re: Mayor Broome files suit against St. George Organizers

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It'll be interesting to see this play out in court. The clause about adverse effects will be played out for a while, since IIRC St. George area accounts for about 20% of the BR general fund. Will court agree that this creates enough "adverse effects" to reverse incorporation or will they tell SWB to get bent?

All of this and more, on As EBR Turns.

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It’s not 20% of the city’s general fund. It’s about 18% of the parish’s general fund.

And it has nothing to do with funding of BREC, Libraries, MARC and all the parish wide independent taxing agencies.

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It’s not 20% of the city’s general fund. It’s about 18% of the parish’s general fund.

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Yeah, if the incorporating area is making up 20% of the city's budget, they don't want to push this lawsuit. It would backfire immensely.

As it stands though, there should be no reasonable argument that an unincorporated area incorporating would have an adverse effect on an existing city.

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Allocated to Morvant. Good draw for St. G.

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How do you know this???

edit: nevermind I see it now.


The suit, which has been assigned to Judge William Morvant

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Just to add to this, her attorney was there as a personal representative of Broome, not in an official capacity for the city or parish. There is no reason she should have been allowed at the meeting in the first place, yet she was able to sidetrack the entire fricking thing.

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this goes to show how ignorant she truly is. There needs to be some type of private non-party mediator at these meetings to keep everything above board. The state may need to step in and run this. If you can trust them.

That is unbelievable good fortune for St George. Actually I can't freaking believe it still. He is the ONE judge in the 19th that would give St George a puncher's chance.

This thing is heading eventually to the State Supreme Court where the victory from Broomevwill come from the new plaintiff bar controlled b--ch about to win.

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Didn't she just come out and accuse the StG organizers of political and campaign gimmicks?

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This is hilarious because the anti-SG crowd is nothing but liars and sleazeballs who had no argument against incorporation so they just made shite up.

My prediction is that if they ask Morvant to recuse himself, he will ask for the cast to be reassigned to a different venue.

If this incorporation affects the whole area like she claims, how can Trudy White be any more impartial than Morvant?

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“public services within a reasonable period of time” … and the potential adverse impact incorporation would have on another municipality, which, in this case, is the city of Baton Rouge.

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Surely this wasn’t enacted thinking Parish President would try and sabotage meetings over services and then file suit on what she is causing. I would also think part of law dealing with services would be more about StG resident making sure of services more than stopping incorporating and shouldn’t be filed by people not living in StG. The city part would make more sense to stop an area actually leaving the incorporated city to form a city or an area the city was in process of trying to annex and had started to provide planning and services to become part of city. This is really neither, and outside of maybe a quick hearing to look for any extremely overwhelming evidence. I can’t believe this was written to be used as delay tactics and bleed citizens financially into submitting.