Jackson - The More Things Change, The More Things Do Not Change
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I am not believing this. The Feds are taking down Jackson corruption.
Full indictment. $13k in cash and $6000 at Highland Village.
magnoliatribune.com
Full indictment. $13k in cash and $6000 at Highland Village.
Jackson Councilwoman Lee pleads guilty to federal bribery charges
Jackson City Councilwoman Angelique Lee resigned from the council Wednesday morning, saying she wasn't at liberty to discuss why.
magnoliatribune.com
I am not believing this. The Feds are taking down Jackson corruption.
Full indictment. $13k in cash and $6000 at Highland Village.
Jackson Councilwoman Lee pleads guilty to federal bribery charges
Jackson City Councilwoman Angelique Lee resigned from the council Wednesday morning, saying she wasn't at liberty to discuss why.
#Reparations
I bet this Jackson Sucks thread gets everything sorted out.
I'm so happy right now.
Jackson has so much potential. It has been plagued by a series of incompetent and corrupt leaders for the past 20 years. The corruption is out in the open. If you would have told me that it would be Biden's DOJ running a sting to take them down, I would have never believed it.
She is the most minor of the players going down in this and she's VP of the City Council. Lumumba's phone has been seized and word is he is still looking to squirm his way out of this. I'd let him go free if he dropped out of the 2025 Mayor race right now, but this should end his political career - as he has reportedly been interested in replacing Thompson in the House.
Jackson has so much potential. It has been plagued by a series of incompetent and corrupt leaders for the past 20 years. The corruption is out in the open. If you would have told me that it would be Biden's DOJ running a sting to take them down, I would have never believed it.
She is the most minor of the players going down in this and she's VP of the City Council. Lumumba's phone has been seized and word is he is still looking to squirm his way out of this. I'd let him go free if he dropped out of the 2025 Mayor race right now, but this should end his political career - as he has reportedly been interested in replacing Thompson in the House.
First domino. Sealed indictments have been in place for a while now. Once that negotiation phase is done, we will see the others fall. Rumors of a state takeover of Jackson and Hinds County as soon as the others fall.
Most FBI agents, AUSAs and DOJ attorneys were hired long before Bidens presidency.
I don't see any other way for Jackson to start some form of recovery short of a state takeover. There just does not seem to be an option for competent leadership among the possible candidates for mayor.
Long term, you have to return the leadership of the city to the voters, so it will be interesting, if this happens, to see if the state can build something that somehow perpetuates whatever improvements are made, assuming the state does any better. Doesn't seem like worse is possible, but politicians are involved...
Yes, because Jackson voters always kill it.****
Lather, rinse, repeat if the local populace is in charge at the polls. If anything, it’s time to take it OUT of their hands. At least for a while.
Whoa! I went to highschool with her. Top 3 caboose ever. Elbows not pointy.
St. Joe Jackson for you Flashes and Irish.
St. Joe Jackson for you Flashes and Irish.
Most people who assume power that way have trouble giving it back. Feels like there are a few examples of this in history
Yeah. But they’re not going forward with an operation like this without approval from the top.
Very true. But in this case, which would be worse?
Jackson was destroyed by the massive flight starting in the 60’s. But well before that, the state has never given the city anything, not even the base payments for city buildings, etc. The counties were zoned to where Jackson has been landlocked for decades. Many cities don’t have that problem, and they can run from their mistakes. It makes Jackson’s problems even that much more compounded.
If it’s the state of Mississippi in power versus the City of Jackson, I can’t imagine anybody could do worse than Jackson has. The state has never done anything for the city, but neither has the city in the past 60+ years. And the voting populace will never, ever change unless 80%+ of the city is gentrified (not gonna happen).
I read and hear this a lot. Unfortunately, Jxn has little potential. The burbs filled the vacuum. Retail and restaurants are mostly gone. Professional firms mostly gone. Much medical has gone and more is leaving. There’s very few hotels that most would stay in inside the city limits, but the burbs are full of them. The last 30+ years Jxn has decayed so rapidly that most businesses left and they aren’t coming back.
I’d go full degenerate and pull in casinos and “entertainment districts,” but current leadership doesn’t want folks, especially those of lighter pigmentation, from the burbs coming in to the city.
Local news matters. Local elections matter.
The rule of law matters.
The rule of law matters.
They actually just posted a story with a lot of details although every other media outlet in Central Mississippi has been on it since mid-morning
https://mississippitoday.org/2024/0...-vp-resigns-admits-to-federal-bribery-charge/
Yep, a lot more details in that one. When it said ‘sting’ I was wondering if it involved real developers.
I bet none of them were bad enough to steal $1.5m of chicken wings from a school cafeteria**
www.wlbt.com
School employee gets 9 years in prison for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings from district
A former employee of a school district in Illinois has pleaded guilty to stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings from the district’s food service.
www.wlbt.com
I was really encouraged when I saw the start of the video on Jackson Jambalaya. I thought that was Councilwoman Lee announcing her resignation because of bribery charges and thought that if the white and black members of the city council were engaged in illegal corrupt behavior together, maybe that could be the start of racial healing that the city needs. Then I realized that was just a different city council woman talking about the resignation, so that was kind of let down.
I think Angelique is going to be mighty popular if she has to go to prison though.
She plead guilty. So yeah, she’s singing like Leontyne Price. It will be very interesting to see where this leads.
if she took $13,000 in bribes, plus some shoes and what not, you can bet your a$$ that the ones she's singing on took WAY more in bribes. The FBI starts at the bottom and works their way up, getting each one to sing (with progressively less negotiation) as they go up the ladder. I'll bet that ladder stops at Lumumba
The hospitals are even leaving jackson now. Jackson heart and another UMMC department are building in ridgeland to get away. State needs to take over Jackson for a generation and see if they can break the cycle
Truth. @Shmuley is probably the best on the board, throughout the years
wish he’d post more….but…..less is also more, what’s the phrase? Absence makes the heart grow fonder….or something
Yeah. When I saw the indictment, I thought that's nothing. I mean, of course it's serious, but this is the kind of small stuff Shad White is going after while ignoring the bigger picture. I bet they've got her for more than this and this is what she pled down to.
Something to think about, maybe??
Naw man don’t get too deep, shmuley/3putt is hilarious, he’s the message board genius don’t get it twisted
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