re: Question about St. George

I don't see a Republican getting elected in BR again. There's a demographic issue in EBRP that's not going to change. Too many have fled to Ascension and Livingston and Central and Zachary aren't big enough to overcome that.

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Sir, if you can't see the systematic corruption revealed by the COA disclosures, I don't know what to say.

Broome didn't create the COA situation, Kip Holden and the Council let it happen before Broome took over. She just failed to do anything about what the others have done.

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I think you're missing the point I was trying to make. The majority white, republican metro council refused to vote on the COA measure so they punted it to the election. The refusal was solely because it was an election year.

St. George doesn't fix the council, or the COA since its a parish-wide issue.

If you've been paying attention in the COA threads, I side with every reasonable person on this board that the whole organization needs to be removed of their powers. I voted against the COA property tax.

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Simply turning out Broome in time will not fix these issues, they largely go unnoticed as people are too busy to look into these things.

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Fair enough, but I'm confused how St. George is going to fix Parish-wide corruption situations. And are you concluding that Bodi (or any republican) won't fix them?

Broome won by 4,200 votes. Thanks in large part to moderate, white voters in Southdowns, Garden District, Mid-City. Moving them back to a conservative Mayor-President wouldn't be hard with how SWB has handled the first 4 months of her term.

Just don't end up like st louis city/county with 96 municipalitis within the county all seemingly working against each other in terms of development.

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There is a long game to be played here. If St. George were to incorporate, that would put roughly 26% of EBR under Zachary, Central, or St. George and a little over 50% under BR proper. With numbers that close, you may be able to start a movement to separate the positions of Mayor of BR and Parish President. Without a unified Parish-City government, the Parish would be a lot less powerful over St. George and the leaders of BR City would have no power over them.

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You'd still have the same demographics voting for the Parish President. Which is my whole point. Spend the effort flipping the 4,200 moderate voters and have oversight and leadership for the whole City-Parish vs. playing an extremely long and risky game.

Oh, and don't run a canidiate as terrible as Bodi.

It's not just the mayor's office; BREC, the Library, etc. are parish wide. Look at the taxes they take in and who controls how it's spent.

Russisn can tell you about the millions BREC has socked away.

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St George = more deplorables and less undesirables.

That's my kind of place!
GEAUX ST GEORGE

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It would mean people paying higher taxes to line Lionel Rainey & Friends' pockets, resulting in lower quality of life for the residents of both Baton Rouge and "St. George".

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Not necessarily.

The reason Sandy Springs, GA was used as a model during the prior incorporation effort is to illustrate a city government with a smaller footprint, greater accountability, and hopefully less graft and corruption as a result.

If the citizenry will accept a corrupt government then they get what they deserve.

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Y'all's whitetopia isn't happening. Please stop with this dumb shite.

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Wtf?! So since we don't want to be a part of the shite storm that is Baton Rouge we're racist? Do y'all have any other argument? Do you not see how ignorant you are?

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It will take a 2/3 approval vote by both houses of the legislature to put the ISD initiative on a statewide ballot for voters to approve by majority vote. The initiative would also have to pass within the city of SG, which it would, and also by the voters within the EBR school district, which it won't.

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Inaccurate. There were two bills put forth to help establish the Southeast BR ISD, one was to establish the boundaries of the school district, the other to secure the MFP funding.. The school district boundaries bill passed and was signed into law. The funding bill failed. Half the battle was won. During the debate in the Senate it was said that it was unheard of that an unincorporated area have an ISD, it would be better if it was done in a city. (hence the birth of the incorporation effort). Also, when the MFP effort comes back, it will require 2/3 of the legislature, but the entire state will vote on it not only EBR.