Assistant To The City Manager Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward Pulls Huge Dick Move. Quits Suddenly to Go BACK To Santa Fe.

Wow. What an asshole, man!

Assistant to the City Manager (ATTCM) Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward will be scurrying back to Santa Fe for a bigger paycheck. He gave the minimum one-month of notice and ALSO decided to bolt right as his boss Finley is retiring as well – just to make things even more chaotic! Kind of a dick move.

Oh sure, there was the usual blathering about “being with family” just like Gary Cox said when HE “resigned” – but we all know the truth: Santa Fe county Public Works Director pays about $30,000 more.

And from what I’ve read online, Santa Fe county also sounds kind of shady and given over to corrupt shenanigans. It’s probably a LOT easier to self-deal there than it is here.

Here is a blurb about Bryan Snyder, the guy Ward will be replacing in Santa Fe:

“He was named city manager in 2013 and served in the position for five years before he was asked to resign by Mayor Alan Webber over a controversial action he took on the eve of Webber’s inauguration.Snyder had quietly authorized 10% and 15% pay increases for 37 staff membersin a plan executives had devised without the City Council’s vote just days before Webber was elected.“

Handing out big raises and implementing costly (yet questionable) programs? Where have I heard THAT before?

Oh yeah…

Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward Wants To Waste $38,840 To Save a Few Grand.

ATTCM Ryan ‘Dwight Schrute’ Ward Suggests MORE Ridiculous Benefits For City Employees.

That would be the moronic program Ward instituted two years ago to save himself and Finley a few hours every month calculating overtime for City employees. Now Finley and Ward are gone, but the idiotic program remains – and I GUARANTEE you when this year’s bill for the software comes next month, it will NOT still be the $8,339 that Ward said it would be. Anybody want to bet??

Hilariously, our own Utility and Billing Department has seen costs SKYROCKET about 32% over the last two years under Ward [see page 2]. There are FOUR full-time employees and one part-time employee in the Utility and Billing Department of Lampasas – costing the City $331,000 per year. If ANY department was rife for automation to reduce labor costs, it is THAT one.

Unfortunately, Ward never got around to streamlining the ONE area that could probably use it. I guess he just never found the time. Probably too busy taking $40,000 change orders on the Hostess House debacle.

Then again, if you look at his resume, he never stays ANYWHERE more than 2-3 years. He is the consummate government bottom feeder: constantly looking to jump up to the next rung on the ladder and milk the taxpayer for another chunk of money and fat pension.

Good riddance.

I would suggest to City council that Ward be replaced with NOBODY. We went forever without an ACM and MANY towns our size DO NOT HAVE an ACM. In fact, the BIGGEST proponent for creating the ACM position seven years ago was….wait for it…Misti Talbert [see page 10] and we all know how good her ideas are!

So in summary: good riddance, fuck that guy and by hiring nobody to replace him you won’t even notice a difference and you’ll save the City about $200k a year in salary, benefits and stupid ideas.

THIS Is Why Trump Is Going To Destroy Kamala…And Possibly ALSO Win The Popular Vote PLUS Sweep Senate and House.

I would not be the least bit shocked if Trump not only trounces Kumswalla Harris in the Electoral college AND wins the popular vote, but also gives the GOP a TOTAL SWEEP by winning the Senate and House as well.

A lengthy post by an American who says he “can’t stand” Donald Trump but is still voting for him rather than than Kamala has gone viral, and for good reason. 

It’s succinct, elegantly written and it shows how woeful Harris is on key points.

It has an astounding 56 million views at time of writing.

Here it is….

I can’t stand Donald Trump. He is braggy, he insults people for no reason, and he is just a brutal personality. But my mind is made up. I’m voting for him and here’s why: He puts Americans and their well-being first. Kamala will not.

He will bring @elonmusk into his cabinet to be the efficiency czar and get rid of waste. This alone may be the best single reason to vote for him.

He will bring @RobertKennedyJr into his cabinet to Make American Healthy Again. He will finally get to the bottom of why our food companies are destroying the health of our children.

I’m sick of the way the media lies continuously about @realDonaldTrump, starting with the incessant racism claims. They are just nonsense. The latest thing I learned? He sent his plane to fly Nelson Mandela home after he was in jail with the U.S. wouldn’t do it. Racist? No.

I’m sick of the U.S. being embroiled in foreign wars. Trump will keep us out of them again. He’s just crazy enough that foreign nations will stand down. They have no fear of Kamala. They will fear him.

Trump sees this country as fundamentally good. Kamala sees it as inherently evil.

Trump will end the nonsense of the open border which makes our country less secure, less financially stable, and brings in millions of people illegally who compete for Americans’ jobs.

This government has to print billions to care for the illegals. That makes all of our dollars less valuable and makes prices zoom upward.

He will stockpile Bitcoin.

He will keep men out of women’s bathrooms and women’s sports.

He is a heavyweight personality and negotiator. Kamala is a phony personality and a lightweight negotiator.

The people who want Kamala Harris to win are the most annoying people in the country. They have pushed for pronouns, masks, endless vaccines, cancel culture, riots, blatant racism towards whites, gender confusion, undermining the U.S. constitution.

Exhibit A: woke, Covid Cult moron

He will upset the current political system. He was nearly the victim of assassination 3x. And he keeps going. He’s not the best in interviews, but he at least puts himself out there. Over and over and over. Kamala hasn’t done a single press conference.

Harris and the media trying to prop her up hid Biden’s cognitive decline. They accuse Trump of being a threat to democracy. Yet she was installed as the nominee with no votes. She wants to pack the Supreme Court. She wants to eliminate the filibuster. She sued RFK to keep him off the ballot. And the threat to democracy is Trump? Nonsense.

Those who support Harris look at Trump supports as vile, stupid, ignorant, and fascists. They disown family members or disinvite them from Thanksgiving dinner of they support Trump. This is disgraceful.

Every time she talks, I try to give her a chance. But she is the most phony and condescending politician I have ever seen. Ever. I can’t do it. I won’t do it.

She and those who support her are resistant to Voter ID and believe requiring an ID is racist. Her Department of Justice is suing the state of Virginia for trying to purge the voter rolls of illegals. Why would we not want 1 vote per 1 U.S. citizen? Is it more racist to believe people from the inner city are perfectly capable of securing a government issued ID? Or to believe they are incapable?

That’s it. I’m done. Thanks for hearing me out.

Socialist Choad Clayton Tucker Makes Idiotic Video Supporting THREE Total Losers Simultaneously.

REAL ranchers are hustling every day and reminding their customers the weather is turning cool so it’s time to buy some meat for CHILI! They go to markets and take orders on their websites…

FAKE ranchers drive hours away to say “hi” to a communist loser who is about to get stomped like a narc at a biker rally by Ted Cruz…while simultaneously wearing a hat that says “Harris/Waltz” on it – two more commies losers who are now being blown out by 20 points.

Choad VideoDownload

When All Red, Waltz and Harris all get destroyed and humiliated in a few weeks, it will not even faze Comrade Clayton one bit. He won’t be tearing his hair out like Bruce Haywood, Carol Garner Doughty and Grady Lucas will be. He won’t be losing sleep over it. That’s because Clayton Tucker has been surrounded and immersed in failure and losing for so long, it’s all he knows. He’s like a fish surrounded by water all the time – he just takes it for granted as the natural state. It is his native environment.

Whether it’s Robert Francis O’Rourke losing multiple times, Roland Gutierrez, Bernie Sanders for president, Chris Perri, Julie Oliver, or Clayton’s own three failed campaigns for office, he is very practiced in the art of losing. All Red, Harris and Waltz are just three more feathers in his dunce cap. And over the next year or two we’ll get to see Comrade Clayton fail yet again when he runs for Ag Commissioner.

Comrade Clayton’s love affair with Tim Waltz has even MORE connections! It turns out that Tim ALSO likes to make videos of himself fucking up basic things that every “rural” guy should know…

That would be the “manly” and “agriculture guy” Tim Waltz who just made a fool of himself by not being able to load his own shotgun during a staged “pheasant hunt.”

Oops. Very reminiscent of Comrade Clayton making the famous Tractor Repair Video where he didn’t know how to use a wrench then held up a nut and called it a bolt.

Oh – and Tim Walz was also recently credibly accused of grooming 14-year-old boys and taking them to rock concerts AND over to China – where the “age of consent” laws are quite lax, I’m told. Comrade Clayton spent some time in China too! He was “teaching” kindergarteners!

Big October surprise rocks Kamala campaign, Tim Walz accused of ‘inappropriate’ relations with a minor

All the more reason for Comrade Clayton to love him! I told you they had a lot in common!!

Council Decides On LEDC Board Members. Monroe Made Sacrificial Lamb. Talbert To Continue Driving Plane Into The Mountain.

After what seemed like quite a bit of confusion about whether there should have been an interview process with each applicant, council finally voted on the LEDC board matter.

As I suspected, the “wussy middle ground” was the way they went: they jettisoned TJ Monroe as she has been there the longest and is the oldest. They needed a sacrificial lamb, and they weren’t about to toss Talbert, since she is the current president of the entire mess, unfortunately.

I guess the thinking here by keeping Talbert AND her brother-in-law Erwin (when there were at least FIVE other citizens who applied) is “we don’t want to switch horses in midstream.” The problem with that “logic” is the idea that they are anywhere NEAR the middle of the stream. They are still back on the bank of the river, and moving AWAY from it more every year.

Deorald Finney was selected to replace Monroe. Huge mistake. Finney is the guy who was handed a $72,000 gift of tax dollars from Talbert and Monroe – and who then jacked the prices of his Stone Valley Houses by about 40%.

So now those two will be working hand-in-glove on the LEDC. Should make the grifting a lot easier for both of them.

I can’t believe they didn’t go with Mike Irvin. I never even heard his name mentioned during discussion. Maybe he withdrew (?).

Oh, also Sid Ball assured us all that “things are really moving now,” which is likely why he was ALL in favor of keeping the current three numb nuts in there.

I don’t want to say the LEDC are like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but here are a few quotes to remind everyone how long we’ve been hearing that line of nonsense:

“I feel like we’re getting somewhere,” board president Dr. Neal Leavell added. “I think we’ve really accomplished something. It’s taken a lot of patience, but we’re here.” – September 23, 2014 (over TEN YEARS AGO!)

“DeGraffenried said the LEDC was bold in its decisions to purchase the business park property and extend utilities to it. The city manager predicted Lampasas will enjoy many “spin-off benefits” throughout the city because of the utility work. ” – October 23, 2015

Or maybe read my transcript from Ryan “Gump” Ward and Ybarra from almost TWO YEARS ago!

Ryan Ward and Stacey Ybarra Talk In Circles On Lampasas Radio. Rhonda Witcher Actually Puts Them On The Spot. Ward Fails Badly.


I guess we’ll get more details from The Dispatch in a couple days.

What a missed opportunity.

Big Decision Tonight: Will Council Jettison Talbert or Monroe From The LEDC?

This decision was tabled last time and has to be resolved tonight. As you might recall, the LEDC board previously made a recommendation to re-appoint three of themselves (shocker!) BACK onto the LEDC board, despite decades of failure and money wasting. The three in question are Talbert, Monroe and Erwin.

Monroe, Talbert and Erwin ALL Want Back On LEDC Board. City Council Needs To Get Rid Of Two Of Them

There are PLENTY of other people waiting in the wings to move in and give it a shot.

Something tells me they will take the “wussy middle ground”: they’ll dump Monroe and leave Talbert and Erwin on there. Which is a shame and leaves the core problem intact.

What they SHOULD do is dump all three and get some new blood in there. Talbert has been a proven failure both as mayor and LEDC president, as I have chronicled here in great detail over the last 6 years.

Keep in mind: now that Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward is quitting his post suddenly for a bigger paycheck in Santa Fe (something I’ll get to soon) and Finley will be gone in mere weeks – we can say the following about the Business Pork Project:

The Business Pork project has been going on for over TWENTY YEARS! It has seen FIVE City managers come and go, THREE assistant City managers come and go, at least SEVEN different mayors, and at least FIVE economic development directors. At least TWENTY big wigs who had a say in this disaster have come and gone. And guess what?

The Business Pork STILL SITS EMPTY!!! It is a $7.4 MILLION dollar testament to failure, incompetence, lack of planning and general retardation.

But yeah sure, let’s let Monroe and Talbert keep banging their heads against a wall for another two years. Sounds smart!

Trump Now Ass Blasting Kumswalla Harris. Opens Massive 12-Point Lead On Polymarket.

It just keeps getting better.

The complete fraud that is Kumswalla Harris is falling apart in real time. The dems are fucked and they know it. In the last few days, there are reports of:

#1 – Actual fist fights between the Biden and Harris camps because it is clear Biden is doing everything he can to sink her (rightfully so). He even threw her right under the bus on the DeSantis/hurricane Milton kerfuffle – which was hilarious.

#2 – Insiders freaking out that Harris is not only going to get ass pounded, she’s dragging down the rest of the ticket with her. The odds of a Republican sweep are now up to 36% on Polymarket.

It will be quite poignant that Joe Biden’s last lucid act will be to lash Kumswalla to his hip and sink her to the bottom of the ocean alongside himself and his shitty administration. Harris and Waltz’s careers are over after this. Fuck them both.

People have had it with failure, incompetence, DEI crap, tranny bullshit, America being a laughingstock, beta male pussies, green energy bullshit, inflation, hoards of third-world illiterate illegal invaders and all the rest. Time to clean house, bitches.

Just a taste of what a retard show her campaign has become. Just a party of freaks, morons and losers.

Socialist Bodaggit With Dummy Beliefs Laughs At Other Beliefs With Actual Evidence Behind Them.

Dummy socialist who thinks he knows what the temperature in Texas will be in the year 2124 is laughing at those who think that maybe the government could possibly control weather with radio waves, microwave beams, masers or lasers…

Trump should come out and say “there are very fine people on both sides who believe the government controls the weather. Some people think it’s with electric cars, fake meat and pinwheels and some think it’s with high-powered lasers or radio waves.”

Space lasers! How silly. I mean, who would ever think THAT was real? Like, the government would spend money trying to influence the weather with radio waves or lasers? How crazy is that??

Oh wait……

High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program

Does the dummy socialist have the slightest inkling what weather-control tech would be worth? Hard to even calculate it. Easily in the trillions of dollars – both for agriculture or for military use. We’ve also seen the government lie to us in a BIG way for the last 5 years, so it is perfectly rational to suspect the government is fucking everyone AGAIN and lying about it. Quite rational, indeed.

Of course, Comrade Clayton the global warming idiot has ZERO solar panels on his mom’s house and his family owns THREE pickup trucks right now that ALL run on fossil fuels. All whilst he yammers about “global warming.”

Hypocrite.

Professor At University Of Kansas Should Be Thrown From Helicopter.

The colleges are FILLED with communists like this. Take them at their word.

We cannot share a country with lunatics like this. They are 100% gone, brainwashed and clinically insane.

Meanwhile, we have John Kerry and Hillary Clinton (among others) ADMITTING that the First Amendment is “getting in the way” of them controlling you. Their first act should Kumswalla Harris win will be to go after Twitter and Elon Musk for “misinformation” – mark my words.

These parasites will do ANYTHING to stay in power and control you.

September Sales Taxes Are In: Lampasas Sees HUGE Jump of 7.88%!! Crushing The State and All Other Cities Nearby

Wow!

The state of Texas as whole was DOWN 1.96% but somehow Lampasas was UP 7.88%!

How did we do it?! We haven’t even had an Economic Development Director for months now! Coincidence? I think not!

Actually, it may be more of a case that last year’s numbers were significantly depressed and therefore the comparison is made to look larger. Last year for Oct and Sep saw HUGE decreases for Lampasas (one of those months was due to a major water main break closing down businesses for the better part of a week).

So taken together, these two should roughly cancel each other out. Last year’s October number was normal and in-line, so we’ll get a better idea of this in a month.

Other cities we follow:

Austin: DOWN 1.05%

Burnet: UP 0.26%

Dallas: UP 0.54%

Marble Falls: DOWN 11.81% (!!)

Mineral Wells: DOWN 9.16%

I’m going to start following Mineral Wells, because for some unknown reason, Stacy Ybarra took a junket there last year and wasted an entire day babbling buzzwords about their economic development.