate failed to make a decision today, as he believes more data needs to be collected. He is just doing whatever the morons with the city suggest. The current non-payers aren’t going to start, so everyone needs to get over that fantasy. That mythical pot of non-payer revenue won’t produce much. This is just sad and embarrassing at this point.

I enjoy Hennifin's intelligence and focused response to his detractors, especially COJ socialists who want to exploit his accomishments.

@ 7:28 PM

I totally did notsee this idea on the way.

Incompetent Judge Weakgate is merely stalling for time. We all know when Ted Henefin’s contract is up he is leaving Mississippi for greener pastures and not looking back. Then stupid Wingate will just hand over JXN Water to COJ. Without leadership to appeal the idiotic decision COJ will ruin the water system again with their complete incompetence.

To the Mayor and City Council:

Ok, so you don't raise the rates, but collections don't go up enough or fast enough to pay the necessary maintenance costs. The equipment, not being maintained, then fails again, and the City and its resident have no reliable water again, whether that be a year from now or ten years from now. Then what do you do ? Do you think the State is going to give you $800miillion to try to fix it again ? Do you think the feds will give you $800million again to try to fix it ?

Respectfully, I understand that no one wants a rate increase. But it's inevitable and must be done to maintain the system for years to come, or else we're back to the same situation we dealt with a few years ago. Like the past 5 or 6 administrations and Councils, you're just kicking the maintenance can down the road again and not planning for the long term future, and it's going to backfire again. Please learn from that past mistakes and take the hard but necessary action to avoid it happening again.

9:29 You right.

Rates will probably increase every year going forward for all water systems. The freeloaders make damn sure that cell phone bill is paid.

The mayor called Mr. Henifin a dictator.

Heard a story yesterday about Judge Wingate taking 2 1/2 years after a bench trial to issue his decision. This ship of fools - see Plato's Republic - may sail for years. .