re: Are you bullish on the future of Prairieville?

#1 I'm good with. #2 is something that somebody is getting elected and paid to do. #3 I have absolutely zero time for. Maybe when the kids are grown and I'm retired. Unless you can tell me a way that I can get meeting minutes broken down in laymen terms somewhere.

Bumping this thread to plug something important.

There's a runoff election on November 21 and if you care about traffic infrastructure and electrical and sewage development, you'll vote for Clint Cointment over Kenny Matassa who's just for the status quo.

We're letting commercial and real estate developers running buck wild in this parish and it's going to frick us up the arse in the near or far future. We need to get a handle on them and layout infrastructure for the parish before we put fun things in here. We're making the same mistakes BR made decades ago in its expansion and that's going to kill us.

Vote for Clint. It's important.

Matassa is Tommy's boy. Let's not forget that it's Tommy's reason we're 20 years behind on infrastructure. AP had two of its people in prominent positions to affect transportation back in the early 2000s, and we got nothing. Juba Diez, he was supposed to be our guy. Tommy was in there as well.

Tommy took the job because he lost to Ronnie Hughes when he ran for reelection. Tommy used his connections to make sure that no road projects in Ascension wouldn't move up the DOTD list as long as Ronnie was in power because that might make his rival look good. Tommy's stooges on the council held the line and opposed anything Ronnie was for. The idea was that without improvements to tout and having to constantly battle the council, Tommy would knock Hughes off in the following election, then the road money would start flowing again, the council would get in line behind him, and Tommy would look like a hero. Hughes sees the writing on the wall and chooses not to run for reelection.

Unfortunately, by the time Tommy regained control of the parish, the money at dotd had dried up. The state police were now siphoning off the highway fund, the economy was in the tank, and the backlog at dotd was growing rapidly. Tommy's goal to ride back on his white horse with a big sack of dotd cash failed miserably, and we ended up with nothing.

However, Tommy saw one last ditch opportunity in the BR Loop project. His connected developer buddies hatched a scheme by using an extra wide right of way, inane zoning regulations, and using politics to ensure the loop went through developable areas, they could make a fortune redistributing and developing the land near the planned exits. However, by getting too greedy and pushing the loop too far south, he pissed off both the nimby's and the plants to such a degree that he eventually had to reverse his stance on the loop as it died on the vine.

The rest of Tommy's tenure has been marked with weird zoning decisions, wonky master plans, and allowing developers to run rough-shod over residents.

Now, we have a choice: more of the same with Matassa or a chance at maybe something different with Clint.

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Will be pulling hard for Clint and try to push as many as I can towards him.

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Same here

Clint is a very Humble guy that actually listens to people.
If he can't do something you need, he will tell you so.
He won't look you in the eye and tell you that he can and then stick his head in the sand until you go away like so many others in these positions of power do.

We need Clint if we are to see things change.
Mr. Kenny has the best intentions and is a great person.
But the claims of Clint NOT having enough political experience, is something that i'm interested to see working in the seat of Parish President.

Tell Erebody.

O, and when you have people trying to get you to believe that Cointment is "in the pockets" of the Goppelts & Roberts.
Reason with yourself.
This guy is in no one's pockets.
Clint is here for the right reasons.