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re: WBRZ: Shaun Wilson retiring from DOTD March 4
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:28 am to toosleaux
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:28 am to toosleaux
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Almost sounds like what they said with JBE. Twice.
Fair, but JBE is white and barely beat someone that never ran for anything until the year leading up to the governor's race.
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Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:37 am to Tarps99
Graves is not running for governor.
Take him out of the equation.
Take him out of the equation.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:37 am to Areddishfish
The first time, JBE beat a sitting US Senator
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:42 am to kingbob
Only because Vitter solicited a prostitute. That's basically all he ran on.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:42 am to kingbob
Vitter was very divisive to say the least.
Him being entrenched in DC could keep him there. Him running for a new office meant a bunch of old shite became new again.
Combine that with two other GOP factions running candidates and Sloth won in a perfect storm.
Him being entrenched in DC could keep him there. Him running for a new office meant a bunch of old shite became new again.
Combine that with two other GOP factions running candidates and Sloth won in a perfect storm.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:43 am to toosleaux
Wilson is not a bad dude and actually was a very reasonable guy during the covid stuff at the building. I just don't think he did very much at DOTD. The Washington St exit for 110 side was a good idea but not greatly advertised and implemented.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:48 am to Areddishfish
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Only because Vitter solicited a prostitute. That's basically all he ran on.
Vitter had already won reelection after his prostitution scandal
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:49 am to toosleaux
Agreed, Wilson will appeal to alot of LA voters....DEMs don't vote for candidates, they vote for agenda! He will get major Soros/oligarch type backing, which is probably already in place. I do not think he can win, but who knows these days.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 11:50 am
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:53 am to TigerStripes30
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DOTD as a contractor and they are the most incompetent group i have ever dealt with...a retired DOTD person is the last person i would vote for...
You must be dealing with the wrong people. There are some strong people at DOTD. The problem is the higher-ups, OTS, older people, and legal hold back too much and nothing can get done.
There was a project several years ago that involved the state doing a one-time collection of all local roads with GIS ability. It was done but the ability to get the locals to actually use this free to them data was destroyed by MPOs and locals not wanting to do anything because it was "too hard". Well, DOTD was going through an enterprise data initiative that would give a state-run web application. The locals just had to input their data and not have to come up with their own solutions. It never came to fruition because the older people didn't want to learn new stuff and the higher-ups didn't want to deal with it as they were going out.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:11 pm to toosleaux
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WBRZ: Shaun Wilson retiring from DOTD March 4
He has a lot of fans I guess.
I'm not one of them, mostly because I think he's delaying construction in Baton Rouge because the traffic might hurt his favorability. But also because I think LA DOTD is not well run, not responsive, and has many lessons to learn from Texas.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:21 pm to Hu_Flung_Pu
Bro, there are some good people there, but f$&k that organization is crazy incompetent. No institutional memory, no document control, poor tracking of materials, not documenting when work was done, poor communication between headquarters and district offices, etc. Any private construction company would quickly go bankrupt with those kinds of practices.
I mean, they often don’t know who built what, when, or on what date when you have pictures that show it had to have happened within a 3 week window. I get that some roads were built 100+ years ago, so tracking ancient right of ways can be tough, but these guys often have no idea what they did 3 years ago let alone 30.
I mean, they often don’t know who built what, when, or on what date when you have pictures that show it had to have happened within a 3 week window. I get that some roads were built 100+ years ago, so tracking ancient right of ways can be tough, but these guys often have no idea what they did 3 years ago let alone 30.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:24 pm to teke184
Also, JBE with his rural Tangipahoa, military background, running as pro-life and pro-2nd Amendment came off much better to the old, rural socially conservative Democrats in Louisiana than Washington DC, at times very awkward David Vitter.
John Bel Edwards has been a useless Governor, no doubt, but his campaign in 2015 deserves accolades. He went from “who the hell is this guy?” when he declared to becoming a two-term Governor. His campaign folks knew he was already getting the hard Democrat vote. They knew he didn’t have to waste time trying to appeal to the far left party activists in the General. They weren’t going to vote for Vitter, of all people, nor would they stay home.
So instead, he painted Vitter as this slick, DC politician who couldn’t be trusted because of his very public past that was exposed in an embarrassing manner, while he campaigned as a West Point guy from a rural background who was nothing like Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi. He was pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, tough on crime Democrat, and he ate up the rural vote in areas that a GOP candidate on a national election stage would normally get.
I’m just not sure if the LA Democrat Party has another candidate like that on their bench, or at least one who can again hold off the leftist LA Democrat diehards who are screaming for a Democrat Gov run off candidate who is “one of us and represents our views”. I don’t believe such a candidate can win state-wide in Louisiana at this time.
John Bel Edwards has been a useless Governor, no doubt, but his campaign in 2015 deserves accolades. He went from “who the hell is this guy?” when he declared to becoming a two-term Governor. His campaign folks knew he was already getting the hard Democrat vote. They knew he didn’t have to waste time trying to appeal to the far left party activists in the General. They weren’t going to vote for Vitter, of all people, nor would they stay home.
So instead, he painted Vitter as this slick, DC politician who couldn’t be trusted because of his very public past that was exposed in an embarrassing manner, while he campaigned as a West Point guy from a rural background who was nothing like Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi. He was pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, tough on crime Democrat, and he ate up the rural vote in areas that a GOP candidate on a national election stage would normally get.
I’m just not sure if the LA Democrat Party has another candidate like that on their bench, or at least one who can again hold off the leftist LA Democrat diehards who are screaming for a Democrat Gov run off candidate who is “one of us and represents our views”. I don’t believe such a candidate can win state-wide in Louisiana at this time.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:32 pm to kingbob
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mean, they often don’t know who built what, when, or on what date when you have pictures that show it had to have happened within a 3 week window.
You can thank records management for that. I have to still get plans from film that should've been converted to PDF years ago. Hell, if they got several student workers and just did a big push for that it would be great.
Another issue is that the state uses programs like project wise that still needs windows 7.
Another issue is that each section is siloed. That enterprise plan I was speaking on before was supposed to gather all data used by the dept and house it in one location. Bridge data would be funneled through inventory management and produced through the GIS system. Right now DOTD has bridge design, maintenance, and inventory all creating different data. If the enterprise system were to have gone through, every section would see live data from every section that is relevant.
It’s not typically the section heads and lower. It’s above them that’s the problem.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:38 pm to Hu_Flung_Pu
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Another issue is that the state uses programs like project wise that still needs windows 7.
Half their computers still run xp
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:41 pm to kingbob
The next DOTD secretary needs to focus on data management and I promise you, the dept will run 1000x better
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