Current News Items
Are the Governor’s emergency powers unlimited?
It has now been several weeks since the Louisiana economy has been in a near complete shutdown by Governor John Bel Edwards Health Emergency proclamation. The various proclamations ordered and directed private, non-essential businesses to close, limiting groups of ten...
Can LCG legally fund private projects?
On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, the City Council unanimously approved a gift (read loan) of $1,535,000 to a brand new LLC, Lafayette Bottle Art Lofts. That private organization has a single officer: Historic Restoration, Incorporated (also known as HRI). During the...
Yes, Josh Guillory can stop the taxing districts
Many regular readers will remember that the council introduced five new tax districts on November 19th. That was only THREE-DAYS after they were re-elected on November 16th. After all, they couldn't very well have announced their intention to immediately raise your...
How shrinking government can finally get the grass cut
While it's not as important as fixing drainage and filling potholes, cutting the grass in public owned spaces has come up fairly frequently at council meetings. As a councilman, Kenneth Boudreaux used to enjoy filibustering on the subject. For example, on July 24,...
What Coronavirus? LCG spends $1.5 million on “Artist Lofts”
Reminder: red text links to source documents. The government is famous for sneaking things through when no one is looking. In Lafayette, for example, the local council is famous for trying to sneak new taxes past voters during festival or holiday seasons. So, when...
Team Carlee’s revenge?
Reminder: red text links to source material. No one expected that the Lafayette Republican Party would be the point of the spear in Lafayette's recent Mayoral race. That's because their engagement was far and above what any local party has attained across the entire...
Stop Lafayette’s taxation without representation
Recently, the Lafayette City Council decided to levy five new taxes on the public at large. Normally, when this happens they're required to submit their decision to the people for final approval. Over and over again, we heard Bruce Conque say that the council does not...
LCG Attorney: Mayor permitted to author legislation
After the shocking revelation that the previous City-Parish Council has allowed the Mayor-President to submit legislative ordinances in violation of the Home Rule Charter, the Mayor-President and members of the Councils were contacted by several citizens with...
EDD developer tied to Medicaid fraud
Over the last several weeks, we've been digging into these new taxing districts. They were passed by the previous council and signed into law by the previous city/parish Mayor-President on Friday, January 3rd, 2020. Effectively, all this occurred at a special...
Who Has Legislative Power?
After close inspection of the ordinances (page 5) that established several new taxing districts, there appears to be a process error in their creation. The question of legislative authority has arisen regarding who in Lafayette Consolidated Government has the power to...
