#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!
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“
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.
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.
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.
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:
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!
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)
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, local socialist maggot and fake rancher Clayton Tucker of Lampasas is finally re-tweeting and yapping about his hero and fake Mexican Robert Francis O’Rourke.
He and Robert are close. Verrry close, if you know what I mean:
Always with the man purse!
Anyways, I think socialist scumworm Clayton Tucker of Lampasas really thinks that Robert has a chance of becoming governor in November.
I would therefore like to offer a very public wager on this. I know that Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas reads here regularly, and I’d like to give him a chance to make a real return on the allowance his parents pay him every Sunday.
Here you go, Clayton: you can bet on Robert to be our next governor AND I’ll give you 4-1 odds. How does that sound? I’ll do it for as much as you can borrow from your mom and dad. Just run downstairs and ask them real quick. Deal?
Here is a nugget from 2014 about how Lampasas was at a “crossroads” as it tried to decide whether to waste another $1.7 million on utilities for the Business Pork.….complete with a bizarre blurb about a Business Park built in the 1970s that “is 41% full, currently – according to officials”.
Wait. What?
From June 2014:
Two things can happen if the city does not prepare for the coming development, said Kathi Masonheimer, executive director of the Lampasas Economic Development Corporation, development will happen anyway and can make the process more expensive down the road without proper planning, or developers will simply move on down the road to another community.
Lampasas EDC and City Council members met after the city’s regular meeting Monday to discuss the viability of spending $1.7 million to extend utility lines to one of the city’s business parks, followed by several additional millions to build structures on the land.
[Wait…ONE of the City’s business parks?? We have others? BAHAHAHAHA. No way. The disasters NEVER end with this group.]
The city already agreed to invest around $2 million in infrastructure improvements this year to update water, sewer and electrical lines in the city.
Located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 183 and County Road 11, the 165-acre business park has remained a vacant field since 2005.
[Vacant field = weed patch. Also, it’s 150 acres. The LEDC didn’t even know how much land it owned? Classic.]
“There have been many times over the past years where we have had good perspective businesses that were interested in coming to Lampasas, and when they tried to come here there was either not a site with utilities to it or (privately-owned sites would become too expensive),” Neal Leavell said at the meeting.
[There’s that lie again! Also, it’s ‘prospective’, not ‘perspective’. Goodness.]
He explained that other cities do not face a utility problem and can place companies quickly and inexpensively on sites, which leaves Lampasas at a disadvantage.
Utilities were not originally extended to the park because the 2003 bond election that would have funded the utility construction failed, Leavell said.
[They did not consider that possibility ahead of time? Of course they didn’t!]
The site already has been passed over by Motorola, CGI Group Inc. and most recently by Lampasas Trucking and Readi-Mix, which relocated to the area from California in April.
A similar business park built in Lampasas in the 1970s is 41 percent full currently, officials said Monday.
[What the hell? ‘Officials’ said? Which officials? Finley was City manager back in 2014 – was he the one babbling about “a similar park’ built in the 1970s? Another park? Where is it? Is it that cement-covered turd on 580 E they are trying to unload on Martin Custom & Rod? Why would you start a SECOND business park if the first one was not even half full? Because Angelou charged you $25,000 to tell you that? BAHAHAHAHAHA. Jesus Christ!]
“This is a risky proposal … there’s no telling how long it would take to put businesses in this park, but I believe without a site, we’re really spinning our wheels in trying to do economic development,” Leavell said.
[Or you could do BOTH: have a site AND spin your wheels – which is the most costly and useless combination, by the way. Neal Leavell = world-class chump]
“LEDC Executive Director Talbot stated that he has had several economic development inquiries from prospective businesses in the past few weeks.”
That sentence appeared in the LEDC minutes from May 3rd, 2004. It also appears dozens of other times over the five years of minutes I read.
May 2004
June 2004
July 2004
I’d say 97% of the time it was just like that: nice and vague. No names given.
The other 3% of the time it was much more specific and everyone got an instant erection and ridiculous dreams danced in their heads of some sap who was going to come here and start handing out $100,000 jobs to everybody with a pulse. They threw money at anything during those times – swallowing the hype over and over.
First it was a $20 million medical center. Then it was “second-tier suppliers” for a new Toyota plant in San Antonio. Then it was a high-tech company and maybe the next Dell! And on and on and on. Like Charlie Brown falling for the football trick that Lucy pulled over and over and over.
Sad.
None of it ever came to fruition, obviously. But that lie has been used very successfully ever since.
Talbot used it. Cherry Hargrove used it. So did Kathi Masonheimer. Mandy Walsh has said it countless times as has Misti Talbert. Yet nothing ever happened. It is the irresistible bait that keeps City council coming back for more and lets the LEDC waste their next million.
Talbot and Angelou Economics told us REPEATEDLY we just needed a Business Park (2000 through 2003) – then we’d have street cred since you couldn’t go to potential businesses empty-handed. AND, you could only apply for free Economic Development grant money from the state once you had a viable tenant (just like today).
“We are turning them away because we have no land!”, was the line they used.
“An economic study in 2001, [Neal] Leavell said,concluded a business park was the main item Lampasas needed to attract development.” – Oct 23, 2015
So the plan was always this: buy the land, use it to lure a business, then use that now-solid prospective tenant to get the EDA grant. They even paid Langford & Associates (remember them?) $1,500 in June of 2004 to do a “pre-application’ for an EDA grant!
So, the LEDC chumps bought the land ($1.1 million at 7% interest for 15 years) like Angelou said, and waited. And waited. And waited some more…
For 10 years they waited and not a SINGLE BUSINESS had any interest in moving into the “business complex”. That should have ended it right there. Talbot was wrong. The high-priced consultant Angelou Economics was wrong. Craig Benton and Judith Hetherly were wrong. All of them were wrong.
But that didn’t stop it! After 10 years, they told us “we need to run utilities into the park! THEN the businesses will flock here.
“We are turning them away because we don’t have utilities!”, was the new story.
They told us tall tales that business would be there any minute!
“Advocates of utility extensions have said entities compete vigorously for new jobs and that cities with ready-to-build sites have an advantage as they try to attract new businesses.” – August 8, 2014
“The incumbent said the city acquired the business park property several years ago but has lacked the infrastructure needed at the site. Soon, she said, the business park will be developed enough to be inviting to businesses. [Then-council-member Wanda Bierschwale] – April 10, 2015
“Grayson said he hopes to develop the business park and attract companies to the site.” [Then-mayor Grayson running for re-election] – April 3, 2015
For another seven long years they waited. They kept trying to convince themselves the entire time that success was just around the corner:
“Ms. Toups said she wants to continue to provide infrastructure to develop the business park — Ms. Toups said through the Lampasas Economic Development Corp.’s hard work, “we are on the verge of seeing large corporations come in [to the business park].” – April 21, 2017
But no businesses came.
But again, that wasn’t the end of it.
They came back to council in 2021 and assured them that they just needed another $1.9 million – later upped to $2.75 million – to build a couple roads and extend the utilities even FURTHER into the park and to concentrate on a 50-acre area of the 150-acre weed patch.
Misti even managed to grab $971,000 that fell into the City’s lap through the Covid Recovery Act bullshit federal giveaway. That was $971,000 the City could have spent on a lot of things. Instead it will be incinerated with the other millions on the weed patch. Misti facilitated this pilfering by telling that handy and time-proven lie about “we’ve had several economic inquiries in the last few weeks”….
So will the third time be a charm? Don’t bet on it.
