The LEDC was very busy yesterday morning re-posting what 10 other pages have ALREADY reposted….
This is a lot of what the Economic Development Director does: duplicates efforts and makes posts that are already more visible elsewhere. It makes her look busy and justifies her $119,000 cost to the taxpayer. We already have a TON of other places where news gets out faster. Such as:
The City website, the City Facebook page, the City TWITTER page (yes we have one), the Chamber of Commerce website, the Chamber of Commerce Facebook page, Lampasas County Breaking News Facebook page (they have 22,000 subscribers!), the Mayor’s Facebook page (Misti had this back in Feb 2021 during the storm – TJ Monroe can’t be bothered), Lampasas ISD Facebook page, Lampasas ISD website, Lampasas Dispatch Record website, Lampasas Radio Facebook page, local TV and the LEDC Facebook page AND website!!
Instead of reposting news everyone already knows about, perhaps Stacey Ybarra or LEDC Prez Misti Talbert could answer the question I have been asking for over a month now: What is the name of the company that “won” a project from the LEDC and what are the details of this project? Including jobs created and capital investments made?
“Announcement/Project wins: 1” – what are the details???
Also, in light of recent water supply humiliations, HOW MUCH WATER ARE THESE NEW INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS GOING TO BE USING? DID YOU CUT THEM ANY DEALS FOR CHEAP WATER? ARE THEY AWARE OF THE RISK THAT THEIR WATER MIGHT RUN OUT ONE FINE AUGUST MORNING?
Are you going to give some company a “free” $500,000 worth of land and let them pull 30,000 gallons of water per day out of the system? How’s that going to work, exactly? We’d love to know, if you aren’t too busy re-posting news from yesterday morning.
When doing my corporate searches to try and find ANY ranch or farm business AT ALL associated with local communist Clayton Tucker the fake rancher/farmer (there are none) I DID come across an interesting nugget….
Comrade Clayton formed yet ANOTHER commie organization called Bluebonnet PAC a mere three months ago! Let’s see who else is involved:
208 S Western Ave is where Clayton Tucker lives. His parents’ house. It is Bernie Sanders Central for the city of Lampasas
Kristi Lara is an even bigger communist than Clayton Tucker. Which sounds impossible. She has reached the age of 46 without really working a job while bumming off of people for money and being a “community organizer.”
The type who (like Comrade Clayton) posts about how difficult life is as she lazes around the house at 2pm on a work day – clearly with time on her hands to gaze at her navel and complain about how horrible it all is…
You literally don’t have to do any of those things to be a woman. All you need is a penis, according to most radical lefties.
“My Journey with Bernie materialized in 2011 with the Occupy movement. Like millions of Americans, I became an active organizer and supporter of Occupy Wall Street. I traveled to New York to sleep out on Wall Street. For almost 2 months, I maintained an Occupy tent here in Dallas in protest of a system that I knew denied millions of Americans access to Economic, Social, Racial and Environmental Justice.“
So at age 34, she slept in a tent with a bunch of other unwashed bums and accomplished absolutely nothing. NONE of those banker scumbags went to jail for fraud. Well done! Must be nice to have zero responsibilities at age 34 and sit around in a drum circle with a bunch of other hippie morons living off of mom and dad’s credit cards. I’m sure Comrade Clayton would have been there too, but he was busy in college acquiring his useless $80,000 International Relations degree.
Much like Comrade Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX, Kristi Lara the communist runs around getting photos with the most anti-American scumbag commies she can find and proudly posts them for all to see:
She even resorted to typical commie cheating and lying to help herself out – which is what commie scum does now, as we saw in 2020. She STILL failed miserably:
So – what are these two dirtbag commies up to with their new Bluebonnet PAC here in Lampasas? Yet to be seen, but you can bet that it isn’t good for Texas or America. The problem with communist vermin and serial grifters like Clayton Tucker and Kristi Lara isn’t that they are smart or capable. They most certainly are NOT. The problem is that they have nothing but piles of time on their hands to try and undermine freedom and the Constitution every waking hour of their day.
Most America loving patriots are working hard all week to try and take care of their families while being robbed blind by the IRS to hand over money to losers and grifters like this. THAT is the problem. Hardworking Americans are literally funding their own demise. Bums and deadbeats like Tucker and Lara have all the time in the world. Like the stream that wears away the boulder – they have time and persistence on their side.
Honest, freedom-loving Texans had better wake up fast to the threat that faces them and take these commie pieces of shit seriously. If I had my way, they’d be forcibly deported to California or Venezuela and barred from ever entering Texas again.
Perhaps one of the most unsettling narrative relationships during the covid pandemic lockdowns was the assertion by various governments, think-tanks and media pundits that the mandates weren’t just good for “stopping the spread,” they were also good for “saving the environment” from what they claim will be inevitable Apocalyptic climate change. While the covid agenda has all but disappeared thanks to millions of people and half the states in the US rejecting the restrictions, climate hysteria is still alive and well.
One of the most obnoxious trends in covid propaganda was the constant TikTok dance videos. Dancing politicians, dancing talk show hosts and dancing nurses all telling us to comply while frolicking around like maniacs. Well, it’s not over, because the dancing covid nurses are back, and now they’re here to tell us that accepting carbon controls is just as important as the mandates.
Beyond the numerous question on how nurses managed to have time to make so many group TikToks if the hospitals were “overrun” with patients dying of covid as the media asserted for the first year of the pandemic, we must also ask: If they lied about the effectiveness of the mandates, why should we listen to them about climate change?
Not one draconian policy enforced by governments made any difference whatsoever in the transmission of the covid virus. The lockdowns were pointless. The masks were pointless. Social distancing was pointless. And the official median Infection Fatality Rate of covid is a mere 0.23%, which means that 99.8% of people were never under any threat from the disease anyway. These facts were well known by medical professionals by early 2021, yet many of them continued to push the mandates.
Invariably, as the summer heats up so does the hype surrounding climate controls which would do little or nothing to shift the existing state of the Earth’s temps. “Record temps” are often touted, but these records are limited to a short time from of around 140 years of official data (since the 1880s).
But what about before then? When we look at the real history of the Earth’s climate, the temps today are incredibly mild. Not only that, but the global warming events of the past all occurred without human involvement.
One has to wonder, if this is the case, why are no carbon control proponents or climate scientists talking about it? Is the situation much like covid, where they tell you to “believe the science” except for the science that contradicts their claims?
And let’s not forget, these same people have been telling us the Earth is on the verge of burning for a very long time.
Or was it freezing? I forget….
People stopped idolizing nurses after the pandemic scare. Dancing for the climate feels more like a desperate act to regain relevancy, rather than legitimate activism.
All of the morons pushing “global warming” now and telling us to live like cavemen to “save the planet” are just watermelons: green on the outside but commie red on the inside as they seek “climate justice” – which is just another name for communism.
Beware! It will “devistate” [sic] us all!!!
Reminder: There are ZERO solar panels or wind turbines at Comrade Clayton’s parents’ house where he lives or at grandpa’s “ranch” where he pretends to be a cowboy/farmer. Hypocrite!
Reminder: commie piece of shit Obama doesn’t seem too worried about rising sea levels either at his 6,892-square-foot mansion with seven bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms at Martha’s Vineyard. Hypocrite!
The communist is not “the worker.” He is not the aggrieved peasant. He doesn’t have a specific label. He is the bitter, envious malcontent in your society.
Communism is the religion of the malcontent.
The malcontent is drawn to this religion because it promises him power. Power to take what isn’t his.
Power to exact vengeance on the neighbor who has what he wants. Karl Marx’s ideas speak to the loser because it sets him above all other people and tells him that he will inherit the world.
The communist has a deep-seated dislike of the working class because the communist is no longer a product of the working class. In truth, he never was. The communist leaders of the past – including Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot – were just spoiled rich kids. He can’t be motivated by the dream of “breaking off the shackles” of factory work, because he’s unlikely to have ever SEEN the inside of a factory. He has nothing in common with with the people of this nation who work with their hands, wear hard hats, or punch in and out five days a week.
Let’s take a look at Karl Marx…you may see some striking parallels with a few local commie parasites here in town (Haywood, Lucas, Tucker, Fitzharris, etc)
This self-described “advanced” member of the working class never shed a drop of sweat in his life, and the only jobs he ever held were as a journalist and writer. Even his output as a writer reveals his laziness, as a single book (Das Kapital) took him 30 years to produce. He was also a noted liar, a slob, and a serial adulterer who refused to take responsibility for children he fathered out of wedlock.
Many found Marx’s personal appearance and manner off-putting or even revolting. In 1850, a spy for the Prussian police visited Marx’s home in London under the pretense of a German revolutionary. The report the spy wrote was shared with the British Ambassador in Berlin. The report said, in part:
[Marx] leads the existence of a Bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk. Though he is frequently idle for days on end, he will work day and night with tireless endurance when he has much work to do.
He has no fixed time for going to sleep or waking up. He often stays up all night and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday, and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the whole world coming or going through [his room] …
There is not one clean and solid piece of furniture. Everything is broken, tattered and torn, with half an inch of dust over everything and the greatest disorder everywhere …
When you enter Marx’s room smoke and tobacco fumes make your eyes water … Everything is dirty and covered with dust, so that to sit down becomes a hazardous business. Here is a chair with three legs. On another chair the children are playing cooking. This chair happens to have four legs. This is the one that is offered to the visitor, but the children’s cooking has not been wiped away and if you sit down you risk a pair of trousers.
OOOOHHHHHH – the natives are getting very restless. I don’t blame them. I blame past mayors and City council members. Morons like Misti Talbert, Chuck Williamson, TJ Monroe, Finley deGraffenreid, Ryan Ward and the LEDC have been pushing the “growth at any cost” narrative for years now.
[Between 2012 and 2015, the City added just under 16 houses per year. Between 2016 and 2020 that number jumped to over FORTY per year. I have not seen the data for 2021 or 2022]
Here is the result:
Not only have they NOT been hitting new houses with impact fees to pay for future water infrastructure, they have been HANDING OUT SUBSIDIES to builders for years now.
Of course, I have been harping on this point forever. Instead of listening to my wisdom, idiots like Talbert scoffed at me as a “keyboard warrior.”
TJ Monroe and Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson EVEN VOTED TO WAIVE BUILDING PERMITS FOR STONE VALLEY (March 29, 2019)!
That idea ultimately failed, but the equally stupid idea of waiving $72,000 in electrical hookup fees for Deorald Finney was implemented. It was all part of Misti’s plan to “grow the tax base.” Of course, the more they “grow the tax base” the more expensive it gets for all of us, so I am wondering what the point is at all? So we can pay Finley deGraffenreid $160,000 instead of $150,000? So we can hire even more useless turds to populate City hall and cost the taxpayer over $110,000 per year, like Stacey Ybarra?
Witcher: “I wonder…does Lampasas have the labor…for these businesses“
Ryan Ward: “You know, that’s kind of an interesting thought…we have to reach further out…you hope you can find enough work force…to hire more staff…and that’s always the first priority…not only that there is housing…how are we developing those housing communities? But the growth is coming here…”
So don’t worry about all the people we will have to import to work in the Business Pork, we will just “develop the housing communities” more and “add more rooftops” as Finley likes to say. I doubt Finley gives a fuck about any of this. As soon as he retires this year, he’ll take his oversized pension and move to another place and leave us holding a big bag of shit….just like Mike Talbot did back in 2006!
Somewhere on this blog I had a running total going for the Hostess House debacle. It’s hard to keep track of because they keep changing things. Once the cost ballooned out of control (as I predicted it would), they had to “revise the scope.” That means they had to take out all of their ridiculous wish items when the bids came in around $3 MILLION dollars.
Remember, back in October of 2019 when they took over the building, they informed us it would need some “minor repairs”:
Then those “minor repairs” turned into a $200,000 upgrade:
Of course, once nitwits like Cathy Kuehne got ahold of it, costs exploded to $3 million. Who cares?? It’s only HOT money (hotel occupancy tax) – not REAL money.
Well, math finally brought them back to reality, as it always does. Now they have to go back and take out all their wish list stuff. Those changes are gonna cost them.
The cost of checking their greed and revising scope? It’s $38,000, to be exact.
Here we have an unemployed loser socialist who reads a Twitter page called “FuckYouIQuit,” but has never had a real job in the first place, and thus cannot quit.
Hilarious.
The FuckYouIQuit page has about 500,000 other lazy incel losers following it as they all have a giant circle-jerk to re-assure each other that the problem isn’t that they are lazy, good-for-nothing unskilled dirtbags but rather the problem is “corporate greed.”
Those “greedy corporations” don’t want to hand an unskilled bum like Clayton Tucker $30 an hour on his first day of work, so he refuses to participate in the labor market. Much easier to stay home with mom all day long and post pictures of goats.
You see, for the last 170 years or so, the corporations were NOT greedy and the “boomers” and “Gen Xers” were able to get a good job. Then sometime around 2020 (right as we “elected” a quasi-retarded dementia patient who has ALSO never had a real job), the corporations all got very greedy at the same moment and made life impossible for these poor wretches.
(I’m not sure how that explains Comrade Clayton’s other 25 years of unemployment but logic isn’t her strong suit)
I got news for you Comrade Clayton: you quit a long time ago. Like, when you were in the womb. You were a born quitter, which is why you are an able-bodied 32-year-old male with no kids and you live in your mommy’s upstairs bedroom and spend all day on Twitter creating useless non-profits to spread socialist dogshit to the masses.
How odd- not a single record of any ranching corporations. But plenty of non-profits. Your entire life has been “non-profit” since you have never held a real job.
It’s why you will never have a place of your own until your parents die and leave you the house in their will, which I am sure was your plan in the first place. Why lift a finger when you can hang out there in mom’s house until she dies and then just take it for free?
Kind of like another socialist loser in town named Grady Lucas – who put his mom in a nursing home, took her house, then posted a GoFundMe that was deceptively labeled “help me fix up my mom’s house” but failed to mention it was HIM who was now living in it, not some poor old lady who needed a helping hand.
In other words, a complete piece of lazy dogshit like you.
No comrade, it is not “corporate greed” that is the problem. It’s your generation who can’t put their phones down for 30 seconds to complete a task. It’s your generation who has been brainwashed by TikTok that life is just SO unfair and nobody had it as hard as you do – when in fact, the EXACT opposite is true. Your generation never had it so easy. Smart phones, Internet, apartment and job searches in an INSTANT (no pounding the pavement), DoorDash, Uber, Netflix: you’ve never had to work for a fucking thing in your miserable lives. You just push a button.
The other day (during working hours for most people) he was crying publicly about how there was no such thing as affordable housing…thus he HAS to live with mommy!
I happen to know a millennial who found a place to live in Lampasas just last week!
But with the push of a button, I found a BUNCH of affordable places!
“Whaaah…whaah. I can’t afford $1200 a month!Whaaaah. That’s not a sweet mansion with a pool and stuff like I see on TikTok. Whaaaah.”
You can afford it if you get a roommate. That’s only $550 or $600 a month. If you can’t afford that, you are a loser of biblical proportions. You only need to make about $1,700 a month to afford that – or about $11 an hour. There are TONS of places around offering more than that right now. But scumbags like Clayton Tucker think they are above that kind of work.
I’m guessing he also avoids 40-hour workweeks because then he couldn’t be on his phone all day long tweeting socialist garbage to the other losers:
Outstanding observation ladies! You should direct your queries (and anger) towards former mayors and City council members TJ Monroe and Misti Talbert, for starters. Chuck Williamson is also on the list:
What did they do? Well, as I have been ranting about on here for literally FIVE YEARS, they have been handing out taxpayer money to SUBSIDIZE all this growth. They should have been doing the OPPOSITE and charging “impact fees” on every new house. Want to hook your house up to the grid? That will be $2,500 please. Want to hook up to the water/wastewater? That will be another $2,500 please.
You think anyone is going to balk at a $5,000 charge on a $300,000 house? They aren’t. And if they do? Good riddance – that’s how you slow the growth. Then, at the end of the day when you have 500 new “rooftops” as Finley likes to call them, you at least have $2.5 million in your coffers to pay for all the millions of dollars in water/wastewater upgrade costs the City is facing right now.
But Talbert and Monroe DIDN’T do any of that. They did the exact OPPOSITE and handed out money to developers or gave them FREE electrical hookups. Deorald Finney was given a $72,000 gift on his Stone Valley subdivision when Talbert (and council) decided he didn’t have to pay to hook up to the grid.
Don’t forget about the $185,000 in taxpayer money Talbert handed to S2M2 back in 2020 for their ill-fated Brodie Estates development – which is still nowhere near finished.
Where is Misti Talbert now? Don’t worry – she’s only the president of the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. They are the ones with a gigantic empty “Business Pork” they have spent over $7 million dollars on. I’m sure she’ll drive a hard bargain over there, too. Of course, we’ll never know because the LEDC has been lawyering up every time I ask a question about what’s going on over there.
Millions of tax dollars handed out. All so YOU can have more traffic, more people sucking on the water pipe and more people on the grid. Job well done, Misti!!
54 years ago yesterday, Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge while drunk in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts and left his campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in the car.
Teddy on his walk back to the party cottage passed by 4 homes but didn’t stop at any of them to call for help. He instead got two of his buddies and drove back to the crash where they dove into the water. Still, no one bothered to call for help. It wasn’t until Teddy learned Mary Jo’s body had been recovered did he go to the police station.
The only punishment Kennedy received was a two month suspended jail sentence for fleeing the scene of an accident and he went on to serve in the senate until the day he died.
When Ted died in 2009, it was one of the happiest days of my life. I celebrated all day and bought about $500 worth of shots and drinks at my local dive bar.
He was then buried at Arlington National Cemetery – which was a complete travesty. He doesn’t belong there. Plus it made it WAY harder for me to piss on his grave, since desecrating a military grave carries a much higher penalty.
Know what I did? When I visited Arlington Cemetery, I carried with me what appeared to be a Big Gulp drink filled with some kind of soft drink. It was actually filled with 32 ounces of my own piss.
When I finally meandered around to Ted’s grave, I knelt down to “tie my shoe” and then “accidentally” spilled my huge cup of my own piss all over Ted’s grave.
