But don’t worry! The two guys (from Los Angeles!) who are grabbing the money told council they are getting a deal because it would NORMALLY be $60,000!
I think I’ll try that line on City council myself. I’ll set up a lemonade stand outside the council chambers and sell glasses for $800. When they (rightfully) exclaim that is a ridiculous price for a glass of lemonade, I’ll tell them it’s their lucky day because I USUALLY price my lemonade at $1,600 per glass! Then I’ll watch as that moron Kuehne buys 10 glasses because it’s such a deal.
I can see Porkchop Kuehne falling for that line of bullshit but as for everyone else? Shame on you.
[I covered this previously when the LEDC approved this idiocy]
Here is a very quick summary because it makes me sick to even type all this, it’s such a retarded project with zero merit. They just NEVER learn.
Two kids who “grew up in Lampasas” (but apparently spent the last 20 years in L.A. bouncing around as “producers” or some shit) are going to make a 10 or 12-minute video that absolutely NOBODY will watch outside of the idiots who approved this thing. It will sit on YouTube and do absolutely nothing of value for the city – just like the other 5 videos they wasted money on in the past.
These fake Lampassholes from Los Angeles will supposedly promote all the “awesome stuff” in town like the Hancock Springs Pool, restaurants and “other things.”
Wow. Good plan. Promote a freezing-cold pool that is only open a few months out of the year, some restaurants that every other town has also, and then some nebulous “other” things as well. From what I hear, when they pitched this retard idea, they used video footage from some wedding venue WAY outside of town that isn’t even in the City limits!
Here are the “Lampasans” who have their finger on the pulse of the town after 20 years in Los Angeles:
Yeah, they TOTALLY look “down with the Lampasas scene.” Pretty sure I saw one of them drinking cheap beer at Memos the other day and talking with the common folk.
In my 14-year experience with this town, THIS is the type of person more likely to be intimately familiar with the City as well as our police department….
Naturally, there is no way to gauge the “success” of this $30,000 film. It will get made and posted online and then forgotten about. And the taxpayer will be $30,000 poorer.
I also suspect these two grifters won’t stop at just this film. They just saw how easy it is to bilk the city out of $30,000 so I’d expect to see them back with their hands out for some other stupid project or even angling for a paid position doing this horseshit for the City.
Unbelievable. I thought this kind of money wasting stopped when Talbert left council but apparently not.