Well, it’s a brand new year, but I see the same old LEDC incompetence. After deciding to skip their December meeting, they STILL have not posted the agenda or packets for tomorrow’s meeting:
Does this mean there is no meeting tomorrow? Hard to believe, since they are in the middle of “planning” a multi-million dollar boondoggle known as Phase II of the Goat Pasture (Mike White’s words, not mine).
Mandy even mentioned in November that perhaps they might want to actually meet in December since “we have more active topics of discussion” [page 21].
Two years into this “pandemic” and it just boggles my mind that there are still people out there who are afraid of coronavirus. Thanks to a surge in “cases” there are thousands of morons who aren’t sick at all, waiting in hours-long lines to take a test to see if they have a virus that couldn’t possibly kill them.
It is the world-class dunces like these who (a) keep this ‘pandemic’ hysteria going when it is clearly over and (b) are clogging up the clinics and hospitals and fucking things up for people with REAL medical problems:
They should have slapped your face and called you a moron, too.
Hey dummy: your 10-year-old grandson is not at risk of dying from this. He is more likely to be killed by lightning. By your own admission, the kid isn’t even SICK! He was just “around his uncle and aunt” who supposedly had it – or maybe they just tested positive. Teresa Christoph, whoever she is, should have a big “MORON” tattooed on her forehead and be banned from the doctor for a year.
Brandy English is arguably even worse! She actually drove around clogging up the works and wasting the time in THREE towns! Keep your dipshittery in Killeen, lady. There are people in Lampasas with REAL medical problems. Your 8-yo is more likely to be killed in a car accident with you driving all over hell’s half-acre gumming up the healthcare system than she is to be killed by Covid.
If you are related to any of these people, please grab their shoulders and shake them. Maybe slap them across the face a few time to snap them out of it. You are acting like complete dipshits.
The Goldfish swam last night – the first meeting of the year and first in nearly a month:
Finley presented council with an 89-page fiscal year 2021 financial report. He didn’t want to go into too much detail or “bore you with this”, except to say that “it was a tough year” and mentioned the winter storm and electric fund [starts at 7:30 mark].
They raised rates anyways, of course, starting back on 11/1/21. But now Finley is telling us it was a “tough year”. The electric fund took a roughly $1.5 million dollar hit (they spent $7.8 million on electricity but had only budgeted $6.3 million), according to Finley [17:10 mark]
This is very odd to me, becausethe Bungler-in-Chief Misti Talbert bragged on Finley last year when she said:
“It’s important for the people watching at home to know: the position that we are in in terms of the utility rates we pay is accredited to one person and one person only – his name is Finley deGraffenreid….0ur risk has been mitigated by his ability to broker deals for us and secure us not knowing that something like this would happen, but in the event that it has we come out on top. When it comes to utility rates, that’s who you thank right there” [points to Finley]
Then Finley pat himself on the back a little bit with these assurances:
Finley: “Our contracts are currently fixed-pricing…so the pricing from our wholesale suppliers per kilowatt will not change”
Finley: “We are financially healthy…our electric department does carry adequate reserves to overcome the temporary spike”, “I think this is a bump that we just absorb because we are healthy financially….the impact…is pretty negligible…but we are certainly in a position to absorb that if council so chooses”
A $1.5 million dollar hit sure doesn’t sound like we came out on top. Sounds more like we were on the bottom….biting the pillow.
Yet another huge black mark Misti Talbert’s disastrous mayoral adventure. Keep in mind this same idiot is now running the LEDC and recently signed off on ANOTHER $1.5 million loan for the Business Park boondoggle.
I’ve requested the 89-page report so I can see it all myself. I’ll keep you apprised.
Alexandria Ocrazio-Cortex, who could eat a sandwich through a fence, has apparently caught Covid. This is despite taking the “vaccine” AND the additional “vaccines”. Did someone forget to disinfect her feed bag?
This happened one week after she ran away from New York (where there are draconian mask rules) and went to Florida (where there are not) and galivanted around mask-free – despite being a Covid cult member and rabid maskhole herself.
The far-left member of the jihad squad was seen last week at several Miami hotspots, as New York was hit with a record-high number of Covid-19 cases due to the far less mild Omicron variant. New York has also instituted a strict mask and vaccine policy.
To say she is a hypocrite would be putting it mildly. But that’s what socialist scumbags are: morons and hypocrites. Just ask Comrade Clayton.
How will AOC spin this? Blame Florida?
Covid just wants to date AOC:
Covid has jumped from human to burro
I think we should put her on a ventilator just to be sure she gets over Covid.
Given her horse face, this is one time Ivermectin would be EXQUISITELY appropriate. Let’s all bray for her.
Local socialist worm and thrice-failed political candidate Clayton Tucker has shown us he’s afraid of a lot of things over the last couple years: honest work, paying his own way, and living in his own place. But this takes the cake.
The same idiot who thinks the world is going to overheat from global warming in 10 years and kill us all (yes, Clayton, that’s what “existential” means):
…is also simultaneously petrified that we will see another once-in-100-years cold snap. He also apparently thinks a couple of dozen ill-cut logs will save him:
Clayton forgets that it was his demand of adding unreliable solar and wind to the grid that fucked everything up in the first place.
Lemme guess: grandpa’s land and trees, grandpa’s truck and mom’s fireplace?
Wow! Impressive! We are well into the cold part of the year and have had numerous cold snaps already and you’re posting pics TODAY of cutting a few logs. Bravo. Do mommy and daddy have a fireplace in their house (where you live upstairs) so you can burn those, or are you just going to pile them on top of yourself for warmth?
Here are the FACTS: climate-related disasters killed FAR fewer people in 2021. In fact, it was 98.7% less than a century ago:
The fact that Comrade Clayton is so scared of the grid failing tells me that the grid will be perfectly fine this winter. That is because Comrade Clayton is 100% wrong on every fucking topic he opines on:
I also thought of something else recently: Comrade Clayton lives in the upstairs bedroom at his parent’s house, right? His parents live at 208 S Western – right by the public library, City Hall AND the police station. It occurs to me that this douchebag probably never lost power at all last February! The hospitals, fire departments and POLICE STATIONS are all considered pretty important and were spared the rolling blackouts that the rest of us (like me) endured. I bet there is a pretty decent chance that his parents’ house is on the SAME power sub-grid as those others.
How about it Clayton? Did you even lose power once at mom and dad’s house? I’ll bet you A HUNDRED DOLLARS that you didn’t, you wannabe working man.
In fact, you posted tweets every single day between February 10th and February 19th! Hard to do without power, I would think. You must have had plenty of time on your hands. Shouldn’t a “rancher” be out at his “ranch” taking care of things instead of posting drivel on Twitter?
You wanna see prepared? It’s called the Rule of Threes (have a backup for your backup) – and it got me through that freak once-in-a-lifetime cold snap without harm and without crying for Ted Cruz or government help.
Unlike you, I don’t just talk about solar panels and not own any. I’ve been solar-powered for ten years:
I also have a backup generator with a massive tank:
…and when that son of a bitch genny shit the bed on day 5 at 6am in zero-degree weather due to a frozen gas regulator, I also had many cords of wood ready to go to heat the house while I thawed that bitch out:
It was fucking mayhem out here in the boondocks – things failing left and right, running around at 2am in the pitch dark freezing cold keeping shit running, keeping the animals alive, going out to manually switch over from grid to genny over and over.
Not ONCE did I think “man, I wish Senator Cruz was here to do all this for me – what a dick he is for heading down to warmer weather”. That’s because I’m not a pussy who expects The Government to take care of me. I do that shit myself. I don’t give a fuck if Cruz flies to Tahiti – what difference does it make in my life?
Do you know how sad it is that you are 31 years old and crave TWO sets of parents to take care of you? Your actual parents, who provide you with a roof over your head…and Big Government, who you want to hand you free shit for life. Grow a dick, man. Grow some balls too, while you are at it.
Man was not meant to suckle mommy’s tit through dentures.
Know what else? I paid for all this shit myself! Mom and Dad didn’t give it to me, like someone else I know.
Boy, City council and Finley REALLY know how to pinch the pennies! Remember all this when you pay your electric bills every month – the bills that just went up on November 1st of last year because City Government has to feed that rapacious monkey known as Fat Nerf Job Salaries.
The City recently hired Ryan Ward as the new Assistant City Manager (ACM). I requested salary details since Finley didn’t want to provide them last week to The Dispatch. Turns out Mr. Ward will be paid $110,000 per year. If that seems high for an ASSISTANT City manager in a small town in Central Texas, you are correct. It is 30% higher than the national average.
The midpoint of that range is $84,540 – which is a hell of a good STARTING salary for a small town in a state that has a much lower cost of living than, say, California or New York (or Austin, for that matter). I guess Finley (who has never worked in the private sector) doesn’t see it that way. Instead, they will START Mr. Ward at $110,000 per year.
[Don’t forget the bennies, either! According to Finley himself on many occasions, the cost of those generous government benefits (medical, retirement, etc) is roughly 40% of an employees salary. That means Mr Ward is now a permanent $154,000 line item in the budget every single year.]
I’d be surprised if Mr Ward didn’t also have a generous car/phone/travel allowance as well.
Here’s the weird thing: Ward left his previous job in Santa Fe County after less than two years AND he was making $104,000 there. Why pull up stakes and uproot your family for a measly $6,000 pay raise? I’d make a small wager that Finley promised him a quick raise after 6 months or so. Even money says we see Mr Ward get a bump in salary before the year is out. Any takers??
According to his LinkdIn profile, he has jumped around a lot (5 jobs in the last 10 years) with a short stint in the private sector:
He spent 12 years with the Texas DOT (2000 to 2012) then jumped ship to work for the City of San Angelo (December 2012 to July 2017).
Then he skedaddled off to New Mexico just as the pandemic hit in March 2020 where he didn’t last two years – and is now returning to Texas.
I’m also wondering why Finley had to look in New Mexico for an ACM? There are 20,000 people in Lampasas County and by his own admission he had 30 applicants for the job.
Then Rickie Roy was made ACM, but I’m not sure Finley had anything to do with that. Roy was already a proven winner (public works) who moved up through the ranks and then inexplicably resigned.
Then Finley was tasked with finding a replacement – who was apparently hired but then quickly quit and decided to take another job somewhere else! Strike two!
So this will be Finley’s third swing with the ACM bat. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
If you love watching slow-motion train wrecks, 2022 will be a great year, I predict. Look at all the eggs City council has in the air – more than a few will go SPLAT!
Hostess House remodel refresh. Clearly, City council learned nothing from the $1.5 million Old City Hall renovation fiasco and will be launching an encore performance over the next year. When the City took over the Hostess House, they lied and said the HH needed a few “minor repairs”. Now, they are planning on spending over $1.4 million – and another elevator will be involved! We know how well that turned out last time.
2. Skate park and pavilion. This is another project that has already doubled in price before ground was even broken (from $200,000 to $400,000 just for skate park). The pavilion will cost at least $175,000 (I’ll take the over on that, too).
Janet “Crazier” Crozier, the local recycling/gardening loon is also trying to attach $10,000 worth of water tanks to this project, in what is a VERY questionable use of HOT funds (yes, I’ll be making that case later this year with a lawyer, if need be). The Community Gardens spent a grand total of only $35 on water last year (their water bill is subsidized by the taxpayers) – yet still demand the taxpayer fund a $10,000+ idiotic rain catch system.
3. New Assistant City Manager. Ryan Ward was hired to be the new ACM. He can never take the place of Rickie Roy, of course. Rickie was taken from us far too soon. Rest assured I will put Mr. Ward through the wringer this year. I am still waiting to hear how much they are paying this guy – the City could not be bothered to divulge that to The Dispatch last week. I doubt he could be any worse than Gary Cox, however. We’ll see.
4. Business Park Phase One Two. This is the granddaddy of City boondoggles. This phase of the boondoggle will assure the LEDC and City will have wasted at LEAST $6 million on this thing before it is all done. LEDC head moron Misti Talbert just signed off on another $1.5 million in borrowing for this goat pasture (Mike White’s words, not mine).
The entire premise of this Business Park is idiotic and built on faulty logic and assumptions. It will be a failure, as it has been for the last 17 years. I predict many, many additional costs to pop up over this year. They will all be documented here in great detail.
Funny how things change in a year. You’ll never, EVER hear any apologies or admission of being wrong from the lefty idiots like Bruce Haywood, Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris or Clayton Tucker. They don’t care and have zero pride or shame. They’ll just keep voting for idiots who wreck things and leave a swath of destruction in their path – like Joe Biden.
BAHAHAHAHAHA. I guess the Bernie Sanders splinter group has splintered even further into THIS nest of Marxist roaches:
I think if my son was excitedly jabbering in a soprano voice at a socialist rally while holding a Big Bird doll, I might just die of shame. Right after I beat some sense into him.
Our Revolution Texas is now broken down further into Our Revolution North Texas. Not sure why local doughboy Comrade Clayton is shilling for these fellow dorks because according to him, he is leaving Our Revolution Texas to go and “organize” with a new group of shithead commies called “TradeJusticeEd”.
“Organize” is Tucker-speak for “loaf around chanting slogans and continuing to live off of my parents at their house at 208 South Western in Lampasas”.
“I’m a rancher! I’m a farmer! I’m a cowboy!”. Yeah, you’re a cowboy like George Bush was a cowboy. Only without the connections, money and family name. Oh, and without your own apartment.
Look Comrade Clayton, I get why you are angrily yelling and demanding free shit all the time. Every Dad who finds out he’s having a boy gets excited about the idea of throwing the ball around in the backyard, teaching him how to tie a tie, and giving him advice on girls. Then you came along and were a constant source of disappointment to your old man, which left you angry and bitter.
The old man better forget about grandkids too, unless Robert Francis O’Rourke figures out a way to impregnate your rectum.
P.S. – the more all of you Google “Clayton Tucker Lampasas Texas” and click on any Lampasshole search results, the higher Comrade Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas climbs on the results list. That means more time and money Comrade Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas has to spend scrubbing all these blog posts demonstrating what a fuckup he is.
It seems like just yesterday I moved to Lampasas, read the local Radiogram for the first time and asked the bartender at Lucky Ranch: “Does a retard write this thing? I’ve seen better grammar, sentence structure and factual information from a third grader”.
Not long after, I unknowingly ran into Rhonda Witcher herself at The County Seat – and got into a shouting match about socialism and Big Government with her. I remember being absolutely shocked to find a big-government moron liberal in a small town in Texas. After all, I moved here to get away from that kind of shit.
I had no idea it was the same chick who wrote the Radiogram. After I found out, I made sure to get the Radiogram every single day, correct all the spelling, grammar and factual errors in red pen and then drop it off at the radio station. I did this for about six weeks, because I am an asshole that way.
Yes, this is a true story.
Well, over the last 10 years, I have become somewhat desensitized to Rhonda’s stupidity. I was unsurprised to see her fall for all the Covid nonsense. I was even more unsurprised she was still falling for it 18 months later. But her headline yesterday takes the cake. Rhonda, you are a town treasure. You are a village idiot of biblical proportions. Here is what panic-porn peddler Rhonda had to say about the OMICRON variant yesterday:
Yes, you need to watch out for that Omnicrom variant – the one that doesn’t exist because “omnicrom” is not a Greek letter. It is gibberish straight from the brain of Rhonda Witcher. And by “brain”, I mean a single wrong fact rolling around in his empty skull like a BB pellet in an empty tuna fish can.
Dr. Bhavna Lall, an internal medicine physician and clinical assistant professor at the University of Houston’s College of Medicine, said “It’s really important that people do the measures we already know work — getting vaccinated, getting their boosters if eligible, wearing masks indoors, testing before gathering, and practicing physical and social distancing,” Lall said Wednesday. “We have the tools that we know work, so we want to make sure people use them right now.”
Wrong, Sugar. Literally NONE of the things you listed works. Not one. Not masks, not the vaccines, not social distancing…nothing. Even that pudding-brain Grandpa Joe was FINALLY forced to admit yesterday that “there is no federal solution to the virus”. In other words, all the bullshit we foisted on you was a colossal waste of time. The virus is gonna virus – as I said repeatedly last year.
Ironically, an anagram (look it up, Rhonda) for “omicron” is “moronic” – which is very fitting for Rhonda and his Radiogram.
Even more ironically, Rhonda is about 117 years old, totally decrepit and a prime candidate to get killed off by Covid, according to all his fear-mongering…yet he still draws breath. Amazing! But don’t believe your lying eyes – just take Rhonda’s word for it and be VERY scared of the ‘omnicrom’.
