re: BR Mayor hopeful John Delgado has his own Fonzworth

You can't smoke in his bars l

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What an embarrassing douche to his voters.

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I live in Delgado's council district. When he was running against Smokie Bourgeois, I tried to tell this board that Delgado was a lying scum.

I caught hell on this board for saying it.

All I heard was that Smokie was only a restaurant guy who didn't know anything and Delgado was a smart, successful lawyer.

Then the lies started about Smokie all started by Delgado. For example, he started the myth that Smokie tried to ban all downtown food trucks because they competed with his restaurants. The fact was the food trucks downtown don't compete with Smokie's restaurants, neither of which are downtown.

And the most important fact refuting Delgado's lie is the food truck ordinance Smokie introduced would not have banned food trucks.

All the ordinance would have done was make the food truck owners get written permission from the property owners where they parked. Trucks would sometimes park in free customer parking lots and when a business would ask them to move because they leased the parking lot for their customers' parking, the truck operator would claim he had the property owner's permission to park there. When the police were called, they didn't know who to believe.

It was a very reasonable ordinance, IMO.

Those are my friends. Y'all are dicks.

Delgado won some points for proposing a North BR Economic District and had Kip 86 it for the same types of political reasons. Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Who would think a BR Biz owner would be on the same side of economic political discussions as Gary Chambers.

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Look what happened to Jackson MS when their voting base shifted


And the shortsighted, simpleminded citizens who fought St. George will be to blame, because a growing city of St. George would have bolstered the conservative population of the parish. Without SG, Ascension and Livingston will see that growth instead of EBR.
The impact of a Jackson, MS type voter shift will have devastatingly worse consequences on the city of BR than SG incorporation would have had.

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There is a difference. Baton Rouge has LSU.

And the white flight in Jackson is the reason the city crumbled. Jackson lost its wealthy tax base.

St. George would do that overnight and bankrupt Baton Rouge.

Guy is such a frickin douche

They're cut off from the 2 big liquor distributors so believe what you want but that place isn't doing well

What businesses is Delgado associated with?

1913
Huey's
What other places?