re: Can someone in Baton Rouge tell me some of the things SWB has done..

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These good folks are an embarrassment to Broome and her DPW.

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To set the city back…or is it that she did nothing to revitalize the city and clean things up?

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She allowed a massive number of major investments in EBR, including those funded by private or federal dollars, wither and die on the vine because of either incompetence at not following up on grant requirements or purposefully destroying them because they didn't give enough kickbacks to the right people in North Baton Rouge.

She dismantled the BRAVE program (a system of paid informants who helped solve crimes) and then leaked the names and addresses of all of the informants, resulting in dozens of them being murdered and the crime rate exploding quickly thereafter.

She began enforcing open container laws downtown to purposefully destroy the nightlife businesses partially owned by a political rival. The effect nearly destroyed every retail business and bar on third street (this started well before Covid).

She scuttled multiple efforts to renovate and expand the River Center and convention center.

She split DPW into a multi-headed hydra of an organization where none of the heads talk to each other even when their job tasks should require them to do so (like how sanitary sewer, storm water, utilities, and road crews all should coordinate when tearing up or resurfacing a roadway). Shocker: it made things MUCH worse.

Don't even get me started on the whole stormwater utility fiasco.

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