Portia Scott interjected when her friend didn’t want to talk about Jackson’s upcoming mayoral election as they waited for the annual Hal’s St. Paddy’s Parade to begin.
“I’ve got something to say,” she declared: It’s time for a change in the city.
A 26-year-old Willowood resident, Scott just wants the stoplights to work in her south Jackson neighborhood. She wants the city to stop giving her the “runaround” when she calls. And she wants to feel more confident in how her tax dollars are being spent than she does under Democratic Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s administration…