re: St. Tammany DA tax voted down. Again.

This goes back to the original funding tax to build the courthouse in covington years ago. A tax was voted on to build the courthouse. But it was large enough to build and operate the building as well. The tax was "temporary" though and once it ran its course, the parish council tried to renew it saying the original tax was meant for operations of the courthouse all along. They tried three times to renew, getting shot down each time. So the parish cute services drastically.

The next step to try and strong-arm parish voters to get more tax money was to cut DA budget and force Montgomery to raise the funding for his office himself by putting a tax up for vote. This was shot down yesterday.

If you recall the parish did the same thing years ago to the Coroner. He went and put a tax up for vote and got it. It was WAY more than was needed. A few short years later he was in jail with a huge coffer full of tax payer money he had misappropriated, to say it nicely.