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Post by abbd on Jul 2, 2006 8:33:02 GMT -6
The more I think about the article in the daily fish wrap, the more irate I become. Dee Stanley represents a (hehehe)republican parish president and he (dee)(and his boss, i assume) fells that it's OK to use taxpayer dollars to buy meals for himself, his wife and this government. Arrogance, amazing, and no one seems to care. I believe this shows us how this administration and this duncil feel about us, we the traxpayers. I was always told that taxpayer dollars should be held "sacred", guess I was wrong, especially with this group. Where's the outrage? Wonder what some of these folks expense accounts look like? Wonder what the department heads expense accounts look like? I'm sure the daily fishwrap will report on that really soon huh? Nah Never. Forget fiber, fight crime.
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Post by abbd on Jul 11, 2006 14:05:04 GMT -6
hmmmm
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Post by zoe10850 on Jul 11, 2006 23:51:07 GMT -6
tried to go there but could not...sure that is correct ?
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Post by coolboy on Jul 14, 2006 5:57:00 GMT -6
I am really excited to see who will throw their respective hats into the ring for mayor of Lafayette in the next couple of years. Personally, I'd like to see someone that is a proven leader in the city. Definitely someone that will get rid of Dee. Someone that will work for the citizens and stop trying to bend the rules and get childhood buddies promoted to offices they aren't qualified to run.
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Post by zoe10850 on Jul 14, 2006 10:55:03 GMT -6
I will be most interested in who runs for all major offices;assessor, clerk, sheriff, mayor, Governor, legislators, council.............Personally, I hope we have a complete turnover in all positions. New blood is necessary to revitalize this community. The same old, same old is not working.
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Post by abbd on Jul 14, 2006 11:30:58 GMT -6
Ya know Z, I doubt if the democrats will actully field a candidate for mayor-president next election. Hell good ole joey and his side kick democrat dee are giving the dems everything good dems believe in, bigger government, higher taxes, a hatred for corporations, fostering class envy and the redistribution of wealth in the community. What else could a good democrat want? Why waste campaign dollars when you look at who joey has surrounded himself with...joey and dee a perfect pair of tax and spend liberals who tout to the sheeple how conservative they are AND the sheeple believe them. Of course I could say all this about just about any elected republican from Lafayette. Sad but alas it's true.
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Post by zoe10850 on Jul 14, 2006 12:18:41 GMT -6
I am so very afraid you are right . the apathy level in Lafayette is bad. Our quality of politicians is nearly as bad as NO, La, and that is nothing to brag about. At least New Orleans has a newspaper and news media that is inquisitive, which is more than we have.
And I find that elected republicans are closet democrats anyway; look at assessor and clerk of court and legislators; Republican because of opportunity, not belief or practice.
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Post by Taureau on Jul 14, 2006 16:25:34 GMT -6
ABBD, You are correct; our Lafayette Republicans (supposedly) are more like the tax and spend liberals that they are. Don't forget about our State Senator, Mike Michot also; They are all out of uniform or turn coats. Can't wait to unseat them all. The Democrats must be loving it; they are there kind of liberals and they don't have to spend a dime of their money. Sacre Bleu!
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Post by coolboy on Jul 17, 2006 9:06:59 GMT -6
Joey isn't going to have that same support that he had last election. ALL of the people I've spoken to say that they're sorry to have ever voted for him and will not vote for him when he seeks re-election. Joey hasn't impressed me to say the least. If anything, he is the poster-boy for corruption. He's no Edwin Edwards, but he nickle-and-dimes the taxpayers out of a few thousand dollars, then claims we don't have enough money to do jack and it's our fault. With the right candidate that runs on the platform of uniting the city and getting more done with our tax dollars, his days are numbered.
Thanks to term limits we're at least going to have some new faces on the council soon.
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Post by Taureau on Jul 17, 2006 12:19:19 GMT -6
Well the taxes were approved by voters. What was the percentage of voter turn out? Wonder why the election was held during the peak vacation season? The present administration should change their party affiliation because they are all Democrats calling themselves Republicans. I wonder if they can be charged with impersonating a Republican?
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Post by ronnief on Jul 17, 2006 15:41:30 GMT -6
I believe there was 7% turnout. That is something to be proud of; 75% of 7% approved taxers on us all. I suppose we get what we deserve.
As for the Republicans, trhere is no such thing except for perception. Both parties now stand for big brother, uncontrolled budgets, bigger bureaucratic operations, and tough luck for the middle class.
Joey Durel is either incompetent, or stupid. The article in the Advertiser reference the people suing LUS because of the high rates. Joey D and T Huval barely hid their contempt fpr the taxpayers. Who is putting those people up to this, how dare they question this fiber project, how dare they question our excessive rates? Who works for who. Durel and Dee are eliteists, and do not deserve to be called public servants.
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Post by ronnief on Jul 17, 2006 15:48:40 GMT -6
And Coolboy, I am afraid you are very wrong. Durel and company will get re-elected, just like the Assessor, Clerk, Sheriff etc. I have not heard of a single opposition candidate yet for any of them, even though none are doing any better than average in their position. The average citizen does not care because they assume if something was wrong, the Advertiser would report that fact. Nothing reported, nothing wrong.
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Post by TBEAR on Jul 18, 2006 7:37:57 GMT -6
Quote from KLFY story
"Lafayette Consolidated Government leaders say they're thankful for the support of voters during Saturday's elections.
But, two city bond propositions aren't guaranteed to help raise revenue for a list of road and drainage projects already on the books.
City-parish president Joey Durel says the earliest any bonds could be sold is next year.
He says sales taxes have to remain up in order to make that happen.
Durel listed construction on East Pont des Mouton and Louisiana Avenue as two projects that could be funded first.
He says it will depend on how far along plans are for each site.
Durel says $8 million to $10 million could be available for the first year if everything stays on track.
The bond propositions could generate more than $200 million for more than two dozen projects over the next ten years."
What a bunch of dumb yes voters that didnt see this coming. He's already making excuses for the roads that are not going to be built. They just gave him money to play with like a little toy.
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Post by coolboy on Jul 18, 2006 11:30:42 GMT -6
Doggone it, TBEAR. If that didn't put a damper on my day. If the people had voted against the propositions, there wouldn't be money for roads. Now that everything passed, there still isn't any money for roads! It's funny how this didn't come out before the election. Joey stressed how important voting "YES" was, but I guess he forgot to mention that part.
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Post by Taureau on Jul 18, 2006 15:10:02 GMT -6
Well, Well. I wonder how the voters that voted for the tax feel now? All of the 75% that voted yes, out of the total of the 7% of Lafayette Parish Registered Voters that did vote. Apathy runs supreme. Was there information that was intentionally left out when we were hearing how great it would be to vote yes for continuing the taxes? Do you think the voters would have approved the propositions if they would have known then, what they will know now? A lot to be said about misinformation or inaccurate information pertaining to the tax propositions.
Oh well; it will be better next year. Thanks to all that voted for the tax propositions; NOT!
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Post by TBEAR on Jul 18, 2006 17:09:50 GMT -6
I just hated to be the barer of bad news but just wanted to make sure everyone caught his little double talk. Its like you voted yes, now kiss my a** I'll do what I want now.
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Post by zoe10850 on Jul 21, 2006 0:46:05 GMT -6
And the way bonds work; we sell them, and get the $200 million up front, not over the next 10 years. We then repay with money generated over next 10 years.
Why on earth would this idiot wait until next year? He got a whopping 75% of the vote to proceed with bond sale. Could be done in approx 90 days, but hey, let's wait for rates to climb a little first so we have less money to spend. Did he really finish high school ? Did Dee ?
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Post by coolboy on Jul 21, 2006 3:16:52 GMT -6
I took this from the opinion page of the Daily Sadvertiser:
"Police chief indicted. City councilman may be next. Council constantly squabbling. City-parish president says city "limping along" financially. School board member battling with school board employee/politician. Everybody jumping on the bishop. I think bailing out of Lafayette when the oil industry crashed in the '80s was a good move for me."
Personally I don't care what anyone outside of Lafayette has to say, but I thought I'd show how decrepid our government looks to people outside of the city. Embarrassed doesn't begin to explain how I feel about our leadership in Lafayette. A couple of months ago, I could not fathom our officials being more ignorant and incompetent. Guess they showed me.
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Post by abbd on Sept 3, 2006 14:09:41 GMT -6
Well, in my opinion there really is no other option than to vote for Dr. Boustany in the upcoming congessional race. I happened to catch his upcoming democrat opponnent on AOC and I couldn't come close to agreeing with him on ANYTHING he said. It was like I was listening to a candidate from the peoples republic of Berkley California. The only give away was he was speaking from a podium with Don's Seafood and Steakhouse imprinted on it. In my opinion, I'm not sure this democrat believes in free enterprise whatsoever. Hopefully y'all will get to hear him like I did.
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Post by Taureau on Sept 3, 2006 14:59:12 GMT -6
I think Boustany has done a good job. I really haven't heard any negative comments, except from the left blog. The Democrats are all about socialism. They think that all of these give away programs are free. Someone has to pay for them and it is us; the tax payers.
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