Potato Head Trying To Buy Her Way Into Polite Society….For $31? Come On, Man!

What do you do when you’re a rabid left-winger from California/Austin who has ruined her own city with terrible liberal policies and has decided to move into infest a nice, small town which leans politically to the right and tends to love Trump (Trump got 78% of the vote in 2016 AND in 2020)?

Trump – a person you detest with all your being and who you STILL stupidly think is a secret agent of Vladimir Putin?

Well, first you try pretending you never said all the Marxist, lefty-lunatic-fringe stuff you’ve said over the last 10 years by erasing all of your social media.

But let’s say that doesn’t work! Perhaps there is a Paul Revere type out there who has alerted the citizenry that they are being invaded by commie scum from Austin. The kind of scum who applauded when the Biden puppet stole the election thanks to the VERY SAME authoritarian Covid measures that you ALSO applauded heavily?

Well, you try and buy your way in. Maybe you start a fundraiser to buy more lights for the annual town Christmas display….

You see, you can’t signal your virtue the old Austin liberal way – which was to demand people wear masks, get ‘vaccinated’ and social distance, or maybe start blathering about tranny rights or publicly support the Marxist front group called Black Lives Matter.

That dirt don’t stick in Lampasas.

So you need a NEW way to signal your virtue. What better way than to create a fundraiser and be the FIRST ONE to donate and get the ball rolling!

Wow. What a virtuous person! She probably donated a whole bunch of money to get the ball rolling, right?

Well, not exactly….

Seriously, Potato Head? Thirty-one bucks?!? That’s an insult, man.

I guarantee you that Potato Head donated WAY MORE than that to Black Lives Matter back in 2020 – to help out her oppressed black sisters and brothers buy a $6 million dollar mansion who are brutalized and terrorized by those evil cops….

Odds that Potato Head has even ONE black friend? I’m guessing about 300-1.

Thirty-one bucks from the chick who humble-bragged on social media about her Austin mansion that “used to be a 4-plex”?

“WE bought it”? Don’t you mean when Kurt Eller bought it?

Thirty-one bucks from the chick who humble-bragged about her dogs that cost about $2,500 each and are “super, super rare”?

Yes, they are expensive!

Come on, lady. You’re not going to buy your way out of being a Marxist whack-job for a measly $31. Pathetic.

Maybe you can get your mom to submit yet ANOTHER grant to the LCRA – those idiots just handed your mother over $12,000 to waste in her garden. A garden that gets used by maybe 12 or 14 people (and is locked to the public). The Christmas lights are seen by THOUSANDS. Seems like a much better expenditure to me.

I actually considered donating $32 just to be a dick, but then it occurred to me: the City of Lampasas had something like a $331,000 budget SURPLUS at the end of the last fiscal year. They could have easily peeled off 1.5% of that to spend on Christmas lights that the entire City could enjoy. But they didn’t. Instead they spent every cent of that money to give raises to a bunch of overpaid City Hall bigwigs who hardly need it.

So I’ll take a pass. Bah humbug.

Highest Paid City Workers Got Raises Of Over 4.2% For New Fiscal Year – 34% HIGHER Than The 3.2% Social Security COLA.

I remember not too many months ago, I was given an explanation for why City council felt that everyone with a pulse who worked for the City deserved a raise of “between 4% and 5%.” The reason given was that social security COLAs were going to be going up by about that amount. So it seemed fair.

[Ignore for a moment that for the already-overpaid Nerf job holders at the very top making six figures, a 4.5% increase is a much bigger chunk of change than it is for the poor schlub who actually goes out there and turns a wrench or fixes downed power lines. ALSO ignore all the huge raises that were given in years past when inflation was close to zero]

As it turns out, social security will only be giving a 3.2% increase next year:

Social Security Benefits Increase in 2024

So if they decided on 4% raises, we are looking at being 25% more generous to City Big Wigs. But it turns out, the raises were even more generous than that.

SALARIES: FAT and ALWAYS going UP:

Stacey Ybarra: has been with the City less than a year. Has failed to find a tenant for the Business Park. She saw a pay increase of 4.2%– her salary goes from $85,000 up to $89,280, according to paystubs I obtained. This is 31% more generous than social security.

Ryan Ward: has been with the City less than two years. Started out at $110,000, which was ALREADY $25,000 higher than the average for an ASSISTANT City Manager nationwide. Has already been given a COLA last year. His salary is now $126,243 – an increase of 4.3% over last fiscal yearand a total increase of 14.5% in just 21 months This is 34% more generous than social security.

Jody Cummings: Ryan Ward told us last year (May 2022) that our police chief was overpaid by 7.9% – but that didn’t stop him from getting an even bigger raise than Ybarra or Ward for this fiscal year…

Librarian overpaid by 11.2% and police chief overpaid by 7.9%

According to paystubs obtained from the City, Cummings will see his salary increase from $103,220up to $107,874 – an increase of 4.5%. This is FORTY PERCENT more generous than social security. Oh, and the police chief of Burnet “only” pulls down $73,544…

BENEFITS: FAT and always GOING UP:

This does not even consider benefits. The City’s gold-plated health insurance premiums jumped 13% this year. City employees only pay a small fraction of that cost. As I have shown previously,someone with a health plan that costs $1,548 PER MONTH is only required to pay $438 out of their own pocket.

That is a HUGE benefit, as those of us out here in the real world know. I know my health insurance just jumped 15% yet again this year…and I get to pay the whole thing myself.

JOB SECURITY: you are GUARANTEED your job for as long as you want:

Did I mention that it is basically impossible to get fired from a City job? DeGraffenreid, Ward, Ybarra, Cummings, Wright, Acevedo, Moreno – they can stay as long as they like. There will NEVER be the shock of losing your job in a bad economy. They will be there until they decide they want to retire – and they will get a 4% to 5% increase in their salaries AND benefits for the rest of their careers – regardless of performance.

Must be nice! We’ll revisit all of this next year when the U.S. economy is deep in the shitter and people in the real world are being laid off left and right.

2023: Another Year of Failure For Lampasas Economic Development Corp.

The LEDC has now concluded their business for 2023, since they never meet in December. What have they accomplished this year? Let’s take a look.

Business Park: still empty.

Next May will mark the TWENTY YEAR anniversary of when the LEDC decided to embark upon this disastrous adventure at the urgings of Angelou Economics (you can learn about that HERE):

They borrowed $1.1 MILLION (over TWO million in today’s dollars) at a hefty 7% – for what is now STILL a giant empty “goat pasture” (former City council member Mike White’s words, not mine). The only excitement that has happened over there was when a murderer dumped a corpse there in July of 2019.

Well over seven million dollars has been wasted thus far.

Last January (almost a year ago now) Finley hired Stacey Ybarra as the new Economic Development Director. She was hired on at a very generous $85,000 per year (quickly raised to $89,280 after less than nine months on the job) – which is $10,000 MORE than the person she replaced (Mandy Walsh) who had been there FIVE years and had a lot more experience than Ybarra.

Ybarra promised last January that getting tenants for the Business Pork Project was her “number-one priority.” After that, she posted a lot of phantom jobs and “projects awarded” which were subsequently erased from history when I started asking for specifics.

[Oh, and the City’s hack attorney JC Brown billed the taxpayer lots of hours to keep the charade a secret from me. Money well spent!]

Eventually City council grilled her hard on what the hell was going on over there! She did a lot of stammering and sputtering, but the eventual answer turned out to be: absolutely nothing.

NOW, Ybarra and the LEDC are “rewriting” the LEDC incentives plan and the “strategic plan” AGAIN (third or fourth time now…I’ve lost count).

Bottom line? Don’t expect any miracle “high paying jobs” to show up at the Business Pork Project any time soon.

SUMMARY:

Business Park expenses: over $7,200,000.00

Jobs created: 0

Days park has been empty: 7,155

Thugs Running Wild – A Democrat Legacy.

You should know about this case if you haven’t heard about it yet. Jillian Ludwig was an 18 year old musician in Nashville attending Belmont University. She died a few days ago after getting hit in the head by a bullet fired by Shaquille Taylor who was out on the street corner shooting randomly at passing cars.

Taylor is of course a career criminal with an extensive rap sheet. This past spring he was charged with aggravated assault when he shot into a vehicle with children inside. The charges were dismissed and Taylor was set free after the court deemed him mentally unfit for trial. They didn’t send him to a mental institution. They just let him go. Now Jillian Ludwig is dead.

This is what “compassion” for these violent parasites gets you. It’s a trade off. Compassion for them means abject cruelty to innocent people like Jillian Ludwig. It means that Jillian Ludwig has to die so that we can be nice to a criminal scumbag who contributes absolutely nothing to society.

Society would be a better place if Shaquille Taylor was not in it. It would be better place if Jillian Ludwig was still in it. But instead Ludwig is dead and Taylor is alive. This is what we do now. Time and time and time again. We trade the worst for the best. We sacrifice the lives of the people you want in your community for the sake of people that nobody wants anywhere near them.

Still “Keeping Receipts,” You Tool Bag?

Another game, another embarrassing ass whipping for Coach “Prime.” I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so – almost two months ago.

I guess Division I is a lot harder than you thought, eh douchebag?

The deafening silence from all those who were blabbermouths three months ago is very satisfying. Their bandwagon has fallen apart. There will be no bowl game. Not for a team full of arrogant assholes who go 4-8 and lose eight of their last nine games. Prime Clown is lucky that Nebraska played like roasted dogshit in Week Two, or he’d be sitting at 3-9.

When the team is coached by an ego-driven clown who makes the game all about himself, this is what you deserve and get.

I think the greatest highlight of the season has to be when Colorado was winning 29-0 against Stanford at halftime and Sander’s moron QB son was busy trying to sell his merchandise on Instagram from the locker room. Then they go out and get ass-blasted and lose in double overtime! But what do you expect from a clown whose dad is MEion Sanders?

What a chump.

Alexandria O-Crazy-eyes Smollet

Anyone who has ever been around Puerto Rican chicks knows that they are all batshit insane. Sandy Cortez is no exception.

All of her ridiculous lies come tumbling down now that 44,000 hours of J6 footage have been released….

Of course, she wasn’t even in the same building as it turns out. She told another interviewer she thought she was going to be raped – and threw in the usual “white supremacy” and “misogyny” horseshit for good measure.

What a piece of trash. Like all commies in The Squad, she is a lying sack of shit and a parasite.

“It’s Just a Stutter”

Remember when all the lefty idiots tried to tell us three years ago that Joe Biden’s dementia was actually “just a stutter”? They called us assholes for mocking his “disability.” Potato Head Fitzharris was one of those fools.

They tried to tell us this even though you can watch videos of old Joe from his last FIFTY years in office and there is no stutter to be seen up until 4 years ago or so.

Here is the reality….

Fake Rancher/Real Socialist Goes To San Francisco For “Work.” His “Job” Actually Pays $0.00. STILL Wearing Covid Muzzle Like a Pussy.

Another day, another 3,000-mile-round-trip junket to another socialist shithole city. First it was Seattle…now San Francisco.

Now, why would a rancher in Lampasas go to San Francisco for “work”? Was he visiting the fudge packers? Whoops, I mean the MEAT packers. Seems odd for a “rancher” with only 18 goats to fly to San Francisco for “work.” I mean, he HAS told us for the last 3 years that he is a fifth-generation rancher – so what other “work” could he be talking about??

Actually, it is impossible for “Big Business” to “overrule the will of the people” in a free market. If you don’t like what they are selling, don’t buy it, fucko.

AGAIN with the blue shirt? Did some handsome young boy tell you once that it was “your color” or something?

There are a lot of big words up there. Words like “algorithm accountability” and “building EVs” and “data privacy.” One thing is for sure – Comrade Clayton knows ZERO about any of that shit he listed. He’s just a commie grifter who lives with mom and pretends to be a rancher on grandpa’s land every now and then.

I suspect he goes to shit like this to feel important for a day or two. Maybe forget about the abject failure his REAL life is. Out in SF, he can tell all the fawning college boys he’s a “Texas rancher” and those dummies will never know better.

But of greater interest to me is that he calls this “work.” Most people, when they say “I have to travel for work” it implies they have a real job that, like, COMPENSATES them for their time and energy, with money and stuff.

Trade Justice Fund = bunch of idiot 20-somethings still wearing Covid masks.

Not Comrade Clayton. He gets $0.00 for all this gallivanting around to Seattle and San Francisco. How do I know this?

Well, first of all, Trade Justice Education Fund is a tiny pissant organization that has only been around about three years – and they only have 306 followers on Twitter. Highly unlikely they can afford tons of paid positions.

Secondly, everyone on the Team Bios page has a real title like President, Treasurer, Senior Advisor, Director of Operations, Organizing Director, etc. But poor Comrade Clayton is just a “Program Associate,” which sounds a lot to me like “unpaid intern” or “useful douchebag who will work for nothing.”

Finally, a quick look at the non-profit tax filings of his latest grifter organization shows us that NOBODY gets paid, according to their tax filings!

The list of top seven people in charge of the organization (Part VII, page 7) shows ALL of them receive ZERO compensation, benefits or salaries.

Part IX line 7 lists “other salaries and wages” – ZERO DOLLARS all across the board!

Also, Schedule O states specifically: “No one on the board of directors received any financial compensation from the organization directly or indirectly.“

So…..

If the Trade Justice Education Fund’s tax filings show ZERO expense for salaries/benefits/compensation over and over again, then there is NO WAY they could be paying Comrade Clayton a thin dime for all of his “work.” Either that, or they lied on their tax filings.

Q.E.D.

P.S. – also, Comrade Clayton is STILL petrified of a cold virus – despite being “vaxxed” and “boosted” multiple times! What a complete pussy. You can see the mask draped over his arm while he inexplicably takes a picture of himself taking a picture.

November 2023 – still wearing mask
Spring 2021 – vaxxed and boosted!!

If You Refused To Be Forced Into a Mask For Covid, Stephanie Fitzharris Called You “Selfish, Arrogant, Simple, Self-Consumed, Defiant and a Yahoo”

[We continue “Never Forget or Forgive Covid Loons Week”]

Stephanie Fitzharris spent a LOT of time on Facebook in 2020, 2021 and 2022 chastising anyone who refused to wear a useless mask. Those of us with a brain who could read medical research from the last 100 years knew back in April of 2020 that the masks were useless. Saint Anthony Fauci said it HIMSELF before he did a 180 to cover up his own actions in CAUSING the entire pandemic in the first place.

She was one of the dummies who actually wore a mask OUTSIDE – which is a foolproof indicator of a low IQ and/or extreme left political leanings. Here she is with Texas House scumbag and anti-Second-Amendment worm Vikki Goodwin, who is also dumb enough to wear a mask outside (Goodwin was one of the clowns who ran away to D.C. on a private jet in July of 2021 instead of doing her job and voting):

Nothing people love more than an overweight woman demanding you wear a mask because she cares about her health.

The mask was a symbol of obedience and subjugation to Big Government Morons. No freaking way were a lot of us going along with that. But being a Marxist who loves The State and despises the individual, Potato Head could not put her mask on fast enough. If they’d told her to jam an 8-pound zucchini up her twat to “curb the spread,” she would have done that too – then called you selfish for refusing. Because she’s stupid like that.

Potato Head was actually right for once in her life, however: I do NOT like being told what to do. Especially not by libtard half-wits who cannot understand basic science….

The only people “bitterly judging” were morons like Fitzharris and Johnson who were calling us selfish for refusing to wear a muzzle.

You are goddamned right I don’t like being told what to do. I’m a grown man and twice as smart as you. I can make my own decisions.

So yeah, we knew that (1) it was a useless act of virtue signaling, (2) had LOTS of downside (reduced field of vision, breathing your own shitty bacteria and CO2 trapped in your shitty mask), (3) devastated little toddlers who need to see their parents’ faces and mouth move to help with development.

Zero upside for me and lots of downside. Therefore, I declined to wear the stupid mask.

But obedient Marxist scum like Stephanie Fitzharris and Melissa “Crazy Cane Lady” Johnson just CANNOT mind their own business. Like all lefty scum, they think they have the right to tell you how to live your life. In fact, those two ass hats became quite buddy-buddy during Covid as they each tried to out-do each other for who cares more about everyone else:

Fitzharris STILL believes Trump is a Putin secret agent to this day.

Maybe “wearing a mask is not hard” for YOU – you probably LOVED covering up half your face, looking like you do! But you didn’t have a job to worry about and could afford to sit home and eat bon bons for a year living off of your husband’s checking account and playing with your inner child. Weren’t you going to “write a screenplay”? Yeah. How’d that work out for you?

Rich, bored housewife playing with her inner child – unaffected by mask mandates and shutdowns.

Other poor saps had to actually go to work during the lockdown/mask bullshit. Amazon drivers had to run around with a stupid mask on to deliver junk to Miss Piggy and her libtard neighbors in Austin…in the heat. Meanwhile the pro-mask Miss Piggy lounged around the house maskless in her muumuu, drank boxed wine and typed away on Facebook about how selfish every unmasked person was.

You are all “simple and self-consumed” if you refused to bend the knee to useless mask stupidity.

These same idiots spent the last 40 years ignoring the tens of thousands who die of flu every year.

Mountains of evidence from the very beginning showed that “babies” were not at risk. At all.

“You’re doing your part, as far as I’m concerned.” LOL. What makes you think ANYONE gives a shit about your “concern” on the matter? Buzz off. You aren’t my mom and you aren’t the queen. You are nobody.

Funny how fast “15 days to stop the spread” turned into “a year of inconvenience” isn’t it?

Stephanie Fitzharris (who believes she knows best while the individual who thinks for himself is a Yahoo) has declared that a year of inconvenience for you is no big deal…because she says so. Her default setting is “I know what’s best for everyone else,” and if you question that, you are a selfish asshole.

What a self-important twat of biblical proportions.

Oh, and what’s that at the end about being totally not afraid of death? That’s weird because you said you left Austin because of “stalkers” and because “my life is in danger” over some blog posts. So which is it, you imbecile?

Never, ever forget what these scumbags did during Covid. Never forget how they wanted to fine people $500 for not wearing a mask. Never forget they wanted to deny you entry to a hospital if you refused the “vaccine.” Never forget they let tens of thousands of old people die alone in nursing homes because their stupid rules forbade you from entering and giving your dying parents a final physical hug. Never forget how they ratted out the local golf course on social media because someone wasn’t wearing a mask OUTSIDE.

Never forget they lied and cheated and stretched that Covid bullshit out long enough to implement a dropbox/ballot harvesting scheme that allowed Biden to steal the election – thus destroying the country further.

They will act in the EXACT same manner the next time a crisis arrives. Stephanie Fitzharris is one of those people.

THIS Is Why Throwing More Money At Schools Is A Waste…

I’ve pounded the table about this many times. The taxpayers get soaked hard for the schools yet the teachers are always crying poor – which spurs morons like James Talarico and Clayton Tucker to demand MORE billions be thrown at the schools.

Where does it all go? Administrative bloat:

At Harvard, there are 2,600 more administrators than undergrads

Harvard University employs about 1,352 full-time administrators for every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the university, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found.

This is more than a nine percent increase from the 2013-14 school year, when there were 1,240 administrators per 1,000 students, according to the analysis, which used data provided by Harvard to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent year for which data are available, Harvard had 10,120 full-time administrators and support staff on its payroll; in contrast, it had 3,899 full-time teaching and instructional staffers. The total number of undergrads that year was 7,483.

Yes, you read that right: there are MORE administrators than there are students! If Harvard is that ass-backwards, what do you think is going on everywhere else? The same thing, I guarantee you.

Hell, the top three guys in the Lampasas ISD pull down over $420,000 between them (plus bennies!!) and they teach ZERO kids.

Frankly, I’d look at the salaries of seat polishers like “Doctor” Chane Rascoe and slash his ridiculous $177,000 salary down to about $60k. If he doesn’t like it, he can go work at Wal-Mart.

Seems like he’s doing pretty well though. He took his big pile of money and went alllll the way to Killeen to spend it on a nice new vehicle! I’m guessing when you are as wildly overpaid as he is, you just pay cash for your vehicle and avoid the sky-high interest rates we are currently seeing.

Weird. I’m pretty sure we have some car dealerships right here in Lampasas. Those dealerships are CONSTANTLY sponsoring Lampasas ISD school events, from what I’ve seen over the last 12 years.

You’d think a guy who pulls $177,000 out of the hides of Lampasas taxpayers every year for polishing a seat might wanna buy his cars locally – maybe keep the $4,000 or $5,000 of sales tax right here at home. Maybe support the dealerships that constantly support the Badgers.

Seems like a dick move, if you ask me.

You’d NEVER see Joey McQueen pull this shit.