Tag: Talbert's Folly

Two-Year Anniversary Of Ward and Ybarra On Radio Promising Biz Pork About To Be Filled – Both Of Them Now Gone, Biz Pork Still Empty

It’s been almost two years already since those two clowns were on the radio spewing word salads and telling us the Business Pork would be filled any day now.

Of course, Ybarra has long since “resigned” and that douchebag Ward also abruptly resigned a couple months ago (right after he screwed the City for a useless junket to Houston). Here is one of my favorite lines:

Stacey Ybarra in January of 2023: “I think it’s a great opportunity…at this moment in time…to be able to attract businesses, you need shovel-ready sites…you need those types of sites to be able to bring big businesses…it’s just about getting it completed and doing the legwork to bring them here, they will come…it just may take a tiny bit of time…but that’s what I’m here for….and making sure the money was worth the while. It is my number-one priority.…

Whoops. Ybarra resigned over six months ago having accomplished nothing. As I predicted long ago.

Don’t worry though, President Misti Talbert has a plan to make it all worthwhile, I’m sure. Otherwise, why would City council keep her around for yet another term?? The LEDC meets next Wednesday for their first meeting of 2025. I’m sure it will all be explained then!

Misti back in 2022 grabbing all that Covid money:

Misti in 2025, begging on the side of the road for someone to PLEASE move into her goat pasture with 15 fire hydrants and a road:

Industrial Park “Contract” Still Being Ignored By Martin’s Rod & Custom.

This is what’s known as ‘leverage.”

As in, “the City has none and Martin’s Rod has it all”

The City is so desperate to get someone in there, they’ll allow complete and utter disregard for the basic rules of the contract they signed. You know, basically the ONLY two rules they had: only boats and RVs allowed to be stored there….NOT trailers.

Makes me wonder why they pay JC Brown thousands upon thousands of tax dollars to draw these agreements up when they are routinely ignored.

I mean, seriously…what is the City going to do? Tell them the deal is off? No way. They’ll sit there and get shit on repeatedly – anything to avoid admitting they can’t get the “Industrial Park” filled and looking foolish publicly.

The same thing will happen at the end of this year when S2M2 doesn’t have their 22 houses built at Brodie Estates. Will the City claw back the $185,000 in taxpayer money that Talbert so generously handed to a private business? Hell no. They’ll pretend it didn’t even happen.

Color me cynical, but I don’t see “Phase II” happening by June 20th when Phase I was a complete flop so far.