Somewhere on this blog I had a running total going for the Hostess House debacle. It’s hard to keep track of because they keep changing things. Once the cost ballooned out of control (as I predicted it would), they had to “revise the scope.” That means they had to take out all of their ridiculous wish items when the bids came in around $3 MILLION dollars.
Remember, back in October of 2019 when they took over the building, they informed us it would need some “minor repairs”:
Then those “minor repairs” turned into a $200,000 upgrade:
Of course, once nitwits like Cathy Kuehne got ahold of it, costs exploded to $3 million. Who cares?? It’s only HOT money (hotel occupancy tax) – not REAL money.
Well, math finally brought them back to reality, as it always does. Now they have to go back and take out all their wish list stuff. Those changes are gonna cost them.
The cost of checking their greed and revising scope? It’s $38,000, to be exact.
Here we have an unemployed loser socialist who reads a Twitter page called “FuckYouIQuit,” but has never had a real job in the first place, and thus cannot quit.
Hilarious.
The FuckYouIQuit page has about 500,000 other lazy incel losers following it as they all have a giant circle-jerk to re-assure each other that the problem isn’t that they are lazy, good-for-nothing unskilled dirtbags but rather the problem is “corporate greed.”
Those “greedy corporations” don’t want to hand an unskilled bum like Clayton Tucker $30 an hour on his first day of work, so he refuses to participate in the labor market. Much easier to stay home with mom all day long and post pictures of goats.
You see, for the last 170 years or so, the corporations were NOT greedy and the “boomers” and “Gen Xers” were able to get a good job. Then sometime around 2020 (right as we “elected” a quasi-retarded dementia patient who has ALSO never had a real job), the corporations all got very greedy at the same moment and made life impossible for these poor wretches.
(I’m not sure how that explains Comrade Clayton’s other 25 years of unemployment but logic isn’t her strong suit)
I got news for you Comrade Clayton: you quit a long time ago. Like, when you were in the womb. You were a born quitter, which is why you are an able-bodied 32-year-old male with no kids and you live in your mommy’s upstairs bedroom and spend all day on Twitter creating useless non-profits to spread socialist dogshit to the masses.
How odd- not a single record of any ranching corporations. But plenty of non-profits. Your entire life has been “non-profit” since you have never held a real job.
It’s why you will never have a place of your own until your parents die and leave you the house in their will, which I am sure was your plan in the first place. Why lift a finger when you can hang out there in mom’s house until she dies and then just take it for free?
Kind of like another socialist loser in town named Grady Lucas – who put his mom in a nursing home, took her house, then posted a GoFundMe that was deceptively labeled “help me fix up my mom’s house” but failed to mention it was HIM who was now living in it, not some poor old lady who needed a helping hand.
In other words, a complete piece of lazy dogshit like you.
No comrade, it is not “corporate greed” that is the problem. It’s your generation who can’t put their phones down for 30 seconds to complete a task. It’s your generation who has been brainwashed by TikTok that life is just SO unfair and nobody had it as hard as you do – when in fact, the EXACT opposite is true. Your generation never had it so easy. Smart phones, Internet, apartment and job searches in an INSTANT (no pounding the pavement), DoorDash, Uber, Netflix: you’ve never had to work for a fucking thing in your miserable lives. You just push a button.
The other day (during working hours for most people) he was crying publicly about how there was no such thing as affordable housing…thus he HAS to live with mommy!
I happen to know a millennial who found a place to live in Lampasas just last week!
But with the push of a button, I found a BUNCH of affordable places!
“Whaaah…whaah. I can’t afford $1200 a month!Whaaaah. That’s not a sweet mansion with a pool and stuff like I see on TikTok. Whaaaah.”
You can afford it if you get a roommate. That’s only $550 or $600 a month. If you can’t afford that, you are a loser of biblical proportions. You only need to make about $1,700 a month to afford that – or about $11 an hour. There are TONS of places around offering more than that right now. But scumbags like Clayton Tucker think they are above that kind of work.
I’m guessing he also avoids 40-hour workweeks because then he couldn’t be on his phone all day long tweeting socialist garbage to the other losers:
Outstanding observation ladies! You should direct your queries (and anger) towards former mayors and City council members TJ Monroe and Misti Talbert, for starters. Chuck Williamson is also on the list:
What did they do? Well, as I have been ranting about on here for literally FIVE YEARS, they have been handing out taxpayer money to SUBSIDIZE all this growth. They should have been doing the OPPOSITE and charging “impact fees” on every new house. Want to hook your house up to the grid? That will be $2,500 please. Want to hook up to the water/wastewater? That will be another $2,500 please.
You think anyone is going to balk at a $5,000 charge on a $300,000 house? They aren’t. And if they do? Good riddance – that’s how you slow the growth. Then, at the end of the day when you have 500 new “rooftops” as Finley likes to call them, you at least have $2.5 million in your coffers to pay for all the millions of dollars in water/wastewater upgrade costs the City is facing right now.
But Talbert and Monroe DIDN’T do any of that. They did the exact OPPOSITE and handed out money to developers or gave them FREE electrical hookups. Deorald Finney was given a $72,000 gift on his Stone Valley subdivision when Talbert (and council) decided he didn’t have to pay to hook up to the grid.
Don’t forget about the $185,000 in taxpayer money Talbert handed to S2M2 back in 2020 for their ill-fated Brodie Estates development – which is still nowhere near finished.
Where is Misti Talbert now? Don’t worry – she’s only the president of the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. They are the ones with a gigantic empty “Business Pork” they have spent over $7 million dollars on. I’m sure she’ll drive a hard bargain over there, too. Of course, we’ll never know because the LEDC has been lawyering up every time I ask a question about what’s going on over there.
Millions of tax dollars handed out. All so YOU can have more traffic, more people sucking on the water pipe and more people on the grid. Job well done, Misti!!
54 years ago yesterday, Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge while drunk in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts and left his campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in the car.
Teddy on his walk back to the party cottage passed by 4 homes but didn’t stop at any of them to call for help. He instead got two of his buddies and drove back to the crash where they dove into the water. Still, no one bothered to call for help. It wasn’t until Teddy learned Mary Jo’s body had been recovered did he go to the police station.
The only punishment Kennedy received was a two month suspended jail sentence for fleeing the scene of an accident and he went on to serve in the senate until the day he died.
When Ted died in 2009, it was one of the happiest days of my life. I celebrated all day and bought about $500 worth of shots and drinks at my local dive bar.
He was then buried at Arlington National Cemetery – which was a complete travesty. He doesn’t belong there. Plus it made it WAY harder for me to piss on his grave, since desecrating a military grave carries a much higher penalty.
Know what I did? When I visited Arlington Cemetery, I carried with me what appeared to be a Big Gulp drink filled with some kind of soft drink. It was actually filled with 32 ounces of my own piss.
When I finally meandered around to Ted’s grave, I knelt down to “tie my shoe” and then “accidentally” spilled my huge cup of my own piss all over Ted’s grave.
Holy shit. God is smiling upon me yet again. When you live with mom, don’t have a real job, can’t sell any goats off your “ranch” and generally suck at everything, you do this.
Wait a sec. Rent? Shouldn’t you be providing this service for free, as a socialist? You want free medical care, free college and free everything else – yet you are trying to make a buck of Dad’s truck?
What an asshole.
Local socialist parasite Clayton Tucker (Chairman of the Lampasas Democrats and promoter of child mutilation and who is in favor of exposing 6-year-olds to porn) has figured out a way to mooch off Dad yet another way. Mom and Dad already let Clayton live in their upstairs bedroom at 208 S Western, but now Dad is letting Clayton use his car to try and charge people for pictures.
Clayton even hired himself once for a photoshoot – trying to give the impression he actually owns a cool car. In reality, it belongs to his daddy….
I’m a big boy wancher! See daddy??
Holy shit is that sad.
What’s odd is that Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 claims to be a “fifth-generation rancher” but his dad is the owner of Pontiac Plus…and has been for a very long time. So dad cannot be a “fourth-generation rancher,” he’s a gear head – which must make his son’s complete ineptitude with tools even more painful to bear.
Stay tuned – we have a LOT more Baby Seal bashing to come…including his new project: Texas Bluebonnet PAC!
Local liberal slob Bruce Haywood took time out of his busy day of sleeping in his greasy recliner to shit on the head of a local business – something he chides others for doing all the time…
Reminder: Bruce Haywood is a HUGE Biden supporter and has informed us that Bidenomics is AWESOME and that there is no inflation at all, so I’m not sure why he’s bitching about prices.
The business in question is El Frias, in the old Bill’s Burgers building. I have been there a couple times and found the food and service to be fine. Perhaps the waitstaff is disgusted by your appearance, Bruce? Maybe that’s why they won’t visit your table.
Nauseating pile of blubber
Pro tip: it would be cheaper to eat out if you didn’t order 4 or 5 entrees for yourself, you corpulent moron.
Besides, Bruce “The Manatee” Haywood has a more refined palate. Stuff like Krab Kingz slathered in butter or a 2am Whataburger greaseburger. He probably also adores Captain D’s. Anything soaked in grease or butter is fine dining in Haywood’s book. If you served him a raccoon turd in garlic butter, he’d gobble that shit right down.
If Bruce Haywood is shitting on a restaurant and says he won’t be going back, then that will be my new go-to spot. The last thing I want to see while I’m eating is a 380-pound sack of shit riding around in a scooter complaining about the prices.
P.S. – I find it hilarious that some of the same people bitching about prices are the ones who are constantly complaining that Lampasas “needs a nice steakhouse” to open up. They bitch about a $10 entree but obviously have no clue that a “nice steakhouse” is going to charge 3 or 4 times that for a good steak. Go shove your faces with Captain D’s you pigs.
Well, they waited until 4:46pm on a Friday (a day after the deadline) but finally caved in and admitted the LEDC lied. From the City secretary:
“The City and LEDC have searched, and as you were previously advised by email from me on June 28, 2023, responsive documents to that particular EDC Matrix entry do not exist, at this time.“
Thank you for your interest in the City and LEDC.
So the line that says “jobs announced” and is filled in with “20 – 35 jobs” and $700,000 in capital investment was made up out of thin air, apparently. The “responsive documents” they supposedly used to come up with that “20 to 35 jobs” DO NOT EXIST.
So – where did you get that “jobs announced” number? I don’t know. There are “no responsive documents” and we made that shit up. OR they have nothing but an oral agreement from their secret business pork prospect. But the fact remains, there is nothing agreed to in writing, since there are “no responsive documents” according to the City.
Most likely Stacey Ybarra did this. LEDC President Misti Talbert gets paid nothing for her position and is likely not smart enough to make a spreadsheet like that. Ybarra, on the other hand, gets paid over $100k in salary and benefits and needs to look like she’s keeping busy to justify that ridiculous salary.
Next up: an Open Records Request for the line that says “Announcements/project wins: 1” which looks like yet more bragging about jobs that nobody has put down on paper yet!
And every year, City council gives Finley everything he wants. Finley has lucked out with millions in “Covid relief” being dumped in his lap as well as surging sales tax receipts due to raging inflation. Those facts have papered over reckless spending. But those gifts are over now. Time to sober up.
Then read through the budget and be flabbergasted by how much money Lampasas spends to run the government compared to pretty much every other city our size.
Some of these cities only have 55 or 59 full-time employees (Kirby and Hitchcock) – we have around 115.
Kirby, Kaufman and Cuero all spend about $1.6 million to $1.8 million on their police. Aubrey TX spends $2.03 million Floresville spends $2.5 million. We spend $3.62 million.
The fire departments? Kirby is at $1.33 million and Cuero is around $750,000. We spend $2.6 million.
Medical insurance? Most towns I looked at spent around $6,000 to $7,000 per city employee. We spend more like $12,000.
Many of these cities don’t even have an “Assistant City Manager” – we do. Not only that, we started our ACM at $113,000 last January (about $25,000 OVER the average starting salary) and gave him a quick 6% raise. DESPITE the fact they had FIFTY-FOUR people apply for that job.
Retirement benefits? Lampasas matches employees at a 2-1 ratio – something even our late City councilman Randy Clark said was “very generous.” Other cities? Not nearly as generous.
People out in the real world are PLENTY pissed off at their taxes this year. They see government workers who are paid more than them, get WAY more vacation time than them, can never get fired (even if they allow hackers into the City’s computer system to destroy it), and who get overly generous retirement matching that THEY don’t get but they are sure paying for.
This could be the year that City council steps up and restores fiscal sanity. The question is: will they?
Such a simple request: the LEDC has PUBLICLY bragged about “20 to 35 jobs” being ‘announced’ – not to mention $700,000 in “capital investment.” I filed an Open Records Request asking the name of the company back on June 28th (as well as several times weeks earlier in an “unofficial” capacity).
That’s it. Just a name. Not details of any deals. Not trade secrets. Not proprietary information. Just spit out the name of the company that YOU brought up PUBLICALY in order to brag and make yourselves look like you were doing something amazing by creating all these jobs.
Boy has that backfired.
You think maybe Stacey Ybarra or Misti Talbert or whoever it was who invented the idiotic “Economic Development Matrix” wishes they had just kept their mouths shut?
Because now somebody has been trapped in a lie. Either the LEDC or the hack attorney JC Brown. Only a matter of time before we find out which. My money is on the LEDC but I sure hope it is JC Brown because that would be a HUGE professional embarrassment for her: lying to the Attorney General of Texas about there being “no agreements or contracts.”
The City has 10 business days to respond or to request an attorney general ruling. That deadline was yesterday. They have done neither. I’ll now be filing a complaint with the Open Records Division of the Texas Attorney General’s office.
I hate to call out a City council member publicly but I am left no choice in making a thorough retelling of what happened: I also informed Zac Morris (who is second in command over there as Mayor Pro Tem) by email over a week ago that the City was ignoring requests and playing games. He didn’t bother to answer either.
Not a good look.
Anyways, I would suggest the City do a little research on recent cases involving citizens suing Texas municipalities. Maybe ask themselves if they want to go down this road and waste even MORE tax dollars on this nonsense. Because I’ll never, ever stop until I get the answer.
The dummy socialist is out with his in-depth analysis of the economy:
Joe is saving us all! Thank you Bidenomics!
But wait! Just three months ago, this same idiot socialist was blaming “greedy corporations” for all the inflation. It had nothing to do with Joe back then!
I guess all those greedy CEOs flipped their “greed switch” to the OFF position all at the same time? How does that work? Is it like how gas went up because of “Putin” but then went back down thanks to “Bidenomics” even though the war in Ukraine is still going strong – costing us $150 billion?
Of course, all this “inflation is dead” shit is quite premature. The 1970s were the same: that moron Carter thought inflation was whipped and then his shitty policies stoked a second round of raging inflation. Kind of like this headline from this morning:
Inflation is only 3%! Oh, except for that 10% increase in your property taxes…and that 35% increase in your auto premiums…and that 9% increase in your health insurance premiums…and that 20% increase in your home insurance.
I am about to re-paint the entire interior of my house – and let me tell you, the paint guys didn’t get the message either:
Price of paint has skyrocketed.
Just look at Bidenomics at work there right after 2020 when Joe took office! That line going vertical means it’s good, right Comrade Clayton?? You dolt.
I’m guessing Comrade Clayton is unaware of any of that since he lives with his mom and doesn’t help with her bills. Stupid asshole.
P.S. Does anyone really believe medical care costs were -0.8% like the BLS does last year? Medical services are 7% of the CPI, if you plug a real number in then the overall CPI should be at least 1% higher than reported.That’s just ONE layer of bullshit.
