Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Clinton candidates scrum

Clinton mayoral candidates took questions at a town hall forum Monday night. Here is the video of the entire session.


40 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hisaw looks really desperate. These debates have been the worst thing for his campaign.

Anonymous said...

Ben Allen is letting his Jackson candidate Jonathan Lee go down in flames.

No candidate will ever kiss your ass again Ben.

Anonymous said...

Yep, while KF worries about Clinton, he is getting scooped by his rival for what is usually news on this site first.

Anonymous said...

Damn Begley is everywhere!

Anonymous said...

Looks like JFP has decided to eat its own (African-american Democrat). Interesting.

Anonymous said...

What has this got to do with the Clinton debates?

Anonymous said...

Interesting that the "information" arrived at the same time as the scheduled interview. Nothing else in the "interview"?

Anonymous said...

What has this got to do with the Clinton debates (again)?

Anonymous said...

Tempest in a teapot 6:30.

Anonymous said...

the clinton debates were 2 hours of nothing, what else is there to comment on?

clintonrebel said...

to quote a lady that would not like to be quoted....our choices are a jerk and a nerd....and add to the mix a third candidate not nearly as qualified as the jerk and the nerd. I may do a write-in

Anonymous said...

Let's look at this election - Fisher is on the Board of Supervisors with one vacancy - the Board is split 2/2 and we probably won't have a replacement for Anderson until the November election. If Fisher is elected, that spilt goes to a 2-1 in favor of Stokes and Graham. In July (after Fisher has resigned), the two idiots could appoint two more idiots to the Board for a 4-1 majority! They would be ruling for five months unchecked - and who knows, their appointments to the Board could be elected - it's has happened before. Clinton residents - please vote for anyone but Fisher! The rest of us in Hinds County need him to stay on the Board of Supervisors!

Anonymous said...

Hinds County is lost. A goner. Before the decade is out the State of Mississippi will have to take over the County and Jackson.

Anonymous said...

Do any of the suburbs have decent candidates for mayor? Madison and Clinton are having "hold your nose" elections, and Brandon can't even find a second person interested in the job even with the incumbent leaving office. Vicksburg, while not a suburb, may elect an actual whore to office rather than a metaphorical one. This is local government at its finest, folks.

Meanwhile, in Jackson, there's an effort to incite the natives over a default judgment. A default judgment! If those people didn't live their lives so focused on the greater Fondren/Belhaven perpetual crime scene -- I mean "neighborhoods" -- they could ask Ridgeland how hard it is to set aside a default judgment.

The best (worst?) part is that the effort is being led/fed by an outfit that doesn't pay its taxes, much less its workers. Sorry, I meant "interns." So, the field in Jackson is Shaka Zulu with his many contempts of court (including jail time), Quinn with her firsthand bankruptcy experience (that's federal, people), and Lee with a business dispute that is being portrayed as the crime of the century. Fantastic. If you fall for this and reelect Harvey "Retread" Johnson (or worse, a candidate who has been in jail or federal court) you'll have only yourselves to blame.

Anonymous said...

For those that seem to think only one news source had these documents, I wonder how long KF has had them? This site has several times posted default judgements, back taxes, and numerous other unpaid fees by other candidates is now seemingly silent. Irony is not lost on posters when it is your candidate who can't handle his business, and looks like a complete idiot trying to explain it, it's a non-story; but, when it is anyone else the response is if you can't manage your own affairs how do you expect them to manage (insert office elect here)?

Anonymous said...

Why ON EARTH would anyone of any decency or intelligence want to run for office in this day and age? You set yourself up for ridicule the minute you enter the race, your family becomes fair game, any sin you've ever committed becomes front-page news, and your life implodes. People you have never met start calling you "jerk," or "nerd," or, if you are black, "Shaka Zulu." Whatever intentions you have in running for office, be they servant-minded or purely selfish, matter not. The electorate is more interested in how the media and annonymous online commentors can crucify you.

Pure statistical chance would dictate that SOMEONE out there running for office is a decent person. But, God help that candidate if he/she wins because opinion leadership in the parties has been taken over by the wingnuts. Those decent people must set aside their own better judgement (the thing they were supposedly hired for to begin with) in favor of the dictates of the party's perception of what sells at that moment. That fair-to-middling elected official has to now decide whether to become just another party automaton or risk being the next pariah for the crime of thinking independently.

The electorate and the media no longer REALLY want a government that works because then they have nothing to bitch about. If a decent person knows that he or she would be unable to serve the public in office, either because government is too screwed up or because the public just doesn't want to be served, why ON EARTH would a decent person subject him or herself to the kind of crap that comes even from just this board, much less all that comes from everywhere else.

America has created a political environment that thrives on the worst parts of human nature. And we get the candidates we deserve because of it.

Anonymous said...

Keep trying 9:08. Johnson has been "mayor" for 12 long years and has built consensus with no group. NONE. If you disagree name any group he works WITH , other than the mute corps of yes men dunces he has surrounded himself with.

This is a non-story spoon fed to Harvey Worshipper Donna Ladd and her cadre of mush heads. Trying so hard to tear others down while HJ actually offers no leadership.

Amazing he has NO group of civic leaders supporting him, not even JPD. Don't believe me? Find a Cop, any Cop and ask them.

Anonymous said...

@9:29 - Pretty sure the Shaka Zulu comment was thrown out there w/r/t Lumumba's Republic of New Afrika nonesense since, if you haven't noticed, all of Jackson's candidates are black.

As for the rest of your post, you nailed it. Let's not overlook the reason for extremism in the parties, though. To ensure "one man, one vote," nearly all districts are drawn in a way that ensures the strongest liberal wins the liberal districts and the strongest conservative wins the conservative districts.

Practically Crime Free said...

Madison's is not a 'hold your nose election', 8:35, unless you're sniffing rotted produce in the Kroger stock room. You need to crap in another direction if you want to tarnish all administrations within 60 miles. Madison's has progressed quite well, untarnished and without rebuke for thirty years.

Cue the usual "she's mean to me, buys too many bricks and doesn't like blue peacocks" cricket-chorus in 5-4-3.

Anonymous said...

9:29 Come on! Harvey gets along great with the leadership of the Jackson Free Pravda, and Chief Coleman (a cop) likes him!

Kingfish said...

Post has been written. I'm waiting for a call back. Thanks for reading.

Anonymous said...

9:39 not 9:29.

Anonymous said...

Boy Tom Head is one goofy mofo.

Anonymous said...

Stay clear of Fondren today folks. Napalm drop. Karma is a bitch.

Tomas Cabeza es un idiota said...


Not all that sure that Harvey is behind this. A good showing by Lee helps the Mayor more than it hurts him.

Must say though that Lee's losing his composure and bumbling on about it all is somewhat surprising.

Anonymous said...

DonnerKay had to do something, anything, to resuscitate her dying franchise.

Thanks for Reading! said...

Memo to Tom Head
================

Tom, advertisers follow the eyeballs. What you really should be asking is why the other candidate's aren't trying to reach out to all voters.






By the way Tom, that's Barbie Benton on the far left. Google her.

Kingfish said...

Does anyone really care what the boy in the bubble thinks?

Anonymous said...

MR. FRANKLIN:
The incumbents surrogates are digging up dirt I see. And other challengers are feeding into instead of seeing the bigger picture smh
6:05 AM - 25 Apr 13

MR. FRANKLIN:
But yall stay tuned for the "most obvious", "worst kept secret" endorsement story in the past 8 years. Try to act surprised will ya LOL
6:13 AM - 25 Apr 13

Donna Ladd:
@Kamikaze601 Jaz, your snark is transparent.
6:17 AM - 25 Apr 13

Donna Ladd:
@Kamikaze601 I would also be careful about spreading false rumors about any local company. It's a small town.
6:18 AM - 25 Apr 13

Donna Ladd:
Right on schedule: we report in legal problems of a mayoral candidate that he hasn't revealed; his surrogates start trashing us. Grow up.
6:21 AM - 25 Apr 13

Donna Ladd
Of course, same people trashed us 8 and 4 years ago when we reported need-to-know info on mayoral candidates no one else would vet. Smh.
6:25 AM - 25 Apr 13

MR. FRANKLIN:
I dont open my mouth to hear myself talk. And as far as this town goes Im good in ANY part of it. Im embraced. Can everybody say that...
6:28 AM - 25 Apr 13

Anonymous said...

9:47, all of Jackson's candidates are NOT black. Charlotte Reeves, who switched from Republican to Democrat, is one of the fourteen.

Anonymous said...

"Boy Tom Head is one goofy mofo."

Is Head's hat in the ring?

Anonymous said...

Charlotte who?

Kingfish said...

No. It just rings.

Anonymous said...

NE Jackson voters should take a second look at Regina Quinn. She unwisely chose bankruptcy in her personal finances, but she has done outstanding work with Jackson State and as an attorney. Anyone who spends five minutes talking with her will find that she is a unifying person, not a divisive one. Now that Lee's candidacy has lost the foundation that it was built on, Quinn should be seen as a viable alternative.

Shadowfax said...

Meanwhile, the Madison campaign is in first gear and gaining traction. Mary is standing on her fabulous record while J. Bell is promising to be 'mayor for all of the people all of the time', or something like that. Kingfish is curiously avoiding this one. Town meeting with the candidates on April 29. If you make it, KF, please don't apologize later for the audio. Bring decent equipment.

No Questions Allowed said...

Man in charge of Madison town meeting next week has now sent out memo announcing no questions will be taken from the standing room crowd at Madison Central. Only the questions prepared by himself. Of course he says neither candidate has advance notice of questions content. Right. People have been preparing for months to ask both candidates questions, now this. The guy is probably a lawyer, which means he's impartial though, right?

So, to recap: At the meeting earlier hyped as 'ask the candidates', no questions will be allowed.

Anonymous said...

Garrett really blew the response to not having been at board of aldermen meetings. She basically said I know I'm not qualified but I have contacts on the "state and national level."(3x) Who cares. From what I hear those people dont even like her.

Anonymous said...

No, they don't, 2:06. They really, really don't.

Anonymous said...

Can't decide if I'm less interested in Versailles or Chokwe.

Anonymous said...

What the hell has any of this got to do with Tom's Head?



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