re: GP covers St George

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I just wish they would get the story right - St. George didn't "secede" from anything.

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Not sensational enough

Maybe de-leeched themselves?

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So they were under no governance of BR at all?

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They were not under the governance of Weston-Broome in her capacity as Mayor of the City of Baton Rouge. They are under her governance in her capacity as President of East Baton Rouge. Any governance specific to the city of of Baton Rouge (within the city limits) did not directly affect those living outside of the city limits. For instance, her appointment of the BR Chief of Police had no direct bearing on the St. George area because that area is serviced by the EBR Sherriff...not BRPD (though obviously the proximity of the two areas created a lot of indirect benefit/burden)

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None of their taxes etc. were going to fund BR?

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Of course some were. Which you know. Those parish taxes will still be paid. They (presumably) will now be allocated to cover parish-wide expenses only. Not placed in the general fund privy to cover exclusively BR city expenses.

But no one is "seceding". The St. George area will remain in EBR parish. Presumably the city/parish governance will continue (at least in the short term). St. George will now just become its own city within EBR like Zachary, Central, and Baker. The area that is now Baton Rouge wasn't always a city. It was an unincorporated area of land within the state of Louisiana. In 1817 the people living in that area formally incorporated as a city. St. George is just doing the same thing.