Friday Ramblings with Robert

Let The Games Begin

Henry Ross plans to announce next week that he will challenge Alan Nunnelee in the Republican Primary for a chance to take on Travis Childers in the general election in MS-01.  Then if you add in what looks to be a better than 50% percent chance that Angela McGlowan will join in we will have an interesting primary and I am sure it will be fun to watch how things shake out and who eventually comes out on top.  Hopefully, all candidates will keep it clean and allow voters to go to the polls to vote based on ideas.  This will definitely be an attention grabber and should make for good chatter over the next 10 months here.  May the best man or possibly woman win.   

Jackson Wants State To Fix Their Water System

The Mayor of Jackson Harvey Johnson came out this week and said residents in the city of Jackson should not have to pay for the city’s water system to be overhauled.  Apparently, they have already paid enough in water and sewage hikes and the city does not want to burden them anymore.  His solution is to first ask the state for the $74 million needed to upgrade the system.  Apparently, Mr. Johnson does not read or watch or listen to any news outlet in this state and has no clue that the state is already going to have a hard enough time balancing their own budget much less just handing $74 million over to the city of Jackson.  I find this laughable and it makes me wonder what has happened to all the money that the city has raised from hiking water and sewer rates in the city all these years.  They say they have done it and admit they have done it quite a bit, but where has it all gone?  Mayor Johnson’s best bet is to look north towards DC because I highly doubt he’ll make much headway here with the state legislature.  

By The Numbers

The State of the Union was the other day and I don’t really care to talked about anything that was discussed during the speech, but I do want to look at the ratings numbers.  The Nielsen Company has said about 48 million people tuned in across all network and cable news channels to watch the President’s inaugural SOTU.  I would like to compare those numbers to another set of numbers that Neilsen released this week.   Of course I am talking about the 58 million people who tuned in to watch the New Orleans Saints punch their ticket for their first ever trip to the Super Bowl.  It is good to know that when it comes to politics and sports that a good old fashioned football game can still draw more people in.