Posted on 09/01/2022 8:43:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Democratic mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, promised to make the capital “the most radical city on the planet” during his 2017 campaign, but so far he’s been unable to even solve even the city’s basic infrastructure problems and the city’s running water is now unsafe to drink.
He campaigned on plans to introduce universal basic income and alternatives to policing, to replace vacant lots with urban farms and to resolve chronic issues with the city’s water and roads in order to break the “cycles of humiliation” he said black residents experience in Jackson, the most heavily black large city in the U.S. Instead, the city’s water problems have worsened, and Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Tuesday because running water is not reliably available nor safe for consumption.
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Providing an emergency briefing tonight at 7:00 PM, alongside our Department of Health and Emergency Management Agency, on today’s failure of our state capital’s water system and the resources that the state is mobilizing to respond.
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The city-run O.B. Curtis Water Plant has been plagued with issues for years and has issued numerous boil water notices, but recent flooding impeded its ability to offer reliable running water to 180,000 Jackson residents. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) will be distributing water from tanker trucks at various points throughout the city, Lumumba told CNN.
“I wouldn’t call us the most radical city to date,” Lumumba told Politico in 2021 amid a separate city water crisis.
Lumumba did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
He’s doing a fantastic job of turning Jackson into the worst city in the world to live in and he’ll probably be reelected.
Maybe we can get some Jackson residents to speak up on this, but I would imagine this was a city-problem lingering for 30 years, and no one really sensed an urgency to rectify it until now.
You see the same issue for Cape Town, South Africa...where the city and nation was warned for several decades, and just never got around to taking action.
Is the WATER PLANT run by a FRIEND of this Marxist??
I guess he thinks clean drinking water just happens.
Death by dehydration IS a radical notion! Starvation is the back up plan!
I wonder if he’s related to Patrice.
Check this out. From last year...
https://www.epa.gov/ms/jackson-ms-drinking-water
Note to the EPA: SNORT.
Jackson, MS: Where they are so progressive even their water, when they have some, is green.
Oh, boy...From this year...
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/city-jackson-mississippi-clean-water-act-settlement
His father (former mayor of Jackson) was involved with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_New_Afrika
Doesn’t matter. The governors citizens are facing a dire imminent risk to health, even life. In those circumstances the governor has a duty to bring the state’s emergency resources to bear. Too bad it’s not Florida so he could simultaneously suspend the mayor
In all of this, has anyone ever thought to check how much Chockwey’s net worth has increased?
Yes. Thinking of Vicksburg. Jackson a bit further east.
More here, the consent decree...
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-decree-city-jackson-mississippi-case-no-312-cv-790-tsl-mtp
It was an identified problem for about 30 years. The State offered to take over the water system and Jackson refused. Too much graft and corruption in my opinion.
Solution is simple. Blame Republicans. That’s all Democrats know how to do, so why should this be any different? Real solution? Get rid of all of these POS and throw them in prison and toss the key away.
He's failed at everything he's done, but the people of Jackson re-elected him. While not necessarily true in national elections, in this case you got what you voted for.
NO. They’ll vote black and to the black who lies to them the most about what he’s gonna do for them.
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