Funny how he never posted any shit like this when he was running for City council. It was all kept hidden away and replaced with idiotic platitudes like “I will fight to bring jobs to Lampasas! I will fight for a “Bark Park” for dogs!”.
Since he can’t win anything running for office, he tries to grab as many unpaid, resume-building titles as he can. He is currently a state director for the Bernie Sanders commie group “Our Revolution” and he is an “advisor” for Ground Game Texas, yet another little splinter group run by fellow Marxist lice Julie Oliver and Mike Siegel:
That’s what these scumworms do. Form dozens of little, tiny “advocacy” groups and appoint each other to the boards. This way, they can list a bunch of “accomplishments” in their resume without actually accomplishing jack shit in real life.
The socialist bum is about to add ANOTHER sinecure to his resume.According to him, he is also about to become Chairman of the Lampasas County Democrats:
[I can see why Robert Francis loves him so much. His tiny little girl fist probably slides in much easier than Jim Hightower’s meaty ham-hand, right buddy?]
Anyways, if you are a “democrat” in Lampasas county, you are no longer a “democrat” in any sense of the word. You’re not just a buffoon like Jimmy Carter who wants to spend a little more on welfare and a little less on the military. THAT was what the 70s and 80s Democrats were like. They were also big on freedom of speech.
Not anymore.
NOW, if you are a democrat in Lampasas, you are a Marxist/commie piece of shit in my book. You have proved it by putting this Marxist bum in a position of leadership. You are 100% for The Green New Deal, Critical Race Theory, forced masking and vaxxing, open borders, sanctuary cities, government takeover of health care, “free” college for everyone, universal basic income, unsecured elections with zero photo ID, Big Tech censorship of “misinformation” and every other idiotic commie idea that is wrecking this country.
By the way, EVERY SINGLE ISSUE I just listed above is something Clayton Tucker has advocated for in black and white. I have links/screenshots of every one of them on this blog.
I thought I was safe from this commie bullshit in the middle of the greatest and freest state in the union. Texas. But here we are – a socialist bum who lives with mom and dad and has never held a real job in his life is now calling the shots for Lampasas democrats. Makes me sick to my stomach.
In a move likely applauded by socialist bums like Clayton Tucker and potato-headed morons like Stephanie Fitzharris, instead of showing up for work for the constituents that elected them and who pay their salaries, Texas Democrats hopped a private jet to DC rather than face a vote on making Texas elections more secure.
The most contentious issues for Democrats are cleaned-up voting bills and, especially, photo ID. The problem is that most Americans support photo ID. According to a Monmouth Poll, when it comes to photo ID, 62% of Democrats, 87% of independents, and 91% of Republicans support it.
Texas, with a strong Republican majority, is intent upon passing a bill that the vast majority of Americans would back.
So, what do the Democrats do? Like Brave Sir Robin, they run away.
Plus size and pearly yellows – what every lib man loves.
God. Why are 95% of lib women such disgusting pigs? Is it the bitter politics of envy that drive the Marxists which attract such loathsome slobs? Rosa Delauro is Exhibit A. A disgusting human from Connecticut who has never worked a real job in her life and has held her Connecticut seat for THIRTY YEARS.
But I digress.
In addition to this profoundly anti-democratic act, (remember how the libs always scream about “protecting our Democracy? Even though we live in a Constitutional Republic) the Democrats on the lam seem to have forgotten that Greta Thunberg would be very angry at them for using private jets. Depending on how many passengers those jets carry, they “create ten times as much greenhouse gas as an economy class traveler on a commercial flight, as well as 150 times more than those travelling by train.”
The state House speaker is signaling he may penalize them, following Gov. Abbott, who already has. Democrats hold an awful lot of chairmanships and vice chairmanships in the Texas House despite the fact that Republicans control it. It would be a shame if anything happened to those chairmanships and vice chairmanships.
Then there’s redistricting, which will be the subject of another special session later this year. District lines and therefore seats will be in some state of uncertainty. The Texas GOP also has a new chairman, elected Sunday, who might have thought about all this. The Democrats’ flight north certainly presents an opportunity.
The Texas Democrats have become a full HOA of Karens, seeking to speak with the manager until the manager — Texas voters — tells them something they don’t want to hear. Texas voters want secure elections in which it’s easy to vote but damn near impossible to cheat. The Texas Democrats don’t want to hear that.
This is so embarrassing for Texas Democrats. It may play well with their base, consisting of Marxist lice like Clayton Tucker and his ilk, but independents are sick of their antics.
Note to Republicans: You have an opportunity to annihilate the Marxist Mob in 2022. Don’t screw it up.
Well, looks like we’ll have to sit and wait while the Goldfish swim at the “mezzanine level” to discuss “capital improvement” away from the prying eyes of the taxpaying citizen. “Capital improvements” are the very expensive and usually huge wastes of money like the Old City Hall remodel, the Hostess House, the Mountain Bike Trails and shit like that. Not surprising they do it all hidden away from the camera.
So, I’ll kill a little time by going over the incident a few weeks ago that sent three pool-goers to the hospital after being overcome by fumes.
You’d think an incident that sent three pool goers to the hospital might be mentioned at City Hall in an open forum. Maybe Finley could explain to City council what exactly happened. You know – in the interest of “transparency” an all.
You’d be wrong. Not a peep about it at the last council meeting (which I had to suffer through after the fact, as I was on vacation)
We DID get some headlines from the Dispatch – which came from a “news release” that was “provided by the City”. In other words, they gave their one-sided story. A story that paints an inaccurate picture, I might add.
Three patrons of the Hanna Springs Swimming Pool were overcome and/or complained about an odor that could have been chlorine. Pool staff immediately contacted emergency personnel, who responded to render aid to those affected.
[False. Emergency personnel did not show up for at LEAST 15 minutes. I’m guessing the staff freaked out and hoped the kid would be alright on his own after puking a few times and failed to call 911 immediately. If they DID immediately contact EMS, then it took EMS 15 minutes to travel an entire 4 blocks or so to the pool. Highly doubtful. It is FAR more likely the pool staff hesitated. But I don’t expect Finley to tell the truth about that. I had friends who were at the pool during this entire ordeal, which is how I know what really happened]
All three patrons were examined further at Advent Health Rollins Brook and released by 7 p.m.
[Ouch. Three swimmers sent to the emergency room. I’ve been to the emergency room before. It costs about $3,000 just to walk in the door – add another $1800 if the ambulance brought you. Who paid for all that? The City? I’d sure demand it if it was MY kid who got gassed!]
City officials said the pool’s pump and motor were off temporarily for repairs and restarted approximately 20 minutes prior to the incident, however it is undetermined whether any correlation existed between the repairs and the odor incident.
[Why in hell would you schedule repairs during swim time? The pool is only open 35 hours a week (out of 168 hours), thanks to Finley causing a labor shortage with his shitty $7.25 wage. The pool is closed ALL DAY on Sunday and Monday. What was being repaired? Finley doesn’t tell us. What I DO know is the workers were still there when the fumes hit – because they came running out of that wooden gate to the left of where the poisonous chemicals are kept.]
[It is “undetermined” whether any correlation existed between the repairs and the odor incident? LOL. Well, then it is one hell of a coincidence, isn’t it?? Again, this is typical Finley-speak to cover his ass. He said the same horseshit during the Great Ransomware Attack of 2019 when he was “unsure” whether every City computer going down at the same time was related or not]
Parks & Recreation staff and Lampasas Fire Department personnel inspected all mechanical areas and found no indication of mechanical failure or leak, according to the news release.
[This is meaningless. It was likely human error. If you accidentally back over a kid in the parking lot at Wal-Mart, you don’t tell the cop “I don’t get it! There was no mechanical failure of my vehicle” and then drive off. It doesn’t work that way.]
The city staff also discussed the incident with Commercial Swim – a Central Texas pool contractor – to seek any additional insight on what might have precipitated the incident. Pool mechanical systems were inspected overnight and early Friday morning, and all were found to be operating normally,city officials said. The pool water is filtered and disinfected using liquid bleach.
[Again – human error wouldn’t show up as “mechanical failure”. Also, why does Finley tell us the pool water is filtered and disinfected with liquid bleach?? Is it to draw suspicion away from the “chlorine” smell everyone said they sniffed? Are they all supposed to think the “chlorine smell” wasn’t actually from the pool but maybe some freak deposit of naturally-occurring chlorine gas located right near the pool? Sorry, but the pool DOES use chlorine….AND sulfuric acid. It says so RIGHT ON THE DOOR of the chemical closet there].
Hey! They spelled “liquid bleach” wrong!
Zero doubt in my mind this was human error. The only other explanations are
Mass sensory hallucinations of smelling chlorine by dozens of people all at the same time….OR
Some wacky prankster smuggled a tank of chlorine gas into the pool area and released it as a joke. That seems unlikely.
But we’ll never know what REALLY happened since Finley couldn’t bother to mention it at the City council meeting to explain the situation….and Mayor “Transparency” Monroe is probably just fine with that.
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Back to normal this week, as I was on vacation during the last council meeting. It appears I didn’t miss much – including a lack of discussion over the poison gas incident at the Hanna Pool a few weeks ago! Guess Finley doesn’t want to “get to the bottom” of that one…kinda like the Ransomware Attack of 2019. Just sweep it under the rug and shrug your shoulders, eh?
It’s that time of year when budget talks commence and Finley stands there with his hat in hand, telling City council how everyone at City Hall is underpaid.
Don’t believe it.
First, let’s take a look at some numbers from the City’s OWN comprehensive plan [see page 9]. They paid $120,000 for this “plan”, so it must be high-quality and full of accurate information. Here is a chart showing income for the average Lampasshole versus the county and the state:
As you can see, Lampasas median income is FAR lower than both the state of Texas AND Lampasas county when it comes to household income. I have added a red line running from the top of the bar over to the income number. It’s just over $40,000.
[Remember also – every City employee is supposed to live within the City limits – so that “median income” number for City of Lampasas INCLUDES all of our wildly overpaid City workers like Finley himself – thus inflating it. If you were to pull all “City employees” out of that group, the number would be even lower for “non-government employees”!]
I added another line at the $60,000 mark – that represents the average salary for a City worker.According to Finley himself, back in 2019, a 1% COLA adjustment for City payroll represented $64,000 [see page 3]. That means the City payroll was $6,400,000 back then – and has increased a few percent by now. Call it $6.6 million today divided by 110 full-time employees = $60,000 per employee, on average. Or roughly 50% HIGHER than the average schmuck of a taxpayer.
I then added another red line up around the $80,000 mark, as you can see. That is where the average City worker sits, in terms of salary and all the benefits (health, dental, life insurance, workmans comp, and retirement) they receive.
Again, according to Finley himself [see page 3] a 2% savings in health insurance costs saves the City $45,000. This means the entire insurance nut must be $2,250,000. Since $2.25 million x .02 = $45,000. Take that $2.25 million and divide it by 110 full-time workers, and you get $20,454 average cost PER City employee.
We can check this figure another way. Finley has ALSO stated in the past, that benefits are roughly 40% of salary. So we take the $6.6 million salary number and multiply it by 1.4 and get $9.24 million total for salary and benefits. Divide by 110 employees and you get $84,000 PER employee.
Hopefully, now that we have some PRIVATE sector people on City council, they will understand this better and tell Finley to pound sand on any raises this year. Any City employee making over $65,000 per year should have their salaries frozen for the next five years at LEAST. That would be a great start.
Ahhh – what a difference a year makes. Local Covid rat and Wool & Vine lemonade stand owner Julie Landrum was busy snitching out fellow businesses last year when she felt they were “lax” with mask mandates:
Memorandum: you are not an actual restaurant, lady. Granola bars and cheese plates don’t count.
I told you, I will NEVER forget or forgive the rats that snitched out fellow small businesses during the “pandemic”. It’s payback time.
More like “hobby lemonade stand” that is open a few days a week and whenever it is convenient to the owners, Julie and Andrew Landrum – who are both far left liberals.
Support your local Antifa! Holy Christ.
Before, she was petrified of her own shadow and STILL thinks she needs to wear masks in crowds….
So you’ll be all masked up while you sling pricey cans of beer to the filthy masses, right lady?
But now that there will be massive crowds of people gathering on the square later this week with CASH in their pockets, Julie wants to take FULL advantage by selling you overpriced cans of beer. No food (low margin), no mixed or poured drinks (takes too much time) – just coolers and coolers of overpriced beer they can quickly ring up and hand out.
Just the two of you?? Why don’t you hire a couple of local kids and pay them $15 per hour – like you demand of every other business in the nation? Talk about hypocrites!!!
Oh, and she’s too cheap to actually go out and buy coolers! She wants to use YOURS for free – as she rips your face off with expensive cans of beer and crappy t-shirts!
I have an idea! Maybe click a button on Amazon and buy a few big coolers – you could even use the $3,000 Mandy Walsh gave you last year or the thousands you save by not hiring anyone to work at your lemonade stand! Like most lefties, I guess when you are handed shit you didn’t earn enough times you make a habit of expecting it, eventually.
Ironically, it was Governor Abbott (whom both of the Landrums detest, since he is a “right-winger”) who signed the “alcohol-to-go-” law this year, which allows these lemonade stand owners to capitalize on the overpriced “to-go” beer cans! Amazing!
Do yourself a favor: be SURE to bring your own cooler and beer to the square this week! If you find yourself without, then walk on over to Lampasas Beer Market (no, I am not affiliated with them) or stock up at Putters first (also no affiliation). Those happen to be two businesses that actually employ a lot of locals, are open all the time, and who AREN’T far-left liberals who defend Antifa and other Marxist goons.
Personally, I’d pay $50 for a piss-warm PBR from a bum on the street before I put a nickel into the pockets of these clowns.
Oh, and watch out for those fireworks! No fun of ANY kind allowed around Nurse Ratched
There is literally nothing this chick ISN’T scared of. Fireworks, cold viruses, mosquitoes, loud noises, low-flying airplanes. Good god – she’s like a neurotic chihuahua. What a way to live your life!
It’s “varmint”, Queen Julie.
How dare that young man sight in his rifle out in the countryside! Queen Julie is trying to recover from her HORRENDOUS day of smashing her finger a little bit and then getting her hair done and hiding from a mosquito! Annoying peasants! Stop the fireworks too!!
Men who were not fighters by trade or inclination had stood side by side behind their earthworks and their fences and had waited calmly while some of the most formidable fighters in the world advanced against them in ordered ranks.
A few months earlier the odds against the success of any American military effort would have been overwhelming…Now Americans had met it face to face, and…it could be seen for what it was: an army that commanded great respect, but one composed of men no taller or stronger than any others.
By demonstrating that some rather ordinary American farmers had stood against this formidable enemy, the battle of June 17 proved, as nothing else could, that others might accomplish the same thing. Had they failed, it is conceivable that the rebellion might have sputtered out.
Great news for taxpayers, as Baylor Scott White held the line on health insurance costs for City employees. I’m pretty sure this happened last year as well.
Weird, because BEFORE that, the City got jammed with massive increases almost yearly and nobody seemed to care (they saw an 11.8% increase in 2014/2015 – then they saw a 13% increase in 2017/2018).
Come to think of it, I never DID get all that information. JC Brown (and by extension, Mayor “Transparency” Talbert) was a huge pain in the ass in denying me much of the info, saying:
“as a courtesy to you, the staff searched for data and asked that I provide you with the limited information that remained available to the staff. I provided that to you via my correspondence dated March 23rd. No additional data will be provided“
This is the attorney that bills the City about $7,000 every month for various little projects, btw – talking to me about doing me courtesies.
Bottom line is that a lot of info was requested of BSW about claims amounts and how premiums are set. Lo and behold! That very same year BSW decides to hold premiums unchanged…then they did it again this year!
It’s almost as if somebody over there realized “uh oh, these guys are starting to realize they are being bent over by us.”
You know what ELSE is funny? Last year was supposedly a deadly pandemic year. I remember Rhonda Witcher clutching her pearls in the Radiogram about how “hospitals were being overrun!” and I remember a tearful Mayor Transparency Talbert crying on Facebook when she caught it herself. I remember daily tearful counting of every person who passed away – including many in their 80s and 90s who actually lived in a nursing home two counties over.
The City has 110 full-time employees – many of them older and very out of shape. According to the non-stop wailing about “the deadly pandemic”, we should have seen more than a few City employees in the hospital and the ICU with Covid – racking up HUGE medical bills, right?
In short, Covid was a perfect excuse to jack health premiums through the roof – as an ACTUAL reaction to the giant hospital bills the City employees were surely running up during the “pandemic”. We should have seen at least one or two City employees drop dead of Covid too, statistically.
Yet none of that happened.
That’s because the math doesn’t lie. I know two people in the insurance industry, both with 25 years of experience – and BOTH of them told me that life insurance premiums have not reacted at all to the “deadly pandemic” last year. All the wailing and gnashing of teeth and kids in masks and morons keeping their kids out of school was ALL FOR NOTHING. The insurance numbers prove it unequivocally.
I’m back from summer vacation and I have a HUGE pile of subjects in the hopper. I took 7 weekdays off and it felt like an eternity. I don’t know HOW these City Hall Nerf Job workers manage to take the 15 or 18 days off a year they get. I guess I just have that private sector drive to work hard.
This time, the City dialed it back a teeny, tiny bit with the new Hillside Acres subdivision and its developer MD Homes. According to the agreement:
“as an economic incentive to MD’s project, the City will install, at the appropriate time in the Project’s development, at the City’s cost, but not to exceed a total expense to the City of $37,254.36 (“City’s Financial Participation”) certain electrical infrastructure to each platted lot in the Subdivision“
Well, I guess it’s a start. Especially since they are going to be adding 27 homes out there on 580 West right near the Sports Complex. You know, the place where they have already been having water pressure problems and where Deorald is already adding 67 more houses.
Maybe someday, instead of handing OUT money to entice people who want to move here already, the City will get smart and CHARGE their pound of flesh to developers so they can pay for the impact down the road for things like greater demand on the water, road and police infrastructure.
This was an OBVIOUS problem months and months ago, but the Talbert Administration and Finley refused to fix it. They were too busy flushing six million dollars down the toilet on a vacant lot – no time to bump lifeguard wages up a buck or two.
Spinley even had the nerve to go on Rhonda Witcher’s radio show and brag about how “pools will be open this summer” as he took a victory lap.
I said at the time “I’ll believe it when I see it”
That was then, this is now:
Of course, pools ARE open in the strictly academic sense – in that you can swim there….sometimes. Just not on Sundays anymore. And you can’t use the slide sometimes (last Thursday) due to lack of staff. Oh, and we’ll be closed this entire Saturday.
I’ll bet you Finley’s left nut that this isn’t the last time this happens.
