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City Decides To Put Garbage Contract Out For Bid. Something Talbert Refused To Do Last Time.

According to the latest City council packets and Manager’s report:

Request for Proposals (“RFP”) for Solid Waste providers has been prepared, reviewed and published for interested parties. The City’s current trash provider’s contract expires in May 2025, however; due to the lead time required on equipment and materials, Council will be asked to consider awarding the contract in July. The City has based the award requirements on “best value” as provided for in Local Government Code 252.022

Gee. What a great idea! I wonder where they came up with that one? I may have mentioned this a few times over the last couple years….

2017 Talbert Versus 2020 Talbert

City To Waste $14,715 On Three Big Metal Letters To Attract Tourists From All Over. No, I’m Not Kidding

Don’t Forget, Former Mayor Talbert Refused to Put Waste Connections’ $6 Million Garbage Contract Out For Bid Last Year

Talbert Administration Report Card: F

Council members win a “prize” from Waste Connections right before garbage contract was about to expire.

Nice to have a dude as mayor who thinks to do these things and maybe save a few bucks. Let me rephrase that – it’s nice to have a SMART dude as mayor. As opposed to the last few dummies we had in there.

Rashida Tlaib – Who Is Admired By Clayton Tucker – Speaks At Conference Connected With Terrorist Group.

Rashida Tlaib, a Congresswoman from Detroit and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, spoke over the weekend at the “People’s Conference for Palestine,” linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

This group,an Arab nationalist movement with Marxist-Leninist ideology, is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US. It has public-facing arms, such as Samidoun, working on behalf of the group, and active cells in many countries in Europe and North America. 

Reminder: local socialist bodaggit Clayton Tucker absolutely adores Rashida Tlaib – and drove six hours round trip just to get a picture with her while wearing Arabic symbols on his lapel…

During the Saturday speech, Tlaib referred to members of the audience as the “squad” and demanded President Biden establish a “red line” on Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza. She criticized the president for “attacking the authority” of the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week over war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel’s mission to eliminate Hamas in Gaza. 

Tlaib needs to go. An enemy of the U.S. has no place in the halls of Congress.

Another Few Weeks Til Ryan Ward Starts Bleating About Pay Raises For Every Swinging Dick Working For The City.

In another month or so, Assistant TO the City Manager Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward will get up there with another salary study and inform us that everyone at City Hall is underpaid. Well, except for a few people, but they’ll get raises too.

He’ll also completely ignore the fact that many of those Big Wigs get gold-plated health insurance at about 80% off the market rate. Last year, the cost to insure employees spiked around 13%. He’ll never mention that either.

I took it upon myself to go back to the 2013/2014 approved budget and compare it too our current budget. Then I calculated the compound annual growth rate for a bunch of City departments. For comparison, the City population MAYBE grew about 1% per year during that period.

Here are the results:

City Manager: tops the list at 10.72% ANNUAL growth in expenditures. No surprises there! The guys who turn no wrenches, hook up no power and fix no water pipes while sitting in a nice air-conditioned office take care of themselves the best. NO OTHER DEPARTMENT has annual cost increases like City Manager over the last 10 years.

Building and Planning: comes in next at 10.55% annual growth in expenditures. Seems high for what they do, but what do I know. And no, that doesn’t include all the tens of thousands in “safety grants” that supposedly spur more building around here. Nor does it include the hundreds of thousands handed out to the likes of Deorald Finney and Chris Harrison for their private companies and called “economic development.”

IT Department: comes in third at 9.44% annual growth in expenditures. I’m shocked it isn’t higher. Then again, the amount of actual WORK they do has probably decreased 20% over that same time period as the police department wisely took all the servers out of their hands and handed them over to an expensive third-party to safeguard. Oh, and this is the same IT Department that allowed a ransomware attack that wrecked tens of thousands of dollars of equipment and brought the City to a standstill for 10 days. Nobody was fired or even reprimanded for the huge blunder. Just 10% increases as far as the eye can see!

Hanna Springs Pool: next up at 9.01% annual growth in expenditures. This one is no surprise. The price of chemicals has skyrocketed under Bidenflation and Finley FINALLY realized he had to pay high school kids more than a bag of peanuts to lifeguard. No problem with this department since it is FOR THE CITIZENS!

Fire Department: next up at 6.60% annual compound growth in expenditures. Not sure if the million-dollar fire truck is included in that but that is surprisingly in-line and also it is FOR THE CITIZENS!

Utility Billing and Collections: up next at 6.33% annual growth rate. I have no idea why they need $300,000 a year just to cash checks and collect money, but that’s what it costs. You’d think with the piles of money Ryan Ward requests to “streamline” everything, this item would go DOWN over time – much like the price of a 75-inch TV set. But this is the government we are talking about here.

Police Department: has seen 6.05% annual compound growth rate. Very close to the fire department and ALSO this is a department that DIRECTLY benefits the citizens.

Streets: has seen a measly 3.10% annual compound growth rate. I guess we know where all of Finley and Ryan’s salary/benefits money has been siphoned from! Pathetic. These expenditures don’t even keep place with true inflation. Citizens screwed again here.

Municipal Court: annual growth rate of 2.95%. I don’t even know what they do over there. Guessing this is mostly salaries for clerks? No idea.

Parks: has seen a paltry 1.61% growth rate. Seems impossible with some of their massive expenditures like the pavilion, skate park and the overpriced bathroom at Campbell Park but that’s what the numbers say.

Library: FLAT over 10 years! I’ll be honest. I think the library is mostly filled with bums looking for free wifi so they can fuck around on Facebook and play online poker. I once went on a big “check out all the libraries” binge in my 30s when I lived in other cities. Cities that were spending MILLIONS on their libraries. I found out it was a majority of bums checking out FREE DVD movies and using the Internet. Fuck that. You can pay for that stuff yourself on Amazon. Libraries seem like an expensive anachronism to me. Kind of like the Chamber of Commerce.

Hippie Dippy Stoner Chick Is A “Strong Independent Woman.” Then Gets Crushed and Paralyzed Moving Piano.

Down with the evil patriarchy! We don’t need no men! A woman can do anything a man can do!

Except move a piano, apparently.

Danielle Drummond had just moved to Oregon – home of all useless stoner hippies. She decided that she and her fellow Strong Independent Woman should move a piano by themselves.

There is nothing “freak” about this accident. Pretty predictable, actually. Two weak girls attempt to move a heavy piano on stairs. That is a man’s job. Probably 3 or 4 men, actually.

Liberal women are all pretty much ACTUALLY retarded. I mean, you can ignore reality all you like. But you cannot ignore the CONSEQUENCES of ignoring reality. Eventually, physics will win.

Here’s another one where a moron liberal chick ignored reality and reality paid her back in spades…

The REALITY is that this guy is a piece of shit. But the liberal moron ignored this reality in favor of some “he’s a victim of racism,” nonsense instead of accepting there are some truly evil people in the world.

It may seem sick to us, but many of these liberal women literally fantasize about being victimized in this manner. Reality will oblige.

How do I know Danielle is a hippie dippy chick just by that article? Just because she moved to Oregon, which is Mecca for all idiot liberals? Well, I also found her Facebook page…

Blah, blah, blah, Trump is a rapist, blah, blah, tranny rights, blah, blah, women are a strong as men, blah, blah, a woman can have a penis, etc.

She ignored reality. But now she cannot ignore the CONSEQUENCES of that reality – which is that she’s now a shopping cart for the rest of her life.

I have zero doubt that Danielle has no insurance of any kind, so now the good people of Oregon will get to foot her multi-million-dollar surgery and rehab bills.

Hopefully they have voting locations that are wheelchair-compliant so poor dumb Danielle can keep voting for the death of Western civilization.

Local Communist Who Flies Foreign Flags On His (Mom’s) House Complaining About Obscure Pine Tree Flag.

You can’t make this stuff up…

I’ll be honest. I’d never heard of or seen this flag…and I consider myself pretty up-to-date on current events. I certainly never heard it was a “symbol” of January 6th. Says who? A bunch of idiot liberals who made that up after seeing it on Alilto’s flag pole?

Comrade Clayton prefers to fly the flag of a corrupt foreign country on HIS (mom’s) house…

That would be the same “democratic” country that just last week cancelled elections – allowing the corrupt, gay midget Zelenskyy to remain in power.

Ukraine President Zelensky Says Time Not Right for Elections

Oh, and what’s this??? More hypocrisy and subterfuge. Truly, liberals are nothing more than dogshit.

Fire Up The Grill

My friends Amy and George at Winter’s Beef were working hard the last few days and weeks. They load up the coolers and trucks early and head to farmer’s markets which are hours away.

They have their website available for buying steaks and burgers. They remind you a week or two before any holiday weekend to stock up for your holiday parties and even give you great recipes for their steaks and burgers.

The are REAL ranchers.

What do FAKE ranchers do for a big holiday weekend where a lot of meat is bought and sold? Why, they make tweets and social media posts endorsing yet another commie piece of shit or Paki muzzie who wants to help wreck America further…

FAKE ranchers also talk a lot about a website, but then six months later…no website. Totally forgotten like the failed Substack project. Because it is MUCH easier to sit in mom’s upstairs bedroom in the air conditioning and cry about how unfair life is.

You see, the website project will NEVER get done. That’s because fake ranchers have no actual products to sell. How do you sell non-existent products on a website? You can’t.

I think I DID see Comrade Clayton at the park the other day though…..

At least he’s an expert on goats, though.

Not.

Savanna goats are known for their milk production.

“You can milk anything with nipples.”

“I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?”

Evil Libshit Crone Carol Garner Doughty Lands In Massachusetts. Immediately Joins Exclusive Club Which Keeps Out Gross Riff Raff.

Let’s check in on Texas-hating, tranny-raising retard Carol Garner Doughty, shall we?

It only took four days in her new liberal paradise for libskank Carol and her husband Stephen Hawking to find and join an exclusive club.

She belongs in a “castle-like” building. You do not. Peasant!

Mind you, this is the same bitch that is in favor of MY exclusive club (the United State of America) letting in every third-world, illiterate scumbag from Haiti and Africa with no vetting because they are fake refugees asking for fake amnesty.

Because she is a hypocritical harridan of the highest order.

She needs this club because diversity-loving Carol moved to Lenox MA – which is only 98.57% white. Carol needs to be 100% sure she NEVER has to run into any slightly brown or black people unless they are trimming her grass, you see. So it was imperative to join an exclusive country club to bring that percentage up to 100.

They have FIVE POOLS, yo!!

I’m sure the pumps for all those pools and the heaters for all those hot tubs and the mowers for the hundreds of acres of golf course grass ALL run on solar power and windmills, right? Because evil libskank Carol wants to ABOLISH fossil fuels immediately!!

I’m sure Carol and Stephen Hawking used a battery-powered moving truck to move all their priceless furniture and expensive piano from Texas to Massachusetts, right?

Not exactly. The piano got its own truck for the Big Important Move. It’s ok for Carol to ship a piano in a diesel truck for 1,700 miles – thus burning about 200 gallons of diesel fuel – but YOU peasants should NOT be allowed to take frivolous trips to see grandma in your pickup truck. Because you are unworthy swine – and she is not.

LEDC Hands Another $20,000 Tax Dollars Out For “Life Safety Grant”

The last time they gave out a chunk this big, it was to Mercer and his Heritage Funeral Home in 2021. Mercer is really hurting for cash, you see…

According to the Radiogram…

During their monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 15th, the Lampasas Economic Development Corporation awarded a Life Safety Grantto a business referred to by its building’s address, but not its name,in their meeting agenda. The Life Safety Grant will help the business cover the cost of building upgrades, so long as that cost does not go over $20,000.

“We’re very excited we got someone applying for the grant,” LEDC Board President Misti Talbert commented. Following discussion of the renovation project, the LEDC board unanimously voted to reward the grant.

A business referred to by the building’s address but not its name? That’s pretty weird, if you ask me. Why all the secrecy? I mean, Misti is EXCITED to hand out $20,000 in tax dollars…but doesn’t want to mention any names? Just my opinion, but it makes it look like you have something to hide.

Misti is VERY good at handing out tax dollars. She gave Deorald Finney a $72,000 break on electrical hookups for his Stone Valley project. A project where Finney promised houses would be sold for “$150,000 to $180,000” but then jacked the prices to the $250,000 area.

Talbert also handed her old City council buddy Chris Harrison at S2M2 $185,000 for a “detention pond” that appears to not actually detain any water whatsoever.

Oh – and Misti also pilfered $971,000 in Covid relief money from the City to piss away on her Business Pork Project that is 20 years old, has wasted over $7.4 million dollars and STILL sits empty 30 months after she wasted the LAST million on it.

Great job, Misti! Truly, you are a “community champion”! Which is why I gave her an F on her mayoral report card a few years ago.