Baton Rouge's and the Mayor's priorities. Sid should be recalled

But hey, we’ve got LSU football

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Hillar gets a bad rap on the OT but I actually know the guy and he wants to do the right thing.

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I don't know anything more than I saw today from him at the PC... even Kamala Harris would need a decoder ring to begin to fathom even the idea of whatever the hell he was trying to say.

I was not impressed.

MOVEBR is funded by a dedicated sales tax.

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But hey, we’ve got LSU football

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It’s just a matter of time before the situation starts to affect the university as well. Hell, it already has. Why do you think the student union is closed on football game days now, and why a once prime tailgating location is now fenced off?

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Baton Rouge's and the Mayor's priorities. Sid should be recalled

Crime is obviously out of control here.

Hillar Moore, the local DA, is begging for money to keep his office from falling apart. Chronic shortages of ADAs to prosecute a massive backlog of cases. And it's so bad, he just sued the City Parish for more funds.

Meanwhile, Coach Sid Edwards, just 2 weeks ago, greenlighted 60 damn Million dollars for sidewalks and bike paths on Florida Blvd.

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It doesn't matter. None of it matters. It doesn't matter who's mayor, who the DA is, who the chief of police is. None of it matters.

You live in a blue city in the south.

Enjoy the good times, hug your family tight, spend lots of money to insulate your children in private schools, try to make some money, watch LSU play sports, and hey... that's it.

You may die tomorrow in a hail of gunfire. Your kids may die tomorrow in a hail of gunfire. That's the way it is here now and it's the way it will be FOREVER. You cannot change it. The judges will release them intermittently with conditions they will not comply with, and there's no police presence to protect you from them. This is the way it is. Try to enjoy it. Go to JazzFest, go to Saints games, go to Festival Internationale, go fishing, eat some poboys, and try not to die.

Sid not willing to call balls and strikes here has been very very disappointing.

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He’s trying to undo almost a decade of rot and decay

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Does not mean he can’t come out swinging in a situation like this. His response to yesterday has been tepid and lukewarm at best.

Landry who has numerous faults, atleast showed passion and frustration which we can all resonate with.

That’s not on him.

EBR is taxed to death. The problem is that most are dedicated taxes that provide zero ROI as it relates to needs. Public schools , BREC , Library, MOVEBR, etc. The library is my favorite. If you ever want to see a waste of $50 million per year, stopping in any library in Parish. My best guess is that the average less than 20 visitors per day throughout the year.

To a large extent, he’s only in office because he might be the only white guy in this town that could get blacks to vote for him, I suspect that’s part of what is holding him back. Broomestick fricked up BR royally, and all her hires that she solely based on skin pigmentation, like Murphy Paul, exacerbated it. Meanwhile she spent her entire second term in court trying to keep her main revenue stream from getting away. Even post Katrina, Kip had us in a better place bc he let his cops be cops and crack some skulls.