Comments for Castille, Patin named CPC leaders at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 19 May 2013 02:36:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5573 I HAVE BEEN EVERYWHERE, AND ITS NOWHERE AT ALL, I'D TRADE ALL MY YESTERDAYS FOR ONE TOMORROW IN A DECONSLOPEDATED PARISH. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:13:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5204 LOL It's amazing how the pursuit of an ideal, a best possible solution derived from a process of much deliberation and hashing out, ultimately garners such skepticism from the contentedly discontent out there. Flower Children. Hardly. Shotgun, have you traveled much, or lately? - Unempirical Observer Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:35:30 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5135 JESUS ! UNEMPIRICAL OBSERVER, WHAT KIND OF SPEED YOU ON ????? WID YA UNCIRCUMCISIONALIZED VIEWS/AND UNCLOISTERED REVELATIONS........ QUOTE TU ! ", WHO TENDS TO BE REVERED AS EXPERTS OR PERSONS OF ESTEEM IN TOWN.......................YA CANNOT BE CANONIZING, ANY OF OUR LOCAL POLITICO PERPETRATERS WID DA STICKUM ON DERE FINGERS. ALLUS BULL SHEEEEET ASIDE, YA POST' "DAS AH CARPETBAGGERS NIGHTMARE. MON DIEU! WITH ALL THE SERIOUSNESS,AT MAH DISCRETION* WOULD YA CONSIDAH BEING ON THE TICKET WID ANDY HEBERT NEXT ELECTION. WE CALL THE TICKET, EEK $ MEEK, FLOWER CHIRUNS. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:48:31 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5122 THE Daily's article fails to hit at any real particular solutions that are being offered up at this early stage. If the Charter is amended with respect to redistricting....then what is it that needs doing? Is it changing the date of the election for this one occassion, or permanently (such as switching elections to the spring of the evenly numbered years?) Further in all the reading I've done, and in the number crunching I've done with the 2008 estimates, the City of Lafayette would still constitute about 55% of the total Parish population (now those numbers may turn out completely different in 2010) but 55% is what it takes to have 5 out of 9 council districts. The solution is this....draw 5 council seats to include exclusive the boundaries of the city, and only include those unincorporated areas which are "annexation islands". Problem solved. We won't have to worry about this again 'til 2020. With respect to federally mandated racial minority representation, one solution which could overcome gerrymandered districting, would be too change from single member geographic constituencies we now have, and instead have multiple member geographic constituencies, or many more at-large seats. Instead of voting for one candidate at one time only per your district, you'd be voting for your top ...(this part is adjustable to the local demographic situation) say 3-5 candidates. If you wished to vote for a certain ethnicity, or someone who represented your political sensibilities, you would put that person as your first choice, then your next best candidate as 2nd, and then your pragmatic (I'm not throwing my vote away) candidate 3rd, and so forth. When the votes are tallied up, first of all, at RUN-OFF time, no one will ever win a seat in a single member district on a plurality. THERE WILL BE a 50% winner. In multi-member districts, those pooling their votes will result in minority candidates rising to the top. That's how I best understand the system of Instant Run-Off Voting. and Multi-Member Districts. Sports judges do this all the time when judging certain sports. Besides, if I was white in a black majority district or black in a white majority district, absent the transcending candidate, I'm never going to see someone of my ethnicity get elected, so why bother voting...or I could just move to where "people are like me." I think that's wrong. We should have more reflective representation. Maybe then we'd have more women on our council, and more people from a wider variety of professions in office. I think we need that when it comes time to setting community priorities, for what's good for the citizens, the stakeholders of all issues in a community and not just any one vested interest group, who tends to be revered as experts or persons of esteem in town. Let's get this right. - Unempirical Observer Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:35:16 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5106 I DON'T MAKE AHNY COMMEMTS, *I STATE THE FACTS........LIKE """DRAGNET! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:21:48 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5084 Since I am from the highland of crap-o-ville I will explain what the brother means: It means the politicians have no other means of support to make A-LOT OF MONEY other than political office!! (who heard of them before they were in office) It means consolidated gum'mt may be going away! and it means they only interact with the general population from their mardi gras floats. While riding with the other power elites-and wana be power elite! If ya'll would go to the highlands of crap-o-ville instead of passing through going to I-10 or the country club ya'll might understand! Now go home, get dressed, and go to a chamber meeting! - northsidian Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:26:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5068 if he knew how to type you might be able to decode his jibberish - southsider Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:27:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5027 i am not sure what that comment means. - concerned citizen 0001 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:34:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/home/5441#comment-5023 IT REALLY WOULD CAUSE VERY MUCH DURESS TO OUR LOCAL PARISH ADMINS. TO DECONSOLIDATE PARISH GOVT. BEING THEY REMAIN WITH NO TRUE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN AHNY FIELD BUT PUTTIN IT TA DA GENERAL POPULATION........ AHN ALLUS CRATES OF """"STICKUM""""AHN ALLUS THE MARDI GRAS BEADS $ baubles in lay-away for next year wid non-refund, from da Tangpahoey krewe what lost der king ta da ANGOLA XMAS CHOIR...WHA AH BUMMAH..... - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:55:49 +0100