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re: Lake Charles posters, who we voting for Mayor today?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:57 am to The Levee
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:57 am to The Levee
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Barbe was damaged from Laura until 2 years ago.
To be fair with anyone in Hurricane Recovery, the Mayor has nothing to do with school rebuilding. See your local school board and parish schools superintendent.
Terrebonne is in a similar boat with Ida. South Terrebonne will finally be finished maybe by the start of next school year and Ellender a few years later as that had to be raised and completely rebuilt which started just in the last year.
Also, you can place any Hurricane Recovery delays with everyone’s favorite four letter agency FEMA. And not only that in some cases a local area has to pay out of pocket and then hope to get reimbursed. Some local areas are still getting reimbursed on post Katrina projects.
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Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:58 am to The Levee
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Barbe was damaged from Laura until 2 years ago. A good mayor takes care of that before the 3 years mark post hurricane.
Nic Hunter has literally 0 to do with that
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:59 am to SlowFlowPro
It was originally all supposed to be done by the Jan 1 2025 lol
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:03 am to The Levee
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Barbe was damaged from Laura until 2 years ago. A good mayor takes care of that before the 3 years mark post hurricane. Figure out a way.
I don’t think that’s how it works. Projects take time.
For example, Chennault is just finishing up on one of their buildings that was damaged from Laura and look at that McNeese Pressbox job.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:04 am to sledgehammer
I will just say, while The Levee isn't making sense, this is the sentiment I was referencing earlier. There is just a lot of anger, borderline rage at Hunter that doesn't seem to have a huge basis.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:43 am to SlowFlowPro
Exactly you can’t wave a magic wand and rebuild a 80k population city that was destroyed by 2 major hurricanes in a 2 month period and expect it to be fixed with 2 years. People have unreasonable expectations, that have no clue how government funding works.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:48 am to sledgehammer
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NH doesn’t help white business owners, but he will do anything for black business owners
Whoa, that’s a bold claim! Do you have any receipts to back that up?
The article I linked showing the capital investments in LC shows that the money under NH was skewed way more towards the black areas.
Here it is again
Lake Chares officials provide list of capital investments made in each district since 2017
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District A (11,809 residents): $23,000,365 ($1,948 per capita)
District B: (12,188 residents) $11,316,573 ($929 per capita)
District C: (12,203 residents) $6,192,134 ($507 per capita)
District D: (12,462 residents) $8,980,902 ($721 per capita)
District E: (12,203 residents) $11,696,816 ($959 per capita)
District F: (12,104 residents) $14,173,004 ($1,171 per capita)
District G: (11,903 residents) $5,918,108 ($497 per capita)
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:52 am to SWLA92
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Exactly you can’t wave a magic wand and rebuild a 80k population city that was destroyed by 2 major hurricanes in a 2 month period and expect it to be fixed with 2 years.
Nick also had basically zero help from any of our esteemed members of our Congressional Delegation. I dont think John Kennedy even knows there were two hurricanes that hit LC in a 6 week span.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:53 am to stout
Clay Higgins' (lack of ) response was disgraceful
But he's the Cajun John Wayne, you know?
But he's the Cajun John Wayne, you know?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:54 am to SlowFlowPro
Clay showed up for a few photo ops after Nick had secured funding without his help. Nick should have told him to pound sand.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 9:56 am to stout
Had he had a crystal ball to be able to see the future, as in last night, he may have
This post was edited on 5/4/25 at 9:57 am
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:03 am to SlowFlowPro
Yea
One thing I think Nick did really well was concentrate on drainage. The city can't keep building new developments with the drainage issues we have and even on a parish level, our PJ seems to ignore the issues or just wants to put the burden on residents.
Nick made it a priority after many people flooded during Delta and the100 year flood a few months later.
IMO he did lean too hard into low-income housing developments and only pushed for affordable housing in black areas. He seemed to prioritize that a bit too much when there are already tons of federal programs for developers and plenty of white people who also need affordable housing.
One thing I think Nick did really well was concentrate on drainage. The city can't keep building new developments with the drainage issues we have and even on a parish level, our PJ seems to ignore the issues or just wants to put the burden on residents.
Nick made it a priority after many people flooded during Delta and the100 year flood a few months later.
IMO he did lean too hard into low-income housing developments and only pushed for affordable housing in black areas. He seemed to prioritize that a bit too much when there are already tons of federal programs for developers and plenty of white people who also need affordable housing.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:35 am to stout
The concern with Simien was after a conversation we had after running into him at Live at the Lakefront.
He was courteous and did speak a long time. His sister said she's from Houston and can't wait for them to bring Houston here.
He asked if I lived in LC and told him I used to but obviously don't vote but the way LC goes affects us.
We went back and forth on topics and he did ask me big questions when he found out that we homeschool and how important the the parks investment has been. How the schools and the amount of paperwork shite is detracts from actual teaching.
How important fathers are and no amount of goverment programs will replace them. Much of what we see in local culture and education comes from lack of a nuclear family. I asked him what he can do to affect that.
I asked him where he stood on free speech and does he think there is such a thing as hate speech.
I asked his opinion on DEI vs meritocracy.
He kind of wafered on the last two. He did say lack of church has affected the area over the years and directly affects the population.
He did agree with me when I spoke about industry driving this area and we don't need to screw that up. Need to support it and utilize our access to Gulf and leverage our growth around it.
He did ask if I was interested he'd like to continue the conversation if I wanted to. It was pretty loud out there. We did visit for more than 20 minutes and I'm not a voter.
He did seem to really listen.
Could be just the politician in him.
We will see.
I wonder how much this affects Moss Bluff. They can't vote and there has been a mass exodus north which drained LC of potential voters.
He was courteous and did speak a long time. His sister said she's from Houston and can't wait for them to bring Houston here.
He asked if I lived in LC and told him I used to but obviously don't vote but the way LC goes affects us.
We went back and forth on topics and he did ask me big questions when he found out that we homeschool and how important the the parks investment has been. How the schools and the amount of paperwork shite is detracts from actual teaching.
How important fathers are and no amount of goverment programs will replace them. Much of what we see in local culture and education comes from lack of a nuclear family. I asked him what he can do to affect that.
I asked him where he stood on free speech and does he think there is such a thing as hate speech.
I asked his opinion on DEI vs meritocracy.
He kind of wafered on the last two. He did say lack of church has affected the area over the years and directly affects the population.
He did agree with me when I spoke about industry driving this area and we don't need to screw that up. Need to support it and utilize our access to Gulf and leverage our growth around it.
He did ask if I was interested he'd like to continue the conversation if I wanted to. It was pretty loud out there. We did visit for more than 20 minutes and I'm not a voter.
He did seem to really listen.
Could be just the politician in him.
We will see.
I wonder how much this affects Moss Bluff. They can't vote and there has been a mass exodus north which drained LC of potential voters.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 10:47 am to The Levee
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They stayed home yesterday. NH doesn’t help white business owners, but he will do anything for black business owners.
So you ended up with the southern poverty law center candidate.
Smart move.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:04 am to Papoo63
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Isn't Hunter's wife also a lawyer??? If so, I wonder if she has sued LC while Hunter has been Mayor???
Family law, dumbass.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:34 am to ApisMellifera
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A lawyer got pissed off that Nic didn’t use (or continue using him) while in office so the guy decided to dig up every bit of dirt he could find on Nic and blast it out to everyone.
Billy Loftin or Hunter Lundy?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:37 am to Adam Banks
As someone who’s lived all along the I-10 corridor in Louisiana, I’ve never seen a city take this long to recover from hurricane damage—especially when it comes to something as visible as our main public high school. The fact that the bleachers were still roped off due to damage from a storm that hit three years ago is hard to explain to anyone visiting. That reflects on city leadership, plain and simple—regardless of how the blame is shifted.
I understand how government works, and I also know that effective leadership can make things move faster. In this case, it didn’t.
Additionally, Nic Hunter made some choices that alienated a lot of people. There was a noticeable pattern: he showed up for ribbon cuttings at Black-owned businesses but often skipped those at white-owned establishments. That didn’t sit well with many in the community.
Just sharing an outsider’s perspective. (Former resident)
I understand how government works, and I also know that effective leadership can make things move faster. In this case, it didn’t.
Additionally, Nic Hunter made some choices that alienated a lot of people. There was a noticeable pattern: he showed up for ribbon cuttings at Black-owned businesses but often skipped those at white-owned establishments. That didn’t sit well with many in the community.
Just sharing an outsider’s perspective. (Former resident)
This post was edited on 5/4/25 at 11:41 am
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:42 am to The Levee
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especially when it comes to something as visible as our main public high school. The fact that the bleachers were still roped off due to damage from a storm that hit three years ago is hard to explain to anyone visiting.
Sounds like a school problem and not a mayor problem.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:42 am to The Levee
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NH repeatedly chose to support grand openings for black businesses and chose not to attend those for white owned businesses. Simple as that. Pissed off a lot of folks.
I’m just asking for the logic of voting for the southern poverty law center’s candidate to replace him.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 11:57 am to The Levee
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especially when it comes to something as visible as our main public high school. The fact that the bleachers were still roped off due to damage from a storm that hit three years ago is hard to explain to anyone visiting. That reflects on city leadership, plain and simple—regardless of how the blame is shifted.
This is exclusively under the domain of the CPSB.
Hell, CPSB is self-insured, last I heard. We aren't even talking about having to wait on an insurance company.
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