tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post557274957352835577..comments2024-03-28T15:51:00.024-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Mayor Blames WLBT for "Salacious" ReportingKingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-63048025471806488022022-05-20T10:34:45.358-05:002022-05-20T10:34:45.358-05:0012:27 wrote: "City residents want someone tha...12:27 wrote: "City residents want someone that can be a coalition builder, who will have the ability to forge partnerships with the surrounding suburbs."<br /><br />On what do you based that assumption? As I wrote before:<br /><br />"Lumumbas I and II have won 3 of the last 4 elections for mayor. That isn't a fluke; it's a pattern."<br /><br />-5.18.22 @ 1:20 PMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-88147225945243007582022-05-19T12:27:19.889-05:002022-05-19T12:27:19.889-05:00Kingfish, if you will be so kind again...............Kingfish, if you will be so kind again.............. <br /><br />@ May 18, 2022 at 2:33 PM<br /><br /><i>'m 1:33 and I sincerely applaud your efforts 10:50.<br /><br />If you can get Chokeway, Rukia and the City council to get along with Rankin and Madison officials to agree to mutual representation and a willingness to work with others, you may be on to something.<br /><br />I do not share your optimism, though. They have done absolutely nothing to extend any olive branch to anyone. Quite the opposite.<br /><br />And the suburbs will never agree to fund the corruption while having no say in the spending.<br /><br />Gentrification is the only hope.<br />That will never happen until crime is controlled.<br />Crime will never be controlled when leaders are all fancy words and outstretched hands begging for money and zero action.<br /><br />And I can think of a few Fondren fellows that would make wonderful mayors.<br />But no amount of money will get a white man elected.<br /><br />Jackson's largest voting block would rather burn with a leader of the same skin tone than thrive with leaders cursed with opposing complexions. Sad and true.</i> <br /><br />The keywords you stated were - Chokeway, Rukia, and City council to agree. <br /><br />Its possible and I will tell you how, in the next election cycle, the alderman, and mayoral candidates need to start talking about how they want the Jackson metro area to succeed and will be willing to put forth efforts to make a stronger Madison (or Brandon) by building relationships with other city officials. That way it puts the onus on political candidates in Jackson to match that same energy and the onus will fall on them to fall in line to say they will work to build coalitions too. The candidates that are paying attention, will find a way to reach out. The voters will see it <br /><br />City residents want someone that can be a coalition builder, who will have the ability to forge partnerships with the surrounding suburbs. Chokwe is not doing that and the people can see it. <br /><br />I want you to think about something. Chokwe won the election, but the turnout was terrible. Presidential Hills has 2000 registered voters. Only 700 even showed up in that last election. Better candidates, regardless of race, need to step up and run <br /><br />The residents in the suburbs need to get more active in city politics, get some dollars behind a candidate that can build a coalition with the burbs, that the city residents can get behind too. If Mitch Landrieu can get elected in New Orleans, the suburbs can get who they want in Jackson too. <br /><br />You guys got a choice, stick with the status quo and do nothing, or get in the game and change the trajectory? <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-53055435320425115182022-05-18T22:40:30.774-05:002022-05-18T22:40:30.774-05:00Another carjacking last night in Belhaven.
Yeah...Another carjacking last night in Belhaven. <br /><br />Yeah - it’s perfectly safe to come eat down there. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-89131159406461817622022-05-18T14:33:59.682-05:002022-05-18T14:33:59.682-05:00I'm 1:33 and I sincerely applaud your efforts ...I'm 1:33 and I sincerely applaud your efforts 10:50.<br /><br />If you can get Chokeway, Rukia and the City council to get along with Rankin and Madison officials to agree to mutual representation and a willingness to work with others, you may be on to something.<br /><br />I do not share your optimism, though. They have done absolutely nothing to extend any olive branch to anyone. Quite the opposite.<br /><br />And the suburbs will never agree to fund the corruption while having no say in the spending.<br /><br />Gentrification is the only hope.<br />That will never happen until crime is controlled.<br />Crime will never be controlled when leaders are all fancy words and outstretched hands begging for money and zero action.<br /><br />And I can think of a few Fondren fellows that would make wonderful mayors.<br />But no amount of money will get a white man elected.<br /><br />Jackson's largest voting block would rather burn with a leader of the same skin tone than thrive with leaders cursed with opposing complexions. Sad and true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-31737674635679319622022-05-18T13:20:17.363-05:002022-05-18T13:20:17.363-05:0010:50, I hear what you're saying, but I believ...10:50, I hear what you're saying, but I believe your vision is mutually exclusive of the vision of the Jackson intelligentsia. This mayor and his predecessor-father, with their backers, have a vision for Jackson as an independent black nation.<br /><br />There is no room in the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (co-founded by Lumumba I) or the Republic of New Afrika for partnerships with white people. If you think I am exaggerating, you haven't been paying attention to the garbage contract debacle.<br /><br />Lumumbas I and II have won 3 of the last 4 elections for mayor. That isn't a fluke; it's a pattern.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-50904134314123402732022-05-18T11:56:02.688-05:002022-05-18T11:56:02.688-05:00NEXT!!!!NEXT!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-77703144895336090142022-05-18T10:50:19.721-05:002022-05-18T10:50:19.721-05:00Hopefully, Kingfish will be kind enough to post my...Hopefully, Kingfish will be kind enough to post my reply <br /><br />@ May 17, 2022 at 4:51 PM<br /><br /><i>1:33-I agree.<br /><br />Now tell me with a straight face that Chuckles would entertain the idea of a board, comprised of leaders from the SUBURBS, that will have a say in how the city is managed, how contracts are doled out, how crime is squashed, and how to gentrify.<br /><br />Otherwise, what exactly do you suggest the suburbanites do to save Jackson from itself?<br /><br />Contrary to your belief, we do know its better for all if Jackson thrives.<br /><br />However we were told to shut up and hand over our money, so we left.</i> <br /><br />Thank you for agreeing. <br /><br />But when you say, save Jackson from itself, you really should have posed the question what can we do to slow down the fiscal redistribution? We are not growing as a metropolitan area - but what we are experiencing is fiscal redistribution. That's one thing. <br /><br />The ideas of regional boards are necessary, but the biggest issue is the representation and the willingness to get along to work along with each other. What Toby Barker has done in Hattiesburg is monumental and remarkable. <br /><br />The surrounding suburbs have the ability to ratify around a mayoral candidate they thing is worthing of being the mayor of Jackson and they can see their own mayors working with. But they got to get their dollars behind the right candidate and steer that person to make promises to work with you guys. <br /><br />Basically, where there is interdependence between the city and the suburbs. <br /><br />But trust me, if there were better candidates running against Lumumba, he would have lost. <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-68145548411106583962022-05-17T22:15:17.948-05:002022-05-17T22:15:17.948-05:00The FBI? As if!The FBI? As if!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-81071204268430437832022-05-17T22:14:47.251-05:002022-05-17T22:14:47.251-05:00Dear Mayor,
We are not interested in spending our ...Dear Mayor,<br />We are not interested in spending our state tax dollars to solve your problems.<br />Sincerely,<br />Everyone else in Mississippi Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-8717077970796547492022-05-17T21:51:19.696-05:002022-05-17T21:51:19.696-05:00I'm a firm believer in the authority of press ...I'm a firm believer in the authority of press releases to curb crime. Jackson is safe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-65658149461369397582022-05-17T21:19:53.233-05:002022-05-17T21:19:53.233-05:00Dear Mayor, the only place the future is taking yo...Dear Mayor, the only place the future is taking you now, are places you’ll regret in the end. You’ve sold your soul to the devil and you obviously don’t know it. You have proven you were spoiled and ill prepared to be in a position of leadership. Hang your Buster Browns in the closet and don’t apologize for your disappointing time of public service. You have failed. Please, stop reading the dictionary and just be a normal thug. It’s the right thing to do. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-9030500630464508312022-05-17T21:13:18.391-05:002022-05-17T21:13:18.391-05:008:41 WLBT ran a crawl on their screen Monday night...8:41 WLBT ran a crawl on their screen Monday night saying that an audit of the Siemens settlement showed 1/3 of the money went to lawyers and half went to pay for deadbeats who did not pay their water bills. Only $15 million (or 1/6th) went for actual improvements in the system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-17349136590826567322022-05-17T20:41:24.213-05:002022-05-17T20:41:24.213-05:00where's the Siemens money? The FBI needs to be...where's the Siemens money? The FBI needs to be looking at the mayorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-73636810553040280922022-05-17T19:16:32.369-05:002022-05-17T19:16:32.369-05:0012:09 PM
Remember, that is an estimate. I fully e...12:09 PM <br />Remember, that is an estimate. I fully expect this year to compete with 2021. I rounded down because you only round up > 0.5. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-46350472161787328682022-05-17T16:55:55.611-05:002022-05-17T16:55:55.611-05:00Many comments about ole Shaddy for Guvnah! I don&#...Many comments about ole Shaddy for Guvnah! I don't know that my eyes could handle all the shine on those fake pearly white front incisors he has. I'd need sunglasses if he weren't a dwarf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-41438339686862918232022-05-17T16:53:15.293-05:002022-05-17T16:53:15.293-05:00Yes 3:45, bad word of mouth is the reason Jackson ...Yes 3:45, bad word of mouth is the reason Jackson is failing.<br /><br />God help us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-15189124403167147882022-05-17T16:51:32.674-05:002022-05-17T16:51:32.674-05:001:33-I agree.
Now tell me with a straight face th...1:33-I agree.<br /><br />Now tell me with a straight face that Chuckles would entertain the idea of a board, comprised of leaders from the SUBURBS, that will have a say in how the city is managed, how contracts are doled out, how crime is squashed, and how to gentrify.<br /><br />Otherwise, what exactly do you suggest the suburbanites do to save Jackson from itself?<br /><br />Contrary to your belief, we do know its better for all if Jackson thrives.<br /><br />However we were told to shut up and hand over our money, so we left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-45203458756116716792022-05-17T16:07:10.250-05:002022-05-17T16:07:10.250-05:002:48 but, but.... I imagine none of these local la...2:48 but, but.... I imagine none of these local lawyers would have purchased that nice NE Jackson house in a gated community. Hell, if Yarber can cut a deal to get his mortgage 'dismissed', then CAL figured he was entitled to a nice new house as well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-25337859241070104252022-05-17T16:02:49.175-05:002022-05-17T16:02:49.175-05:00Because Lil Choke can no longer sell his circuitou...<b>Because Lil Choke can no longer sell</b> his circuitous, self serving stretchers outside his own crew of toadies, he gets hysterical when publicly called out, which just makes his incompetence ever more apparent.<br /><br /><br /> Krusatyrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-35198522387204120542022-05-17T15:50:40.524-05:002022-05-17T15:50:40.524-05:00@3:45 PM - as it should be. @3:45 PM - as it should be. James Crownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-90830538248583644682022-05-17T15:45:09.163-05:002022-05-17T15:45:09.163-05:00A huge part of the problem is people who don't...A huge part of the problem is people who don't live in Jackson, shop here, volunteer here of support Jackson in any way...yet segregate, insult and disparage in every way the can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-10482239266093580472022-05-17T15:31:47.915-05:002022-05-17T15:31:47.915-05:00I’m calling on the police to stop all the gang ban...I’m calling on the police to stop all the gang bangers search their person and their vehicles, you will find guns and drugs! These young fools will not leave home without their firepower! You know who they are!!!<br /><br />Do not tell the Mayor or the Chief of Police of our plans! They will alert the gangbangers and dope boys!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-28834686767925926622022-05-17T15:13:10.872-05:002022-05-17T15:13:10.872-05:00I think both the Mayor of Jackson and the self-des...I think both the Mayor of Jackson and the self-described (would-be) "likely next Governor of Mississippi" (a/k/a Shad White) have confused the word "salacious" with the word "sensationalist" (which actually means someone who presents a story in a way intended to provoke public interest or excitement at the expense of accuracy). But, then, maybe they don't teach that distinction either at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (the Mayor) or Harvard School of Law (Shadrack). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-17849756057727184222022-05-17T14:48:50.873-05:002022-05-17T14:48:50.873-05:00"Elections have consequences"
What Lumu..."Elections have consequences"<br /><br />What Lumumba 2.0 means is "send me more money to pretend like I am doing something, but I really and going to funnel it to my friends to give back to me". Case in point, $30mil(1/3rd) of the Siemens settlement money his Chicago lawyer buddies received. Hell, any attorney downtown could have won that one for a whole lot cheaper. Hell, most of them donate to Antars campaign. Antar robbed $30mil of the Siemens settlement money from the people of Jackson. No wonder just about everyone is hesitant to send him more money. <br /><br />If you want to make a change in the crime in Jackson, he needs to be preaching about replacing all the social justice warrior judges to keep turning them back out. I bet he wont make mention of them though. He's a do nothing, jive talking, empty suit mayor looking for his next leap into the liberal spotlight. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-51102242541495796582022-05-17T13:33:49.859-05:002022-05-17T13:33:49.859-05:00Chokwe, Chief Davis, and the Acting Sheriff all ne...<i>Chokwe, Chief Davis, and the Acting Sheriff all need to be replaced asap! They don’t have a clue what they’re doing. It won’t be anything left in Jackson at the rate the crime has increased.</i> <br /><br />Hawkins Butler couldn't fix this, without a layup from the state. <br /><br />Needless to say, the trajectory of Jackson is not good. People in the surrounding burbs do not understand this will hurt them just as much. <br /><br />We have three separate counties competing for revenues, acting as if they are in different states. When the city and suburbs need to be planning how each can gain and retain businesses, without it having an adverse affect on another location in the greater Jackson metro area. <br /><br />Businesses that should be centrally located, closing and moving to parts of the suburbs that is just not logistically convenient for people in other parts. <br /><br />You can't blame people for shutting down and relocating. But we gotta start thinking about how this area is going to develop as a whole? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com