re: St. George’s fact of the day revealed

I would watch out. A certain someone was told today she had the higest grade in her class by her professor.

Sg is doomed!!!

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Well the county that Austin is in has 8 school districts and parts of several others. All SG wants is what people in Austin have, an ISD.

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Most of the school districts in Travis county do not directly correlate to incorporated areas. The ones that do are far-flung very tight-knit and distinct towns.

So with that in mind, if your'e trying to be like Austin you just form school districts and don't worry about the cities?

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That's what the organizers originally tried to do, but they failed. Legislators told them they'd have a better chance if they became a city.

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Mainly because of our idiotic Constitution...as always.

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If it's that important to you, go find it yourself, but it's common knowledge and was reported by the press.

Fwiw, I think Sharon Broome may have been one of them.

ETA- no I don't trust the legislature given us anything.

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But if I get the vibe my property taxes are about to jump I'm voting "no".

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This is the wrong mindset about this.

Eventually, even if you don't form St. George, your property taxes will rise because of all the people in North BR who don't pay property taxes, or any other taxes.

At least if they incorporate and it does cause a slight property tax increase, it will be going towards things more useful for people in the St. George area, like possibly its own schools.

That said, I'm not sure if they will go up or not, but if so, at least let them be put to good use.

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If it's that important to you, go find it yourself, but it's common knowledge and was reported by the press.

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No, it's important to you and the St. George incorporation movement because you keep touting it as proof that you have to form a city yet you can't name anyone other than a few black caucus members from Baton Rouge who said that.

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Fwiw, I think Sharon Broome may have been one of them.

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Bingo. Now we're cooking with gas. Why are you treating Sharon Broome's word as the word of God? Do you believe that what she said is true? Do you believe she will support the SG ISD once a new city is formed? Yes or no?

It seems like SG leaders are distorting the truth. Motivations? Likely to get access to how those sales tax receipts are spent. If you want to see an example of how noble your leaders are look no further than Bodi White hooking Lionel Rainey up with a lucrative no-bid contract with the state for vague deliverables that are already provided by a different state agency. His payments coincided with his work as the PR guy for the SG movement and ended with its defeat.

Your boy Senator Bodi White is the same good guy that brought up legislation to let Central form it's own parks system and break away from BREC. He dropped the legislation after BREC bought land from him and his main business partner at a nice profit margin and agreed to develop infrastructure for his commercial property for free.

Same Bodi White that held up the Comite River diversion canal project, made the Feds fed up with him and he had all sorts of issues with the project because he wanted certain properties to become waterfront property. If only we had that project completed before the flood of 2016.

Same Bodi White that complained about the ethics bill and was quoting as saying "you can't get a decent meal for $50 in Baton Rouge."

Same Bodi White who pushed for a toll bridge to be built in the northern part of the parish just after purchasing land there. There's actually much more including a hunting club that is very well liked by lobbyists and an auction company that certain state agencies have to use that was "created" by him and the same business partner that sold land to BREC.

Nope, I'm sure he has no ulterior motives here either.

Then we move on to Browning. One family member appointed as Central chief of police when Central formed their own city and the other appointed as state fire marshal even though he had been ridiculed before for wearing fake military medals on his uniform. Oh, and Browning is related to the wife of the man who was appointed mayor of the city of Central when it was formed as well as a woman who was appointed to the school board. Another interesting fact is that the Browning that was appointed to the school board did not live in Central but when they drew the school district lines up the boundary popped out and encircled her property.

Yep, real trustworthy leadership you got there.

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Go to the :22 second mark of the his video-

YouTube link

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Well, I don't know about you but I believe everything state senator Dorsey-Columb says.

I would rather deal with St george people than my taxes going up anyway with nothing to show for it because SWB, Gravy, and NBR peeps flush it down the toilet or silky slim gets another grant.

I would love to finally see taxes go up for people that live inside BR as the parish slush fund will be less to pay for their bike paths, shrinking down Government street, and tram from LSU to downtown studies. The city spends stupid money on this while BRPD cars that flooded are not replaced. They would rather this money come from Parish funds for a dept that only services the city.

Well if St George becomes a city hopefully the slush fund for city projects that only benefit the city will have to come from city tax payers and not parish tax payers.

What does Bodi White have to do with SG

You sound like one of the anti-SG peeps who throw out Trump’s name when talking about SG, as if he’s somehow connected. And sadly, a lot of their constituents believe that stuff.

Personally I’d love to see the meltdown that would ensue if Kip were to be elected first mayor

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An area north of BR called Zachary did this a while ago, and it has been a great public school for many many years.

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Zachary had great public schools before their ISD.