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Why the Business Park is a Disaster That Cannot Be Fixed

Seven million dollars. That’s a LOT of money. Money that COULD have been used for the City of Lampasas and its citizens. Instead, it is being vaporized by the Lampasas Economic Development Corporation and City council on an ill-fated “business park” project that has promised “high paying jobs” for nearly TWENTY YEARS now.

The jobs are always just around the corner but the cost is NOW…and it just keeps skyrocketing higher. Every year they plead for “just a little more money” and every year, City council throws more money down the rat hole, following that carrot on a stick like a donkey.

In 2003, it was a million bucks to buy the land. In 2015 it was another $1.9 million to make it “shovel ready”. In May 2021, it was another $1.97 million to REALLY make it ready [page 15]. On Feb 14, 2022 it was bumped to $2.7 million [page 11] to “have a home run”, according to Steve Hudson.

In ADDITION to all of that, more millions were wasted on legal fees, surveying the SAME land many times over, brush clearing and even promotion!

**Sample of money wasted in 2014, 2015, 2016**

See the pattern??

And every promise turns out to be a lie. The promise of jobs “about to happen“, the promise of “$250,000 per year in revenue“. All lies. But City council thinks with every step, they’ll finally get a bite of that carrot.

This project has no possible way of EVER creating any kind of return on investment. Former councilman Mike White admitted as much on May 26th, 2020. Current City councilman Bob Goodart called it “a colossal waste of money” just 15 months ago.

The people MOST culpable for this fiscal crime are Misti Talbert, TJ Monroe, Steve Hudson, Neal Leavell and Roland Schaub. Mandy Walsh and Finley deGraffenreid are on that list too, as cheerleaders and enablers – even though they technically work for the City at great expense to the taxpayer (approximately $300,000 per year).

Here are some of the MANY intractable problems with this entire project:

#1 Misti Talbert, Mandy Walsh and the LEDC have ALWAYS refused to divulge the names of any possible prospects for the park. If you are going to keep going hat-in-hand to City council and vaporizing millions with vague promises of “many prospects ready to move in”, then it’s only fair you give a solid prospect or two BY NAME.

The LAST time they had a “prospect” and kept the name hidden, it turned out to be Mike Cour and Eco-Strong – which was a complete and total scam. The LEDC was strung along for almost a YEAR before the scam blew up. Misti, Mandy and TJ have NEVER answered for that disaster….and City council has NEVER called them on it. There is NO WAY that anyone on the LEDC should be trusted after bungling that so badly and falling for such an OBVIOUSLY nonviable scheme.

So they are batting .000 after 18 years. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

#2 Misti Talbert makes mention of “all the jobs” this will generate, but never EVER says how many jobs we are talking about and at what salary. Therefore, it is all pie-in-the-sky nonsense. You cannot say that spending $7,000,000.00 is worth it for “jobs” if you don’t explicitly define the benefits of that cost. She never does. She claims it will be a great ROI (return on investment) but that is a charade since she never gives the “R” part of the equation.

#3 We lack the workforce: If you want “high paying jobs” from Big Companies, you need an educated workforce. Unfortunately, only 30% of the citizens of Lampasas over the age of 25 have a high school diploma. Only 13% are college graduates. Those are not the numbers that “high tech, high salary” companies are looking for.

So what will happen? Workers will commute from the south – Georgetown, Liberty Hill, Round Rock. This means the citizens of Lampasas are getting gouged for over $7,000,000 for a “business park” that very few will be working at unless they are sweeping the floor. But we will ALL get to enjoy the traffic and bullshit that comes with it.

Here is a crazy idea: if you want a “high paying job” move to Austin, Round Rock or Georgetown! Why is that so hard to fathom? There is a tradeoff you cannot avoid: the high-paying jobs are in the Big Expensive City. Period. They go hand-in-hand. Anyone with huge brains will graduate school here, go to college (maybe not, as college is quite useless now) which requires moving away anyways. The LEDC is trying to reinvent the wheel by bringing “high paying jobs” here when they are literally already 60 miles down the road.

Moronic, to say the least. The LEDC would save about $6.5 million by just buying and running a commuter bus from Lampasas to Round Rock for those who want to work there and avoid driving! Sounds crazy but it’s true.

#4 Do we even really NEED jobs??? Like a general fighting the last war, the LEDC acts like we are some worn-out, down-on-their-luck steel mill town desperate for jobs. The reality is quite the opposite! Every single business in town is hiring and cannot find workers. There are something like 4 million more jobs than workers in this country.

So if jobs are plentiful, why is the LEDC wasting $7,000,000 to bring MORE jobs?

Imagine for a moment the LEDC actually gets their pipe dream and company XYZ decides to locate here and provide 100 jobs (this is for the sake of argument – it will never happen). First thing XYZ does is negotiate goodies like reduced property taxes or no property taxes or cheap electricity. That’s a fact Misti also never mentions. The LEDC will give them anything they want in their desperation to ‘prove’ the business park was a genius idea.

So now, Company XYZ has saved a lot of money because the LEDC has handed them a lot of free shit. What does XYZ do? They proceed to hire workers away from EXISTING businesses in this town. Maybe they poach a dozen workers from Ajinomoto, Oil States, etc and end up fucking THOSE existing businesses in the process.

How do you think THOSE existing companies are going to feel after the LEDC makes finding and keeping employees that much harder? And the LEDC did it using THEIR TAX DOLLARS! Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds.

There are many more reasons the ‘business’ park is a structurally unsound idea. I would LOVE to debate LEDC President Misti Talbert on the issue any time she wants. The gauntlet is thrown down.

City/LEDC Refuse to Give Names of Business Park “Prospects”. Again.

Not long ago, Mandy Walsh (Economic Development Director) told the media that the LEDC had “six prospects for the Business Park and four of them are serious”.

So two aren’t serious, apparently. Whatever that means.

Then, two nights ago, LEDC President Misti Talbert (who was appointed, not elected to that position) went before her former City council buddies (conflict of interest much?) and mayor TJ Monroe (who ALSO sits on the LEDC) to beg for another $971,000 for their ill-fated Business Park. This would bring the total wasted up to well over $7,000,000.00

As she rattled her tin cup in front of council, Misti assured us there were a plethora of companies just DYING to move into the park! Manufacturing, entertainment, medical research, you name it. She dazzled City council with piles of bullshit in her attempt to pilfer City coffers for yet another million bucks.

It worked. City council bought it and approved unanimously. Nobody bothered to ask the names of any of these prospects to see if they were legit. So I did. Here is what I was told by the City secretary:

To answer your question the Lampasas Economic Develop Corporation (LEDC) has adopted a policy under which it maintains the identity of all potential prospects for Economic Development Projects with the LEDC as confidential, until the time that either the prospect indicates to the LEDC Board that it desires to “go public” with information related to its future plans for its project, or at the time when an agreement between the prospect and the LEDC is formalized…..Accordingly, at this time, pursuant to the LEDC policy and State laws, neither the LEDC or the City will be disclosing the names of any potential prospects for the future Phase 1 Industrial Park Project

It’s like deja vu all over again! I figured this would be their answer. After all, they told me the same thing the last time they had a “prospect“.

I’m not asking for their plans. I’m not asking for any “proprietary information”. I’m not asking for the deal you’re giving them. I’m just asking for a NAME. But according to their own rules, they can’t tell us anything. Just hand over the million bucks and trust us.

Yeah, sure.

Maybe they could change that rule and give a name or two as a good faith gesture in exchange for another million? What reason could they possibly have for keeping everything a huge secret until the last second? I’ll tell you why:

They don’t want guys like me picking apart the “deal” ahead of time and exposing it for a massive scam – like I did with Mike Cour and Eco-Strong.

Yeah, THAT Eco-Strong. The scumworms that strung Mandy Walsh, Misti Talbert and the ENTIRE LEDC along for almost a YEAR with their ridiculous scheme to recycle tires! I even got my lawyer involved to try and find out what was going on.

Turns out Eco-Strong didn’t want much: just a bunch of free land…and $1.8 million in tax dollars. Needless to say, the entire scam blew up and their Super Secret Prospect that was held out to City council as proof they needed to spend another million was COMPLETE SMOKE AND MIRRORS!

Some might even call this fraud – using an obviously nonviable “secret prospect” to grab more money from the City. You see, if guys like me (or a slightly skeptical City council) had gotten to see the Eco-Strong bullshit AHEAD OF TIME, we would have seen it was OBVIOUSLY nonviable nonsense and the LEDC would have been back to square one with NO prospects – and their begging would have fallen on deaf ears.

Instead, with their self-made rule about not disclosing anything, they can make up anything they like about their “prospects” to grab another million from a council that is kept in the dark. Which is EXACTLY what Misti Talbert did two nights ago. Truly, scumbaggery of the highest order.

Councilman Bob Goodart Is a Liar

Et tu, Bob? Et tu?

I guess Goodart’s new nickname is “Brutus” – after the infamous traitor Marcus Junius Brutus.

Bob joined the crowd a few days ago as City council voted unanimously to pilfer $971,196 from City funds to waste on their ~~goat pasture~~ ‘business’ park debacle.

Bob sang a different tune when he was running for City council and I asked him DIRECTLY about this disaster of a project. Here is a copy of his email to me then in November of 2020:

“The business park has been a colossal waste of money to this point. The citizens of Lampasas voted to not buy the property, but then the City Manager, Mike Talbot managed to purchase the property through the Lampasas Economic Development Corporation, which is funded by the City of Lampasas.”

“The park sat for years until the decision was made to bring utilities to the park, to entice businesses. The cost to taxpayers was over 1 million dollars to bring water, sewer and electric to the property. Those utilities have sat idle for at least 5 or 6 [actually 7, now] years. I have now heard there is a plan in the works to build roads inside the park to attract business. So millions more will be spent to sit idly by until when?”

The return on investment on this property will be measured in decades instead of years at best. The best way I know to recoup any money out of this deal would be to sell it to a developer for a housing development, but the City will still lose money on it. No major business wants to build here because we are too far from the interstate, we don’t have a rail head, we don’t have the workforce to sustain it and we don’t have the things that are attractive to those businesses, such as hotels and restaurants and housing. It is my opinion it should be sold to recoup some of the money or at the very least, stop throwing money into it, until there is a firm commitment from a major business to come there.

Council Meeting 2-14-22: Talbert and LEDC Pilfer $971,000 MORE From City Coffers For Business Park Debacle.

Major topics:

Rain collection system for local idiot Janet “Crazier” Crozier‘s community garden: this has no business being funded by HOT funds in the first place, but it is a turd that won’t die. It was off the menu, but then Randy “Speedbump” Clark wanted it back on there. So now Finley is telling us that due to the shitty economy created by the Brandon administration, the price of the moronic water tanks (which are not needed at all because the Community Gardens get FREE water from the City already) has gone from $10,200 up to $12,750 (exactly 25% increase).

The irony here is that Janet is a raging libtard and very likely voted for Joe Biden – so she essentially caused this price increase herself. But she doesn’t care, because the money is “free”.

Randy is now arguing that the city needs to “do some investment in rain water collection and conservation effort”. Wrong, Randy. You are now officially in the “dummy” group of City council. From a cost/benefit standpoint it is not even REMOTELY a good idea to spend $12,750 dollars to catch rain when the Community Gardens ALREADY gets water from the City for a total cost of $35 per year. Crazier Crozier could pay for city water for 364 years before she breaks even on that trade.

Cathy “Porkchop” Kuehne now jumping in with the idea to only use one tank to save money. It does not occur to her pea brain that perhaps the City should buy ZERO tanks and let Crazier Crozier raise the money herself.

Now Janet herself is up there muttering into the mic and no doubt making a completely incoherent case for wasting $12,750. From what little I can hear (she won’t speak into mic) it is even more elaborate and idiotic than I imagined. Underground pipes?

I can’t believe there is any discussion on this at all. This is PURE virtue signaling – kind of like wearing a face mask to stop an aerosolized virus. No wonder Kuehne is all in favor of it.

It makes ZERO economic sense to waste $12,750 of taxpayer money for an elaborate rain catch system when the City has ALREADY put in EIGHT water spigots for free. Water is water, you dumb shits. You’ll also get plenty of rain from mother nature all year long. It is crazy that this is even on the table.

Goat pasture updates: the ‘business’ parkcontinues to increase in cost. No surprises there with Misti Talbert in charge. Oh wait! There is Misti Talbert at the podium….asking for money! I am SHOCKED, I tells ya, by this development.

Misti and Steve Hudson casually ask for “roughly another” $700,000 – $971,000!!! [32:50 mark].

Insanity.

Talbert: [24 minute mark] “It has come to my attention that the City is blessed with a significant amount of money in the American recovery funds to the tune of 1.978 million dollars, I believe….and thewater/wastewater portionof this project will run $971,000 and the funds can be used for this project...I’m quite certain there’s not another project you can put these funds into that….are gonna bring you the potential ROI that this project is gonna bring you…“

ROI? Less than two years agoformer councilman Mike White admitted this about the ~~goat pasture~~ businesspark project: “I don’t love it, just from a return on investment standpointit’s never…never going to be anywhere close…” [5/26/20 Council meeting at the 10:08 and 19:30 minute mark].

And that was when a much smaller number was being thrown around! Now, here we are less than two years later, and Misti wants ANOTHER $700k? Pure stupidity. Mike White was right. This project will NEVER make sense but they are too far down the road now to stop – because they will all look like the idiots they are. It’s called The Sunk Cost Fallacy and they have all fallen into it.

Furthermore, pardon my impertinence, governor, but you ALREADY SPENT $678,000 on “water/wastewater”back in 2015!

“We have no more commercial development space in Lampasas…that business park is it.”

That is a bald-faced lie. Sorry, but that is an outrageous statement.

In an unsurprising turn of events, Cathy “Porkchop” Kuehne gives this colossal waste of money her blessing: “I’ve been filled in on this, and I think it’s a win-win“. [34:45 mark]

Lady, you’re an art teacher. You know nothing about numbers, unless they are maybe paint-by-numbers. You have proven that repeatedly during your time on City council. You also think wasting $1.4 million on the Hostess House so you can rent it out for $12,000 per year is a great idea. So we can safely toss out your opinions on the goat pasture.

This was an insane presentation by Misti and there is a lot to unpack. Not the least of which is her outrageous claims of all the jobs this will bring in. We have heard that bullshit for 20 years now.

I’ll get into it more later when my blood pressure is lower….

P.S.

Don’t ever forget the PREVIOUS lies we were told by these fools. For example:

“Ms. Toups said she wants to continue to provide infrastructure to develop the business park — which she said Harrison spoke against publicly. Ms. Toups said through the Lampasas Economic Development Corp.’s hard work, “we are on the verge of seeing large corporations come in [to the business park].” – April 21, 2017 [FIVE YEARS AGO!]

“The LEDC’s new debt service payment will be about $150,000 a year, Mrs. Masonheimer said. The economic development corporation projects annual revenue of about $250,000, which will leave approximately $100,000 for operating costs after making loan payments.” – September 23, 2014

So 7.5 YEARS AGO the head of the LEDC (Kathi Masonheimer) was projecting revenues of $250,000 per year. It has actually been $0.00 per year. So they are only currently off by about $1.9 million on their revenue estimates. No biggie!

G’yarrr Matey! We Have a Hubert Humpback Whale Sighting!

Ahoy, ye scurvy dogs! We’ve got a whale sighting! Hubert Humpback Whale has surfaced from the briny deep! Ye may remember this blubberous behemoth from years past, matey!

Dildo Who Spent 40 Years Transforming From Human To Humpback Whale Suddenly Worried About His Health

Shiver me timbers! A harpoon is what that whale be needing! G’yarrr! Tis more whale than man! Heath Bishop be the whale’s REAL name. This lowly 7-Eleven clerk likes to be ranting and raving at “dumb Texas rednecks” like he got a real brain in that whale skull! G’yarrrr! Tis the funniest joke I’ve heard all over the Seven Seas, matey!!

And he’s back spewing his fat and nasty blowhole all over Lampasas County Breaking News:

Me first mate Russell Gibson is right as rain! Why don’t this monstrosity of a whale just swim like a fishy on out to the Pacific Ocean and leave us decent folks alone! In fact, Heath Bishop, ye massive pile of whale shit, I’ll pay many doubloons MYSELF to help ye move! That’s right! What say ye, ya slobberin fat pile of blubber?? Do we have a deal, matey?? I never be joking about things like this. Put up or shut up, ye blubbering fool.

G’yarrrrr! There is no dumber whale to be found in these parts! He even thinks AOC is a genius in our time and smarter than DeSantis, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary!

It’s foolish whales like this ye should be thankin for this morning’s 7.5% CPI print, matey! Ye dumb bastards! When did we allow these blubberous whales the right to vote! Their stupidity will send us all to Davey Jones’ locker, I tells ye!

**This dumb fishy been wrong for YEARS now, matey!!**

Julie Cain Landrum (Covid Rat/Fake Biz Owner) Tries To Gain Sympathy on Krasniqi Thread – But Only Beclowns Herself

Covid Rat Julie Cain Landrum (who runs the hobby grape juice stand called Wool & Vine) is once again crying about the “struggles” of being a small business owner while commenting on the Krasniqi thread:

She has whined about “the struggle” before:

Julie should REALLY just keep her mouth shut about “the struggle” she faces for many, many reasons:

1) You are barely open. You can’t complain about “the struggle” of making a buck when your fucking ‘business’ is CLOSED a huge majority of the time. That “struggle” isn’t the fault of City Hall. It is the fault of you being a lazy slug:

Yeah, lots of real businesses close for a month to move the furniture around. Sounds legit! Then a month came and went, and Julie found another excuse to lay in bed and not go to work:

Ah. Now the excuse is “Covid raging”. OK. Funny, every other business in town seems to be doing ok with the Covid “rage”. Thank god the owners of Lampasas Beer Market, Memos and Putters are not completely lazy pussies like Julie Cain Landrum or I’d have nowhere to go work on my cirrhosis all week.

This also proves AGAIN what I have said all along: you are not a real business. This is a hobby lemonade stand. If you can close for months at a time and even then only open up 24 hours a week, you are clearly not dependent on this for income. It is a hobby. End of discussion. Don’t you DARE lump yourself in with REAL small business owners. You aren’t.

2) You spilled plenty of Facebook ink two years ago ratting out small businesses in town over their mask policies. This makes you a scumbag and NOT a helper of small business, but an enemy of them.

3) Your ‘business’ employs NOBODY. It is not a real business. It is a hobby lemonade stand that employs zero people. It is just you and your hipster-doofus husband. You have ZERO idea what it takes to manage multiple employees and deal with payroll, etc. So please, once again, shut up about your “struggle”.

4) You don’t OWN shit. You never dealt with any of the issues being discussed by Krasniqi. You RENT a spot inside another spot. You are a fly speck who does NOT own their building. So please, shut up about your “struggle”.

5) You were handed $3,000 in FREE MONEY from the City for ‘Covid’ even though you were only open 6 months at that point, employed zero people and were not a truly viable business at that point (just like now). It was straight-up charity that only occurred because dipshits like Misti Talbert were in a rush to hand out cash to ANYBODY without many questions. You repay the charity by whining about “the struggle” of being a small business owner and then you’re too lazy to open up for the first 7 weeks of 2022.

Like I said, lady, I’ll NEVER forgive or forget what a lunatic Covid cult rat you were back in 2020. I’ll be sure to point out your hypocrisy and scumbaggery til the end of time.

Stacey Swann is the Kind of Liberal Worm the LEDC is Trying to Entice Here.

The Lampasas Economic Development Corporation recently linked to a mushy feel-good article about “country living” called “Past the Edges of Town” by Stacey Swann.

The sub-heading is “An introvert and her family embrace community in Lampasas”

You can read it here:

Past the Edges of Town

I guess the LEDC linked to this to give us a subtle reminder that we NEED the Big City people here and they aren’t so bad! All that “Big City Liberal From Austin” is just a myth, right? We gotta GROW, ya’ll! We gotta hand out hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to guys like Deorald Finney to build more houses and create more traffic and lure in more liberal anuses!

I’ll give you a few nuggets so you can get a taste of the sugary togetherness and inclusiveness and ‘community’ and realize those Big City folks are just people looking for the same things we are:

“…the ratio of head nods and smiles from locals—the simple acknowledgement that I am a person there in close proximity to them—is always higher in Lampasas than it is in Austin. The Texas-friendly ethos is magnified by the small-town friendly ethos into something that feels like community, even as I stand at its edges.”

“I suspect when my friends who were born and raised in cities think of small towns, they imagine intolerance for their own personal political views. It’s a fact, after all, that Austin is overwhelmingly blue while Lampasas is overwhelmingly red. Our polarized country feels like it has rendered us incomprehensible to each other. It has exacerbated our tendency to judge, to flatten people to what we see as their worst characteristics.”

“Because people in small towns have so much interaction, the other side is never an unknown. You may disagree with them, even stridently, over the issues of the day, but you can’t as easily see them as the bitter enemy, not if they recently hosted a sleepover that your daughter attended or helped you jump your car when the battery died. It’s harder to write someone off as uninformed or intolerant when your interactions with them show their authenticity or compassion.”

“I don’t want to give too idealized of a picture. There are plenty of ways small towns can crush their citizens who fall outside the town’s norms, including discrimination by race, sexual orientation, or gender identity.“

[Not ‘gender’, but gender IDENTITY. I now officially hate this woman]

“For a long time, the story of America has been one of a migration of people from rural areas into cities. But as cities nationwide face affordability crises and owning a home in them becomes impossible for huge sections of Americans, we could see that migration in reverse.“

[Translation: we fucked up our City with too many Marxists and high taxes and now we want to spread like locusts to the small towns to fuck them up too!]

“The key to increased belonging may be in actively seeking new circles that will overlap. These transplants won’t necessarily have jobs that help ease them into the community, especially if they work from home…..But wouldn’t it be worth it to increase the collective joy in our lives, to feel a true sense of belonging?“

I can almost hear the chants of Kumbaya! Let’s all join hands and welcome those lovely Austinites into the community!

There is just one problem with this story. Stacey Swann has no interest in being one of the gang out here. She is a rabid, GOP-hating liberal twat who yammers about “racism”, “fascism”, “insurrection” and all the rest of it.

Since the LEDC didn’t do their homework about the woman who wrote this article, I did it for them. Below is a sampling of Swann’s Facebook rants. Make no mistake: many, many liberal scumworms like her are flooding into the area now. Some liberal parasites who are already dug in here like a tick are happy about that:

Landrum likes to post the stupid hashtag that “Lampasas is the new North ATX”. Screw that. Over my dead body.

I’ll do my best to make every one of them uncomfortable and unwelcome. If I wanted Big City liberal bullshit, I’d move to the Big City. If I was mayor (we should be so lucky) I’d be spending a few grand every year to put up huge billboards at the south edge of town that said “Liberal Fucks Not Welcome Here – Take Your Tesla and Green New Deal and Turn Around NOW!”

Here is the tolerant and caring Swann in true form. She certainly ticks ALL the boxes (insurrection, sedition, trannies, fascism, racism, white guys are douchebags, forced masking, anti-Second Amendment, BLM, George Floyd, voter ID is racist, etc):

There are many, many more. I find it funny she talks about living in Lampasas but repeatedly called herself an “Austinite” and a “North Austin resident”. She and her sister DO own property north of town, however. Guess that’s just for raiding the local Wal-Mart during the pandemic and getting away from the liberal shit hole that people like her helped create.

It is funny to me that she has the last name of a barnyard animal, but unfortunately the WRONG barnyard animal. It shouldn’t be Swann. It should be Pigg. You gotta love it when land whales scream at you to wear a mask because they are “worried about their health”. You could have fooled me, sugar.

Local Business Owner Genci Krasniqi Skewering City Hall. It Is Glorious.

Local business owner Genci Krasniqi is not holding back on City Hall. Nor should he. I remember talking to him the day Lampasas Beer Market opened and he gave me a huge earful about what morons the City were and how hard they made it to get anything done. I have also heard this sentiment echoed by other business owners in town – who I will not name, since I don’t want some butt-hurt City inspector to take out their wrath on them.

Suffice it to say, that they are also not happy about the City adopting the 2020 national electrical code – something that even Austin hasn’t done yet. According to my friend (who is a master electrician with 15 years under his belt) it is absolutely ludicrous for a town like Lampasas to be using the 2020 code, and most big cities are typically about six years behind (i.e. Austin would be on the 2014 code).

It adds MASSIVE cost, for one thing. For another, with the supply chain broken it is almost impossible to get some of these new (and MUCH more expensive) parts like breakers and switches.

For example: The 2020 code now requires GFCI outlets on clothes dryers. Those can be tripped by as little as 6 milliamps – and many appliances are just not up to those tolerances. He also told me that a formerly $10 breaker might now be $110.

Things like that add up. Quickly.

Morons who have worked in City government their entire lives and never owned a business or created anything of value don’t give a shit and will never understand any of that.

And you wonder why the Hostess House “facelift” is going to run around $1.4 million? That’s one reason.

A few other morons chided Genci for “airing dirty laundry” and “dumping on the town”. He is not dumping on the town or the citizens. He is dumping on City Hall and their ineptitude and red tape. Huge difference. I’m glad he is “airing is grievances” because maybe the average citizen will finally understand what small business is up against.

The LEDC/City likes to hand out free cash to undeserving businesses (*cough * Wool & Vine * cough *), waste millions on remodeling Old City Hall and the Hostess House and waste MILLIONS on an idiotic ‘business’ park but when it comes to making it easy on someone trying to open a new business, they fail spectacularly. This means their priorities are 100% backwards.

All this is no surprise to me. I have been railing on City Hall idiocy for almost four years now. I’m glad to see some much more public “airing of grievances” and a local business owner embarrassing City Hall.

Keep up the good work, Genci! I think I’ll go over to LBM today and spend some money on pizza and beer!!!

Lampasas County Democratic Chairman Clayton Tucker Lies In Local Newspaper About Being Pro Second Amendment

Local socialist scumworm and Lampasas County Democratic Chairman Clayton Tucker is once again spewing lies in the local newspaper.

In today’s edition, he was busy yammering about “grassroots politics”. He stressed the importance of walking around the neighborhood and lying about his positions on things, like being pro Second Amendment.

From today’s edition:

“Tucker noted there are a lot of hunters and veterans in rural Texas. When he walks a neighborhood for a candidate, people often ask him about gun regulation laws as a test. Tucker said he assures them that he’s a firearm owner and believes that gun ownership is a matter of exercising personal responsibility.”

Actually, he avoids an outright lie by using weasel words like “he’s a firearm owner” – which tells you absolutely nothing about his position on anything. Considering he doesn’t even have his own place or a real job at age 31, I doubt he has ever bought a firearm himself. More likely it is a hand-me-down from gramps that he hides under his bed in mom and dad’s upstairs bedroom – afraid to actually shoot it.

But his history tells us that he is indeed VERY anti-Second Amendment, despite his recent lies to the contrary. All we need to do it go back to a Dispatch article from July 3rd, 2018. That article told us that Clayton was a delegate to the Democratic Party State Convention held in Fort Worth on June 21-23rd of 2018. Less than four years ago.

“The county chairwoman [Cyndy Burleson] said youth were very involved on issues that affect them directly,including gun controland the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border.”

“I’m very proud of them for that,” Burleson said of the local Democrats and their political involvement. Resolutions adopted at the state convention covered a variety of topics, including calls for providing paid sick leave statewide, increasing the minimum wage,banning so-called “assault weapons,” tightening background checks for gun sales online and at gun shows…”

There you have it. Less than four years ago, Clayton Tucker was a delegate to the state convention where resolutions were adopted calling for banning “assault weapons” (there is no such thing) and the usual bullshit “closing gun show loopholes” they love so much.

Sure sound like infringement to me!

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Whiny Socialist Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Wrong Again

You just know that Comrade Clayton Tucker has been poised over his laptop in his parents’ upstairs bedroom for the last 48 hours masturbating to ERCOT dashboards and waiting for the power to go out so he can blame the GOP for not “fixing the damn grid”.

He doesn’t actually suffer if the power goes out, mind you, because ~~his house~~ his parents’ house (208 S Western) is less than two blocks from the police station – and is likely protected from any rolling blackouts as critical infrastructure.

It wouldn’t affect him one bit – he just needs something to cry about. In fact, he’s probably under the covers watching Bernie Sanders Netflix documentaries while mom brings him hot cocoa and milk.

Out here in the boondocks, we have had uninterrupted power all week. That’s even WITH ice and wind storms, which nobody has any control over. We enjoy this level of service because bad-ass guys called “linemen” go out into the shit storm and keep the lights on. THAT is a real job. Comrade Clayton has never had a real job in his life, so he doesn’t appreciate that either. He thinks electricity comes from a hole in his parents’ wall.

Funny how the global warming that Comrade Clayton is so frightened of has actually resulted in two extremely cold winters in a row.

I’m sure his hero Beta Male O’Rourke will “fix” the grid by adding more shitty windmills and solar panels in the unlikely event he becomes governor. Luckily, we haven’t imported quite enough foreign invaders to make that happen yet. Also, Texas is now a lot stricter on proving your ability to vote – much to the chagrin of Comrade Clayton Tucker. He absolutely HATES voter ID laws.

“**We’re like two balls in a nutsack, yo!**“

Just a reminder: there is not a single windmill or solar panel installed at Clayton Tucker’s parent’s house OR his grandpa’s ranch where he runs around pretending to be a “rancher”. Not one. I wonder why that is? What’s stopping you from installing all that stuff yourself, Comrade Clayton? I mean, besides not having any net worth. You could always beg Dad for the money.

A “devistating” (sic) promise!

PLEASE God, let Clayton Tucker run for City council again this year.