agogoboots
05-12-2008, 08:08 PM
that no matter who follows in his footsteps, they will be boring by any comparison to our insane mayor. It's hard not to love this crazy crazy man... well because besides he means well.... he's just nuts.
Mayor Frank Melton is renewing his overnight stays in different parts of the city, starting tonight with a stay in a budget motel on U.S. 80 and ending Friday where he plans to spend a night on the street with the city's homeless.
A statement released by the city this afternoon explains: "The Mayor feels that he must spend an appropriate amount of time in various neighborhoods and get a close up view of the quality of life throughout the city in order to respond effectively to concerns that he receives daily."
Melton will stay in a different location every night this week. Tonight he will stay in the Holiday Motel at U.S. 80 and Valley Street in southwest Jackson.
Hotel manager Manny Patel said he received a call from the mayor a couple of days ago about the planned visit.
"They are trying to study the neighborhood," he said. "He said it was nothing personal about your business or nothing like that."
Patel, whose family has owned the hotel the past 11 years, said the mayor has made visits to his hotel in the past.
The Holiday Motel was one of four south Jackson motels Melton targeted for police sweeps following his July 4, 2005, inauguration. Patel said he has visited since, such as the time Melton got personally involved with a long-term guest with several children.
"The kids weren't going to school and the mayor personally took care of them," he said. "Somebody dropped them off and made sure they went to school."
While he was glad to help the mayor with his plans, he was not looking forward to a convoy of news trucks jamming his parking lot tonight.
"I really don't want all that publicity."
Later this week, the mayor has plans to stay with a family in Virden Addition, another family in northeast Jackson and will spend two nights with the homeless. On Wednesday he plans to stay at a Salvation Army shelter. On Friday, he will be "on the street," according to the city news release.
Melton's plans were a surprise to Capt. John Showers, who heads the Salvation Army's Jackson operations.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," he said.
Showers said he would look into the matter. City spokeswoman Goldia Revies did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Melton spent a couple of nights with area residents last year. The visits last year occurred while he was on probation for several gun charges, earning him a reminder from his monitoring service on the conditions of his probation.
The statement from the city does not explain why Melton has revived the visits. It does say the mayor plans to travel to and from the locations by JATRAN "when possible."
The news release does not say whether Melton will have his bodyguards with him, but in previous overnight stays, he has.
(For a long history of really really crazy but entertaining antics that annoy the heck out of people, and more than sometime border on the criminal, check him out.)
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080512/NEWS/80512020
Mayor Frank Melton is renewing his overnight stays in different parts of the city, starting tonight with a stay in a budget motel on U.S. 80 and ending Friday where he plans to spend a night on the street with the city's homeless.
A statement released by the city this afternoon explains: "The Mayor feels that he must spend an appropriate amount of time in various neighborhoods and get a close up view of the quality of life throughout the city in order to respond effectively to concerns that he receives daily."
Melton will stay in a different location every night this week. Tonight he will stay in the Holiday Motel at U.S. 80 and Valley Street in southwest Jackson.
Hotel manager Manny Patel said he received a call from the mayor a couple of days ago about the planned visit.
"They are trying to study the neighborhood," he said. "He said it was nothing personal about your business or nothing like that."
Patel, whose family has owned the hotel the past 11 years, said the mayor has made visits to his hotel in the past.
The Holiday Motel was one of four south Jackson motels Melton targeted for police sweeps following his July 4, 2005, inauguration. Patel said he has visited since, such as the time Melton got personally involved with a long-term guest with several children.
"The kids weren't going to school and the mayor personally took care of them," he said. "Somebody dropped them off and made sure they went to school."
While he was glad to help the mayor with his plans, he was not looking forward to a convoy of news trucks jamming his parking lot tonight.
"I really don't want all that publicity."
Later this week, the mayor has plans to stay with a family in Virden Addition, another family in northeast Jackson and will spend two nights with the homeless. On Wednesday he plans to stay at a Salvation Army shelter. On Friday, he will be "on the street," according to the city news release.
Melton's plans were a surprise to Capt. John Showers, who heads the Salvation Army's Jackson operations.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," he said.
Showers said he would look into the matter. City spokeswoman Goldia Revies did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Melton spent a couple of nights with area residents last year. The visits last year occurred while he was on probation for several gun charges, earning him a reminder from his monitoring service on the conditions of his probation.
The statement from the city does not explain why Melton has revived the visits. It does say the mayor plans to travel to and from the locations by JATRAN "when possible."
The news release does not say whether Melton will have his bodyguards with him, but in previous overnight stays, he has.
(For a long history of really really crazy but entertaining antics that annoy the heck out of people, and more than sometime border on the criminal, check him out.)
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080512/NEWS/80512020