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Reminder For the LEDC: Here Are Some Lies From Eco-Strong…

In case the LEDC forgot how they were lied to, strung along and then asked for a ridiculous $1.85 million by Mike Cour of Eco-Strong, I am here to remind you.

Here are some exchanges I had by email with Cour:

Sept 4, 2020: I asked Mike Cour why he needed to sponge free land off of the LEDC. I pointed out that he owned 200 acres literally right down the street on the SAME ROAD as the Business Pork project – why not use THAT land?

Mike Cour’s answer?

“My property was one of the options but unfortunately does not give us enough space to operate the current business and this new business”.

The “current business” was Equicare, which seems to have failed. Of course, at the same time Mike Cour told me this whopper, he was asking the LEDC for 5 acres of land. FIVE! So out of your 200 acres, you didn’t have a spare five acres to run your Eco-Strong scam?

Bullshit.

I can see from your current pictures on Zillow that there is PLENTY of room to run both. Cour just wanted some free shit. Oh, and $1.75 million so he could buy the equipment and build the building.

Speaking of…he also told me he wasn’t looking for government handouts. From the same email:

“We have not received any funding from anyone, and we intend for this to be a private effort…”

You can’t make a more bald-faced lie than that. Maybe Cour figured I’d never get my hands on his shitty Power Point presentation to the LEDC – and Mayor “Transparency” Talbert did her best to thwart me – but my lawyer prevailed.

Turns out he had ALREADY asked them for 5 acres AND $1.75 million in cash:

Yeah – a totally private effort. Except for that measly $1.85 million in taxpayer funds.

Even after Cour made the LEDC look like gullible, bungling imbeciles, they STILL have him on their list of “possible Business Pork prospects”. That should tell you how desperate the LEDC is to get SOMEONE…ANYONE into that goat pasture so they can say it was all worth it.

I’ll get to Alan Champagne (CEO of Eco-Flex) next…

Ascaredpussysayswhat?

Comrade Clayton “Fix The Damn Grid” Tucker is back at it again! What a way to live life. In constant fear. Like an 8-year old girl afraid of a monster under her bed…

He just can’t let it go. The power went out last year in a freak 1-in-100 year storm and he’s now petrified forever that the lights might not go on when he flips the switch. I’m not sure why: he lives in his parents’ house, which is two blocks from the police station – and thus quite likely to be on the “critical infrastructure” list, which is safe during rolling blackouts.

I’ve publicly bet Clayton Tucker that he never even lost power in 2021, but he is too big a pussy to take it.

If he had taken 3 seconds to click on the ERCOT dashboard, he would see that there are eight GIGAWATTS more power committed than actually needed (68 gigawatts versus 76 gigawatts):

***Available capacity in purple. Demand in blue/green.***

Those are REAL gigawatts. Not the kind of flimsy fake “green energy” gigawatts that vanish when the sun sets or the wind dies. But he’s still scared – and likely hiding under the bed in his parents’ upstairs bedroom where he currently resides.

Of course, this is the same piece of shit who flies a flag on ~~his house~~ his parents’ house that isn’t the American flag. It isn’t the Texas flag, either. It’s the Ukrainian flag. One of the most corrupt countries on earth.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I will personally pay ALL your moving expenses to California, New York, Illinois and now Ukraine. Just pack your shit and leave for greener pastures, buddy. I hear the grid is AWESOME in Democrat-controlled California.

Eco-Strong STILL Hanging Around Looking For Handout – Despite Owner Selling His Own Land For $5.95 Million

Mike Cour and Eco-Strong are the turds that just won’t get buried. For some reason, the idiots at the LEDC think this scumbag is a legit prospect and cannot wait to hand the taxpayers’ money to him – despite the fact he is selling HIS OWN 199.93 acres for $5.95 million. The property he is selling is literally RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD from the Business Pork project (he is at 15500 S Hwy 183):

***Note the “Equicare” signage – despite Zillow trying to hide address***

Just to recap:

#1 For the last few years, Mike Cour owned 199 acres literally right down the street from the LEDC Business Pork. He runs what appears to be a failing “Equine care” facility there.

#2 That is MUCH more acreage than the Business Pork land (199 acres versus 150 acres). Yet back in 2020, he didn’t want to use his OWN land for his genius business idea of turning old tires into other other garbage (Eco-Strong).

#3 Instead, Mike Cour and”Eco-Strong” tried to grab $1.85 MILLION in taxpayer funds back in 2020 – INCLUDING five acres of land in the “business park”!! Here is a screen shot from his shitty Power Point packet he gave to the LEDC:

So the guy sitting on 200 acres and a supposedly “can’t miss, brilliant business idea” went with his hat in hand to try and bilk the LEDC out of 5 acres of land AND another $1.75 million to basically pay for the entire thing for him.

Wow – what a deal! The taxpayers take all the risk, and if it pays off, scumbag Mike Cour gets the payout!

As a reminder, Mike Cour was ALSO previously tangled up in Triton Financial a few years back. Triton was sued for fraud and Mike Cour is listed as a defendant:

***Triton was a Ponzi scheme that blew up.***

Sounds like a GREAT guy to get in business with!

So Mike Cour is about to pocket almost $6 million for selling his land on Highway 183 for nearly $30,000 per acre, and he is STILL slutting around the LEDC and angling for some kind of hand out? That’s how it looks from the latest LEDC packet (see page 11)

Eco-Strong has supposedly rented that brand new warehouse over on Pecan Street just south of Brown’s Feed:

I just happened to be over there the other day and took a few photos. It’s definitely the Eco-Turd product out back there:

**I predict that the second part of Cour’s scam is to sell this “green” bullshit to moron cities like Austin who are flush with federal money to “save the environment”.**

According to the LEDC packets, Eco-Strong is “temporarily manufacturing and shipping from their warehouse on Pecan Street“. I can tell you that at least half of that statement is complete horseshit. There is ZERO manufacturing going on there. The inside of the warehouse doesn’t even look complete yet.

Also funny that Eco-Turd hasn’t changed their official “headquarters” address yet on ANY of their Internet sites:

My SUSPICION (and this is not fact, just my guess) is this: Cour will pocket that money he made from the land sale (minus any liens he has on it), he will then rent this warehouse for a year to look “legit”, and at the end of the year when the Business Pork is supposed to be JUST getting finished, he will AGAIN go to the LEDC and try to get a bunch of free shit – including FREE LAND just down the street from his OWN LAND that he just sold for $29,900 per acre!

My opinion is that the ludicrous overpriced-land boom has bailed this asshole out of his crappy Equicare biz and allowed him some breathing room while he tries to scam the LEDC again. Again, this is my opinion – not fact. Only time well tell if I’m correct.

It also proves AGAIN that the best move the LEDC could have made is to sell their shitty 150 acres for around $4.5 million and be done with it. After all, that’s what EVERYONE around here with any big chunks of land is doing right now: just sticking it up the ass of these morons dumb enough to pay $30k per acre.

While I love the idea of libtarded Austinites getting face-raped at these prices, I detest the idea of those same libtards overrunning this town.

The final irony will be when Cour’s 200 acres is chopped into a 400-house subdivision, thus giving us the exact same pile of houses that Talbert says was a bad way to go with the Business Pork land in the first place.

Irony and stupidity abound. Mike Cour and the LEDC are right smack in the middle of all of it.

More to come on Mike Cour and Alan Champagne and and all their lies.

Socialist Bum Clayton “Baby Seal” Tucker Offering Lessons On How to Get Clubbed

Now I have truly seen it all!

Local socialist bum Clayton Tucker is running for SDEC (as we covered HERE). This means he would be in charge of trying to get Marxist scum elected in Texas.

Yes, you are reading that right: the unemployed socialist bum who has gotten beaten like a rented mule in every race he’s entered (3 of them) AND been denied several appointed positions (City council and LEDC) is now going to teach other Marxist scum how to get elected!

Clayton Tucker likes to brag about how his family has been here since the 1970s and he STILL can’t get elected or appointed to anything in this area. What does that tell you?

BAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like all commie scum, Comrade Clayton has a Plan to pull this off.

Comrade Clayton’s Plan to Elect More Marxist Scum

I think my favorite part of Comrade Clayton’s plan is #2:

…this plan must include ways to boost our wins in urban areas, secure more wins in suburban areas, and cut our losses in rural areas. We cannot put all of our eggs into one basket by relying on any single geographical area to flip Texas.….

Wait, what? Comrade Clayton is giving up on rural Texas? Hilariously, it was literally about 180 days ago that Comrade Clayton was in the papers doing his best Jed Clampett imitation and telling us that “we are here, we are present, and we ain’t scared of no one…”

Of course, Comrade Clayton is so brave and committed to winning races in this rural area, that he was too chicken shit to run for City council again this time – perhaps finally realizing nobody wants his brand of Marxist trash around here.

Clayton “Baby Seal” Tucker Taps Out. Will Not Run For City Council

What a complete pussy.

**Hey man, save some chicks for the rest of us!!**

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)