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re: Tara Wicker disqualified from EBR mayor’s race
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:18 pm to CarRamrod
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:18 pm to CarRamrod
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yet Destroya owes what 180k in back taxes yet she is NOLAs mayor?
State law is you have to file returns, you don't have to have them paid.
So someone can get a refund, not haven't filed, would be ineligible.
While someone who has filed, but owes, is eligible.
Also Destroya has federal issues, not state.
This post was edited on 8/13/20 at 1:19 pm
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Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:18 pm to Modern
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THEN, they need to launch an investigation if there’s a SWB “insider” that “blindly” loose or look over a potential candidates paperwork....basically sabotage
I like how the appeals court ruling suggested that to run for office you have to have sent your taxes in by certified mail for the last 5 years.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:19 pm to el Gaucho
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I was at Albertsons and swb was in front of me in line. She had a cart full of cookies and steaks and shrimp. She pulled out a card that said “Louisiana purchase” on it (I guess it must be some card that politicians get when they buy groceries for government stuff)
The cashier was scanning her groceries and said “ooh honey you short”. Turns out she was short 40 bucks so I happily paid that 40 and she paid the other $700. anything I can do to help a hardworking civil servant
OK, that's one of your better efforts, I laughed =)
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:22 pm to tom
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I like how the appeals court ruling suggested that to run for office you have to have sent your taxes in by certified mail for the last 5 years.
LOL.
Well, I have had a couple of times the last few years, where we e-filed a client's return to LDR, we got an acknowledgement from our software that LDR received and accepted the return, and yet, months later, LDR will say, we don't have it. And when we send them the confirmation, they still say, well, that's great, but we don't have it.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:23 pm to LSUFanHouston
As someone who lives out of state now, can someone give a brief recap of what the frick is going on?
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:24 pm to T
Thank God for St. George. Whomever wins that races will have their hands full and limited budget dealing with NBR'r.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:26 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
Cliff notes: Team Broome sued her probable top two competitors in Watson and Wicker. Watson is in the clear for now. Court initially ruled Wicker was cleared. Appeals court ruled Wicker is ineligible to run. Wicker is now appealing and has a 2:30 press conference today.
Cliffs to the cliff notes: when Broome's power is threatened and she has no merit to her argument, she files lawsuits. See: City of St George, Watson, Wicker
Cliffs to the cliff notes: when Broome's power is threatened and she has no merit to her argument, she files lawsuits. See: City of St George, Watson, Wicker
This post was edited on 8/13/20 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:30 pm to T
Orleans parish must not have that rule
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:33 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
Tara Wicker (probably the favorite) for Mayor had a lawsuit brought against her to disqualify her from running due to not filing state taxes for 2 years 2016 and 2018. She won the initial lawsuit, but it was appealed and now that candidate is disqualified.
Due to:
A) The incompetence of LA Dept of Revenue
B) The fact that the person who filled the records request at LDR is married to someone who works for the current mayor's campaign
C) Another lawsuit challenging another candidate for mayor (Matt Watson) has been filed as well
Louisiana politics/corruption is afoot.
Due to:
A) The incompetence of LA Dept of Revenue
B) The fact that the person who filled the records request at LDR is married to someone who works for the current mayor's campaign
C) Another lawsuit challenging another candidate for mayor (Matt Watson) has been filed as well
Louisiana politics/corruption is afoot.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:34 pm to kadillak
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Cliff notes: Team Broome sued her probable top two competitors in Watson and Wicker. Watson is in the clear for now. Court initially ruled Wicker was cleared. Appeals court ruled Wicker is ineligible to run. Wicker is now appealing and has a 2:30 press conference today.
Cliffs to the cliff notes: when Broome's power is threatened and she has no merit to her argument, she files lawsuits. See: City of St George, Watson, Wicker
To add: The lawsuit against Wicker involves her not filing state tax returns. Candidates must attest in their paperwork that they have filed (or extended) last five years of LA returns. Wicker did.
SWB's people filed a public records request and the state said they could only find 3 out of 5.
At trial, Wicker says she did file all 5. Judge believes her.
SWB's people appeal. Appeal court reverses district court.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:36 pm to doubleb
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This post was edited on 8/13/20 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:36 pm to T
There goes any chance of Broomestick losing re-election
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:36 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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As someone who lives out of state now, can someone give a brief recap of what the frick is going on?
East Baton Rouge Parish has a joint city/parish government where the mayor and the parish president are the same person and elected parish wide. Rather than have a Baton Rouge city council and a parish council, there is instead one metro-council for the entire parish. The sitting first term mayor president, Sharon Weston-Broome, is up for re-election this fall. She is vulnerable because despite running as a business friendly moderate, she has governed in a manner openly antagonistic to many local businesses. At the same time, she's not particularly well-liked in the black community because she isn't from Baton Rouge and is seen by many as an outsider and an Uncle Tom who hasn't done enough for them.
With this in mind, she has two black female candidates opposing her for mayor/president. A moderate metro council woman in Tara Wicker, and a radical marxist in Denise Marcelle (Denise has spent the past 4 years working for Broome on multiple appointed boards and commissions). The main republican challenger in the race is metro-councilman Matt Watson. To help take out her competition, Broome had surrogates file lawsuits against each of her main competitors (Broome and Watson) to attempt to disqualify them from the race.
Watson was challenged by someone within a rival's campaign, Piazza, who is a relatively young bar manager whom everyone seems to believe is an idiot toolbag. Watson won his challenge at the District level, though I'm sure an appeal to the 1st Circuit by Piazza's camp is still pending.
Wicker was sued by someone inside the Broome camp whose spouse works at DNR, claiming that Wicker is ineligible due to unfiled tax returns. Wicker won the case at the District level, but that District Court decision was just overturned at the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal. This case will definitely be decided by the State Supreme Court. The shimmy is that in order for the Broome camp to even know about the unfiled taxes, someone at DNR would have had to commit an ethics violation to tip them off. The fact that the person at DNR in charge of checking this stuff is married to a Broome staffer is an obvious conflict of interest. This whole thing looks like a setup from the jump.
If Broome wants to win, she has to keep both of those candidates off of the ballot and/or out of a runoff. Broome likely wins in a runoff against Marcelle (because Marcelle will be seen as too radical for the business class) or Piazza (because he's an idiot who has no ideas, name recognition, or money to campaign with).
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:36 pm to LSUFanHouston
What's the odds Wicker will eventually run?
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:37 pm to loogaroo
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What's the odds Wicker will eventually run?
What do you mean? Wicker is running right now.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:37 pm to LSUFanHouston
Also to be noted - a prior appeal on the same subject for Mayor Cantrell of NOLA left her on the ballot after claiming to have filed despite there being no records of it.
This case was one of several explicitly cited in the dissent.
This case was one of several explicitly cited in the dissent.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:40 pm to teke184
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Also to be noted - a prior appeal on the same subject for Mayor Cantrell of NOLA left her on the ballot after claiming to have filed despite there being no records of it.
This case was one of several explicitly cited in the dissent.
Could you imagine the fallout if Broome's attempt to knock-off Wicker actually resulted in Mayor Cantrell getting ousted?
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:41 pm to kingbob
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Watson was challenged by someone within a rival's campaign, Piazza, who is a relatively young bar manager whom everyone seems to believe is an idiot toolbag. Watson won his challenge at the District level, though I'm sure an appeal to the 1st Circuit by Piazza's camp is still pending.
I thought Piazza's camp had dropped the lawsuit? The only lawsuit remaining on Watson is from Broome's camp right?
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:42 pm to kingbob
As fun as that would be, it wouldn’t take effect until the next election. Too late at this point to toss her in favor of the runner up.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 1:45 pm to kadillak
Everyone is forgetting about Carter. He’s the dark horse here- moderate R with some crossover appeal for city dwellers and rural voters. He’s old but a decent politician that never was a hard-liner. He could win in the right circumstance.
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