re: JBE and Leges plotting to raise gasoline tax--watch this video

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Please tell that the same people who peddled Matassa don't have any talent left the and the road is clear for Clint Cointment to win a special election.

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Matassa wasn't supposed to win that election. The idea was that Chris Loar was the heir apparent, a young, fresh-faced "reform" candidate who would be the puppet of the developers, while making the Prarieville peeps feel represented in parish politics (D-ville mafia, literally the Marcello's Crime Family, has always run the parish)

Cointmont jumps in representing the rural folk who are tired of the developers running rough-shod over everyone while getting tax breaks and variences to avoid paying for infrastructure.

Polls show Cointmont would make it to a runoff against Loar, so they convinced Matassa to run. They figured Matassa was old enough that he would know every body and convince enough of the old people on the East bank to vote for him to keep Cointmont out of the runoff.

Turned out, Kenny's D-ville mafia turned out in droves, and he got enough dems to vote for him to make the runoff, but he and Cointmont stole so many votes from Loar that he ended up in third place, with a runoff between Kenny and Cointmont. Kenny hit every level on the political machine and got just enough of the dead vote to win by less than 200 votes.

Unless Johnny Berthelot wants to drop out of the state legislature, Cointmont should have this in the bag. Loar would be his only real competition.