THE TOXIC LEADERSHIP OF MAYOR QUORDINIAH LOCKLEY
BEGAN IN 2018 — AND THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN RELENTLESS.

From day one, Mayor Lockley ushered in a wave of wrongful, discriminatory terminations that targeted experienced, qualified public servants. His tenure quickly became the root cause of an unprecedented number of lawsuits filed by city employees—many of whom couldn’t even work under him indirectly. In just seven years, this toxic leadership has reduced the City of McComb’s administration to chaos. City Hall has become a revolving door of instability, fear, and dysfunction. The State Auditor’s Office has placed the City of McComb on official notice: we are four years behind on legally required audits. Now, the Department of Revenue is diverting $330,000 of our desperately needed state tax revenue—not to serve the people of McComb, but to pay for overdue audit work that this administration failed to handle.
Consider this disastrous track record:

• We are on our seventh City Clerk (not including interims) in just seven years.
• Our fifth City Administrator just announced retirement.
• Our fifth Police Chief is stepping down.
• Our second Board Attorney has also walked away.

This is not coincidence. It is collapse. And before McComb hits rock bottom—or burns to the ground—many residents of our city and county agree on one final action step:
Mayor Lockley must resign. Before your administration, Mayor, our books were balanced. Our audits were current. McComb wasn’t on the State Auditor’s radar, and we had a clear understanding of our finances. Under your leadership, we’ve watched that order spiral into dysfunction. And worse than the mismanagement has been your arrogance. From the very beginning, your disregard for the people you serve has been loud, consistent, and offensive. As self-appointed spokesperson of McComb, your leadership has been not just poor—it has been harmful. Everything listed here—and far more that could be—has happened on your watch, under your authority, and because of your leadership. We expect that, true to form, you will try to deflect blame. But let it be clear:

The person who should have stepped down first… is you.