re: It's Happening!!! The St. George trial started Monday, May 2. Media stopped covering 5/10.

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Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul testified that, after St. George's creation was approved by voters, the city-parish asked all department heads to prepare two budgets: a standstill budget and one contemplating a 20% budget cut. Such a cut, he said, would have a "significantly detrimental impact" on the police department's ability to do its job and would force layoffs.

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This is the smoking gun justification for the City of St. George.

The Baton Rouge Police Chief admitted openly on the stand that the City of Baton Rouge subsidizes its one billion dollar annual operating budget with tax revenue collected from the unincorporated area of St. George.

We call that taxation without representation where I live or tyranny.

200 million is a lot of money. Yet the City of Baton Rouge wants you to believe that St. George cannot sustain itself if it were to incorporate.

You don’t get it both ways. The gig is up.

Baton Rouge has a massively bloated operating budget.

Paul’s hint at possible layoffs to the police department is easily the most insulting spin scare tactic I have seen in a while. These Highway Patrolmen think that they can stand in front of a bunch of microphones, talk a good game, and expect you to believe anything they are saying.

Broome is dumb, but not nearly dumb enough to lay off cops and cut funding to public safety during record levels of violence under her elected leadership.