re: Damn, I still can't believe it. We took back Baton Rouge.

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thanks to Central and Pride for showing up.

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I told y'all we weren't playing. Tired of being an afterthought in the parish and Sid carries alot of weight around here.

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What's the largest city in the US with a Republican mayor?

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Dallas, Fort Worth, and Miami have Republican mayors.

Knew he'd win all along... not

I will definitely eat crow on this. Thought there was no chance in hell he'd win, but as some pointed out, it was a bit of a perfect storm. Big St George turnout, with big corresponding Central turnout. Bad weather and Southern playing a big game out of town. Little to no state Dem machinery involved in getting people to the polls, and Broome likely burned some bridges infighting with James (and then James coming in to support her afterwards). Most of the people motivated to vote were not those who supported or would vote for her.

I hope he's ready for what he's in for.

A lot of work to do and damage to undo but this is the first time in years I have seen people genuinely excited and hopeful. It’s all anyone I have encountered is talking about. Sid has a lot of expectations to live up to but keep hope alive.

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I hope he's ready for what he's in for.

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Given how much the City is going to have to cut, Broome is probably happy with the result. Dems think they can come back in 4. Sid needs to attack corruption in NBR hard. Chase the Dems to NOLA.

Well done you BR peeps

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Baton Rouge hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 2004 (Bobby Simpson).

Let that sink in.

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And Bobby was not a very good mayor. (D) Kip Holden actually was a much better mayor though, and why it was not nearly as painful as it could have been, but SWB was perhaps the worst mayor of all time, and at a time when we could least afford her as mayor either.


Kip actually cared deeply about the entirety of Baton Rouge, and I believe had a real vision for the city. SWB was the complete opposite of Kip in every single way. We need someone who believes in the potential of BR again, not just in word, but reflective in deed as well, and a lot of that just has to do with simply cleaning the place up, repairing dilapidated infrastructure, and in tackling the criminal element head on that makes people egress out of here. Nobody wants to live around that, and they don’t have to either, which brings me to the final need, and that’s to attract people back to BR through incentives to live in the BR, and attracting new business and industry to set up shop here.

I recently watched a piece done on how Blytheville Arkansas is making a complete about face from a dead city to a city on the rise with manufacturing and people who’ve received incentives to relocate there. They have a program called “Work Here Live Here” that pays upward of 5% of a home purchase and 10% of new construction as incentives to relocate, funded largely through business and industry and finance. The place was devastated when farming and timber went belly up, and so now they’ve attracted steel mills and other businesses have followed. That’s happening all over the region.

These obviously aren’t the same challenges that a city like BR faces, but it is in having a mindset that believes in themselves and works creatively to get business and industry to also believe, and relocate, and in a time where you now have a President who is looking to put America 1st in manufacturing and jobs, and with a new Republican mayor for BR, this is exactly the direction I think that Sid needs to pursue, and if I were him, I would do everything I could to tap into MAGA, especially as it pertains to making Baton Rouge a “Business Friendly” city, and a city worth raising a family in again. That clearly isn’t happening overnight, but it will also never happen until BR can pull itself out of its funk and start believing in itself and attracting that kind of economic engine to make BR its home. The people will follow, and in the end it’s the people who are either going to make a place desirable or not desirable.

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And Bobby was not a very good mayor.

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He was fricking horrible