Eco-Turd again? I am really wondering who is dumb enough to pay $90 a foot for a fence. Seems pretty much impossible to me. There must be other parties buying products. Maybe a government or “polluting” company that needs to burnish their “green image” so they buy overpriced crap from Eco-Turd.
No matter. My lawyer is on the job again and we will leave no stone unturned. Be assured I’ll remind the LEDC of all their rules about who they can and cannot hand tax money to.
In honor of Eco-Turd, I’m going to go through my piles of old LEDC stuff and find all the emails I have between Mandy Walsh and Finley discussing the Eco-Turd a couple years ago when they were strung along by Mike Cour.
#1 – Waste Connections wants to “adjust” (this means “increase”) their prices to the City. Now, I understood this last time they jacked prices because diesel had skyrocketed to around $5.50 a gallon and it takes a LOT of fuel to run those trucks.
BUT, diesel has cratered down to around $3 thanks to the impending massive recession we are about to see. No way should City council allow them to jack rates higher.
You’ll recall that Talbert couldn’t be bothered to put this very contract out for bid the last time it was up. I wrote about it several times:
#2 – City considering spending $26,400 per mile (total cost of $211,000!!) for a “frisbee golf” course out at 580 Sports Complex [see page 167]. I guess all that talk about it being “volunteer-built” was the usual nonsense! Oh, and the design and study part will be $12,000. Hmmmm. Twelve thousand. Where have I heard that number for design plans before?
#3 – City will be jacking your electric and water rates again. This time, thanks to increasing wholesale prices. Look for your bills to go up approximately 7% for electricity.
You can thank greentards like Clayton Tucker and the other windmill lovers for this expense. As I wrote last summer:
That comes out to about 40 hours of legal work. All for an agreement that is about 18 pages long and mostly boilerplate bullshit she probably pulled from a template – and which is currently being completely ignored.
Well, THAT was money well-spent!
Of course, that is PEANUTScompared to the $213,220 she has billed the City just since Jan 1st, 2019.
While backers were telling us what angels skateboarders are, I was busy predicting the first vandalism date for Campbell Park now that there was a skateboard park there. As I wrote back on March 7th:
“I’ll make my over/under date on bathroom vandalism/destruction a little later at June 20th.“
I was a little early on that. This happened last week:
I am still waiting on details from the City. Weird that I didn’t see it in the newspaper last week.
You’d think that a City that can spend $100,000 on some TVs and microphones for City council chambers could also spend like 2 or 3 grand on security cameras to watch over City assets.
Good riddance to Goodart, too. The guy was a mucus plug.
So the GOOD news is Kuehne will not be the face of Lampasas….and THIS will not be the First Gentleman of Lampasas:
The BAD news is she still sits on City council – and thus the Kuehne Kancer has not truly been excised yet.
That means two more years of her dramatically taking off her glasses to appear erudite and asking such hard-hitting and insightful questions as:
“Have we considered calling up LAST YEAR’S lifeguards and see if they want to work this summer for shitty wages?”
Truly genius.
Oh well. Let’s look on the bright side. Only two goldfish left out of seven council spots (Williamson and Kuehne). I don’t know much about these new guys but they can’t be worse than what we had for most of the last 6 or 7 years. With only two goldfish, they shouldn’t be able to exert much control over the sane portion of City council.
No excuses now, boys! We have a bunch of men from the real world up there running things now! Make Lampasshole proud!
But NOW he is a “rancher” and thus, he is supposedly mending a goat’s leg.
In the video, he has already “mended the leg” with a paint roller (or “paint roller thing” as he calls it) – which is a trick he just learned on YouTube. You’d think a “5th generation rancher” would have seen that trick a few dozen times by age 32 and not need YouTube, but Comrade Clayton is not the brightest bulb. After all, he thinks socialism is a viable economic system.
He first holds up a can of Blu-Kote and says “basically, I used some, uh, blue spray…blue note…it’s like a wound treatment…it’s good for livestock“
BAHAHAHAHA! “Blue Note” as he is literally holding up a can that clearly says Blu-Kote. I love it! I’m starting to think Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX is actually a parody account of a guy pretending to be a moron trying to be a rancher and failing. There is no other explanation. NOBODY is this stupid!
Also, Blu-Kote is for abrasions and is a germicide/fungicide. It does NOT heal fractured legs or legs with internal injuries. Clayton is puzzled by the injury, however. He says it could have been a bite or a kick or a headbutt.
Now, I’m no fake rancher like Clayton Tucker, but we have had dogs, cats, chickens, goats, rabbits and other creatures running around my not-a-ranch here where I’ve lived over the last 12 years. And I can definitely tell the difference between a bite and something else. A bite breaks the skin and Blu-Kote might be helpful. But if my animal is limping around with no abrasions or broken skin, then Blu-Kote is a total waste of time, as it treats stuff like blisters, sores and lesions…not an internal fracture.
Love the videos! Keep em coming, Comrade!!
P.S. – why would a “help the AMERICAN farmer! The AMERICAN farmer is in trouble” guy be wearing a hat promoting Yanmar tractors – a Japanese company?? Very odd indeed.
Jo-Christy Brown has caused me a lot of headaches over the last 5 years. The Austin attorney is constantly being used by the City of Lampasas to deny me records I feel should be made available to the taxpayers.
She has made a LOT of money doing it, too. We’ll know exactly how much soon when my Open Records Requests are answered. But I guarantee you it is in the six-figure range. She is CONSTANTLY in the city council packets for $8,000 here and $7,000 there (see page 34, see page 48, see page 50, etc).
Seeing the proverbial handwriting on the wall, Bastrop’s longtime attorney, Jo-Christy Brown, resigned, effective immediately, at Tuesday night’s Bastrop City Council meeting. Brown’s tenure has been controversial since at least last December, when the public began to complain about the outsized legal fees the city was paying.
City records indicate that Brown personally received more than $400,000 in legal fees from Bastrop in 2015 and at least $150,000 so far this year. She also oversaw the hiring of other outside counsel to litigate the city’s numerous lawsuits. As the Austin Monitorpointed out in April, Bastrop spent more than $1 million on legal fees over the 15 months starting on Jan. 1, 2015.
Brown’s departure was a victory for Council Member Gary Schiff, who advocated for hiring in-house counsel this winter and spring but could not get fellow Council members to second his motion prior to the May election. It was also a victory for new Council Member Deborah Jones, who promised to work to reduce the city’s outside legal fees when she was elected in May.
Jones had put an item on Tuesday night’s agenda to consider, discuss and possibly take action “regarding JC Brown, city attorney.” However, Brown handed Council her resignation following an executive session before that item came up.
“I feel like (City) staff and Council oughta be tasked with being accountable to answer on the spot…and..uh…I would be comfortable doing that….that’s transparency at its finest…is…you know…we don’t put off a question, we answer it on the spot”
Yeah. That was all a lie. It was a lie when she was mayor and it’s a lie now that she is in charge of the Keystone Kop organization known as the LEDC. The same LEDC that has squandered over $7 million tax dollars on a “Business Park” that has sat empty for nearly twenty years.
Austin attorney JC Brown has decided to waste another month by refusing my request and sending it all to the Texas AG to see what he says about it. Last time they played this idiot game, I was vindicated. This is just a big stalling tactic.
Among JC’s more ridiculous arguments:
“The City notes that the Requestor does not request or identify and [sic] document or material he desires the City to produce. Thus, the City has no material or document to provide in response to the Requestor’s ORR”
Ho ho ho. Get it? I didn’t request a SPECIFIC document. I just asked for a name. Of course, I CAN’T request a specific document because it is all secret and hidden away in “executive session.” See how that works? So clever. A nice Catch-22 for me.
Then she goes on to argue that releasing the name of the prospect would cause a “bidding war” with other cities, as they also tried to lure the prospect to THEIR business parks.
I’ve got news for you. Any “prospect” worth their salt is going to look at Burnet (and other nearby cities) and THEIR big, empty business porks as well – and play you against each other. There are big empty business porks all over the place – because most City governments are populated by morons at the top.
Also, our EDD Stacy Ybarra told us back in a January 25th radio interview that all the cities “work together” and tell each other about business prospects – and that some cities will “let other cities know, hey this business wants to expand.” She said [9:40 mark] “if we all grow, we all benefit…so it’s about…building those relationships in the central Texas region“
Huh. So you’re telling me it’s NOT all one big happy family and that if we all grow, we all benefit? Sounds like you are jealously hoarding your possible prospects and fucking over those “other cities” you claim to have relationships with. No? So who is the liar? Ybarra or JC Brown?
Oh well. While we wait weeks and weeks for this nonsense, it may be time to be a dick right back to them. Maybe it’s time to really dig into the members of the LEDC and make sure none of them have any personal bankruptcies or things of that nature in their past.
After all, if you are in charge of millions of tax dollars, I think the taxpayers have a right to know if you can’t even handle your own personal finances. Bankruptcy records are deemed public records by federal law and, thus, accessible to any member of the public who makes a request to the clerk’s officeor through PACER.
Or maybe it’s time to get my lawyer involved again by requesting the emails of certain newer (and maybe less intelligent) City employees who don’t realize that everything they have been emailing on the government servers for the last four months is fair game for me and my lawyer. Perhaps a few keyword searches like “Business Park” or “prospect” or something like that would turn up some tasty nuggets!
I am also placing a $300 bounty on information about the Business Pork prospect – prospect name, industry, incentives, etc. I know that at least three dozen people in the City must know who it is. Probably a lot more, given this is a small town and people talk. Email me at lampasshole@protonmail.com. Your anonymity is assured. Feel free to make a burner account if you wish. I’ll figure out a way to get you your $300.
Let’s start off the week with a Baby Seal Bashing! I just realized, it’s been two years since that City Council beatdown by Zac Morris. My, how time flies.
Local socialist Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX has managed to TRIPLE the size of his the family goat herd! Incredible. It appears he is they are now up to approximately 18 goats!
Impressive!
The “5th generation rancher” now has about 18 goats – and all by the age of 32 years old (plus four generations before him). Another couple of years and he might even sell a couple for some money! Hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day. He had to stand on the narrow and atrophied shoulders of the four generations of Tuckers before him who paved the way for this monumental event.
8th-generation chichifo
“We” tripled the size of the herd?? Who is “we”? I thought YOU were a rancher and thus head decision maker, Comrade Clayton! Did you not open your wallet and buy these creatures yourself? Or did maybe mom/dad/grandma buy them for you for some more photo ops? Or are you just an employee of this “ranch”?
It’s all so confusing. I suppose it’s hard to post ANYTHING without contradicting the many bullshit stories you’ve told in the past, eh?
What is the name of the ranch, by the way? You have never said once in the last three years you have been lying about being a rancher and farmer. Do they provide a living wage and health care and a dignified pension, as you demand of every company in the U.S.?
Just kidding. As we all know, Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX owns no land of his own and is NOW (after three years of Lampasshole ridicule) very careful to NEVER say “I” bought goats or “MY” herd got bigger. Always “we” and “us”…as in, his parents or maybe his dead grandfather’s trust fund. Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX is not in charge of anything important. He’s like the little kid you let think he is driving with a fake steering wheel while mom/dad/grandma actually runs the show.
So what are all these goats for? Meat? Dairy? Comrade Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX isn’t really sure about that. There may be some dairy goats in there. Or maybe not. Whatever, man. This is all a show for the socialist morons who follow him on social media.
But one thing is for sure: goats are where it is at, man. The cattle industry is SO monopolized! Except for those, like, hundreds of family cattle ranches I’ve seen all around central Texas…
Comrade Clayton cannot WAIT to breed those goats! That’s what happens when you have never had a girlfriend and Beto doesn’t return your calls anymore.
Translation: “I am too incompetent to compete in the cattle market because I lied about being a 5th-generation rancher and have no idea what I’m doing. Instead, I’ll do goats because they are smaller, cheaper and I can post pictures of the babies so all the old lady democrats in on Facebook will “ooooh” and ‘aaahhh’ over them”
Nothing like “growing the herd” after five generations and 32 years of doing nothing but Tweet about Bernie Sanders. Time to get to work, comrade!!
Here is a cretin who is supposedly a 5th generation rancher yet he is 100% wrong about a basic cattle ranch fact. To wit:
More than 97 percent of beef cattle farms and ranches are classified as family farms. When it comes to beef cattle production, most operations are smaller than you might think; according to USDA, the majority of beef cattle operations (79%) have less than 50 head of cattle.
The Lone Star State is number one in beef cattle production in the United States, and Texas is home to 248,800 farms and ranches totaling 130.2 million acres
Whoops.
Hardly sounds like a giant monopoly. I highly doubt that 248,800 family ranches are colluding on beef prices.
