re: I'm voting Jan Swift for Lafayette Mayor/PP

Voted for Jan but now have to decide between Guillory and Blanco.

I hate to do it, but am voting for sleaze ball Josh. Don't trust Blanco at all...

As soon as more conservative people move to Youngsville it will become a cesspool like other La. cities.

People know Monique is a fraud. I don't ever want to be at the mercy of democrats who let activists take over cities and push vax mandates, burn and loot, etc.

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Josh said Saturday night that going forward, It'll be conservatism versus liberalism.

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Josh is a crook sleazy POS.

Forty-four percent of Boulet’s fundraising has come from outside Lafayette Parish, compared to 11.5% for Guillory and 2.6% for Swift. Boulet’s largest fund sources outside the parish are NEW ORLEANS (6.5%), New Iberia (5.4%) and BATON ROUGE (4.2%)

This is the most concerning statistic I’ve seen about how we can expect to be led by a Boulet administration.

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I wonder what "her price" will be to endorse.

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If she endorses Monique, I'll know I got duped.

But I'll also know there aren't any real republicans running for shite down here. Josh is not what I'd call 'pure' but I think his fake republicanism is born out of just wanting to be elected to stuff. Monique is a HARD CORE generational democrat who will do hardcore democrat things if elected. After watching democrat mayors allow thugs to destroy cities during the summer of love, and pushing for va mandates as well, I don't want any of them near any office that holds authority over my life.

So I'll be voting for Josh, even though I think he's a little butthole. Welcome to Louisiana politics.

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However, I did see Jan Swift's interview. She started out calm thanking her family and supporters. Then it built up to her calling out her opponents. She was angry when talking about the arts programs being decimated. She then talked about money for campaigns and said that her opponents were corrupt and that she was not.

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Jan was definitely feisty in that interview where she called a spade a spade. She said the 2 things that you need to be the Mayor of Lafayette are (1) money $$$ , and (2) be BOUGHT. ... she ended with a "Thank YOU and have a good evening"

IMO, Jan never had a chance since she was running against 2 people who were funded by big political power machines. Guillory is basically a puppet and was backed by all of his local political friends who do favors for one another. Ken Ritter (Mayor of Youngsville) and ousted Council woman Kayla Menard Reaux were right behind Josh fist-pumping and cheering him on "go Josh Go, Go Josh Go"

Blanco's husband David is from NOLA and he was previously appointed by Gov. JB Edwards to a job within the DNR - Ofc. of Mineral Resources. He left that job for a position in the private sector of the O&G industry. Lots of $$$ from outside Laffy is being thrown at Blanco.

So basically, Jan was right about being bought. She is not a fan of Josh and his shady business deals as the Mayor. Blanco stole her thunder and dream job as Jan knows a "leopard never changes it's spots". She may not support either candidate, while encouraging the voters to research each candidate's background and who they're in bed with.

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As for Blanco-Boulet having been a registered Dem because her mother was a Dem Governor, that doesn't mean anything. If my mother was Governor, I'd register whatever party she was so as not to create a controversy.

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This is the weakest shite I’ve ever heard. She’s a Dem through and through. That explanation you gave is laughable.

This is exactly what I was going to post.

I explicitly do not trust Josh Guillory any further than I could throw him. He seems to want to be a career politician, so he just started running for various offices until he found a race he could win. That’s the main reason I didn’t vote for him last go round.

But now, every time I look up in Lafayette, there is a ditch being widened, a detention pond being built, or a road being built/resurfaced.

Much to my surprise, he doesn’t seem to have focused on larger issues that don’t matter to the mayor of a smallish city, and instead decided to focus on making the trains run on time.

So I’m having a bite out of the same sandwich.