$100,000,000+ and Still No Internet? North Mississippi Demands Answers

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[00:00:40]Millions of millions of dollars have been misappropriated. We got to Do we have a fraud here with Peaden Tom Bigby Electric in North Mississippi? I don't know.

[00:00:50]I want to talk directly about Mississippi Public Service Commission.

[00:00:55]The Northern District Commissioner, Chris Brown.

[00:00:58]And the complete failure of oversight when it comes to Tom Bigby Electric.

[00:01:03]Peaden Tom Bigby Electric.

[00:01:05]And Tom Bigby fiber broadband service in North Mississippi.

[00:01:10]This story, folks, spans in nationwide [music] with these utilities. It's a It's worse than dealing with the mafia.

[00:01:18]On February the 9th, 2026, a formal complaints and record request uh was started regarding Tom Bigby broadband service failures.

[00:01:30]Including Department of Justice misuse of federal grant money. Uh those things are complaints and uh uh concerns have been uh submitted.

[00:01:39]Now, today is June 17th, 2026. So, approximately 119 days later, >> [music] >> nothing. Nothing's changed.

[00:01:50]Nothing has changed, folks.

[00:01:53]And these people uh The problem is it's not fixed.

[00:01:59]Who gives a damn about it?

[00:02:01]In the RV community while they have Wi-Fi is supposed to be included as part of of what we pay for here.

[00:02:09]And we pay for this this is not some luxury complaint. Uh this is a this is part of a service that's being paid for.

[00:02:21]And of course you have um It's a the people that >> [music] >> hadn't got a voice, people that hadn't heard drive back speaking for them as well.

[00:02:30]For nearly 2 years the internet has been worse less and lot worse than unreliable.

[00:02:38]Degraded and it unstable in many cases completely unusable.

[00:02:42]That's a fact.

[00:02:45]It's millions of dollars have been spent to connectivity and fiber and all this stuff. That's what they're telling you.

[00:02:50]Now I'm approximately 100 ft from what appears to be a commercial grade what is a commercial grade Wi-Fi repeater access point that's on a pole.

[00:03:01]Yeah, my phone, computer, my other devices, security, and so forth still cannot maintain a stable connection if you get a connection at all.

[00:03:12]And I'm forced to rely on a hotspot from my phone if I want to connect anything else.

[00:03:19]And I have to show other people how to to hotspot their phone if they intend to have a people that are just a few feet from a commercial grade Wi-Fi uh repeater and there's two.

[00:03:32]And [snorts] of course when calls are made the response is not accountability. They'll hang up on you.

[00:03:39]If they don't like your language or your tone, they will hang up on you.

[00:03:44]Their response has always been an attitude.

[00:03:49]They've always been combative.

[00:03:52]So it's combativeness that that that the the the dumb customer has to deal with.

[00:03:59]The response, ladies and gentlemen, is deflection.

[00:04:03]If they're diagnosing the infrastructure and equipment, the repeater, the access points, the backhaul, the signal strength, or or the actual failure, where did all the damn money go? What are y'all doing with it?

[00:04:22]The customer is treated like they're the problem.

[00:04:27]They must be ignorant to how it would have known it, blah blah blah.

[00:04:31]The customer must be stupid.

[00:04:34]And they'll come out here in a shiny new truck and won't get their fat ass out of the truck. They're diagnosing over here and then they fell out. Years of this now, folks.

[00:04:42]It's always the customer must not know what they're doing.

[00:04:48]This one does.

[00:04:50]The customer must be incompetent.

[00:04:56]The customer must be silenced, or we won't give you anything.

[00:05:03]Hey, folks, this is not customer service.

[00:05:05]Uh this is institutional deflection.

[00:05:08]It this always is present when there's a smoking gun.

[00:05:14]Now, here's where it becomes bigger than a customer complaint, folks.

[00:05:19]This Tom Beeby Electric and its broadband those operations have been tied to major public funding streams that I've talked about on this channel before, including, like I said, federal broadband programs, state broadband initiatives, and infrastructure funding.

[00:05:43]Perhaps y'all seen the boxes is they uh uh curly here is a fiber optic wire that's hanging around them.

[00:05:52]Now, public money was awarded to expand and deliver reliable broadband service folks to rural Mississippi.

[00:06:00]This is 2026. You should be able to get to have good stable internet service anywhere.

[00:06:09]But my question is very simple.

[00:06:13]Where Where's the oversight?

[00:06:15]You see Well, you got Tombigbee Electric they're they're they're providing a public service.

[00:06:20]But they're not susceptible to a FOIA only in a limited circumstances.

[00:06:26]Where's the accountability?

[00:06:29]Where is the public service?

[00:06:33]And so this is where uh Where is the Public Service Commission?

[00:06:40]It's non-existent.

[00:06:42]This is a good old boy backslapping uh uh country club atmosphere of of those that they're making the money.

[00:06:49]And this is a the part that nobody wants to hear.

[00:06:54]And so we've got a commissioner Chris Brown, and he's not some political newcomer folks who who doesn't understand government waste, fraud, and public money and oversight.

[00:07:06]Well, he understands it.

[00:07:08]He understands He's He's right smack as state senator, right smack dab as state legislator in the middle of it.

[00:07:14]He's a former uh uh state legislator.

[00:07:18]I believe from up around uh maybe Walnut Mississippi, somewhere up there.

[00:07:25]This man he's he's he's built part of his political image around fighting waste and fraud in Mississippi's welfare and Medicaid systems.

[00:07:38]Uh thanks to Shad White. Uh if it'd been him bringing up I've been biting down on it.

[00:07:45]Chris McDaniel sponsored and supported legislation that was sold to the people as transparency, fraud prevention, accountability, and protection of the taxpayer money.

[00:07:57]What sold that? I call it the on that.

[00:08:02]Folks, we're we're now learning that nationwide that everything we were told was a damn lie, and Chris McDaniel's no exception.

[00:08:08]That was the flag he waved.

[00:08:11]And that he got elected he he rode rode in on that waving that fraud prevention flag, transparency flag, accountability, and protecting public money.

[00:08:30]Question.

[00:08:32]Where's that same energy now?

[00:08:34]Where's that same outrage when the issue is not a poor person uh trying to get some benefits, but a powerful utility connected to millions of dollars in public broadband infrastructure funding?

[00:08:47]That's who he's protecting.

[00:08:49]Not these common folks that want to complain.

[00:08:53]Where's that same fraud fighting spirit when the question becomes whether public money was used properly, whether service obligations were met, whether rural Mississippians actually received what was promised, and whether a private corporate structure makes it easier to hide the paper trail?

[00:09:10]And I'm telling you, folks, I've been saying it, I'm standing on it.

[00:09:14]It's it's it's going to come out. You're going to see because this is an alarming about-face.

[00:09:20]When the issue is welfare fraud, politicians know exactly how to talk tough.

[00:09:26]And boy, we we we've had our our bait of it. And they know how to demand verification.

[00:09:35]They know how to demand records.

[00:09:40]I know how to demand compliance.

[00:09:44]We know this, folks.

[00:09:47]They know how to say taxpayer money must be protected.

[00:09:55]But but Chris Brown, when the issue is a utility company, broadband failure, state and federal grant money, and customers who still cannot get stable internet, suddenly the tone changes.

[00:10:11]Suddenly, it is excuses.

[00:10:14]Suddenly, it's defensiveness, marginalization, and dismissal.

[00:10:20]Suddenly, we're told how good the utility company is. This is what I was talking about. I got a call from and they left voicemail. They're real good at worrying about it. Y'all good.

[00:10:27]Suddenly, the public official sounds like a watchdog or more like a spokesman.

[00:10:32]A propaganda politician wing for a utility company. And that's the problem, folks.

[00:10:38]So, we're talking about Mississippi Public Service, we're talking about Chris Brown. The Here's the contradiction. This is why it matters, folks.

[00:10:46]If Chris Brown believes public money should be protected, then that principle cannot only apply downward against the poor and the powerless.

[00:10:58]It must also apply upward against the utilities, contractors, broadband subsidiaries, grant recipients, and politically connected institutions.

[00:11:12]You can't wave the flag of fraud prevention on one side and then look the other way when millions of dollars in public infrastructure money may be involved on the other side.

[00:11:26]This is talking out of both sides of your mouth, Chris Brown.

[00:11:31]And that's exactly what the people of North Mississippi need to start asking.

[00:11:37]This two-tiered double speak, talking out of both sides of your mouth getting old. Who gets up investigated?

[00:11:43]Who gets protected?

[00:11:45]Uh Who gets called a fraud?

[00:11:50]And who gets uh defended before the facts are even put on the table?

[00:11:55]But that's it's just mind-boggling.

[00:11:57]Who's Because if public money was used to build a broadband infrastructure and the people on the ground still can't get reliable service, then the answer is not public relations.

[00:12:10]It's not getting on the TV and saying he's a good Christian, he goes to Sunday school. I heard that stuff. The answer is records.

[00:12:16]The answer is audits.

[00:12:20]The answer is compliance review.

[00:12:25]The answer is accountability.

[00:12:27]But they they love to use that word they tell you every time where it needs to be applied. And if Commissioner Chris Brown truly believes uh what he has spent years uh saying he believes, then this should be easy.

[00:12:42]Demand the records.

[00:12:46]Demand the grant documents.

[00:12:51]Demand the performance reports.

[00:12:55]Demand the outage data.

[00:12:59]Demand the compliance filings.

[00:13:03]Demand the damn truth.

[00:13:07]And that's what we do here. And that's what we're asking Chris Brown to do.

[00:13:11]Anything less tells the public that their fraud-fighting language was never really about protecting taxpayers in the first place. It was about choosing which people and which institutions are getting held accountable.

[00:13:26]Uh getting votes to get a a nice a paycheck. And when public officials only talk tough against the weak, but go soft around the powerful, that's not conservatism.

[00:13:37]Look at our president, how he was targeted. And there are many of us who are targeted as well. This is not accountability, folks. This is the machine protecting itself.

[00:13:47]Commissioner Chris Brown represents himself as a Trump supporter, a conservative Republican, a man who stands for North Mississippi values.

[00:14:01]I think not. One would think that a conservative Republican would find it appalling uh for utility companies and public officials to hold hands while ordinary Americans are ignored, dismissed, and left without basic service that they're paying for.

[00:14:19]One would think that someone who claims to stand against government abuse would be the first person demanding answers when public money, utility power, or broadband access and public oversight all come together behind closed doors.

[00:14:38]That's not what I'm seeing. That's not what I've been saying. It's been longer than 2 years.

[00:14:42]7 years I've dealt with uh the the targeting and crimes of Tommy Bigby Electric. What I'm seeing is a public office that appears more interested in protecting Tommy Bigby than protecting the people. Folks, that's the bottom line. What I'm seeing is not accountability.

[00:14:57]Do you know what what it looks like to me?

[00:14:59]It's the same what it looks like to you all. It looks like a cover.

[00:15:03]It looks like a whitewash.

[00:15:06]It looks like the same old machine protecting itself.

[00:15:12]Because this is not just bad internet, folks.

[00:15:16]This is not just poor customer service.

[00:15:21]This is not just somebody having a having trouble with a damn router.

[00:15:28]This is about whether public money was used properly and I contend that it has fraudulently vehemently fraudulently used and wasted and unaccounted for.

[00:15:39]This is about whether rural Mississippi is actually receiving the services that were promised.

[00:15:45]No, they're not.

[00:15:47]This is about whether a utility company can take public funding and fail the people on the ground and still have regulators excuse it away.

[00:15:55][clears throat] And yes, this is about targeting.

[00:16:02]This is about how systems can be used to isolate, silence, marginalize, and destroy the lives of innocent Americans in plain sight.

[00:16:13]When a person cannot access stable internet, that affects everything and you know it.

[00:16:21]It affects communication.

[00:16:23]It affects work.

[00:16:27]It affects publishing.

[00:16:31]It It affects access to information. These are things that they don't want you to access especially in the dirty south. It affects the ability to document corruption.

[00:16:44]It affects the ability to be heard.

[00:16:49]So, when this goes on for nearly this formal this all this complaint with Tom Bigby after repeated complaints, after repeated calls, after repeated excuses, and after public money has been poured into broadband infrastructure, the public has every right to ask what the hell's really going on.

[00:17:10]What's really going on? The Mississippi Public Service Commission is not supposed to be a public relations department for a utility company.

[00:17:24]It's not supposed to be a hype man for Tom Bigby.

[00:17:27]Oh, they're real good about calling and taking care of the problems. It's supposed to be to protect the public interest. Let me repeat this. Supposed to be to protect the public interest.

[00:17:37]So, when citizens complain that service has failed for nearly 2 years, answers should not be "They're good people." That's the dumbest thing that anybody should hear. That should not be "They usually respond."

[00:17:52]I'm talking about I'm making you want to throw up. The answer should not be "They're fine to work with."

[00:18:02]Cuz folks, this all that didn't fix the internet.

[00:18:07]It doesn't explain where the money went.

[00:18:13]And it don't explain why a whole community, all our people, still can't get stable Wi-Fi.

[00:18:21]They told me it Well, we could move it on the pole, but we'd have to move a wire and then have problems there. It doesn't explain why people are paying for service they can't reliably use.

[00:18:33]And of course, it doesn't explain why the northern district office of the Mississippi Public Service Commission appears more interested in defending a Tom Bigby than demanding answers from Tom Bigby. That's the fact.

[00:18:46]That's the fact, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:18:50]People uh like to wear labels.

[00:18:53]Uh people uh Chris Brown [clears throat] likes to call themselves conservatives.

[00:18:58]They like to say they support President Trump.

[00:19:04]I think most of us do.

[00:19:07]Uh they like to talk about freedom, rights, faith, family, and stand against tyranny. But let me tell you what, folks, I'm I'm talking points with some of these ass clowns, but the test is not what you say on a campaign page or that nice speech you gave. The test, Chris Brown, is what you do when a citizen comes forward and says, "Uh I'm paying for a service I can't use."

[00:19:31]Uh give lift her hang up on him. He call back and well, he goes to church. He says, "Just go. My community uh can't get reliable internet, uh Chris."

[00:19:40]So, give a who's going to Sunday school or what or anything you're saying. Public money was involved.

[00:19:45]Where's the accountability?

[00:19:48]Uh you best believe the FCC, everybody under the sun has gotten complaints and this has been looked at. And if the answer is silence, Chris Brown excuses or public official acting like a spokesperson for the utility company, that that tells me and tells [clears throat] all of us that tells us tells us something. It tells us that behind the whitewash, behind the talking points, and behind the polished political image, something is deeply wrong.

[00:20:12]Yeah, something is rotten in Denmark, folks.

[00:20:15]With one hand, they wave the flag.

[00:20:20]With other hand, they bid for the devil himself.

[00:20:24]And folks, this is not personal.

[00:20:27]This is public accountability.

[00:20:32]If public uh funds were used to build broadband infrastructure, then the public has a right to know.

[00:20:41]And the public has a right to the damn truth.

[00:20:44]How much money was received? We know it was in the millions.

[00:20:48]From which federal and state programs?

[00:20:51]And folks, this is uh uh the whole whole right there just blow your mind. What service standards were required?

[00:21:01]And what areas were supposed to be serviced?

[00:21:09]What speed and reliability obligations were promised?

[00:21:15]And this is very important. And what compliance records reports were filed?

[00:21:22]Were outages and complaints reported accurately? Were they?

[00:21:26]What were customers told the truth?

[00:21:30]And why has the problem continued for nearly two years?

[00:21:33]I mean, that's a Is that really a hard question to ask or a hard question to answer?

[00:21:39]I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

[00:21:41]None of these questions are unreasonable.

[00:21:44]These are basic oversight questions, Chris.

[00:21:48]And if the commissioner or the commissioner wants to represent uh northern district, then it's exactly the kind of issue that his office, Chris Brown, your office should take aggressively investigating.

[00:22:02]It's not a laughing contest.

[00:22:05]Rural Mississippians should not be told to wait forever.

[00:22:11]We should not be dismissed.

[00:22:15]And by God, we should not be talked down to.

[00:22:20]We shouldn't be forced to rely on phone hotspots while publicly funded broadband systems fail right in front of us.

[00:22:30]The folks today I put the Mississippi Public Service Commission and the northern district commissioner's office and Tombigbee Electric and Tombigbee Fiber on public notice.

[00:22:43]The complaint was made.

[00:22:47]The problem remains.

[00:22:52]The silence is unacceptable.

[00:22:55]They will continue playing that game.

[00:22:57]It's not going to end well. This is no longer just a service issue, ladies and [music] gentlemen.

[00:23:03]This is now an oversight issue.

[00:23:06]>> [music] >> This is now a public funding issue.

[00:23:11]This is now a competency issue.

[00:23:14]>> [music] >> And people of North Mississippi, deserve our respect.

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