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What would you do if you were Mayor of baton rouge or governor of Louisiana?

Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:02 pm
Posted by Kryptonite88
Member since Jun 2018
74 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:02 pm
Sharon Weston Broome and JBE deservedly get trashed on, but give me your ideas or solutions to make Louisiana a better place if you had their power of office.
Posted by Winston Cup
Dallas Cowboys Fan
Member since May 2016
65522 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:03 pm to
take bribes from everyone

quote:

make Louisiana a better place

i got nothing
Posted by dukeg
Member since Apr 2018
621 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:04 pm to
quote:

What would you do if you were Mayor of baton rouge or governor of Louisiana?


Evacuate to Yugoslavia
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51483 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:04 pm to
Seize control of TigerDroppings
Posted by WM_Tiger
NELA
Member since May 2017
1578 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:05 pm to
Overhaul welfare in the state.
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
53696 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:05 pm to
Hold many, many meetings. Invite SJWs to attend.
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
66127 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:05 pm to

Sell it all to Tejas and move.
Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
37389 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:06 pm to
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This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 10:42 pm
Posted by samson73103
Krypton
Member since Nov 2008
8249 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:07 pm to
Burn it down and start over
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
18960 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:07 pm to
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:09 pm to
- Push to legalize and tax marijuana. All tax proceeds go to school system.
- Food stamps could only be used for healthy food and drinks
- Overhaul TOPS to increase GPA and require in-state employment of some sort post graduation
- Get rid of state constitution
- Transparency of where all tax revenue is going
- Close down 2-3 colleges
- End bussing
- Invest savings in infrastructure and education
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35699 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:09 pm to
Blame my predecessor.
Posted by Slagathor
Makin' jokes about your teeny tiny
Member since Jul 2007
37927 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:10 pm to
Build a lazy river around the Governor's mansion and just ride around on a tube all day. Also, there would be snoballs.


ETA: Hire a scapegoat for my shitty term as Governor
This post was edited on 6/26/18 at 5:13 pm
Posted by 50_Tiger
Dallas TX
Member since Jan 2016
40309 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:10 pm to
Posted this a few times on Poliboard.

As Governor of La:

1) Call for a constitutional convention.

2) Abolish Louisiana State Income Tax.

3) Reorganize School System into ISD's.

4) Call NTTA or HCRTA to implement a tollway system to advance infrastructure.

5) Raise TOPS requirements.

6) Keep LSU / UNO / LaTech / ULL / ULM open as 4 year Universities.

7) Start stop and frisk in NBR and NOLA.

8) End Medicaid expansion.

9) Offer lucrative tax breaks to companies looking to establish distribution centers. Then make the move to Tech based firms (This would be a 5-10 year process as the population becomes smarter due to better school system).

10) Allow the legalization of Marijuana.
Posted by magildachunks
Member since Oct 2006
32530 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:12 pm to
Governor: eliminate TOPS, eliminate Dept. Of Administration. Institute a toll on all non-interstate bridges over the River. Raise gas tax by 10 cents. Fire all State Police higher administration and hire new people with no ties to LOS.


Mayor: this is more difficult. Mayor of BR is not just the head of the City. It's head of the Parish. It's the only city Mayor in EBR that doesn't have to reside in city limits. Only parish limits.

You have to run a city and parish. You have to look at the needs of both.

This requires a lot of thought.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53382 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:14 pm to
Build a wall around north Baton Rouge
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67265 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:20 pm to
work requirements for entitlement programs
reduce redundant state agencies
eliminate redundant "rec" institutions (there are Recreational Centers in many metro council districts drawing funds from the city/parish general fund rendering redundant services that BREC offers. They should be incorporated into BREC or eliminated. These rec centers are basically jobs programs and money laundering of tax dollars to support family members of connected councilmen and local judges.)

I would abolish public sector unions.

I would cut state police and bus transit systems from the state highway fund so that the entirety of it goes to roads and bridges as intended.

I would eliminate the practice of public agencies including in their budgets unfilled positions which have remained unfilled for more than 6 months.

I would end automatic increases in budgets for state agencies in "standstill budgets".

I would tie automatic increases in state agency budgets to the previous year's GDP growth rate for the state. If the state's economy isn't growing, the government isn't growing either.

I would eliminate the state income tax and abolish all inventory taxes statewide (as well as the inventory tax credit racket).

I would massively reduce the number of occupational licenses required by the state.

I would introduce reforms to streamline and standardize permitting and licensing processes statewide so that businesses can get started much much faster.

I would legalize recreational marijuana and apply that tax money to the highway fund

I would mandate that public defenders offices and district attorneys offices are funded from the exact same source at the exact same level.

I would pass a law forbidding criminal fines and proceeds from asset forfeiture by law enforcement agencies to be used in any way to support the operations of police, district attorneys, or courthouses.

I would institute accountability reforms for what state money for public education is allowed to be spent on by local school districts (primarily to put a cap on the maximum administrators per pupil ratio.)

I would raise the requirements of TOPS to a 3.5 GPA OR 24 ACT.

End Medicaid Expansion
This post was edited on 6/26/18 at 5:22 pm
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
73729 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:26 pm to
Some good ideas along with some terrible ideas.

Looks like pretty much par for the course in LA.

No one said raise business taxes. Which we should be doing at this point.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:27 pm to


Can't believe it took this long.
This post was edited on 6/26/18 at 5:28 pm
Posted by johnnyrocket
Ghetto once known as Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2013
9790 posts
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:29 pm to
Become financially responsible.
Clean house at BRAC.
They are to me like salesmen.
If they do not close x amount of deals they are gone.

EBRPCOA is gone.

Audit all these state non for profits.
Anyone breaks the law make sure the Attorney general makes them accountable.

Let LDWLF keep their oil revenue and buy up more land in high demand areas to make this a hunting and fishing paradise.

Cut all coastal restoration funding and hold it in an account. If the landowners in these area will not work with the state on public access to water where they will not be held liable for accidents do not release funding. Use it on state lands only.

Clean house at LSP.
When an officer speeds non emergency at over 100 mph in a 45 mph zone Livonia, LA. This helps cause an accident. That officer has no business wearing the uniform.

Work on cleaning house at LADOTD.
We have way too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
Look working out deals to build toll roads around BR, LAF area, and LC.

Clean house with overpaid bureaucrats and have them escorted off state property immediately. I would have a parade after we tar and feather them making them walk from the state capital to the old governors mansion.

Go after federal funding to work on infalstructure projects. Remind Trump this state carried him and use that funding for projects in parishes that supported Trump.

Look into Medicaid companies do business with the state to cut down on fraud.

Look into fresh water problems in South Louisiana. Build reservoirs around major cities for fishing and future drinking water. Keep some land public and sell some lots to my political buddies to profit.

Work on bringing steel consumer goood manufacturing back from the Mexico / Texas border. Work with railroads to have better options to reduce cost of rail lines going into BR.
Work on selling our rail, water transportation, and low wage workers to help these companies be competitive. Try to bring back older warehouse districts along the rail lines offering incentives to small business and midsize companies who would employ people either in mfg or warehouse jobs.

Work on aquaculture around the red river and help farmers get into this business selling catfish and plants.

Have gold chains, nice suits, hoes, and Cadillac with bull horns and gold rims on white wall tires. Have another white Cadillac, white suit,white hat, and smoke cigars. I will be at my favorite hangout the hoars nest.

Look into selling the fact we have cheap labor and reduce taxes on po towns in Cenla and NE LA. Go after low skilled jobs that pay decent to employ these people. Let these people get a shot at getting back to work. I would own the only bank in these towns and grocery stores.

I would switch out my hoes at the hoars nest on a weekly basis. I deserve the best.
This post was edited on 6/26/18 at 5:36 pm
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