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re: Is downtown BR going back to a ghost town?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:32 pm to LSUFootballLover
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:32 pm to LSUFootballLover
I wish he would.
quote:In a landslide.
He would win going away...
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:13 pm to LSUFootballLover
Zero chance for multiple reasons.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:18 pm to kingbob
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BR lost multiple billion dollar expansion projects that were supposed to happen here but instead were put in Corpus Christie as a direct result of policies supported by both Sharon Weston Broome and Governor Edwards.
Wrong.
Posted on 6/12/19 at 10:39 am to kingbob
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It seems like the business class just got bamboozled by the current mayor, who is still in her first term
Broome received about 25% of the white vote, largely because she initially campaigned as a business-friendly moderate similar to Kip Holden. After she was elected, she took a hard left black lives matter turn and allied herself with resident race baiters Gary Chambers, Silky Slim, and C. Denise Marcelle. The top item on her agenda was to get rid of the sitting police chief, a white man, and replace him with a black man who subscribed to her vision of law enforcement "reform." Her administration also published a report that pretty much blamed "white privilege" for everything from traffic to the high crime rate. The writing was on the wall then.
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The other candidates were all really shitty to boot
That's an understatement. Her main opponent wanted to practically de-fund downtown and mid-city in favor of spending more money in rural parts of the parish. Nobody in their right mind who lived within the Baton Rouge city limits would want that.
Broome came along at the worst possible time. Baton Rouge was still reeling from the Alton Sterling shooting debacle and the devastating flood.
Posted on 6/12/19 at 10:41 am to LSUFootballLover
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Any chance Kip runs against her next fall? Apparently he will be eligible to run again. He would win going away...
I'd vote for Kip.
Posted on 6/12/19 at 10:42 am to LouisianaLonghorn
If no one decent (read: Kip Holden) runs, I might take a stab at it. I'll probably get massacred due to my zero name recognition and low melanin content, but if we're going to have nothing but clown candidates again (like f&%king Condon Uncensored), I may as well have fun with it and run a merciless tongue-in-cheek kamikaze campaign.
This post was edited on 6/12/19 at 10:44 am
Posted on 6/12/19 at 10:43 am to goofball
Ditto. Kip was the MAN. He was one of us. Easy to talk to and always at an LSU game cheering on the Tigers.
Posted on 6/12/19 at 10:49 am to PiscesTiger
Kip loved Budweiser and white women almost as much as I do
Posted on 6/12/19 at 10:56 am to The Boat
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Kip is the only Democrat I've ever voted for.
Kip genuinely cared for this city- and was willing to do what was necessary to improve Downtown BR. It's a shame seeing what he fought to improve being allowed to flounder....
Posted on 6/12/19 at 11:04 am to oleheat
I just saw people installing bike racks downtown for that Gotcha bike sharing program.
Posted on 6/12/19 at 11:18 am to oleheat
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Kip genuinely cared for this city- and was willing to do what was necessary to improve Downtown BR. It's a shame seeing what he fought to improve being allowed to flounder....
Broome has managed to undo much of what it took Holden years to accomplish. He was never popular with black voters because he refused to waste large amounts of money in NBR, knowing it's a virtual wasteland and the city would never recoup the return on its investment.
Posted on 6/12/19 at 12:04 pm to theantiquetiger
Broome freaking sucks and is killing downtown
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