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re: Editorial on St George: Now we’re embracing the greater good
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:34 am to SlackMaster
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:34 am to SlackMaster
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Honestly, I like to point out that it is splitting the city because it causes the band of idiots to all chime in at once that this isn't the case; that the people in the unincorporated area always felt they were not part of BR, etc. Obviously this is technically true or else there wouldn't even be a vote. However, it is effectively true in every other sense of the word and everybody knows it. This is underscored by how gleefully it is pointed out that creating StG will frick those in the city. This passionate arguing over a technicality makes these guys look ridiculous.
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SlackMaster
Let it go man. BR lost those folks years ago. I was one of them until 95 when I left for Ascension. I still have a brother in the StG area and he's excited to vote YES on Saturday to the new city option. I hope it passes.
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Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:35 am to teke184
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But if they use blatantly discredited arguments then the St George side can probably push for a summary judgment
This is my thought. Assuming an honest judge, I am hoping the St. G attorneys will trot out the video clips of the idiot politicians blatantly admitting they plan to file suits solely to delay the incorporation. As a Judge, it would piss me off to hear people saying they are going to “use” the courts for this purpose.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:36 am to goofball
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Most interesting in this St. George opera has been the 11th-hour emergence of some two dozen prominent business leaders who, in a hallelujah moment of greater good clarity, joined hands to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony while declaring their opposition to largely middle-class residents forming their own city.
Sounds like these do-gooders see their taxes going up in BR to pay for those that will be contributing to StG. I hope it passes just to piss those types off
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:36 am to Brummy
Yep, taxes went up. Know what else went up? Property values.
Someone who doesn’t want to pay those taxes can still profit heavily by selling their house and moving elsewhere. I believe there are a lot of cheap properties in BR they can buy up so they can move while pocketing the equity.
Someone who doesn’t want to pay those taxes can still profit heavily by selling their house and moving elsewhere. I believe there are a lot of cheap properties in BR they can buy up so they can move while pocketing the equity.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:38 am to goofball
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John Engquist, Sean Reilly, Donna Saurage, Richard Lipsey, Shawn Usher and—in absentia—Jim Bernhard and Mike Wampold.
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None of those vocal, wealthy St George opponents would ever send their kids to public school anyway.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:39 am to LSUTigerFan247
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So now its a technicality that 86,000 people don't live in a city? Gotcha.
Love it! Keep it up!
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:39 am to jbgleason
The problem with that assumption is that this likely goes through the 19th JDC.
Know who sits on the civil side of the bench now?
You know St George won’t be allowed to incorporate just by doing three good deeds.
Know who sits on the civil side of the bench now?
You know St George won’t be allowed to incorporate just by doing three good deeds.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:39 am to Upperdecker
quote:Mary Olive Pierson finna eat.
I have no idea, but I can guarantee they’ll hire dozens of lawyers to figure it out. And they’ll use our tax dollars to do it
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:40 am to msutiger
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It is gonna be a joy to watch. frick the government. Every level of it in every city and state. They are all crooks.
I agree but don't put the cart before the horse. Please please please, people...
VOTE!
Exit polls and rumors of how early voting went don't win elections. Rally your friends to vote for St G. It's going to be a razor thin decision and desperately needs a combined effort to win.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:40 am to SlackMaster
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Obviously this is technically true or else there wouldn't even be a vote. However, it is effectively true in every other sense of the word and everybody knows it. This is underscored by how gleefully it is pointed out that creating StG will frick those in the city. This passionate arguing over a technicality makes these guys look ridiculous.
You are correct in that most folks didn’t know where the BR city limits were, or how our C-P government functioned.
Thanks to the SG organizers and others folks learned how the system works and really how SG tax dollars were being used for city things and not to advance the quality of life in SG.
Now we know, and now we feel it’s best we do something different. Central did on a smaller scale and it worked fine. They certainly are no worse off and bank a surplus.
And then there’s the school issue. We all know if our parish leaders would have signed off on an ISD the energy and effort to build a new city would not have been there.
But they said we needed our own city.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:41 am to SlackMaster
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but don't believe that splitting up the city is the answer.
THAT IS NOT WHAT IS frickING HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:41 am to teke184
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The problem with that assumption is that this likely goes through the 19th JDC
I would imagine StG will ask for a change of venue. Almost 0% chance they would get a fair trial in EBR
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:41 am to goofball
Sort of reminds me of wealthy folks in the outlying parishes who enjoy New Orleans for Mardi Gras and other social events (Saints games, etc.) but don't seem to grasp that their parades tear up infrastructure, drain police, etc. resources, which requires funding. Maybe the St. Georgians should be required to pay entry fees to EBR Parish to attend LSU games.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:41 am to SlackMaster
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The kids in NBR don't have much and their only hope is passionate good people fighting to get the school system right. By quitting, the StG leaders are abandoning them and any real hope for change.
The EBR school system is so far gone that it is basically unsalvageable, and it has been that way for 2 decades. And I am tired of spending my tax dollars on something so broken.
I hate that it has come to this, I really do. But I am tired of the incompetence.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:43 am to SlackMaster
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but don't believe that splitting up the city is the answer
this City isnt splitting.... thats the problem. 
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:44 am to SlackMaster
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The kids in NBR don't have much and their only hope is passionate good people fighting to get the school system right. By quitting, the StG leaders are abandoning them and any real hope for change. Eddie Rispone and Art Farve are supposedly good Christian men andd I'm surprised they would finance this type of abandonment.
Is this what Jesus would call us to do?
My word what is this shite?
How about let them prove they can help themselves before citizens of soon to be St. George continuously throw tax dollars at an endless pit of misery.
To the baws of soon to be St. George!!
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:44 am to TigerJeff
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Sort of reminds me of wealthy folks in the outlying parishes who enjoy New Orleans for Mardi Gras and other social events (Saints games, etc.) but don't seem to grasp that their parades tear up infrastructure, drain police, etc. resources, which requires funding. Maybe the St. Georgians should be required to pay entry fees to EBR Parish to attend LSU games.
They're already in the parish. They already pay parish wide taxes for roads. They'd still be in the parish. They'd still be paying parish wide taxes for roads.
You're a product of the EBR school system, aren't you?
ETA: I just realized that my joke may not be understood by a graduate of the EBR school system, so I'll just use short sentences with small words. You're a fricking moron.
This post was edited on 10/9/19 at 8:46 am
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:45 am to LSUGrad9295
The system would have been salvageable if the school board had any interest in fixing any of the issues involved.
That fat fricking Hutt who controls job assignments for teachers trotted our her supporters to shout down everyone and killed the effort, helping lead us to where we are now.
That fat fricking Hutt who controls job assignments for teachers trotted our her supporters to shout down everyone and killed the effort, helping lead us to where we are now.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:46 am to TigerJeff
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Sort of reminds me of wealthy folks in the outlying parishes who enjoy New Orleans for Mardi Gras and other social events (Saints games, etc.) but don't seem to grasp that their parades tear up infrastructure, drain police, etc. resources, which requires funding. Maybe the St. Georgians should be required to pay entry fees to EBR Parish to attend LSU games.
Maybe you don't realize that people living outside the areas still go to the area and pay sales taxes to cover those events. Have you ever seen the economic impacts events like the Super Bowl have? The revenue generated in the City of BR this weekend alone can more than pay it's fair share of police, infrastructure, etc.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:47 am to TigerJeff
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Maybe the St. Georgians should be required to pay entry fees to EBR Parish to attend LSU games.
So you really don't understand that this city will still be in EBR Parish? How on earth are people this bad with stuff like this yet purport to be functioning adults?
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