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Mississippi Today: Bills aimed at Jackson remind of apartheid, Lumumba says

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, with City of Jackson Communications Manager Melissa Payne, fields questions during a community meeting held to update the public on the water system, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2022, at College Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba on Monday lambasted state lawmakers’ ongoing attempts to strong-arm city leadership through legislation that would remove local control over judicial and drinking water systems.

In the current legislative session, lawmakers have introduced the following bills:

HB 1020, which would create a new court to oversee cases within Jackson’s Capital Complex Improvement District with judges appointed by the state Supreme Court and prosecutors appointed by the state attorney general.

HB 696, which would expand the boundaries of the the district.

SB 2889, which would put the long-term control of Jackson’s drinking water system under a board mostly appointed by the governor and lieutenant governor.

SB 2338, which would prevent cities from charging for water based on property value, a plan Jackson’s new third-party manager is proposing as a way to lower the cost burden on poorer residents.

The mayor spoke to the pattern of recent attempts to remove control over issues in Jackson from the 83% Black, majority Democrat city, and put it in the hands of state leaders; all of Mississippi’s statewide elected officials are white Republicans.

“It reminds me of apartheid,” Lumumba said Monday. “They are looking to colonize Jackson, not only in terms of them putting their military force over Jackson, but also dictating who has province over decision-making.

“They put this military force over us, and we’re just supposed to pay taxes to the king.”

Lumumba also called out HB 370, which would allow voters to recall municipal elected officials. Critics of the bill argue it was aimed at removing Jackson leadership, although the bill’s author, Rep. Shanda Yates, said she didn’t introduce it with the city in mind.

The mayor has frequently criticized the role of state leaders over the past year. Last April, Lumumba called the Legislature “paternalistic” and “racist” after a dispute over the appropriation of federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. In their handling of the funds, lawmakers attached extra oversight over Jackson’s spending of infrastructure money that wasn’t required for other cities in the state.

Last fall, after a combination of flooding and broken pumps shut down the capital city’s drinking water system, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that the state was taking over Jackson’s water operations. After both initially said that the city and state were working together, Reeves and Lumumba spent weeks launching public attacks against each other.

The federal government recently appropriated $600 million to directly assist Jackson’s water system; that money is part of a total $814 million in federal funds that will go towards the city’s water and sewer projects.

Lumumba said Monday there has never been an investment like this before, referencing that Flint received $100 million in federal funds to aid its lead crisis. He said Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann expressed doubts that Jackson could secure such funding without the state’s help.

“(Hosemann) said that I needed to look at a possible relationship with the state, because what did I think, Biden was going to write me a check?” Lumumba said. “I recently told (Hosemann): ‘I do, and he did it.'” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (left) and water system’s third-party administrator Ted Henifin, answer questions regarding the current state of the city’s water system during a town hall meeting held at Forest Hill High School, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Mayor hasn’t seen proposal yet, appointing new public works director

Asked about last week’s proposal from the city’s new water manager, Ted Henifin, Lumumba said he hasn’t yet reviewed the plan, and couldn’t speak to specific ideas in the plan, such as charging customers based on property values or creating a nonprofit to govern the system long term.

Lumumba did say the city was getting ready to announce a new interim public works director; the previous interim director, Jordan Hillman, is now working for Henifin’s organization, JXN Water.

The mayor said the city is hiring a recruiting firm to find a permanent director, and added that the new director will no longer be handling the city’s drinking water.

Asked if management of the drinking water system would remain with a separate entity long-term, Lumumba said “it’s too early to say.”

“I will say my interest is not just to run (the water system) and operate it for the sake of running and operating it,” the mayor said.

Lumumba will host a town hall to discuss the latest around federal funding and Henifin’s role on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Forest Hill High School.

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the silver lining,

Delbert Hosemann may be the difference in the Governor’s race in supporting another Democrat, Presley. Many of my conservative friends have all lost hope. I was asked this morning what was my thoughts on the coming election in November. The worst scenario would be a Presley and Hosemann leadership of the state. The Senators on the coast are genuinely supporting Hosemann, which would mean they are…

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Hosemann: Strengthen Penalties for Carjacking, Other Crimes : Inside US

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Thursday that he wants to set stronger penalties for carjacking, resisting arrest and fleeing from law enforcement officers. The proposals are being considered during an election year when lawmakers and statewide officials, including Republican Hosemann, will be on the ballot. Mississippi has one of the highest incarceration rates…

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https://nationalfile.com/mississippi-goper-delbert-hosemann-directed-for-profit-abortion-clinic/

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Friday, September 24, 2021

Friday, September 24, 2021

It’s the end of the week and the weather’s really nice out. With that in mind, let’s write about something positive. It was a pleasant surprise, anyway. Against all odds, the Mississippi Legislature got its shit sufficiently together and put together the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act. House Speaker Phillip Gunn presented it yesterday, with the final draft done by Rep. Lee Yancey of House…

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-- has won the Lt. Gov. race The state of Mississippi has a new Lieutenant Governor. Delbert Hosemann has won the race for Lt. Governor. He won with 60% of the votes.

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A Multi-State Task Force is Tackling Ag Crime In the Delta

In the Mississippi River Delta a task force is helping to take a bite out of farm crime.

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Mississippi's GOP lawmakers sicken

If you want someone to stay loyal to your cult, you could do worse than demanding the impossible of them: "I can do $IMPOSSIBLE_THING and so will you, if your faith is pure."

Wiley Brooks told his breatharian cultists they could get all their nutrients from breathing and this would make them immortal. He charged $100k+ for breath-training. In 1983, he was caught at at 7-11 with a Slurpee, hot dog, and Twinkies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia#Wiley_Brooks

Which is hilarious, sure, but think about it. Everyone in Brooks's cult must have been doing the same thing, because otherwise they'd have starved to death. Think about how their shameful secret must have made them both loyal and suspicious.

Which brings me to the Mississippi Republican Party.

Republicanism is a death-cult that demands that its adherents shun masks and social distancing, insisting that the whole coronavirus pandemic is a liberal hoax.

Ironically, this is the same movement whose doctrine holds that "facts don't care about your feelings."

For weeks, state GOP lawmakers have made a big deal out of showing up for work without masks and packing together like cattle in a feedlot.

26 of them just tested positive for covid-19.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/us/mississippi-coronavirus-legislature-trnd/index.html

Included: Lt governor Delbert Hosemann and State House Speaker Philip Gunn.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is now calling on cult members to mask up, saying "Mississippi is in a fight for our lives."

He's not wrong.

Versions of this are playing out across America: like the Florida county commissioner who ended up in the ICU with multiple organ failure and sepsis from coronavirus, and who, one week earlier, had voted against mask orders.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/07/10/st-johns-county-commissioner-hospitalized-with-covid-19/

Making suicidal behavior a condition of cult-membership is a tricky business. If the suicide is slow enough, you might outlast the consequences of your lethal loyalty tests - many climate deniers will be long gone before their cities burn or drown.

But when action and consequence are closely linked, your followers are apt to die or renounce faster than you can recruit new, traumatized, desperate people to join you.

The blast radius of ordering your cult members to stop eating is limited to them and their families.

But the fallout from mask-shyness and other forms of epidemiology denialism reaches all of us.

The GOP cult isn't just suicidal - they're radicalizing millions of suicide-bombers whose preferred weapon of terror is their own exuberantly proliferated exhalations.

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MS Secretary Of State Was For Sharing Data With Kobach Before He Was Against It (TWEET)

MS Secretary Of State Was For Sharing Data With Kobach Before He Was Against It (TWEET)

Earlier this month, Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, the operating head of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asked all state election officials to provide detailed data on registered voters– Social Security numbers, party affiliations, military statuses, criminal histories, voting records, the lot. Kobach quickly had a bipartisan revolt on his hands. At last count,…

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MS Secretary Of State Was For Sharing Data With Kobach Before He Was Against It (TWEET)

MS Secretary Of State Was For Sharing Data With Kobach Before He Was Against It (TWEET)

Earlier this month, Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, the operating head of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, asked all state election officials to provide detailed data on registered voters– Social Security numbers, party affiliations, military statuses, criminal histories, voting records, the lot. Kobach quickly had a bipartisan revolt on his hands. At last count,…

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The Fourth of July should remind Americans that President Trump has launched an assault on universal suffrage.

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2023 KU KLUX COURT: White lawmakers want to create new court system for Jackson, MS |

https://www.sunherald.com/news/politics-government/article272284283.html

A white supermajority of the Mississippi House voted after an intense, four-plus hour debate to create a separate court system and an expanded police force within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — that would be appointed completely by white state officials.

If House Bill 1020 becomes law later this session, the white chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would appoint two judges to oversee a new district within the city — one that includes all of the city’s majority-white neighborhoods, among other areas. The white state attorney general would appoint four prosecutors, a court clerk, and four public defenders for the new district. The white state public safety commissioner would oversee an expanded Capitol Police force, run currently by a white chief.

The appointments by state officials would occur in lieu of judges and prosecutors being elected by the local residents of Jackson and Hinds County — as is the case in every other municipality and county in the state.

Mississippi’s capital city is 80% Black and home to a higher percentage of Black residents than any major American city. Mississippi’s Legislature is thoroughly controlled by white Republicans, who have redrawn districts over the past 30 years to ensure they can pass any bill without a single Democratic vote. Every legislative Republican is white, and most Democrats are Black.

After thorough and passionate dissent from Black members of the House, the bill passed 76-38 Tuesday primarily along party lines. Two Black member of the House — Rep. Cedric Burnett, a Democrat from Tunica, and Angela Cockerham, an independent from Magnolia — voted for the measure. All but one lawmaker representing the city of Jackson — Rep. Shanda Yates, a white independent — opposed the bill.

“Only in Mississippi would we have a bill like this … where we say solving the problem requires removing the vote from Black people,” Rep. Ed Blackmon, a Democrat from Canton, said while pleading with his colleagues to oppose the measure.

For most of the debate, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba — who has been publicly chided by the white Republicans who lead the Legislature — looked down on the House chamber from the gallery. Lumumba accused the Legislature earlier this year of practicing “plantation politics” in terms of its treatment of Jackson, and of the bill that passed Tuesday, he said: “It reminds me of apartheid.”

Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten, who served in the House before being elected judge and would be one of the existing judges to lose jurisdiction under this House proposal, also watched the debate.

Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell, who oversees the Capitol Police, watched a portion of the debate from the House gallery, chuckling at times when Democrats made impassioned points about the bill. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, the only statewide elected official who owns a house in Jackson, walked onto the House floor shortly before the final vote.

Rep. Blackmon, a civil rights leader who has a decades-long history of championing voting issues, equated the current legislation to the Jim Crow-era 1890 Constitution that was written to strip voting rights from Black Mississippians.

“This is just like the 1890 Constitution all over again,” Blackmon said from the floor. “We are doing exactly what they said they were doing back then: ‘Helping those people because they can’t govern themselves.’”

The bill was authored by Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican whose hometown of Senatobia is 172 miles north of Jackson. It was sent to Lamar’s committee by Speaker Philip Gunn instead of a House Judiciary Committee, where similar legislation normally would be heard.

“This bill is designed to make our capital city of Jackson, Mississippi, a safer place,” Lamar said, citing numerous news sources who have covered Jackson’s high crime rates. Dwelling on a long backlog of Hinds County court cases, Lamar said the bill was designed to “help not hinder the (Hinds County) court system.”

Many House members who represent Jackson on Tuesday said they were never consulted by House leadership about the bill. Several times during the debate, they pointed out that Republican leaders have never proposed increasing the number of elected judges to address a backlog of cases or increasing state funding to assist an overloaded Jackson Police Department.

In earlier sessions, the Legislature created the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which covers much of the downtown, including the state government office complex and other areas of Jackson. The bill would extend the existing district south to Highway 80, north to County Line Road, west to State Street and east to the Pearl River. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people live within the area.

Opponents of the legislation, dozens of whom have protested at the Capitol several days this year, accused the authors of carving out mostly white, affluent areas of the city to be put in the new district.

The bill would double the funding for the district to $20 million in order to increase the size of the existing Capitol Police force, which has received broad criticism from Jacksonians for shooting several people in recent months with little accountability.

The new court system laid out in House Bill 1020 is estimated to cost $1.6 million annually.

Democratic members of the House said if they wanted to help with the crime problem, the Legislature could increase the number of elected judges in Hinds County. Blackmon said Hinds County was provided four judges in 1992 when a major redistricting occurred, and that number has not increased since then even as the caseload for the four judges has exploded.

In addition, Blackmon said the number of assistant prosecuting attorneys could be increased within Hinds County. In Lamar’s bill, the prosecuting of cases within the district would be conducted by attorneys in the office of Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who is white.

Blackmon said the bill was “about a land grab,” not about fighting crime. He said other municipalities in the state had higher crime rates than Jackson. Blackmon asked why the bill would give the appointed judges the authority to hear civil cases that had nothing to do with crime.

“When Jackson becomes the No. 1 place for murder, we have a problem,” Lamar responded, highlighting the city’s long backlog of court cases. Several Democrats, during the debate, pointed out that the state of Mississippi’s crime lab has a lengthy backlog, as well, adding to the difficult in closing cases in Hinds County.

Lamar said the Mississippi Constitution gives the Legislature the authority to create “inferior courts,” as the Capitol Complex system would be. The decisions of the appointed judges can be appealed to Hinds County Circuit Court.

Democrats offered seven amendments, including one to make the judges elected. All were defeated primarily along partisan and racial lines.

“We are not incompetent,” said Rep. Chris Bell, D-Jackson. “Our judges are not incompetent.”

An amendment offered by Rep. Cheikh Taylor, D-Starkville, to require the Capitol Police to wear body cameras was approved. Lamar voiced support for the amendment.

Much of the debate centered around the issue of creating a court where the Black majority in Hinds County would not be allowed to vote on judges.

One amendment that was defeated would require the appointed judges to come from Hinds County. Lamar said by allowing the judges to come from areas other than Hinds County would ensure “the best and brightest” could serve. Black legislators said the comment implied that he judges and other court staff could not be found within the Black majority population of Hinds County.

When asked why he could not add more elected judges to Hinds County rather than appointing judges to the new district, Lamar said, “This is the bill that is before the body.”

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BREAKING: 24 States UNITE To Resist Trump’s Criminal Mandate

The conspiracy theories never stop with the Trump administration. The reason he lost the popular vote, according to him, was that there was a great deal of illegal voting happening. Even though he won, he still feels he didn’t win.  

At least 24 states are pushing back against Trumps administration’s request for voter registration data. Trump formed what he calls the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to prove that he lost the popular vote due to illegal voting.

This claim has been debunked already, yet Trump is not satisfied. The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent out 50 letters to each secretary of state that requested the information of all the voters.

These letters were written by the Presidential Advisory Commission Vice Chairman and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). However, unsurprisingly, many of the state secretaries just outright refuse to comply with the request.

In fact, many state secretaries were greatly offended by this notion. And rightly so.

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) said, “The president created his election commission based on the false notion that ‘voter fraud’ is a widespread issue—it is not.” She further stated that she would not release any information.

“New York refuses to perpetuate the myth that voter fraud played a role in our election,” Cuomo said in a statement. “We will not be complying with this request.”

Perhaps the best response to this ludicrous request came from Mississippi Secretary of State. Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, would say that he would not be handing over any information and for the members of the voter fraud commission to, “go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.” Very nicely said.

Many other state secretaries gave their opinions about the request, all of which were very similar in their answers.

With an overwhelming amount of the nation outrightly refusing his request, it would appear that Trump is trying his very best to isolate himself—or trying his hardest to go down in history as the worst president. Maybe he is even trying to get himself removed from office.

When people of your own party don’t agree with you and think that your request is farcical, it might be time to take a second look at what you are doing.

What are your thoughts about President Trump’s fraud commission? More importantly, do you think anyone will take this man seriously anymore?

Share your opinions in the poll below. We would love to hear what you think.

POLL: Is Trump’s fraud commission a joke?

With a fraud commission that is viewed by many to be completely ridiculous, one has to ask oneself what goes on in this guy’s head. The more absurd his claims become, the less respect he earns.

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It has gotten to the point where states are now refusing to engage in his antics, and they are right not to.

Please share this story far and wide on Facebook. The more we reveal the insanity of this president, the more quickly we can oust him.

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Class action lawsuit filed against city amid Jackson's ongoing water crisis : Inside US

Class action lawsuit filed against city amid Jackson’s ongoing water crisis : Inside US

HELP BUSINESSES RECOVER FROM THE WATER CRISIS.. 1:13- 1:14 DELBERT HOSEMANN – LT. GOV ” IT’S TIME TO COME BACK OUT.” LT. GOV DELBERT HOSEMANN JOINING THE SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL WATSON AT THE FIRST STOP…BROAD STREET BAKERY…AS WATSON MADE HIS WAY ACROSS A MULTITUDE OF RESTAURANTS IN THE CAPITAL CITY MONDAY. WATSON SAYING MANY RESTAURANTS ARE FEELING THE STRAIN FROM THIS WATER CRISIS… MICHAEL…

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Class action lawsuit filed against city amid ongoing water crisis

Class action lawsuit filed against city amid ongoing water crisis

HELP BUSINESSES RECOVER FROM THE WATER CRISIS.. 1:13- 1:14 DELBERT HOSEMANN – LT. GOV ” IT’S TIME TO COME BACK OUT.” LT. GOV DELBERT HOSEMANN JOINING THE SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL WATSON AT THE FIRST STOP…BROAD STREET BAKERY…AS WATSON MADE HIS WAY ACROSS A MULTITUDE OF RESTAURANTS IN THE CAPITAL CITY MONDAY. WATSON SAYING MANY RESTAURANTS ARE FEELING THE STRAIN FROM THIS WATER CRISIS… MICHAEL…

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Monday, May 17, 2021

Monday, May 17, 2021

Boy howdy, I let time slip up on me. No real good excuse beyond I started reading and fell asleep. The Network Of Time, if you’re curious. Fascinating book but reading about complicated quantum mechanics always turns my brain into mush. Yes, I’m still pissed off about the state supreme court killing Initiative 65 stone dead for, from I can tell, no real good reason last Friday. The mighty Ashton…