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re: Two agenda items of note for today's BR Metro Council Meeting (live stream link inside)
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:11 am to Golfer
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:11 am to Golfer
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But you do set an extremely bad precedent if the council just denies a tax that was voted in favor in a recent election
While it's true they couldn't deny it, they could've set the millage at any number between zero and the original 8 million. This is what they should've done, but instead they handed over 8 million dollars of tax payer money to a group of thieving racists. Great job metro council! Your city is screwed.
It's not just Frieberg. Loupe and Welch need to go as well.
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Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:16 am to LouisianaLonghorn
Get
Out
Now.
BR is DOOMED.
Out
Now.
BR is DOOMED.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:27 am to TigerBait1971
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Get Out Now. BR is DOOMED.
I wish there were as many residents of south BR who wanted to fight for their city as there are that want to run away and form a new one.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:28 am to LouisianaLonghorn
Not only did they give them the full millage, they gave them 1.3 million dollars of Gustav money that they couldn't spend.
It was all a show the fix was in.
Btw, Loupe voted to put the tax on the ballot. No one wonder he went into hiding. The guy is a big fat zero.
We conservatives here rail against the Dems at every turn, but whether you like them or not; they milk the system as best they can and get all they can for their "people". That's better than being like Loupe and Freiburg who don't do squat to get city-parish govt. working for the good of the whole.
It was all a show the fix was in.
Btw, Loupe voted to put the tax on the ballot. No one wonder he went into hiding. The guy is a big fat zero.
We conservatives here rail against the Dems at every turn, but whether you like them or not; they milk the system as best they can and get all they can for their "people". That's better than being like Loupe and Freiburg who don't do squat to get city-parish govt. working for the good of the whole.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:29 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I wish there were as many residents of south BR who wanted to fight for their city as there are that want to run away and form a new one.
The people who you are referring to in the south do not belong to that city, thus, there's no city to fight for.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:29 am to LouisianaLonghorn
The ones that want to form their own city don't live in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:31 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I wish there were as many residents of south BR who wanted to fight for their city as there are that want to run away and form a new one.
Should the Titanic survivors have stayed where they were and tried to patch a whole in a boat?
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:32 am to doubleb
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The ones that want to form their own city don't live in Baton Rouge.
I'm aware of that. I should've clarified that I was referring to those who've said they'd leave the city of BR for St. George.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:39 am to LouisianaLonghorn
I said it hours before the vote...Barb WILL disappoint. She has. She will.
As for LSU, I am an alum and diehard -- always will be. My wife and may other family, too. BUT, I do not love LSU more than my own well-being. I have to trust that the university can take care of itself and foot its own bill. We have historically been one of two universities that has never borrowed a dime from the state legislature for sports (the other being Nebraska). I guess if SG goes through, that will have to change. LSU will likely cut MANY programs, too. I get it-- it's about the education more than the athletics that concern us all. A Mark Emmert is needed now more than ever.
As for LSU, I am an alum and diehard -- always will be. My wife and may other family, too. BUT, I do not love LSU more than my own well-being. I have to trust that the university can take care of itself and foot its own bill. We have historically been one of two universities that has never borrowed a dime from the state legislature for sports (the other being Nebraska). I guess if SG goes through, that will have to change. LSU will likely cut MANY programs, too. I get it-- it's about the education more than the athletics that concern us all. A Mark Emmert is needed now more than ever.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:45 am to Dont_Call_Me_RAY
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Should the Titanic survivors have stayed where they were and tried to patch a whole in a boat?
The 'Together BR' people who fought that St. George thing seem to think so. Unfortunately the current administration has guys like Gravy who is on the starboard side of the boat at water level, continually drilling more holes in the boat, while Broome sits perched up in the crow's nest telling everyone that its going to be fine. Right after that she tries to have the guys who are helping load the life boats brought up on charges of assault for pushing people into the boats.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 9:48 am to LSUTigerFan247
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LSUTigerFan247
Nicely done!
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:00 am to mikelbr
quote:I believe that..I got a similar one from welch, it screamed canned response for all emailers too
That's the exact same email she sent a friend of mine.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:01 am to mikelbr
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legit source?
I ate it, it was real...real good!
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:08 am to PiscesTiger
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I guess if SG goes through, that will have to change. LSU will likely cut MANY programs, too. I get it-- it's about the education more than the athletics that concern us all.
I seriously doubt LSU will cut programs due to a St. G incorporation.
You do raise an interesting subject, though. The interaction of the SJW president F. King Alexander and SWB will be interesting to watch. She's gonna white guilt the frick out of LSU to force him to make some bad decisions.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:08 am to BingWaterTiger
quote:I wrote an email to BF the day after the COA vote and received the same email you did except for one added paragraph where she addressed a specific question I asked her in my email.
I recv'd a 2nd email from Freiberg. A novella
I'm still pondering how to respond to her long email. I'm thinking of asking to meet with her in person to discuss what might could happen in November regarding the COA and also to discuss the discrepancies in her reply from the newspaper article which reported the vote.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:11 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I wish there were as many residents of south BR who wanted to fight for their city as there are that want to run away and form a new one.
At this point, BR is pretty much like a car that has been in a bad wreck and totaled. It is cheaper (easier) to buy (build) a new one than to try to rebuild and repair a pile of badly damaged parts.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:13 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I should've clarified that I was referring to those who've said they'd leave the city of BR for St. George.
What good is fighting? The EBRCOA votes tell you all you need to know about who has the voting power on that council. What are you going to do to be able to outvote the people who want to vote themselves into your pockets? You sure as hell aren't winning any elections where they can vote themselves your money and you sure as hell aren't going to be able to muster the votes in the council to mitigate their desire to vote themselves your money. With the shifting demographics of Baton Rouge, it's clear that there are going to be more and more districts who think that someone else should be forced to pay for everything and there's no way to stop it short of pulling out of BR and letting the house of cards collapse.
You tell them to kindly go frick themselves with a chainsaw and move on.
You can choose to stay and fight a late skirmish in a lost war while Baton Rouge festers around you. I'll be elsewhere protecting my own interests as soon as I can and leaving Baton Rouge behind to reap its rewards.
This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 10:18 am
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:16 am to LouisianaLonghorn
quote:
I wish there were as many residents of south BR who wanted to fight for their city as there are that want to run away and form a new one.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:19 am to TigerstuckinMS
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What good is fighting? The EBRCOA votes tell you all you need to know about who has the voting power on that council.
Like I said earlier. You're opening Pandora's Box if the council stripped them of the tax that the voters approved. I don't think the EBRCOA deserves two cents of my property taxes, but I'd also like to see necessary services not get run through this muck because of a 2.25 millage
quote:
You tell them to kindly go frick themselves with a chainsaw and move on.
St. George doesn't change the voting bloc for a COA-type millage.
And the ONLY reason this didn't get shut down last year before it got to the ballot was because the Metro Council lacked a spine and elected to protect their votes in the same election.
This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 10:23 am
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:25 am to Golfer
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Like I said earlier. You're opening Pandora's Box if the council stripped them of the tax that the voters approved. I don't think the EBRCOA deserves two cents of my property taxes, but I'd also like to see necessary services not get run through this muck because of a 2.25 millage
I didn't see the MC's resistance to this as being anti-tax. In fact, I think most of them clearly stated that they were not against the tax itself. They're clearly against the people in charge of those funds. Had TCA been booted, and the MC given complete oversight of the COA, the vote would've likely been a unanimous "yes".
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