Comments for Charter commish narrowing options at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 19 May 2013 18:57:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14877 City of LAFAYETTE residents should have autonomy and not be stymed - stalled - or subject to the politics of non city council members as we have now - or a Chief Executive who lives out of the CITY - AS WE HAD WITH THE COMEAUX ADMINISTRATION AND ITS PASSING OUT PERKS TO BROUSSARD. So be it if tax increases are necessary -- Broussard, Youngsville, Carencro, Scott, Duson will have their share of increase also -- if ragin_cajun is correct? - jmbo Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:16:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14819 " Maybe for the outlying areas and towns." As respectfully as possible, let me say that a person living in the city would pay the exact same tax increase as a person living in the parish if taxes are raised to pay for a parish government. Deconsolidation does not mean that city residents secede from the parish. City residents are also parish residents, and will pay parish tax increases in addition to city tax increases. As for Theriot and Bellard, I know that it's great sport to make fun of their no vote on new spending and higher taxes, and they don't have much "panache", but they and people like them are the only ones standing between the career leeches in local government and my kids' college fund. I try to follow local politics very closely, and it is very difficult for me to keep up with all the new and inventive ways that the administration and now the school board keep coming up with to raise taxes. How part time councilmen and school board members find time to practice their dark arts is a mystery to me. - ragin_cajun Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:43:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14789 "So, if you want more politicians and higher taxes, them go ahead and vote for deconsolidation when you get in booth. " Huh? Higher taxes? Maybe for the outlying areas and towns. Maybe its time they pony up for once, instead of riding the city of lafayette taxpayers. What we would surely get is a form of government that has self interest in the city, instead of "just say no" Theriot and Bellard. - Southsider Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:55:16 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14784 I've thought long and hard about this, and I kept an open mind about deconsolidation....right up until I saw all the usual suspects swarming around the charter commission trying to get their own little perks and advantages into whatever new form of government might come out on the other end of the process. I should have known from the beginning. Here's all you need to know. If you want 2 governments, it will mean a tax increase. More politicians' salaries, some sort of big mgmt/admin/computer project to separate it all out, more political arguments and feuds. Nothing will change, and the big population shift to the parish that everybody was so scared of didn't turn out to be as bad as everyone thought it would be anyway. So, if you want more politicians and higher taxes, them go ahead and vote for deconsolidation when you get in booth. - ragin_cajun Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:21:22 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14783 There are many commentors who are quite vocal in complaining about the Parish Administration and their good ole boy crony politics, it is always the administrative puppet who is manipulated by those whose chief aim is to personally profit by filling their pockets from every angle, these jacklegs aided by the administration believe that this is a way of life in louisiana and noone will ever cause their sand castle to fall being they are protected by the chief administrator and the administration's law enforcement, " I wonder if they are watching the middle east troubles, where the many thinly disguised dictators aided by the United States Government have held their citizens in a depressed state where the haves steal from the poor like here in the united states, its a beautiful sight to see that the populace is taking their country back, beginning in Egypt and spreading to the surrounding countrys, I'll go out on a limb and say that someday the citizens of this country will follow suit, if a dictatorship in the middle east protected by the United States government is overturned with no guns it can certainly occur here, and it may take place when the populace has enough of self-interest politics forced down their throats. " Amen. - Northsidian Shotgun Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:03:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14775 It is not about the city or the Parish, When Jodu'nt asked who would vote to go to Paris as a goodwill envoy to sell/promote the sale of bagasse and crawfish shells to the cosmetic firms all the councilpeeps voted " YES. Couillions don't run for public office to help others or to help the population in general, they go into public office to steal all they can.." For themselves and their Families and Cronys. - Northsidian Shotgun Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:54:47 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14768 either of them! - Southsider Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:35:51 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14764 Hey Southside, They voted against raising the utility rates 15%. That's one. Oh, but you said benefit the city of lafayette....did you mean the citizens or the government? - Compassionate One Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:16:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14763 Once again, Bellard and Theriot team up to vote no. Really, when was the last time either of this two idiots voted 'yes' to help out a program that would benefit the city of lafayette...anyone? - Southsider Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:02:18 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7773-charter-commish-narrowing-options#comment-14762 What's the rush? A few more months or weeks can't hurt. Unless the commission is paid by the hour. - Cajun Yodeler Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:27:23 +0100