Louisiana republicans sell out

Did you expect anything else?

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Did you expect anything else?

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Honestly yes.

They came in railing against JBE and his tax and spend ways and not even ONE YEAR into office they are back to old school Blanco slush pork projects.

It's not even subtle. It's brazen and it stands out even more because the rest of this special session looks to be a disaster.

You do realize the session isn't over and they usually don't come to conclusion until the final day. First time paying attention to the session, huh?

SB29 is still sitting in the house dumbass

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You do realize the session isn't over and they usually don't come to conclusion until the final day. First time paying attention to the session, huh?

SB29 is still sitting in the house dumbass

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This is going to be fun! The dumbest people tend to think they know what they are talking about.

HB39 LINK passed both chambers today. It's the supplemental spending bill. Scroll down that page and look for the language that says

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Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 87, nays 13. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.

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Notice the date. 10/15. Today.

Now let's go look at the conference report shall we?

Adopted Conf Committee report LINK

Scroll down to page 5. That starts a list of 6 pages of pork projects worth $22 million.

Things like $1 million for a sports center in Central. $250k for the Urban League of LA. $200k for a beautification project in NOLA. Etc, etc. Again $22 MILLION.

Now I am guessing I will never see your ignorant arse post here again. But maybe you have enough dignity to admit you were wrong.

Literally so much pork, Tigerdroppings won't allow a post that long. Here is good chunk (less than half, I think) of it for reference:

"Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Bayou Blue Fire Protection District of Terrebonne
and Lafourche for equipment $ 94,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Bayou Cane Fire Protection District for the
installation of fire hydrants $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office
for substation improvements $ 500,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Town of Springfield for land improvements $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the St. John Parish Sheriff's Office for jail
improvements $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the St. James Parish Sheriff's Office for
safety equipment for patrol $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office for
substation improvements $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Colyell Community Water Association $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Terrebonne Parish Fire District No. 5 for fire
equipment $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Terrebonne Parish Fire District No. 6 for fire
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equipment $ 75,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Terrebonne Parish Fire District No. 7 for fire
equipment $ 75,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center
for construction of observation, water, and electrical
infrastructure $ 193,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government
for improvements to the East Houma airbase $ 230,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government
for Parish Council District 5 drainage and
infrastructure projects $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Houma Police Department
for neighborhood security cameras, monitoring
equipment, and related items $ 25,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government
for economic development construction projects
in downtown Houma $ 228,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Lake Providence for emergency
road repairs $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Tallulah for water and sewerage $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Town of Delhi for the Sapa Drive project $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Denham Springs for repairs
to Gas Department Building $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Walker for drainage improvements $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to ARC of Livingston Parish for building
renovations $ 80,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Livingston Parish Fire District No. 4
for equipment $ 20,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Livingston Parish Fire District No. 5
for a rescue boat $ 20,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Denham Springs Police Department
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for mobile technology $ 15,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Walker Police Department
for equipment $ 15,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Town of Madisonville for lighthouse
improvement and construction $ 250,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Baton Rouge North Economic Development
District $ 250,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Urban League of Louisiana for the Resilient
Restart Program $ 250,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Baton Rouge for the Mayor's Healthy
City Initiative $ 250,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Lafayette Consolidated Government for
road infrastructure projects $ 500,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office for equipment $ 500,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to St. Charles Parish for drainage and infrastructure
improvements $ 500,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Village of Grosse Tete for LA Highway 77
realignment improvements $ 100,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to Cameron Parish for the Cameron Parish Water
and Wastewater District No. 1 $ 50,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to Lafourche Fire District No. 8C for equipment $ 25,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Village of Palmetto for water well
improvements $ 20,000
Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the Town of Jean Lafitte for infrastructure
improvements $ 20,000

You really came back for more. Well good for you.

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The legislature has a surplus of money to spend this session and the majority of the bills are still in either house.

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Where the frick did you get this idea??? We have extra money? Nothing has been recognized by REC. There is nothing to extra to spend. Maybe they will have some, but that it is extremely premature. And if they did, they sure as hell should not spend it on pork projects when we have real dire issues such as those related to the corona virus and the hurricanes.

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You're literally trying to compare two bills.

Now if you had any clue about SB29, which I mentioned not the bill you have a stick up your arse about, you would know shits not going to pass until the final day

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That's not the sell out part. The sell out part is the $22 million in pork.

But now maybe you are right. Maybe SB29 (Cortez's emergency declaration review procedure) will morph from a toothless tiger (really worse since it makes it HARDER to annul an emergency declaration because now you need both chambers to take action) to a wonderful bill that will open the economy.

I really, really doubt it. But even if it did, why did our legislature need $20 million worth of bribes to do their job? Answer that.

There are no Democrats or Republicans in LA. It's still the same old Edwin Edwards Uniparty.

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Payable out of the State General Fund (Direct)
to the City of Baton Rouge for the Mayor's Healthy
City Initiative $ 250,000

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aka pissing away $250k

If I ever win a $500m lottery I would do everything in my power to bring massive new industry here. Become the next Trump/Musk. Then when I have finally secured that I will run for governor and see to it that every single country club rat who sits in that chamber will never win another election. They are useless and I’m sick of seeing our own neighbors sell us out to maintain their status.