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Former Mayor Hetherly Was Right About ONE Thing…

I found a lovely nugget in the LEDC minutes from years ago. It shows you just how much has changed.

Judy Hetherly was a failure as an LEDC board president AND as a mayor, but listen to what she had to say in August 2005 before she became Mayor but while she sat on City council AND the LEDC board.

Back then, the developers of Sunrise Hills went hat-in-hand to City council for some “free” (taxpayer-provided) shit – the kind of “free” shit that Talbert and Monroe routinely hand out now in the name of “growth”:

Aug 15, 2005 minutes: “Mike Talbot informed the Board there was a special council meeting on Friday in reference to a new subdivision. The reason for this special meeting was that the developer of this new subdivision, known as Sunrise Hills, was asking to participate in contributing funds for infrastructure improvements to this new subdivision. Council voted to share in the costs…

“Board member Hetherly wanted to note that she is for growth to Lampasas, but that she voted AGAINST this request because she felt that the developer should pay for these improvements and not the City. She felt that growth should support itself.“

WOW! Sounds like something I would say! For one brief, shining moment, Hetherly was a genius.

This is the truism that escapes Talbert, Monroe, Williamson and all the rest. I have pounded the table on this many, many times.

LEDC Puff Piece in Dispatch Ignores Massive Sums Spent For “Growth”

I even gave the example of the LEDC and council trying to fill a swimming pool by taking water from the shallow end to fill the deep end. It makes no sense. These idiots grab money from one group and hand it out to another. That is not “growth”.

Funny how Talbert used to crow about “growing the tax rolls” when she was handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars to developers to try and buy “growth”. If that strategy worked, the City wouldn’t be borrowing $6.5 million to pay for water/wastewater and other growing pains. If this was REAL, ACTUAL, self-sustaining and organic growth, you wouldn’t be soaking the taxpayer for ever-more money.

**Water and sewer see MAJOR expenses for “growth”. Talbert doesn’t count that.**

Are taxes higher or lower in the big cities like Austin, Dallas and Houston? They are ridiculously high. If subsidizing a ton of people to move to a city actually worked, the taxes would go DOWN over time and the burden to each taxpayer would FALL. But we never see that. Just take a look at your property taxes if you don’t believe me.

This is just more proof that Talbert, Monroe, Kuehne, Williamson and the LEDC have set us on a course for disaster. Your quality of life will decrease and your cost of living will increase. All thanks to these idiots handing out subsidies and trying to pay for fake “growth”.

Lampasas Citizens Have Been Ripped Off For 20 Years Now.

Many citizens of Lampasas are utterly unaware of the monstrous waste of money called “The Business Park” on South 183 as you leave town. Millions upon millions (over SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS, at last count) have been wasted over the last 20 years with nothing to show for it.

Former councilman Mike White referred to it as a “goat pasture” and newly ousted councilman Bob Goodart called it a “colossal waste of money” in November 2020.

Here is a complete list of links so you can educate yourself and learn about the biggest financial folly the City of Lampasas has ever embarked upon in its 139-year history:

How the Business Pork Project Started 21 Years Ago (Spoiler: They Lied From The Start)

Business Pork Project – REAL Phase I Was in 2003

Didya Know? Business Park Edition (2005)

‘Business Park’ Is Huge Piece of Pork. Pope Eckermann and Others Feasting On Taxpayer Ass

OUTRAGEOUS Tidbits From LEDC Non-Profit Filings

Did Lampasas Build A Biz Park In The 1970s??

Look How Much Money the LEDC Has Squandered Over The Last Six Years

The Lie That Keeps On Giving

Shovel Ready – Another Lie

Weed Patch Blasts From The Past

Mandy Walsh Begs Ajinomoto To Back ‘Business Park’. Ajinomoto Offered City 200 New Jobs AND $300,000 Back In 2016. City Declined!!

Somebody Has Some ‘Splaining To Do Regarding Eco-Strong, Mike Cour and the ‘Business’ Park Money Pit

Has The Eco-Turd Finally Been Buried?

LEDC Kinda/Sorta Grilled By Council – A Rarity. Mandy Clause Flustered – Part I

*UPDATE* – LEDC Loan Costs Now Much Higher For Taxpayer Thanks To Idiotic Extension Of Original Loan

Reviewing Business Pork Project Prospective Tenants

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

Didya Know? Business Park Edition (2005)

I’m back to combing through the old minutes. If you haven’t been following the Business Pork Origins Series, you can START HERE.

Anyhow, back in in 2005, the LEDC board put the bond they wanted to issue up to a vote and let the citizens decide on it. This bond issuance was supposed to pay for utilities to the “business park”. It was a complete disaster.

[Now remember: the LEDC was ALREADY moving the goalposts even back then. The ORIGINAL pitch went like this: buy the land, get a legit prospect by pitching the land they now had, THEN get an EDA grant to pay for it all using this solid business prospect – as the rules required. NOW they were skipping item #2 and just trying to grab more tax dollars!]

Of 3,800 registered voters (this is taken from the 2/7/2005 minutes) only 207 voted in favor of taking on this massive debt to fund the Business Pork pipe dream and 395 voted against. So not only did 65.6% of voters say NO to this idea, but the YES votes comprised 5.5% of the voting pool.

In other words, 94.5% of the voters wanted nothing to do with this debt burden.

Not hard to believe, since the LEDC had just put the taxpayers on the hook for $1.1 million at 7% just to BUY the weed patch in the first place.

But back then, just like today, the LEDC refused to listen and charged forward with their moronic idea. This is taken from the minutes in February 2005:

Board member [Craig] Benton commented: Citizens went against the election because of the tax increase. The City needs industry. Have got to get utilities to this property. The land is still a good investment and the Board needs to continue the course. If required, can do utilities in small increments, even if it were five feet at a time, if they have to. This land is still a good investment.

[Gee Craig…are you trying to say the land is a good investment? Did they teach that in chiropractor’s school? Turns out it WASN’T a good investment, because 7 years later, the land was appraised at a value 10% lower than purchase price, but we already covered that]

I seriously hope this guy didn’t think you can lay down power lines and water lines five feet at a time as you got a little pocket change. But with this group, you really never know.

Board members [Steve] Hudson and [Sally] Yancy agreed with Benton’s comments [2/7/2005 minutes].

So the LEDC ignored the will of the people and charged ahead into the abyss. Just like they do today.

Furthermore, Mike Talbot (who was simultaneously the Executive Director of the LEDC AND the City Manager) had the following to say about it all:

“Talbot stated he felt the Board should not be deterred in their efforts in regards to the Business Park due to the failure of the Bond Election. He gave the following possible reasons for the Bond Election not passing:

#1 Voter apathy

#2 Voters envisioned the new business park would be just like the old business park [wtf? There is the “old business park” again!!]

#3 Voters thought they were voting on the Key Avenue/4th Street project

In other words, Talbot was egging on this idiotic project by telling the LEDC that maybe:

(1) voters were lazy

(2) voters thought (correctly, as it would turn out) that this new project would be as big a train wreck as the last one.

(3) voters are morons who can’t read.

“The Board agreed that they needed to keep moving forward with the Business Park”.

Of course they did! Here were the Board members at that time:

Paul Wilborn (prez), Craig Benton, John Cole, Sally Yancy, Judith Hetherly, Steve Hudson.

Conclusion: these six people went again the will of 94.5% of registered voters and charged ahead on this ill-fated project.

More to come….

Get Out and Vote Today!!

There are some important issues to decide:

#1 Get rid of incumbent city council member Cathy Kuehne.

#2 Vote to RAISE the homestead exemption on property taxes from $25,000 to $40,000

Many of us have been slammed with a 30% increase in property taxes. I have been trying to get the county appraiser to explain to me how that is even possible, considering Texas passed S.B. 2 back in 2019 and limited the amount a taxing entity could increase their take to 3.5% over the previous year.

Absolutely outrageous. The last thing these governments need is a huge windfall of cash to waste on hiring more useless paper pushers. Hell, the feds gave out MILLIONS in Covid money to state, local and county governments and they need MORE?!?!? Absolutely preposterous. If anything, taxes should have been far LOWER this year due to Uncle Joe handing out TRILLIONS to local and county governments.

Also be sure to thank Misti Talbert, TJ Monroe, Chuck Williamson and Cathy Kuehne for handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars to developers here to SUBSIDIZE their homebuilding and thus encourage MORE idiots to move here and drive up prices. Job well done!

Supreme Court Leaker Is Likely a 20-Something Little Woke Lib Chick. Just As I Predicted.

I said two days ago that the leaker was probably “a little sniveling female libtard between the ages of 22 and 30 who is as woke and dumb as they come“

https://gab.com/TheOriginalLampasshole/posts/108238915783106200

Well, today, Will Chamberlain made a VERY convincing case that the leaker is the 32-yo female clerk for Justice Breyer named Elizabeth Deutsch:

Note the Master’s degree in “gender”. Preposterous! THESE are the people infesting the halls of power now. Including the Supreme Court, clearly.

***Why on earth is the London School of Economics awarding degrees in gender studies?***

Meet the Clerk Most Likely To Have Leaked

Naturally, since it is probably a lib that likely committed this serious breach, the lib scum in Congress have no interest in going after her/she/them. After all, ANY means justifies the ends in the mind of a libtard. The hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Adam Schiff: “I Don’t Care How the Draft Leaked”

There is truly no bigger piece of shit and hypocrite than Adam Schiff. If the republicans don’t go after this guy full-bore after they crush the libs in November, then they all deserve to be kicked to the curb.

We also have scumbag lefties going to the homes of SC justices to protest. If the shoe were on the other foot, the libs would be moving heaven and earth to track these “extremists” and “insurrectionists” through their cell phone geodata and throwing them in solitary for a year without a trial. Because that’s what scumbags do. This is who we are up against.

Left-Wing Group To Protest Conservative Supreme Court Justices’ Homes As Police Brace For Turmoil Over Roe Leak

This is why trying to take the “moral high ground” against these Marxist scum gets you nowhere. They don’t play by any rules. The follow no logic or laws. They are capable of holding two contradictory positions in their heads at the same time (mandatory vaccines and hands off my body). They are therefore mentally unstable and cannot be reasoned with. All they understand is sheer, brute force. Therefore, they must be crushed completely.

The day after the GOP destroys the libs in November and takes over the House and Senate, it is time for serious retribution. Special counsels into Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s corruption. Subpoenas flying for everyone. Filing of articles of impeachment for Joe Biden. Show trials. Hyperbole. Calling the left “extreme terrorists” and locking them up for a year without a trial. Leaking absolute made-up bullshit to the press smearing all the assholes involved in this stuff. The whole enchilada. Nothing is too insane or over the top to throw at them. Remember: they are doing the same to you.

Every single scumbag move the left has pulled in the last two years needs to be repaid ten-fold.

Heath Bishop (aka Hubert Humperdick) Wrong Again

I wonder if Heath Bishop (aka Hubert Humperdick) ever gets tired of being wrong. The most amusing part of his incorrect facts and arguments is that he is SO cocksure of them!

Don’t forget, this guy was a 7-Eleven clerk for many years. So he must know a ton about economics, right?

He calls everyone an ignorant redneck, says the answer to inflation is so easy a high school kid would see it, but then never bothers to explain his argument.

That’s because he has no idea what he’s talking about. Biden’s policies most certainly DID cause inflation. He massively increased the money supply. When you have WAY more currency units chasing the exact same amount of “stuff” (food, gas, Amazon crap, housing), then PRICES RISE. Very simple.

It’s actually WORSE than that. There was LESS “stuff” being produced at the exact same time he was inflating the money supply – because losers and bums didn’t have to pay rent or student loans anymore (more Biden policies) so why bother showing up for work? So they didn’t:

US Productivity crashing 7.5% in Q1 – that is the biggest drop since 1947

But don’t take MY word for it. Let’s hear what Janet Yellen has to say. She’s Biden’s Treasury Secretary and supposedly an economics genius with a PhD!

Janet Yellen Admits Biden’s Spending “Did Feed” Inflation

But I’m sure Heath Bishop the 7-Eleven clerk in Kempner is WAY smarter than Yellen. Just ask him.

So, to recap for morons like Heath Bishop: a LOT more currency units chasing LESS stuff = more currency units per unit of stuff. That’s inflation. Q.E.D.

Heath Bishop cannot admit this because then it would mean his hero Biden is to blame for the shitty economy, and we can’t have that.

They don’t come any dumber than Heath Bishop. If Biden took a shit in his mouth, he’d say “thanks for the delicious chocolate!”

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” – Milton Friedman (famous economist who is WAY smarter than Hubert Humpback Whale)

City to Borrow $6.5 Million

The City will be borrowing $6.5 million at 3.26% to fund some SUPER important projects.

Some of them sound worthy – like water treatment.

Several look very unworthy – like the Hostess House ‘facelift’ and landscaping for the $1.5 million fiasco known as the Jack Calvert building.

***At least $1.3 million of this is wasteful spending***

The most ridiculous part of this borrowing is that the Feds just handed Lampasas almost TWO MILLION DOLLARS in unsolicited “Covid relief funds”. They got $971,000 last August and will get ANOTHER $971,000 this summer.

They literally had TWO MILLION fall into their laps late last year and they are STILL borrowing more for dubious projects.

I guess it’s kinda hard to make ends meet when LEDC prez Misti Talbert grabbed the first half of it for her idiotic Business Pork project. I believe the other half was mostly spent on a new fire engine (which we won’t get for another 12 to 18 months, thanks to the Brandon Administration wrecking the supply chains).

This is a 20-year bond (August 2042) but can be paid off (called) after nine years at the earliest.

That means they are on the hook for at LEAST 9 years of interest payments – which means $211,900 in annual interest times NINE. Or $1.907 million.

Ergo, they didn’t just put you on the hook for $6.5 million. It’s $8.407 million

If they DON’T (or CAN’T) pay it off early and it runs the entire 20 years, the total interest runs to $2.9 million. Or a grand total of $9,400,000.00 burden on the taxpayer.

Don’t worry though, according to TJ Monroe, “typically, we are able to pay those down within the nine years and have saved a substantial amount of money”.

Hm. Perhaps.

Or perhaps with the Fed finally raising rates back to normal, thus cratering the stock market and the housing market and causing a deep (and much-needed) recession, the City won’t have the ridiculous always-increasing sales tax and other tax revenue to rely on and find themselves screwed by the debt burden.

Time will tell.

As You Get Your Outrageous Property Tax Bills, Remember Kathy Staruska

This is Kathy Staruska of Lampasas:

Yes, she does look like Odo from Deep Space Nine, but that’s not why we are here today…

She is employed by the Lampasas Independent School District:

She holds the title of “Educational Diagnostician”. I am trying to think of a bigger joke of a job, but having a hard time of it. Maybe life coach? Or Economic Development Director? Tough call. At least Mandy Walsh works 11.25 months out of the year. I’m guessing Staruska ‘works’ for nine.

Kathy has worked for LISD for all of one year. For some reason, they saw fit to bestow her with a ludicrous salary of $75,890 on her very first day:

Before this, she worked for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department with no title that I could find – (notice she went into hiding in 2020 due to ‘Covid’):

So, she worked for the TJJ for several years – sponging about $70,000 annually off the taxpayer. It appears she then went into hiding during 2020 because of “Covid”, of course. Then she somehow decided to apply to the LISD and they said “hell yeah! Let’s start you at almost seventy-six grand!”

Which is insane. Does this “diagnostician” add $76,000 worth of value to the school district (actually more like $90,000 with benefits)? Is this a wise expenditure when REAL teachers are currently very difficult to recruit?

The answers are “NO”. Not even close.

This is a joke of a ‘job’ that teaches zero kids all day, pays a ridiculous salary, has amazing benefits, and a nine-month work year. But that still isn’t enough for this parasite. She wants more:

You aren’t a teacher. You are a parasite. You should be fired, so that REAL teachers can be paid more.

Unsurprisingly, she is a rabid, moronic liberal:

**More misinformation about an “insurrection” that never happened.**

**Of course, NOW we know that the vaxxed are being hospitalized even MORE than the unvaxxed. Just Staruska spreading misinformation again!**

That last one is my fave. The woman whose job of “educational diagnostician” is the very definition of “non-essential” is posting this. Hilarious.

THIS is where about 30% of your tax dollars go: to overpaid morons who contribute NOTHING to education.

Very soon, the LISD school board will yet again vote to give “everyone” a 5% raise. This will sound good to you, because you figure “teachers deserve a raise when inflation is 10% under Joe Biden”. Just remember two things:

#1 Teachers got a 7% raise in March of 2020 right before they got sent home for Covid AND inflation was around 3%.

#2 A hell of a lot of parasitic, libtard morons like Kathy Staruska will ALSO get a raise tacked on to her already-ludicrous salary for doing nothing.

The school board should be ashamed for hiring this moron in the first place.

Should Clayton Tucker Be Charged With Sedition?

It sure looks like Clayton Tucker is spreading seditious and inciteful rhetoric on his public webpage.

***Pocahontas talking about the Constitution? You make me laugh.***

Wow. So Elizabeth Warren (a sitting Senator who took an oath to uphold the Constitution yet shits on it whenever she can) is saying that even though the Supreme Court, comprised of the finest legal minds on the planet (ha ha – except Sotomayor!) has decided the Constitutionality of this issue, she refuses to accept the outcome of a perfectly legal and fair debate?

Now where have I heard that before? Oh right…the current January 6th witch hunt and clown parade that is still going on about “refusing to accept results”.

Seems very seditious to me. Especially the ominous “we’re not going back – not EVER”. It sounds like speech that tends toward rebellion against the established order.

It also sounds like subversion of the Constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or insurrection against, established authority – which is the exact definition of sedition. Comrade Clayton Tucker is helping to spread this seditious rhetoric to his 4000 followers as a public figure. Clayton is also an admitted socialist. This means he is actively working AGAINST the U.S. Constitution at all times.

In the old days, before our great country turned pussy, seditious commie scumworms (like Clayton Tucker) were dealt with properly. Now we have ungrateful little assholes (like Clayton Tucker) publicly endorsing socialism while enjoying the benefits of a free-market, capitalist Constitutional Republic from the comfort of his mom’s upstairs bedroom.

In the past, socialist bum Clayton Tucker has been quick to smear sitting members of Congress as traitors when they weren’t:

I’m not sure what Ted Cruz actually did to warrant Clayton Tucker writing such libelous garbage on a public website. I think it was “something, something, January 6th, something something insurrection, something”.

But Ted Cruz is still in the Senate and is one of the staunchest defenders of the Constitution.

So perhaps we have a bit of projection here? Clayton Tucker is actually the one posting speech that sounds seditious to me.

Also, it is clear yet again that his parents wasted their $80,000 by sending Clayton to Southwestern University for that “International Relations” degree, because he doesn’t understand the first fucking thing about the Constitution.

The federal government has 18 enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. That’s it. They are listed HERE.

If something is NOT listed there (abortion, for example), then by the TENTH AMENDMENT: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.“

Roe V. Wade was a shitty decision back in the 70s. They got it wrong. Abortion is a STATE ISSUE. Period. The Supreme Court now says so. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. By joining Warren and spreading rhetoric like this, you are encouraging citizens to subvert the Constitution – a seditious act.

I’m not sure why Clayton is so up-in-arms about this anyways. You have to actually talk to a girl, then date her a bit before you can knock her up. I see no possibility of any of that in Comrade Clayton’s future.

Or, maybe as a woke liberal idiot who thinks males can get pregnant and menstruate, Clayton is worried about getting pregnant himself? Don’t worry, buddy. All your woke gender beliefs violate established science. O’Rourke can inseminate you as much as he wants with no danger of a baby.

In The Pantheon of Gullible Morons, Stephanie Fitzharris Stands Above All Others

There are useful idiots and then there is Austin resident Stephanie “Potato Head” Fitzharris, who overshadows ALL other idiots. Haywood? Tucker? Mere amateurs. When it comes to falling for bullshit (masks and social distancing), not understanding science (vaccines that don’t work), or cheering loudly and stupidly for the Next Thing (BLM, defund police, Ukraine), nobody tops Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris of Lake Travis area in Austin.

Readers here are no stranger to this morbidly obese libtarded nut job. I have covered her repeatedly HERE and HERE and HERE.

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Hey Potato Head? You coming here to read about what an imbecile you are and seeing me use your own moronic posts against you on MY BLOG is not “harassment”. Everything I post here is the truth and can be backed up. If you feel shame for being proven a moron over and over, then just don’t ever click over here, mmmkay?

This latest is one of my favorite. Like her other cause célèbres (BLM, defund police, wear a mask) she jumped in with both feet while having absolutely no idea what she was talking about. This is what rich, vapid, empty-nester housewives in Austin do to fill up their empty and meaningless lives.

I’m talking, of course, about Ukraine. She had the flag emoji and all the other nonsense within days of the invasion. She virtue signaled constantly about the evil Putin and the brave heroes of Ukraine.

She also fell for the most obvious piece of propaganda I have ever seen. I couldn’t believe people actually reposted this horseshit, but Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris of the Lake Travis area in Austin Texas definitely bought it hook, line and sinker:

What a sad, hollow life this woman has. One son is a communist loser who lives far away in Portland with the other losers. The other son went to school in California – no doubt to get far away from his blabbermouth embarrassment of a mother. All she does is sit home and repost memes as fast as she can…hoping to be part of something and to fill the hole where normal people have real friends in real life. This results in her posting obvious bullshit like the one above.

Well, the Ukrainians themselves FINALLY admitted what anyone with an IQ over 100 knew months ago: the Ghost of Kyiv was complete and total horseshit propaganda:

Duh.

Just like social distancing was a myth, using masks to stop an aerosolized virus was a myth, the Covid vax protecting you from sickness and death was a myth, and the BLM bullshit about cops killing blacks at a much higher rate than whites was a myth. Stephanie Fitazharris falls for and reposts them all. Because she has no critical thinking skills. That’s what happens when your skull is filled with starch and very closely resembles a potato shape.

I have zero doubt that Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris in Austin Texas wrote numerous checks to BLM from her husband’s checking account. Those checks helped those commie scammers buy nice mansions in nice white areas of town.

BAHAHAHAHAHA. What a maroon!