Let Me Propose A Deal To Steve Carter And Franklin Foil…
It appears some negotiation and political maneuvering is warranted after an absolutely crazy situation turned up in the Senate District 16 race last night. That’s the one where Reps. Steve Carter and...
View ArticleSurprising No One, The BR City Hall Crowd Threatens To Sue St. George
The organizers of the St. George incorporation were hit yesterday with a letter from Mary Olive Pierson, the legal hired gun who turns up every time Baton Rouge mayor-president Sharon Weston Broome...
View ArticleEngage In Political Activism In East Baton Rouge Parish And Sharon Weston...
That’s the lesson we take from what happened this morning, which was that Broome, the incompetent and politically septic mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish, has filed suit against two of the...
View ArticleSharon Weston Broome Apparently Has Her First 2020 Challenger
This isn’t an earth-shattering development in Baton Rouge politics, as what we know about this town and this state from our knowledge of history is that people coming straight from the business...
View ArticleLouisiana Has Officially Succumbed To The Wuhan Virus
There’s no more point to noting that the media-fueled stupidity of coronavirus panic has grossly overshot the threat the Wuhan virus actually poses to regular folks. That battle is clearly lost. It was...
View ArticleSharon Weston Broome Showed Yesterday Why She Needs To Go
Yesterday, the bill that would create a transitional taxing district for the city of St. George, which voters in the southern part of East Baton Rouge Parish chose to incorporate in an election last...
View ArticleThere’s A Source For All These Local Mask Orders, You Know
Earlier this week we covered the decision by Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng to criminalize the failure to wear a mask in public in her jurisdiction, including the almost comic idiocy of...
View ArticleRight Now It Looks Like A Five-Way BR Mayoral Race
There are three candidates in the race for Mayor-President in Baton Rouge at present, but shortly it’s expected two more will get in. So far, incumbent Democrat Sharon Weston Broome is running for...
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Sharon Weston Broome’s Baton Rouge Is An Abject Disaster
Last weekend was a real milestone in Baton Rouge’s history, and not a particularly good one. Over the weekend there was a rash of violence around the city, most centered in the poor areas in the...
View ArticleSteve Carter’s Late Entry Into The Baton Rouge Mayor’s Race Makes Waves
This happened at the last minute on Friday, and it came completely out of the blue, but when Steve Carter jumped in and qualified for the mayor-president’s race in Baton Rouge it might have been the...
View ArticleWhat’s Tara Wicker Going To Do?
Following a major reversal on Friday, as the First Circuit Court of Appeal knocked her out of the Baton Rouge mayor’s race for having unpaid taxes in 2016 and 2018, Metro Councilwoman Tara Wicker is in...
View ArticleThe Trader Joe’s Shooter In BR Will Be Charged With 2nd Degree Murder
Sharon Weston Broome’s lurch to the Left in an effort to head Denise Marcelle off at the Social Justice Warrior pass has begun. After three days in which it was apparent Baton Rouge police were not...
View ArticleWhat The Hell Happened At The Baton Rouge Metro Council Yesterday?
A meeting of the Baton Rouge Metro Council which was supposed to result in an order allowing the reopening of the bars in East Baton Rouge Parish fell apart yesterday, as a quorum was lost in the...
View ArticleLooks Like The BR Mayor’s Race Is A Battle For 2nd Place…
…at least where the primary stage of the race is concerned. The Baton Rouge mayoral primary is shaping up to be a three-person race, with Democratic incumbent Sharon Weston Broome far out in front and...
View ArticleHere’s What Happened Last Night In Louisiana’s Elections
Obviously, if you were like most people you paid an awful lot of attention to the drama involving the presidential race and probably not as much to the other elections taking place. If you’re in...
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VIDEO: The Totally Savage And Highly Justified Ad Clobbering Sharon Weston...
It’s no secret that Sharon Weston Broome has been an ABSOLUTE FAILURE as Mayor of Baton Rouge. That can’t really be denied at this point, can it? She’s presided over a city with unprecedented rises in...
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If Baton Rouge Is To Have A Future At All, Steve Carter Has To Win On Dec. 5
We don’t do a whole lot of endorsements here at The Hayride, though we’ve certainly departed from that in the past week or so by endorsing Luke Letlow for the 5th District congressional seat and...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts About Saturday’s Louisiana Runoff Elections
We would have done this over the weekend, as in late Saturday night, but your author was deep into a novel-writing binge (my third book, Retribution, will be out early next year and I’m hustling to...
View ArticleThe Destruction Of Baton Rouge By Its Politicians Has Begun
Yesterday, before the Baton Rouge Metro Council unanimously rejected reason and effectively imposed a higher property tax rate on home-grown and locally-owned small businesses than it did the richest...
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Put Out The Koy Moore Video, For Crying Out Loud
We didn’t cover this when it happened, largely because at the time we were so disgusted with LSU’s complete capitulation as an institution to the falsities and stupidity of the Black Lives Matter...
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