re: BusinessReport: Baton Rouge needs dramatic change to keep pace with global landscape

Let's just be up front and honest. The demographics of Pittsburgh are FAR different than the demographics of Baton Rouge. Pittsburgh transformed itself from a blue-collar steel town to a beacon for the tech industry. Does any one really think the demographics of BR are going to be enticing for the tech industry? Or any industry? Terrible infrastructure. Horrible public schools. Rampant corruption and incompetency in government.

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Well, what happened to this from less than a year ago?

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In a global economy and battle for attracting talent, we have to realize that Baton Rouge’s competition is not the region or state, but the entire nation. We can’t be parochial or think “small town,” because we aren’t anymore. We must be innovative and “think big,” or our children and grandchildren may have even larger issues to face. That is not a legacy we desire.

This is an important election. Baton Rouge is my hometown and I have lived here all my life. This community has been very kind to my family, and I love our capital city. I know Sen. Bodi White and Sen. Sharon Weston Broome, and they are both good people with a heart to serve. I have met with each, watched the debates and read their responses to the Baton Rouge Area Chamber questionnaire. It seems that on many of the issues, the candidates are in agreement on what needs to be done. So which will be the better listener and be more effective with the Metro Council and residents north and south? Who is the right choice at this time in history to unite our parish and move our city-parish forward? I thought about this long and hard. There are never any guarantees, and as they say, “The proof is always in the pudding.”

I concluded that Weston Broome is the servant-leader who can be the best mayor-president for our community and future.

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McCollister is a stooge. He advocated for a incompetent racist mayor and got an incompetent racist mayor. Her whole agenda is "frick the city as a whole. Let's just somehow try to build up the part of the city no business in their right mind wants to invest it."

The previous mayor, who coincidentally had the same skin color as the current mayor, at least had a vision to make BR a great city. Downtown is leaps and bounds better than it was before Kip took office. He rarely (if at all) played the race card. Instead, he just went to work trying to make Baton Rouge a great city. He didn't always succeed, but at least he had the audacity to believe it could be. The current mayor wants to do nothing except steal and waste more tax payer dollars on things that will do absolutely nothing to better the city.