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I guess they never fixed their water issues from the winter 2021:

 

The 2021 Jackson water crisis and the cracks that remain in a long-damaged system

 

In early February 2021, Charles Williams Jr. knew temperatures were going to drop in Jackson, Mississippi.

 

Williams, who holds a doctorate in philosophy and civil engineering and was the director for Jackson Public Works at the time, had his eye on how the weather would affect utilities in the city. He assumed Jackson would get very cold — maybe it would even get a little ice or snow — but that would be the extent of the city’s winter woes.

 

He was wrong. 

 

Instead, Mississippi and a swath of Southern states were hit with two winter storms within days of each other. The first arrived on a Sunday evening, Valentine’s Day, and lingered through Monday. The second hit Tuesday night and stayed through Wednesday. Temperatures plummeted below 32 degrees in areas that are not used to freezing, pipes froze and Jackson’s main water treatment facility, the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, almost shut down completely. Williams called it ground zero.

 

“We could not bring water in, we could not push water out into the system,” Williams, who is now serving as a city engineer, said. “[we had a] number of calls for low water pressure, or just no water at all.”

 

In his 20 years with Jackson Public Works, this was the most challenging time in Williams’ career. In the heat of the moment, he remained calm — mostly because residents, and even his coworkers, were unnerved.

 

“From a personal level just seeing people suffer like that, It was tough,” he said. “If they needed to unload on somebody, I'd be the person to unload on. My primary focus [was] to lead everybody toward our goals and objectives.”

 

Tens of thousands of people were left without running water because of the storms — some for up to a month. But the storms were not the sole root of Jackson’s water infrastructure woes, but rather the latest thorn in the side of a system plagued by issues for decades.

 

Williams mentioned winter storms in 2010, 2014 and 2018 that caused water outages in sections of the city because of water main breaks. Even before the 2021 storms, the O.B. Curtis plant was not fully operational, with some of its equipment offline because it was either in need of repair or the department did not have enough personnel to manage it.

 

When the storms hit, the system basically collapsed.

 

“It exposed a lot of deficiencies within our system that have been very prolonged for a number of years,” he said. “And unfortunately, this winter storm that hit the metro area, crippled our water system.”

 

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Arizona Judge Rips Rep. Paul Gosar and Other Republicans for Filing Defamation Lawsuit ‘Primarily for Purposes of Harassment’

 

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and two GOP state representatives must pay more than $75,000 for filing a defamation lawsuit against a Democratic lawmaker “primarily for the purposes of harassment,” an Arizona judge ruled.

 

Joining forces with Arizona state Reps. Mark Finchem and Anthony Kern as co-plaintiffs, Gosar sued the Grand Canyon State’s Democratic Rep. Charlene Fernandez in Yuma County Supreme Court last year. Fernandez had joined 41 Arizona lawmakers in asking federal law enforcement to investigate whether they had an involvement or participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

Dated Jan. 12, the letter was signed the day after Kern’s term of office expired.

 

Gosar, Finchem and Kern sued a little more than a month later on Feb. 26, 2021.

 

In a 6-page order, Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Levi Gunderson noted that Fernandez “had the right” to make her concerns known to law enforcement.

 

“Plaintiffs brought their claim without substantial justification, meaning that it was groundless and not made in good faith,” the order states.

 

For the judge, the trio’s lawsuit had signs from the start that it was not a serious defamation complaint.

 

“It very much appears that a significant portion of the contents of the original complaint and the first amended complaint were written for an audience other than the assigned trial court judge,” the ruling states, alluding to the lawsuit’s references to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

 

The judge noted that even the second amended complaint contained “wholly irrelevant” riffs on political issues like “open borders.”

 

“The Court finds that Plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Defendant was brought for an improper purpose, having been filed against a political opponent primarily for purposes of harassment,” the order states.

 

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There's a TV where I am. Tucker is on the screen, with the message below his face:  "Biden has lost all sense of proportion and balance"

 

Three minutes later, his guest is on the screen, above the message "The Left is obsessed with civil war porn". 

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11 hours ago, Larry said:

There's a TV where I am. Tucker is on the screen, with the message below his face:  "Biden has lost all sense of proportion and balance"

 

Three minutes later, his guest is on the screen, above the message "The Left is obsessed with civil war porn". 

Living in TX, FOXNEWS is on all the time when I go to the gym, restaurants, etc. Those types of headlines are nonstop. There’s a reason there is so much brain rot among the GOP voting base.

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Coffee shop owner in Ireland has a $10,000 electricity bill in one month. This is where Tim Ryan and Joe Biden’s preferred energy policy leads. We must stop them.

 

Hey Republicans. The people who represent or are running to represent you know you're so ****ing lazy and stupid you won't even read a screenshot proving that their own claims are bull****. Sad.

 

How many days are in ONE month? 🤪

 

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How much did Chuck Grassley know about the scheme to submit  "alternate" slates of GOP electors from six battleground states? 

 

Because that clip makes it sound like he knew a LOT about it.  And was ready to act on it if given the chance.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Dan T. said:

How much did Chuck Grassley know about the scheme to submit  "alternate" slates of GOP electors from six battleground states? 

 

Because that clip makes it sound like he know a LOT about it.  And was ready to act on it if given the chance.


Not only was he willing to act on it. 
 

Dozens of Republicans, in multiple states, had already acted on it. 
 

And remember. They had to wait till after the election, and then cherry pick which states had to be thrown out. If a few states vote differently, then the list of which states they're going to throw out changes. 
 

This means that they had to know that they had Republicans willing to sign their names on a forged document used as a prop to overthrow the constitution, no matter which states they picked. 
 

And, they had to believe that the entire Senate, and House, would vote among party lines, to execute the coup. 
 

We might not have Senator Lardbutt from Podunk on camera, admitting that he was a willing participant in the attempted coup. But we do know that the coup planners were willing to stake their plan on the belief that they could count on his vote. 
 

 

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