Jackson Jambalaya

Love it. All hail the queen! A lot of people call her a “tyrant” but if you don’t have a tight grip on your town you end up with shitty buildings and Choke Me Ladumbass as your mayor!

My favorite is her friends who drive by and complain about some new building or remodeling aesthetic they don't like and she tries to intimidate the builder or owner on the opinions of her friends. Yes, it happens. Mary is good at some things, but a pain in the ass for no reason about others.

And your tight grip leads to everyone else in the county hating you and the board of supervisors being forever packed against you. It's possible to run a city effectively without turning it into an isolationist autocracy.

Wow! Praise the Lord for those patriots that demand better and will not allow cheap crap to be built! If you don’t like it, I’m sure you can find a cheap house in the ghetto of Jackson next to some formerly “nice” businesses!

4:25 did it ever occur to you that those people are WRONG?

I know what you mean, but the autocracy has worked. Everyone bitches, but nobody wants to leave.

But we don't allow apartments, so there!

I saw that yesterday and I felt deep pity for that once nice hay bale.

4:56 it doesn't matter if they're right or wrong if they're aligned against you purely out of spite

5:13 OK? And? They can GFTS. We’re not gonna just give up on what is important just because they don’t like it. Grow a spine please.

One may disparage Mayor Mary all one wants. She has kept the apartments out.

THANKS GO OUT TO MAYOR MARY.

MHB should have been running the Tri-County area.

The results speak for themselves. Mary serves as Mayor as long as she wants to serve.

4:57 - The autocracy has worked? Your hick little village can't even manage to synchronize the traffic signals on Highway 51.

Best mayor in the metro.

Only town in Mississippi that looks like Disney World...

I live in Madison. I love no crime, great neighbors, great schools, excellent restaurants, and that it's generally pretty clean. Whether you love or hate her, if you like the foregoing in your community, you appreciate the hell out of Mayor Mary.

Whoever was brave enough to decorate that round of mule food is obviously PERS vested and a month or two from planned retirement.

"Nobody wants to leave"...It's the Hotel California, you can't check-out! Tennis skirts, Volvos, Range Rovers, Drive thru suppers, mortgages to the hilt, pineapples and evening weed.

Oh...have we mentioned no apartments?

7:05. I haven’t noticed, as I take my time rolling through town without having to worry about accidentally running over two or three begging for money. I’ll gladly take hick town over whatever it is you may be proud of. I can’t wait for your enlightening reply.

4:25 PM the “board of supervisors being forever packed against you” translated means RINO Supervisor Gerald Steen backed by RINO Ridgeland Mayor Gene F McGee have turned Madison County over to Democrats, with Mike Espy (cannot make this one up) in control as Board attorney.

This is just one more example of literally how beyond STUPID the Republican Party really is. Criminal Democrats play the long game while RINO fool tools like Gerald Steen and Gene McGee sell out Madison County’s future for short term gains.

One only has to look at Jackson to see the destruction Democrats cause with their soft on crime, revolving door, catch and release pro-criminal tactics, but Gerald Steen and Gene McGee (and Gluckstadt Mayor Walter Morrison as well?) will be to blame when the Democrat criminal culture cancer destroys Madison County.

Vs. a war zone.

5:59 Cussedness for the sake of cussedness is not productive. You have to work with those around you. Mary could have accomplished 95% of what she accomplished and been a little nicer about it. The fruit of her wages is that the county board of supervisors is forever stacked against her, to her own detriment. She has done nothing to prevent this.

10:10 is spot on !

let's see. She was right about Rudy, right about Kountry Tyme, right about apartments, want me to keep going?

4:57 nailed it. End of discussion. RESULTS!

Well damn! She should be impeached, executed, and drawn and quartered! And not in that order!. The horror!

Don't know about that, but I have not noticed any potholes that swallow cars, murder rates that rival 3rd world shitholes, fullauto gunfire echoing in the distance, trash everywhere, etc. I do not live in Madison, but i got through it frequently. They might be on to something.

Some people need to be reminded.

Anyone who ever saw a photo of Rudy could tell that dude was shady as f. Two things can be true at the same time.

Labeling Mayor McGee a RINO because Madison does not like being on the wrong side of a majority 3-2 Board of Supervisors vote is absurd. Mayor McGee acts in the best interest of Ridgeland, not republicans. One might also note Ridgeland's roads are the best in the county, in part because its Mayor and Board reinvests in its infrastructure. Mayor Mary, for all her "positives", doesn't invest a lot of city money in roads and infrastructure, a lot like leaders of Jackson thru second half of the 1900s.

11:10 Welcome to the forum, Gerald

11:10 AM, wouldn’t you need to live in the city of Madison to “not like being on the wrong side of a majority 3-2 Board?” Are you really short sighted enough to go along with Gene F. McGee and Gerald Steen turning Madison County over to Democrats….because you have good roads? Really?

Gene F. McGee’s record, from issuing apartment complex bldg. permits….to his ordinances years later requiring apartment complex owners to start tearing down apartment bldgs, some of which he had issued the very permits to build (actions so egregious that multiple state and federal lawsuits against the City of Ridgeland over property rights and constitutional issues were filed) speaks for itself.

One must wonder what the white liberals that turned Jackson over to Democrats in the 1990’s think about their actions causing the city becoming a murder capital, about an innocent 2-year old being murdered, children killed with stray bullets, a 6 or 7 year old shot in the face, etc. How do they sleep at night?

You literally have be hard core rock solid idiotic to turn a county over to the very Democrat party that loves crime, loves criminals, uses catch & release, wants to defund the police, wants to abolish the police and destroys communities with crime, for more freaking road money. God please help us!

7:05 said, "The autocracy has worked?"
Yes, and it works very well.
Mary Hawkins does what Democrats promise to do.

The traffic signals in Madison aren’t synchronized?!? Oh my God!!! I’m glad Jackson doesn’t have to deal with problems like that.

If Madison County could get rid of Gerald Steen, things county wide would be a lot better.

If non-synchronized traffic signals are the biggest fault you can find about a town, that means it has pretty effective leadership. 7:05, thanks for the compliment!

The signals are no joke, 7:05. Ditto to and from I-55 on Hwy 463 and Madison Pkwy. It takes half an hour just to get from one side of Madison to the other...a 5 mile drive taking over 20 minutes is ludicrous.

11:10, McGee/Ridgeland has done a fantastic job creating sidewalk space. It's nice to have those spaces.

Love the "loop" Madison has along Madison Avenue and Hoy...but we need more! Also need to expand Liberty Park spaces along the south side of Avenue.

"Only town in Mississippi that looks like Disney World... "

An overpriced traffic jam run by a rat with no shirt, a fowl with no pants, Goofy, and a gal who hangs out with Dopey?

2:27’s post just had to have Mike Espy laughing his ___ off! I can just see Espy telling Karl Banks and Paul Griffin, “see, all we’ve got to do is give those idiot Republicans some money for “a fantastic job creating sidewalk space,” and we will be able to control Madison County forever. More of our Democrats will be embedded into high paying county positions (like the one that wired millions to a scammer, then got a raise), and before long, like Jackson before us, Madison County will be ours!”

But hey, Republicans aren’t called the stupid for no reason.

Mary Hawkins is an historically great Mayor. She is easily the best mayor in Mississippi, and we have numerous outstanding mayors. A case can be made that she is the best mayor in the history of Mississippi. She has built a great, safe, clean, and family friendly city from nothing. I live in Jackson. We can only wish.

The make-up of the Madison County BOS is a political problem, and is not the fault of Mary nor of Gene. Steen can be beat, but you need a quality candidate who is a workhorse, who can largely self fund his or her campaign, and who will run with a ruthless message about what Steen is doing to Madison County. Jill Ford almost did it a few elections ago. Start recruiting now.

Easy for Ridgeland to crow about roads when Steen at all are giving it and the Canton area all of Madison's road money. Same stunt Graham and crew used to pull on Phil and Peggy.