True to her words, Town of Jonesboro’s District B Alderwoman Renee Stringer got busy this morning and dug up some history from the archives of The Jackson Independent. Stringer had promised at last night’s council meeting to do whatever she could to fight and keep Jonesboro from going totally “wet.”
It seems there was a local option election regarding liquor sales in Jackson Parish, including the town of Jonesboro.
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See here Stringer’s comments.
I just wanted to provide to the public the following information:
Please see the results of the decision of the registered voters of Jackson Parish and how they voted their convictions. It is very obvious to me that a 10 minute trip to the Jackson Parish Library has proven that there are serious questions about how the decisions are made in the Town of Jonesboro regarding law, ordinances and everything relative to the effective day to day operations of the town.
I am not an attorney nor do I have graduate level education, but this has by far surpassed any other action to date. I hope this will put to rest the notion that Liquor is the answer to the lack of revenue we are so in need of at this point in time.
Renee Stringer
07/11/2012 at 11:49 am |
Good job Renee, I thinks this proves the town is either totally incompetant or will flat out lie to get what they want!!
07/11/2012 at 11:55 am |
great job, i no longer live in jonesboro and wish i could help more
07/11/2012 at 12:08 pm |
This just goes to show the mayor didn’t do the research he proclaims. I live in the Jonesboro Hodge area and remember when this was voted on. He is just trying his best to blow smoke away from him, but the fire is getting a little bit hotter every time he opens his mouth!
07/11/2012 at 12:18 pm |
No this goes to show that Doug is sleeping with Leslie!!!
07/11/2012 at 8:42 pm |
now …now….maybe they are just sleeping
07/11/2012 at 12:28 pm |
You all are so darn messy.
Why you do not want Jonesboro to take in more taxes selling firewater?
A downtown bar is a good idea. The kids all ready back hanging out since the cops are gone.
I am thinking a security company needs to move on in…businesses can then hire private security …..more money ….more jobs
Leslie is helping…you folks are stuck in the past..put it on the ballot and see if the current votes want liquor stores in town…if Leslie wants it, the vote will turn out.
07/11/2012 at 12:46 pm |
Ahhhh..the mayor will just say thank you for helping him find this out and preventing him from committing a crime.
07/11/2012 at 1:42 pm |
committing a crime, like anyone is going to be prosecuted for criminal activity……so stupid.
07/11/2012 at 12:47 pm |
So much for picking battles, something Rene just doesn’t know how to do. As clear as it is that the mayor and the town are corrupt, it’s also abundantly clear some people just fight for the sake of fighting. Never mind the revenue from sales taxes, the business opportunities or the personal freedom to make our own decisions. The mayor wants to sell liquor, so by God we’re against the sale of liquor. That mentality isn’t going to get us anywhere.
Look at the divisions this issue is already making. I’m staunchly against the mayor and the evident corruption, but here I am defending a position of his because I believe we should be able to sell liquor in the town. Rather than picking her battles, Rene has helped create a situation where people are going to be divided because she has to fight absolutely every decision. This one is costing us money.
I’d like someone to please give me one explanation as to why the town shouldn’t sell liquor. Answering, “Because the mayor wants it,” is not an acceptable answer.
07/11/2012 at 12:56 pm |
what are your reasons for wanting liquor sales in jonesboro, more taxes? what are being done with your taxes now? why should we give more taxes to a group of people that will only spend it on themselves and say go to h*** with everyone else. not only to mention that without a police department to work the DUI’s and all the other things that go with the abuse of alcohol.
07/11/2012 at 2:02 pm |
The sale of alcohol in the form of beer, wine and weaker spirits is already permitted in various stores. Liquor is sold at the Y just outside of town and at Jody’s on Beach Springs. People already have options to drink. It makes no sense that I can buy beer from the Circle K but have to drive across town to Jody’s to buy anything harder.
People that are going to drink and drive will do it. By the way, beer gets you drunk, too. But not allowing the sale of alcohol only limits the freedom of responsible, law abiding people.
I think it’d be great if I could have a margarita at El Patio, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with feeling that way.
07/11/2012 at 4:50 pm |
Your whining is pathetic. Why don’t you just go get a petition and get busy and get it done or go buy your permit and get busy selling it? Go get one of your beverages and chill out…….
07/11/2012 at 1:26 pm |
Your post is reflective of the mentality of the current administration….. “I want it and I am going to have it despite what the law requires” .obviously you don’t read or comprehend what you read….it was voted out in 1976, they exercised their right to vote and they voted no. I would appreciate you explaining to us how it is costing (us) money by adhering to a law. They can’t account for the money for at least the last 3 years, so how do you think that selling booze will bring more money in? Division, yes indeed, separate and apart from all the activity that has been allowed to run rampant for the last 5 years…..she sure has done just that and represented her District. I would like you to give everyone an explanation as to why the town should sell liquor after you have the evidence that it’s not legal and answering “because the mayor wants it and you want it” , is not an acceptable answer.
07/11/2012 at 1:34 pm |
Yes we have so many businesses just line up waiting to get here to put a business in a town that has no police protection, town cannot get an audit and the streets are caving in and the downtown area looks like a ghost village, water bills never right, …..everyone wants to be located in jtown. That is the most lame thing other than the continual chirping that “it’s all good”. Booze sales will make them come here, booze might bring them here, but once they get here and see the big picture….they will pack up and been gone quicker than they came. Wait till they get their first water bill……..if they can.
07/11/2012 at 1:39 pm |
that is exactly why you would want a booze joint, you don’t have po po to worry with, hang on the corner and sell ya dope and ya booze can cover up for the dope…….sell it sell it sell it………but do drug dealers pay taxes or is that called kick backs?
07/12/2012 at 11:09 am |
Because it leads to addictions, which then leads to the abuse and the break up of the family, which then leads to crime, which then leads to moral bankruptcy. Only an idiot with a primate understanding of the evils of hard liquor would think that just the sale of liquor would be responsible for bringing new business to Jonesboro. Me thinks that a good moral climate (something that we are missing at the moment), good schools (check out the last scores and see where Jonesboro stands compared to the rest of the State [but you have to remember that Jonesboro is part of Louisiana which ranks near the bottom in education]), and a town with some degree of pride (that definitely is missing in Jonesboro) is what is needed to attract new and job producing businesses. When standards are lowered, suffering will occur – the businesses that I see blooming in that environment are of the shady variety (drug dealers, theifs, and purveyors of filth). If that is what the CTIC wants then he isn’t upholding his sworn obligation to help make Jonesboro a better place. I don’t know for a fact that he is lining his pockets with money meant to be spent on the town, but it is beginning to look like it. This is brought to you by a committee of one praising the accomplishmentts of Rene Sringer and asking that all good citizens demand that she run for mayor at the next election and for all of you to go out and vote for her. Enough said.
07/11/2012 at 1:01 pm |
Hey “Drink Up” I don’t think Renee is fighting this battle just because the Mayor wants it. I think she is trying to proove that he does not have the legal right to make that decision on his on!!
07/11/2012 at 1:02 pm |
O.K. I am not real educated on politics, but I am assuming the answer you seek Drink Up is this: Back in the 70′s the parish voted on the sale of liquor and the vote came back no. So if Leslie wants to have the town of Jonesboro “wet,” there would have to be another vote, I would imagine. Rest assure if the whole parish voted on this again, the vote would still be NO! We are after all living in the Bible Belt.
07/11/2012 at 1:39 pm |
Don’t blame the vote against liquor on the “Bible Belt” mentality. It was put up for a vote by the citizens of Jonesboro and they exercised their right to vote as they (individually) saw fit. I do believe that right now is not a good time to have another vote on this issue – just call my hunch a “Leon Drive and beyond” thought. The CTIC has many, many votes out that way and it is my guess that most of them need more to spend their food stamps on. Call me bitter but just drive the length of Leon Drive any night and count the brown bags that are being tipped.
07/18/2012 at 12:54 pm |
Not the parish just Jonesboro Cause hodge sold booze in the 70′s thru the mid 80′s
07/11/2012 at 2:12 pm |
First, let’s be very clear that I am all for properly funding the police department. Second, let’s be very clear I’m against the mayor and his handling of the town, the corrupt way he does business, and how he gets protection from local politicians.
But the fact we’re going back to newspaper clippings of the 70s basically proves my point that someone is just looking to throw a wrench in whatever idea comes forth. Most people would wonder why it’s not sold already. Instead, she runs down and starts digging through newspapers just to say, “HA! I told you so!”
We need to look at this from a business perspective. Town needs money. Alcohol generates revenue.
Look at it from a liberty perspective. Responsible adults should have the right to make their own decisions. If you don’t want to buy a bottle of Jack Daniels at the Circle K, don’t buy it. But I should have the right to make that decision for myself.
But don’t look at it as another way to stick it to the mayor. I would bet anything if another election came up to approve alcohol sales, a lot of people would fight it simply because the mayor wants it.
07/11/2012 at 2:24 pm |
OK I’ll agree with you, but
until there is another election for the sale of alcohol, it is illegal to sale it!!!
07/11/2012 at 2:42 pm |
Alcohol generates drunk drivers, broken homes, domestic abuse, financial ruin and petty crime in addition to revenue, Is that a good trade off for the revenue produced? Not everybody who drinks liquor can exercise proper self-control.
Doing proper research to establish what the facts are trumps your assumption of what the facts are. “Most people would wonder”, how many people are in that sample that you are using to establish that fact? You have every right to your opinion but it is just your opinion no facts have been established in that opinion.
07/11/2012 at 4:02 pm |
It’s not the government’s place to save people from themselves. Laws like liquor laws only punish law abiding citizens. I’m punished every time I have to drive out to the middle of no where to buy what I want to drink because the town can’t sell it. I, as should everyone, have the right to decide for myself what goes in my body.
By the way, beer and wine contain alcohol, too. It’s sold in gas stations throughout the town. What sense does it make to let someone buy beer and not liquor when it can yield the same result?
I do apologize for not having sample data prepared. You are correct in that I did not run a poll before issuing my opinion. Common sense and living outside of the Bible belt demonstrated that a whole lot of people would find this to be a silly argument.
And if you want to cite facts yourself, be sure to include that the vast majority of alcohol users don’t beat their domestic partners and children, drive recklessly, or otherwise throw their lives away. Again, I don’t have data on hand for that, but I’ve personally seen WAY more people who have had a drink and continue to be productive citizens.
07/11/2012 at 4:49 pm |
We don’t really care what you put in your body which is the reason we don’t say anything about you having your head up your ass. Check the number of alcohol related deaths each year, especially around high school graduation time. It is illegal to sell hard liquor in town and that’s that. If you had a good time outside of the Bible Belt, what’s keeping you from going back? These laws are not meant to punish but to protect the citizens in such a way as they desire and showed at the polls. Even if only 1% of the drunks abuse their wives; even if only 1% of the drunks drive recklessly, then that is 1% too freaking much. Can you understand that?
07/11/2012 at 5:36 pm |
Perhaps that’s because ignorant rednecks like yourself spend too much time preaching against alcohol than teaching how to use it responsibly.
To use the gun example again: Growing up here you’re taught from an early age how to responsibly use a gun. You can’t do it til your old enough, but by that time dad has taught you how to be safe and make smart, responsible gun decisions.
Imagine instead if dad said, “Guns are evil. You’re not to use them.” When that person finally gets a gun, he or she won’t know how to use it, and probably make bad decisions.
The whole alcohol argument isn’t handled the right way. You’ve just been indoctrinated against it from years of brainwashing and the inability to open your mind in the slightest bit. It’s almost as if you’ve had your head up the preacher’s ass your whole life…
07/11/2012 at 6:42 pm |
Oh come on now…name calling adds nothing of value to either of ya’ll’s opinions..
07/11/2012 at 6:54 pm |
How’s about you teaching a class on how to use alcohol properly? I don’t have my head up anyone’s ass nor have I been brainwashed about its use. Your use of the gun analogy shows you are the redneck. Everything in the world always goes back to guns. Why? We were talking about booze and apparently you had a need for that substance, which after a shot or two brought you to the subject of guns. I won’t try to understand your connection, so just let me end with this observation: you are advocating that fathers take their children out drinking to show them the proper and safe way to drink. My mind is open and I think about the abuses that take place because of alcohol, the deaths that occur because of alcohol, and the stupidity of those who advocate
for its legalization and use.
07/13/2012 at 7:52 pm |
Mr. Fowler, You are correct. Everyone doesn’t have a problem with an occasional drink but, there are those who do. Those that do will get in their car and drive. They don’t think they are impaired. I, for one, do not want to meet them driving on the streets. If you want to drink anything other than beer, go where you need to to purchase it. But, please don’t opent the bottle until you have parked your car at your destination and gone inside. Put your keys up and stay there. Oh yes, and just think what an example you are being to your children.
07/11/2012 at 4:24 pm |
Well you criticize someone that has facts just because it doesn’t match your opinion. Why don’t you have data to support your opinion, and until you do have data all you have is your opinion. The newspaper clippings show that it was voted on legally and we still don’t understand what part of that your cannot comprehend. Your opinion does not match the law and for the most part who cares if you have to drive out of town to buy your booze, it is your habit, not anyone else’s problem so why blame them for your choice to drink something that the town doesn’t sell. That again is exactly like the current administration, blame everyone else for your choices.
As far as punishment to you for you having a habit that requires a drive to a place that can legally sell your booze of high alcoholic content, that is your own self inflicted punishment, or is someone forcing you to drive there?
Maybe you need to run down and dig through the newspapers and find something beside your opinion to buoy your thought process.
Now again, we want an answer from you and not “because you and the mayor want it” ……
07/11/2012 at 5:12 pm |
I’m not blaming anyone for my choices. That’s the point. I want the choice. Alcohol is still sold in the town! It’s just in a different form. It makes no sense to require someone drive out to the woods to buy liquor.
I don’t know what facts can support that. I guess the blood alcohol content that creates impairment is the same whether the alcohol comes from a beer or from whiskey. The law says that is .08% by the way.
Why don’t I use guns to help illustrate my point. I’m sure you’re a gun supporter. Are you for gun control? No, of course not. Why? Because you’re a law abiding citizen who doesn’t do bad things with them. But some people do bad things and gun control would keep that from happening, right? No because criminals break the law and would get guns anyway. I shouldn’t have my gun taken away because someone breaks the law with theirs.
Why should I have my liquor taken away because some people don’t know how to handle theirs?
07/11/2012 at 2:32 pm |
Mr. Smith, you’ve clearly missed the crux of my argument. There’s no sense in fighting him on everything just for the sake of doing it.
We need to take good ideas when they come. As we all know, Leslie produces them few and far between. Selling alcohol is a good idea.
Anytime someone makes a small issue into a big deal just to stick it to him, it looks petty. It detracts from our major argument, the corruption.
Anytime someone makes a racist comment, it detracts from our argument and gives fuel to his. Stop doing it. You make us all look like bigots, and I am not.
Now about this election, I’m not sure that defines anything. Some of those areas that said “no” sell beer. The article makes a special exception to describe where beer is legal. So that would lead me to believe unless it’s otherwise noted, the parish said no to beer, too, based on that article. Obviously lots of places aren’t in accordance with that.
Most places legislate liquor through ordinances, not parish-wide referendums. The town should decide if it wants to sell liquor, not someone from outside its community.
Then again, people in most places would find it ridiculous we’re even having this conversation.
07/11/2012 at 2:46 pm |
Agreed. How awesome would it be to have a restaurant that sells mixed drinks?
I’d vote YES, I think many others would do the same.
07/11/2012 at 3:52 pm |
Actually, people in most places wouldn’t find it ridiculous if they understand small towns. And, really, I have no issue with anyone selling alcohol if it is legal to do so. I don’t think anyone was trying to stick it to the Mayor or object simply because he had the idea. If you have paid attention to anything Ms. Stringer does, she does the legal thing whether you or I or anyone else agrees. I do commend her for always standing on the law. If an election was held to make alcohol illegal, then an election will have to be held to make it legal.
If you truly want to drink it up so badly why don’t you start a petition to get enough signatures to get this to an election?
07/11/2012 at 4:07 pm |
My problem is that she didn’t argue against the merits of selling liquor. Her gut reaction was “no,” and it’s because the mayor wanted to do it.
So then she went and had to go back 40 years to find a reason he was wrong. It would have been nice to have a discussion on the pros and cons of selling liquor. Instead, now we have an old newspaper clipping to prohibit what could’ve been a profitable venture.
07/11/2012 at 4:34 pm |
how do you know whether there was any discussion on the pros or cons? It appears to me that you have no evidence of anything you have posted and she went back to find the facts, not a reason but legitimate legal facts. How does one old newspaper clipping prohibit anything? The clipping does not prohibit anything, it serves to let the facts be made known, it was declared wet last night, so why worry over a 40 year old newspaper article? Go get your permit and get busy selling your booze, when did you ever worry about something as trivial as a law?
07/11/2012 at 5:00 pm |
Are you kidding me with this? Your entire position is it proves a law, and therefore, prohibits the sale of liquor. Are you arguing against yourself now?
The article doesn’t explain why places like Chatham have beer now when the election shows they voted against it. If this election is the apparent end-all of the discussion, then I guess we should have the sheriff shut down the gas stations in Chatham.
As for discussion, you should look one article down where she is quoted as saying, “I’m personally against it,” and pledges to fight it. Anyone who’s ever been to a meeting or met Rene Stringer knows that she fights Leslie on absolutely everything. This is just another example.
She’s done a lot of good for this town and certainly keeps the discussion going about the real issues, but she’s let this personal vendetta get in the way of bringing something good for the town.
I’d bet you are one of the people who said “NO” when you heard what the mayor wanted to do, then thankfully she scraped up an old article so you can pin your argument with no basis to something.
Forget the merits of the plan. One article says it’s illegal so we’ll just go with that. Forget the holes and forget the discussion. We stopped the mayor again.
07/11/2012 at 5:25 pm |
No, I was offering you an option, and for your information, my argument is based on the fact that the article depicts, and the fact that the population voted and it was recorded is a fact, the the Wards that encompassed the town voted and that has merit and a basis on which to pin my objection to your rant. Why are you now relenting to just go with an obscure 40 year old newspaper clipping? You state issues with Chatham having beer now, again, you have to reach outside the boundaries of the issue at hand, again just like the current administration, why can’t you quote the entire quote, she stated her District was against it and she personally was against it, again, you use only half the facts and try to put together just enough to sell your ideas and opinions, again just like the issue at hand. If there had been enough reliable research done prior to the meeting last night, this would have never reached this point, but, according to your opinions, everyone should just do what they are told and act upon what they are told to do by someone that obviously has not bothered to do what they are paid to do and are accountable to the public for doing, their job.
07/11/2012 at 5:40 pm |
Yes, you’re right. I omitted when she said her district was against it. I’m sure she has the data you’re so fond of to back that up and didn’t just say it in the meeting because it sounded good. I’ll anxiously be awaiting the poll numbers from Ms. Stringer’s district to back up that statement.
07/11/2012 at 5:52 pm |
I will be awaiting your data as well since you are so fond of touting your unsubstantiated evidence.
07/11/2012 at 5:45 pm |
how has the mayor been stopped, please enlighten us all. nothing has changed, it was declared officially wet last night according to the report, so how has it been changed? the attorney concurred with the mayor so that newspaper article is just merely a newspaper article, nothing more or less, so unless they act upon it, it’s still Wet. Better get your order in early for those permits……going fast I hear!
07/12/2012 at 11:22 am |
Amy, how can you be so stupid. You are just some sort of airhead that thinks the mayor has the right to declare the town wet. Can you not understand why we vote. It is a law that hard liquor can not be sold in Jonesboro. PERIOD! A VOTE will be required to change that not the pronouncements of a fool who is way out of his element. His proclamation that the town is wet reeks of his belief that he is something more than a mayor, maybe a KING. His S***for brains ideas exemplify the fact he does not know what the limits of his powers are and apparently your belief in him shows a need for you to visit the air pump and replenish you brain supply.
07/11/2012 at 5:01 pm |
Mr. Smith, the CTIC can not declare a town wet or dry. Only the voters can do that. For all that I hate about the Jackson Idiot, all of the town’s actions (town council, police jury, school board, and other entities must post their minutes in the paper. It is the official record. The article didn’t prohibit or allow anything – the actions of the voters did and it was reported as front page news and in the minutes of the meeting were the results of the voting were posted.
07/11/2012 at 5:32 pm |
I agree 100% Mr. Fowler, I was using sarcasm with mr drink it up.
07/11/2012 at 5:39 pm |
I apologize, Sir.
07/11/2012 at 4:56 pm |
Go back and read the article from first word to last word. There were three options and the sale of beer was one option and it passed in just about every ward. The sale of hard licquor did not. End of discussion.
07/11/2012 at 2:44 pm |
After reading all these comments, it seems to be split. Yes, there is nothing wrong with selling alcohol in businesses for revenue. The point being against it, is the fact that the citizens do not want for the mayor to make a profit to go in his pocket as he has done in the past. There is not anything to worry about right now, because no business in their right mind is willing to come to this town with the management it has at this time. Everyone needs to have faith that the Attorney General will do his job come the 16th of July. Once this town is back on track, maybe just maybe there will be businesses interested in locating in Jonesboro.
07/11/2012 at 3:04 pm |
Sure you don’t need a drink??
“Wine is fine,
But liquor is quicker”
Ogden Nash
07/11/2012 at 5:03 pm |
Stupid is as stupid does. So said Forest Gump.
07/11/2012 at 3:05 pm |
Chatham still have the cash crops like pictured in the newspaper above?
Maybe Jonesboro can legalize that cash crop for medicinal purposes and make some more money!
Town workers can be the farmers…..
07/11/2012 at 3:12 pm |
Oh great, you just gave ol Leslie another idea!
07/11/2012 at 5:04 pm |
It’s still grown in Jonesboro. You just have to look in the right places.
07/11/2012 at 3:50 pm |
How you all know when our Mayor said Jonesboro is wet he was not referring to the recent rains?
Just trying to stir up something …once again..
Give it all a rest…..go back out on your porch and sip your sweet tea
07/12/2012 at 11:27 am |
Mayor is busy for you!!!, I surmise that you live in a sandy soil part of Jonesboro and that explains why you have your head in the sand. Please, sir, Name an accomplishment of the CTIC; just one!
Incompetence is not an accomplishment; it’s a failure and when one fails he needs to be removed from office. Sure, he was talking about the rain or in his case his reign. That reign I hope will soon come to an end. How many times does he have to be told that he “ain’t wanted?”
07/11/2012 at 3:53 pm |
I no longer live in Jackson Parish, but I still maintain fond memories of growing up and living there for many years, and I love the parish and people. I realize I have no legal say-so about what happens there, but I do have a concern for what i read is happening now. I’d like to know when Jonesboro found herself in such dire financial circumstances? I don’t remember hearing about financial problems
during the administration of prior mayors. These problems seem to have occurred under the incompetent ‘reign’ of Leslie Thompson.
I think Renee Stringer should be commended for following the law, and I am glad she knows how to do research and is not afraid to speak out in favor of following the law. It seems Doug Stokes should have done this research prior to supporting the mayor.
I urge everyone to do research on Wet vs. Dry Parishes. There are more DWI’s, homicides, and crimes committed in Wet parishes. Louisiana leads the nation in the highest crime rate. When you do a search of the best places to live in Louisiana, it is the small towns located the farthest from the legalized sale of alcohol.
Another question to consider: Who receives the majority of tax money from the sale of alcohol…the State or Town?
07/11/2012 at 4:03 pm |
except the parish isn’t dry…
and I’m sure the sale of alcohol in jonesboro vs the Y will increase the number of homicides per year drastically. lol I so scared right now.
07/11/2012 at 4:09 pm |
Thank you!
07/11/2012 at 4:19 pm |
I think the explanation is fairly simple to that. The “wet” parishes are in South Louisiana where 2/3 of the population live. Of course there’s more crime since there are more people.
The Times-Picayune did a fascinating eight-part series about the incarceration rate in Louisiana. Their research finds different reasons that liquor being sold outside of the city limits as the cause for that.
Jackson Parish is specifically mentioned in it as our prison was researched. I encourage you to read it.
07/11/2012 at 3:56 pm |
This is just another smoke screen to divert our attention from the real problems. Thank you Renee!!
07/11/2012 at 5:11 pm |
Renee Stringer is an absolute must to have on the town council. Without her input, I hate to think what the S***For Brains mayor would get away with. I am voting for Renee for mayor at the next election even if I have to write her name in. Oh, S***! I am not a citizen of Jonesboro, only a landowner and I can’t vote so I am counting on you great citizens to get her in office as soon as you can.
07/11/2012 at 5:54 pm |
There are no businesses lining up to come here. The “Hotel” the mayor has referred to for six years, where is it? Where is the land it is planned to be on? There is not one? Smoke and mirrors! The budget inn is never even full, the numbers are just not there!!! We are dying people, not growing, STRINGER FOR MAYOR!!! RENEE WILL DO THINGS BY THE BOOK AND SHE WILL DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS TOWN!!!
07/12/2012 at 4:15 pm |
Absolutely, positively right on!
Renee in=Leslie out.
I can just imagine what Jonesboro would be like with Renee for mayor. EVERYTHING would be done right by the book. Every “i” dotted and every “t” crossed.
07/11/2012 at 6:27 pm |
Thank you for the info about the 8 points about incarcerations done by reporters for The Times Picayune. The article didn’t seem to address ‘wet vs. dry’ in much detail. However, I believe we can all find something to support our point of view. It is my opinion that legalizing the sale of alcohol in Jackson Parish will increase the crime rate and accidents caused by DWI’s. While you and other imbibers may be able to handle alcohol, there are many others who cannot. It is not a matter of punishing you by having you drive farther to purchase your alcohol, it is a matter of not making it so easily available to young people and alcoholics. Young drinkers and those with no tolerance for alcohol are often embolden to drive under the influence and to behave in a manner they wouldn’t ordinarily do. I respect your opinion; I just respectfully disagree!
07/11/2012 at 7:01 pm |
Amen, No Name
07/11/2012 at 7:44 pm |
I fail to understand your point, Drink Up. Is it your contention that we should just completely ignore the law in place, and do whatever we want, and conveniently ignore the results of a free, fair, certified and binding election? Surely not, that way lies anarchy. Are you angry at Mrs. Stringer for uncovering the truth, that Jonesboro indeed had a regulatory ordinance for alcohol, passed 36 years ago? That makes no sense. She’s right! Truth is truth, and it does not stop being truth just because it grows old and we forgot about it or ignore it. Look, I get it, you’re all Libertarian, you want to be able to get your drink on anytime, anywhere. Nothing wrong with that. But if you wanna sling the sauce in J’boro, you are gonna have to follow the law and do it the right way. Organize a petition drive, get it on the ballot, and convince 50.1% of your fellow citizens to vote yes. Don’t rely on a thunderous proclamation from King Leslie; they aren’t worth a fart in the wind.
Which brings me to this sad realization; are all the elected officials in my old hometown (other than Mrs. Stringer) stupid? Do they know NOTHING of our local history? The Police Jury forgets that they founded the library. The mayor and his legal council forget that Jonesboro had a liquor sales election. What in tarnation is going on? When did being donkeys-hind-end ignorant become a requirement to hold public office in the Sunshine Parish? Read a book you tools! Spend some time in the Jackson Heritage Museum or our library (before the PJ ruins and destroys it) and educate yourself about who we are and where we came from, before you embarrass yourselves and your constituents again. Geez!
07/11/2012 at 9:20 pm |
Don’t think it will happen, but if a liquor store owner should bring his business to Jonesboro based on the mayor’s invitation, not only would the owner be breaking the law, but Thompson would be guilty of causing the crime by issuing an illegal invitation? I believe the legal term is “Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.”
07/11/2012 at 9:21 pm |
Now let’s not forget that the mayor wants the chief of police gone. Maybe because he remembers actions like the local option to vote the liquor out. He told them at the meeting that there had been an action around 1978 and local liquor business had to close. The problem with having anyone around for years and years is the mayor may be afraid what else he remembers.
07/12/2012 at 7:27 am |
My husband told me the mayor pledged his loyalty to the chief and wanted to work with him from that day forward…….I cannot understand what is the problem, he cut his department then he wants to work with him…..is there something I am missing?
07/12/2012 at 10:23 am |
Apparently yes, you’ missing the point that he is a liar and a crook and will say anything he has to in order to try to make himself look good. He says it is not personal ( cutting the budget) but then he is going to be billed the same amount, if not more, by the sheriff and is fine with that. Explain to me how it is not personal. If there is no monrey for the police how is there money to pay the jpso for the same services? Just like everything else with ol Les, it dont add up!!
07/12/2012 at 12:06 am |
What’s So what if Jonesboro’s no liquor ordinance was passed in 1976? I do believe we have a U.S. Constitution that was signed about 200 years before that and, unless Obama and Congress prevail, that remains the law of the land.
I applaud Ms. Stringer for standing up for what she believes in, and I am appalled at the stance taken by Sam Lamkin and Doug Stokes. If they believe alcohol would be wonderful for our town, they both need to ask the opinions of the wife who has been beaten unmercifully for a quarter of a century by a drunken husband, or talk to the mother of a young daughter who totalled her vehicle in an alcohol-related accident and later was admitted to ICU with a blood alcohol level of .435 (nearly fatal). Or maybe they need to talk to one whose father died a long and painful death from cirrhosis of the liver. Alcohol never paints a pretty picture.
There is an old “joke” which goes something like this: There was a man who was in a quandry about which to do, beat his wife or get drunk. He decided that getting drunk would be the lesser of two evils, so he got drunk and then beat his wife.
It is my opinion that no one NEEDS alcohol. If you do, you have a much bigger problem than alcohol. Do you suppose the mayor was buzzed when he concocted that crazy idea? Maybe city hall needs to do some random drug tests.
07/12/2012 at 1:32 am |
I think the most stupid comment made by the.mayor was, if you dont like the alcohol and drinking, dont drink! This was ridiculous, i whole heartedly agreed with Renee when she said, if i dont drink, will that keep a drunk driver from running over me or my family? I used to drink and im not saying i wont sip now,( maybe once a year) . But i agree, nothing good comes from alcohol.
07/12/2012 at 7:03 am |
Has Ms. Stringer ever said that she would be interested in running for mayor of JB?
07/12/2012 at 7:22 am |
So what about it Mr. Abbott, how about addressing Carla Roberts screaming she “tired of these god damned niggers” at the end of the council meeting. It was clearly caught on tape and is on Rev. Dill’s website and on youtube. Surely you dont agree with this language and will denounce such actions on your blog.
07/12/2012 at 10:40 am |
Carla for Mayor!!!!!! Way to go, don’t back down. Its about time someone spoke their mind.
07/12/2012 at 7:35 am |
Yeah, White Folks, the N-word is so out of date, only black people use it anymore. Grow up.
07/12/2012 at 8:10 am |
It is outdated everywhere, except Louisiana, where the last of the dying breed of rednecks reside and thrive. They have never been outside of the state. LMAO!
07/12/2012 at 8:48 am |
along side all those that suffer from the “entitlement syndrome”……yes both groups are thriving and reproducing at light speed.
07/12/2012 at 9:20 am |
Please do yourself a huge favor and, at least, attempt to travel outside of the state. There are buses, and even airplanes, that will take you wherever you desire to go. You will find the absolute hatred and fear you harbor only exists in your mind and in the circle of people of your ilk. I guarantee you would enjoy the fresh air and the reality would really do wonders for your mental state. That is what ya’ll are “entitled” to do, and please do so, at light speed.
07/12/2012 at 10:33 am |
I will follow your lead…..you make the first move toward ridding your ilk and yourself of your entitlement syndrome and your fear and hatred you harbor and we would all consider you a person that has enjoyed some fresh air and reality and been exposed and espoused to a new and fresh idea….work, not “entitlement”.
07/12/2012 at 1:13 pm |
LMAO. I work every day of the week protecting this nation so backwoods bigots, like you, have the freedom to see my black skin and assume I have an entitlement syndrome, am on food stamps and have 3 baby mamas. Your fallacy is more important to you than the reality. The hatred embedded in you by your parents is unfortunate and hopefully your children have the opportunity to become far removed from insecure folks, of your ilk.
07/12/2012 at 1:36 pm |
WOW, I never insinuated you were any color, so you see, you jump to conclusions, again showing your hatred. What does color have to do with the discussion any way? Entitlement is a generic issue, but you have turned it into a color issue, something it appears that you have issues with, not I. Your fallacy is more important to you, your belief that my parents instilled in me something that yours so obviously instilled in you-hatred, hatred for anyone that does not condone your beliefs. You said you were looked upon as having 3 baby mamas and on public assistance, not I. Your characterization of anyone that does not agree with you and or your beliefs as a backwoods bigot is really indicative of the mentality that prevails…again, if you don’t agree with me I am going to classify you and characterize you as you just did to yourself. If you in fact work every day of the week protecting this Nation, they you should know I have every right guaranteed by the Constitution of this Nation in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United State and also guaranteed under Article 19 in the ICCPR which covers that Internationally. Wow I do believe you are very insecure and your rant alludes to the fact you feel like everyone looks at you as you stated and self incriminated, I too hope your children have the opportunity to move far and away from folks of your ilk. For your information I don’t live in the backwoods, I have moved to the great big ole city and have electricity and running water and we even have a great big ole super highway running right by my office…..and by the way ilk is over used, why not try using a new word…….the thing that so amazes me is the same methodology…can’t stay on topic and have to drag in a plethora of analogies and people’s family members to try to deflect the truth…..symbolic of the inability to have a mature, intelligent discourse on any topic that you can’t agree on.
07/12/2012 at 1:48 pm |
Apology accepted.
07/12/2012 at 2:04 pm |
None given, but feel free to take your liberty if that empowers you.
07/14/2012 at 6:38 pm |
Let me inform you. Blacks for out use the N word than whites ever thought of using it. Is there a double standard? Apparently.
Another thing, one NEVER hears a white complaining of the name calling a black person does……….such as chump, crackers. I have NEVER heard a white complaining about it.
07/12/2012 at 7:38 am |
What a bunch of hypocrites. I see all kinds of people buying beer at Wal-Mart, circle K, and others…sure give all the money to the big corps, don’t let any big corps in, then decide that for your own sakes that alcohol sales in a dining facility is sooo bad. I have seen more white boys running around in their pickup trucks with beer in tow, yet god forbid one should be able to eat a nice dinner in town with a glass of wine. This is why no one comes to our town for tourism, this is why we don’t have extra tax revenue, and this is why do real dining facility has entered this town. IF you knew anything about the business you would know that often the liquor sales keep a dining facility open as they lose money of food often. So Mayor Thompson if they do win this one be sure to put an ordinance out that says NO SMOKING cigarettes in public. That will change their mind…they all smoke and put there butts on the ground endlessly. ANYWHERE in public. Many states are doing that and it is not illegal. So if I were you Mayor Thompson I would put that ordinance into effect and they will change their mind. The problem isn’t having open sales of alcohol, it is a fear their husbands won’t come home…..LOL. Or better yet put a medicinal marijuana law in place for the city limits only. That too can be done, as Chicago and many cities have done so. Play hardball they sure are.
07/12/2012 at 7:56 am |
Somebody got their pouty face on……………..
07/12/2012 at 8:07 am |
so no business wants to come to town because they can’t sell liquor……..did you ever stop to take into consideration that the town has not in the last few years been able to have an audit completed? Did you ever stop to take into consideration that the infrastructure is crumbling right before your eyes and do tell, if you have such business savvy, don’t you realize that business is based on many factors, including socioeconomic data, if the population is comprised of at and below poverty level population, do you actually think a business is going to (your reference to a fine dinning establishment) is going to locate in a region or area that cannot support it’s product, namely above average menu costs? Please if you are going to blame everything on liquor, find a logical approach to the subject, not another why is everybody picking on me. Please expound on the merits of selling a nice glass of wine with your cheeseburger or fried chicken.
07/12/2012 at 11:53 am |
Here is a future situation in Jonesboro. A guy goes into a bar and orders a shot and a beer. The bartender, a graduate of JHHS, asks him “Do you want fries with that?” You do see the degree of training that will be necessary for people to switch from what they are now doing to serving the boozers. And 1978 Montrachet, what color wine do you serve with a cheeseburger or fried chicken? I would imagine something that would match the grease on the item.
07/12/2012 at 12:45 pm |
Here’s a plan for the “move forward” mayor…call up Pres Obumer to get an executive order saying food stamp folks can use em for prepared meals and liquor. Every eating place in town will be begging for a liquor license. Big chain resturants will be standing in line at city hall. Check with Nevada and see how to get us a Bunny Ranch let’s roll.
07/12/2012 at 2:00 pm |
Don, I think bright and dry with a bit of apple-that alleviates quite a few parings there…..I guess anything available to one that would fit their budget and tastes……in a town that has a menu that consists of fried chicken and tater logs….I personally would suggest they drive to a City and order a nice dinner replete with a wine list that would accommodate the most discriminate connoisseur.
07/12/2012 at 12:51 pm |
Gosh, I didn’t know that not having a glass of wine with fried chicken was what was holding up tourism here, thanks for the info.
07/13/2012 at 8:17 pm |
What fine eating establishment were you referring to? I can’t imagine Southern Classic serving a mixed drink with your order of chicken.
07/12/2012 at 10:33 am |
I am so sick of hearing that this town is dying because we dont have alcohol in resturants or we dont have this or that. No, this town is dying because we have an idiot mayor. But like lastevic said dont put all the blame on “lesslie”. The council are idiots too, thank god for renee. Until we vote this crooked bastard along with the D.A. there is and will be no hope!
07/12/2012 at 3:39 pm |
I see nothing wrong with alcohol sales IF we have police enforcement to deal with those who choose to drink and drive, underage consumption and all the other problems that could possibly come along with the alcohol. I’m not putting down anyone who drinks, I have a drink on occasion as well. But when I do, I am usually in the comfort of my own home, and if I’m not I do not put the lives of other people in danger by driving. Not everyone does as I do, we all still have the right of freedom to make our own decisions. I see no point in allowing the town to become “wet” with giving the voters the opportunity to voice their opinions. Put it on the ballot, let the voters decide. But if they vote yes, I pray someone reinstates the budget for the Jonesboro Police Department.
01/13/2013 at 11:32 am |
I have never laughed so hard in my life reading these comments. Jtown will always be a backwoods hicktown with no new jobs and no business growth. Get used to it or move, this town will stay in the past forever until it dies off to a little ghost town.