October 8, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for October 8, 2025.
0:30 Broadcasting from New York City, we compare two difference mayoral races. In New York City, Democrat mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani—endorsed by Governor Kathy Hochul and AOC—pushes a platform of socialist policies: government-run grocery stores, rent forgiveness, free subway rides, and a $30 minimum wage. Meanwhile, back home in Shreveport, Louisiana, Mayor Tom Arceneaux is announcing his reelection campaign. As Shreveport’s first Republican mayor in over 25 years, Arceneaux has focused on doing the basics right—fixing roads, improving trash pickup, and reducing crime. Instead of social experiments, he’s provided “a steady hand on the wheel,” steering the city toward order, safety, and honesty in government finances.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 Broadcasting from New York City, we compare two difference mayoral races. In New York City, Democrat mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani—endorsed by Governor Kathy Hochul and AOC—pushes a platform of socialist policies: government-run grocery stores, rent forgiveness, free subway rides, and a $30 minimum wage. Meanwhile, back home in Shreveport, Louisiana, Mayor Tom Arceneaux is announcing his reelection campaign. As Shreveport’s first Republican mayor in over 25 years, Arceneaux has focused on doing the basics right—fixing roads, improving trash pickup, and reducing crime. Instead of social experiments, he’s provided “a steady hand on the wheel,” steering the city toward order, safety, and honesty in government finances.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- The Louisiana State Police have released video to the public of a fatal crash involving a LSU Football player last year.
- 83,000 Louisiana students are unable to access their special tuition savings accounts.
- St. Tammany Parish Councilmember Kathy Seiden is running for the U.S. Senate.
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13:30 We break down one of the most outrageous politically motivated lawsuits Louisiana has seen in years — and how a Democrat judge just shut it down. The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus sued Attorney General Liz Murrill, demanding she defend the state’s highly gerrymandered 6th Congressional District map — a map drawn after a federal judge claimed the old one wasn’t racially gerrymandered enough. But when the U.S. Supreme Court revisited how the Voting Rights Act should be interpreted, Murrill refused to defend the new map, calling it unconstitutional and rooted in race-based politics rather than representation. The lawsuit landed before Judge Eboni Johnson-Rose, a Democrat previously suspended by the Louisiana Supreme Court — and even she sided with Murrill, agreeing the Attorney General is not obligated to defend an unconstitutional law.
23:00 We react to Louisiana Congressman Troy Carter’s calls for “communication and cooperation” during Day 9 of the government shutdown — and explain why his message completely misses the mark.
We Dig Deep into Mayor Tom Arsenault’s proposal to implement a temporary 2% fee on Shreveport water bills to fund his block-by-block blight cleanup initiative. While small-government conservatives are naturally cautious about new taxes, this fee is framed as temporary and necessary to tackle a serious urban problem. Blight, including abandoned homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, reduces property values, fosters crime, and discourages new investment. With no state or federal grants currently available, the mayor argues that this fee is a practical way to raise funds to protect neighborhoods and public safety.
32:30 Get Prodovite Plus from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
40:30 And we discuss the Louisiana Department of Health’s decision not to hold public flu vaccine events or run taxpayer-funded advertising campaigns for the second year in a row.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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like we're the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark.
And Brother, it's starting to rain.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We choose to go to the moon and do the
other thing. Not because they are eay, but because.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
They are on. It is time for us to realize
that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to
small dreams. I have a dream that one day this.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Nation will rise up and live out the true meaning
of its creed.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avalone and Stephen talk.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
One.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
This is American Ground Radio, Stephen Farrar, Lewis sar Avaloney.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Happy Wednesday to all of you. Steven and I are
here in Lower Manhattan in New York City, and we
are covering what has to be one of the most
disastrous mayoral races in the history of American cities. I mean,
you just I.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Mean hopefully not. I mean so far it's not been great.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, I mean if the polls hold. Yeah, I mean
certainly doesn't look very good right now. But look, the
polls didn't look very good for President Trump back in
twenty sixteen. Either right, there are a lot of folks,
a lot of conservative folks. It's oh, there's no way,
there's just no way Hillary is going to be the
you know or excuse me, that Trump is going to win,
(01:44):
and then of course Hillary is going to be the
next president. Of course they were all dead wrong, and
polling isn't obviously fool proof. And I think as more
folks here in the Big Apple wake up to what
could be, which is basically electing a communist as mayor
(02:04):
of the largest city in the country.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, for folks that have been paying attention to the
New York City race, you've got Zorn mam Dami, who
is He's a state assemblyman, hasn't really done much else
in his life. He's only a pretty young guy. He
is the Democrat nominee to be mayor for New York City.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Been elected or excuse me, He's been endorsed by the
Governor of New York Kathy hokeel.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well and AOC and C.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But you know who has not endorsed him. And this,
this whole segment is not supposed to be about the
mayor's race in New York City, but I will say,
you know who has not endorsed him President Trump. Well, no,
of course not. But Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffreys.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, which is interesting. It is very very interesting that
he has not endorsement.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But you can't be a serious candidate of any kind,
even if you're the governor of New York and endorse
what is communism? Of course, he describes himself as a
democratic socialist, So I don't share union. Yeah, I don't
care what you call it. You're a communist. I mean,
he's anti capitalism, he's an anti Semitic. I mean, we
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could go on and on. He wants to government run
of grocery stores in every borough of New York City.
But the reason that I bring all of that up
is that you can't help but draw a contrast, a
very sharp, bold Louisiana style contrast with what's happening back
home in Shreeport with what's happening here in New York City.
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Because what New York City is about to do to itself, Yes, possibly,
if the polls hold, is exactly what Mayor Tom Arsenal,
who's running for reelection in streetpoort, it's what he has
avoided doing during his administration. Of course, he was the
first Republican mayor of shreet Board in twenty six years. Okay,
(04:04):
and here's the contrast here in New York City, they're
promising everything to everyone, and these are all things that
government shouldn't be doing. This is we're talking about cradle
to grave handouts, rent, rent forgiveness, free subway rides, guaranteed
income for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh, raising the minimum wage to thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, I remember it was just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Democrats wanted did it up to fifteen and set we said,
they're just going to keep going now thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And setting aside what almost eighty million dollars to fund
transgender surgeries.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They want to make New York City a transgender sanctuary.
They say.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Anyway, they're going to experiment with all of the They're
going to experiment, but we already know the results every
time these socialist type policies are employed, if they fail
time and time again.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And people get hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But me and while back home in Shreveport, Mayor Arsenal
who's running for reelection, he's announcing tonight that he is
running for reelection. He has done something extraordinary and not
and and extraordinary, and not by doing everything, but but
by doing the right things right because government's role is
(05:23):
not he understands what city government's role is. It's not
to make us all happy. No, it's not to make
us equal. It's not to experiment with every social science
theory that's cooked up. Under you know, whatever right government
exists to preserve order, to protect our liberty, to enforce
our laws, to provide essential services, that's what you do.
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And that is what Mayor Arsenal has quietly been doing.
And you've got folks on both the left and the right,
you know, saying that he's not conservative enough. Then you
know those on the left are saying, oh, he's too conservative.
But what he's been doing, I mean, because politics aside,
partisanship aside. He has been fixing the roads, he has
(06:09):
been improving the trash pickup.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think most importantly, he has been bringing down crime.
I mean, crime spiked under Adrian Perkins and that was
a big, big problem and under Mayor Arsenal, crime has
been coming down in Shreetport. It is a safer city
today than it was when he was first sworn into office.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And I think financially the city is. I don't know
that the city is better off financially, but at least
we've got an honest look at what our finances look like.
You've got folks that are reviewing the books and being
able to provide the mayor and the city Council with
some real, honest to God numbers about where we are.
(06:53):
Because if you don't know where you are, you can't
make decisions with respect to what the city's policies are.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So, you know, he's announcing Mayor Arsenal is announcing tonight
that he's running for reelection for the to be mayor
of Shreveport.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That election will happen in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
But again, I think what's important here the distinction between
what's going on in New York City and look, a
lot of left leaning, progressive cities that want to experiment
with all of these social experiments. That's not if you
look at the data, the most successful cities in the country,
the ones that are attracting people, that are actually growing,
(07:35):
that are actually attracting investment, private investment, not a whole
bunch of public private partnership HUI, or are government subsidies,
but businesses that are investing in capital expansion, that are
hiring folks. Those cities, the ones that are the most
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well run cities. They just get the basics right right,
pick up our trash, fix the potholes, keep the water running.
And I know there's a lot of folks say with
the water quality, but you're also dealing with equipment in
the city of Streetport, like so many other cities throughout
the state of Louisiana, the water filtration, the water. You know,
(08:19):
the water treatment system is very old.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, it's very old.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And the pipes are that are that are supplying that
it's very.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Old well, and we've been working into that consent decree
with the water system, and you know that's been a big,
big burden on Streetport for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So look, Mayor Arsenal, No, he's not flashy, he's not
going to blow up on TikTok no. But what he
has provided, I believe, and why I believe he should
be re elected, is he has provided a steady hand
on the wheel and sometimes, folks, that's exactly what keeps
a community from veering off a cliff.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Which is what we were doing under Agent Perkins. The
streetwear is absolutely heading in the wrong direction. It's absolutely
heading in the right direction now, and I think that's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
All right, Well, tell you what. Let's get to the
top three things you need to know before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
First thing you need know before maul.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The Louisiana State Police have released a video to the
public of a fatal crash involving an LSU football player
last year. Kieran Lacy was driving a green Dodge Charger
at a high rate of speed while passing four cars
in a no passing zone. Two other cars got into
a crash ahead of him. As Lacy returned to his
proper lane, one of the people involved in that crash
died from his injuries. Lacey was later charged with negligent
(09:42):
homicide and leaving the scene of wreck. He ended up
committing suicide during a high speed chase from police in Houston.
Lacey's family insists that the video evidence shows Lacey was
irresponsible for the crash, and say the Louisiana State Police's
charges against him eventually contributed to his suicide.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, certainly, from looking at the State Police video, he
at least was driving recklessly. Oh yeah, And I think
that's an important lesson that for all of us, because
there are folks that drive recklessly in our community and
the question is how do you respond when that happens.
Because the person who lost his life in this I
don't think made the best decision.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
No, the person that lost their life wasn't doing anything wrong.
They were the one hit by the car.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The oh, it was the vehicle in front of them
that tried to take some evasive action.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Second thing you Needablefore tomorrow, eighty three thousand Louisiana students
are unable to access their special tuition savings accounts. It
comes after the website crash. The state run website crash
earlier this week. The Louisiana Office of Financial Assistance Post
online LSFA is experiencing technical difficulties. We are unable to
answer phone calls, emails or assist customers at this time.
The Board of Regents is assuring account holders that their
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accounts are fully insured and their money will eventually returned
to them, but they're currently unable to explain why the
website crashed and when it will be restored. Oh wow,
it's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Was it an internet issue or.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They have no idea? And the third thing you need
before tomorrow. The Saint Tammany Parish council member Kathy Sidon
is running for US Senate. Siden is a LSU graduate
in her first term as a parish council member. She
is a mother of four who used to work for
Dell Computers before moving back to Louisiana. Siden's campaign website
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says she's one hundred percent pro life and supports President
Trump's America First Agenda. Sidon says career politicians like Senator
Cassidy have failed us for too long. It's time for
a mother who will fight like her children's lives depend
on it, because they do well.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And they do absolutely, but I think Senator Kennedy certainly does.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Cenaer Cassidy.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Cassidy. Yeah, I get it, I
get it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I understand she's running. I'm just not sure it's got
the experience to be a senator. But hey, it's what
the primary is for. We'll be right back. Stick around.
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Speaker 1 (13:14):
Welcome back to America.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Parative Stephen bar with Lewis sar Avlony.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Louisiana judge has just slammed the door on one of
the most outrageous, politically motivated lawsuits that we have seen
in a long time in Louisiana. And there have been
a lot of politically motivated lawsuits. This was a lawsuit
by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, and they were suing
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the Attorney General Liz Merrele okay, saying you better, you better,
you better defend this congressional map, this sixth six district
congressional map.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, So this is the highly jerrymandered congressional map. And
this is the one that you know, Republicans put out
because there was a Democrat judge who said the previous
map was not racially jerrymandered enough. So Republicans said, bet,
and they created the most racially jerrymandered map they could
even think of. And then now that got that got
(14:14):
a lawsuit against it by people who weren't.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
By the Black CAUCUSUS.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Before that, so people that weren't black suit to stop
the map. It was always Supreme Court streep corps is
going to rule on it. And then went, you know what,
we're gonna hear arguments again asking if this is even
the right way of doing things. Should we be reinterpreting
how the Civil Rights Voting Act is interpreted? And Liz
Merle once the Supreme Courts that we're gonna listen to
it again, Liz Merle said, actually, I can't defend this map.
(14:43):
This map is unconstitutional and the Voting Rights Act is
something that needs to be changed. We we don't interpret
that correctly. And so the Black Caucus sued, saying, no,
Liz Merle, you have to defend this map because it
was drawn by the legislature, and and that's why they
started suing.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, and look, let's not make any mistake about this.
This wasn't about representation. This new congressional map wasn't about
representation or justice or fairness. This was just about raw
political power. This was about This was race based jerrymandering
that the left has been peddling for decades. And they
dressed it up as civil rights. But that's not what
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it was.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And here you have it's racism, is what it is. Right,
because the left says that they have this idea that
if someone is black, they cannot be represented by someone
in Congress who's white. If some if you have if
you have a black voter, this is the left's mindset.
This is what the Black Caucus says. If there's a
voter who's black and they have to vote for a
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white person, then they aren't represented. In Congress, and that
is racists and it's wrong. You're telling me that Steve
Scalize doesn't listen to any of his black concs, that
he doesn't represent any black constituents in Congress. Absolutely not.
Look Over in Texas, you've got Wesley Hunt. He's from
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the Houston area, right, he happens to be black, he's
a Republican. His district is majority white. Okay, So are
you telling me that the white people in the Houston
area who elected Wesley Hunt can't be represented by Wesley
Hunt because Wesley Hunt's black. That is the same logic argument.
That's the logic that the left says. That's why the
left says we have to have these minority majority districts
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because you can't be represented by somebody who's not the
same skin color of you. That is the definition of racism.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And you know what's ironic here, you know, because I
know there are a lot of folks who say, well,
it must just be some conservative judge that you know,
obviously is racist and Republican and conservative, et cetera. This
was Judge E. Bonnie Johnson Rose Ebony Ebony Johnson Rowell.
(16:57):
You could say ebony Okay, or she may say she
may see bonnie. Yeah, not quite sure. Okay, I don't know,
Judge Rose. Okay, she might pronounce it ebony. I mean
it's with an I the end. Yeah, e bonnie as
I pronounced it's ib No, no, no, it's e b oh. Okay,
(17:19):
So evan e b as in boy yes, oh in
ebony or nevertheless, Judge Rose, how about that? Okay? Can
we agree on that?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Rose by any other name?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So, Judge Rose is a Democrat, and she is a
Democrat who was suspended by the Louisiana State Supreme Court
in April for purely inventing laws from the bench. Do
you remember this? I remember this, Judge, Judge Judge Rose.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So the so the Democrat Black Caucus got the judge
they wanted because this.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And she had to concede that that ag merle Uh
was completely on point here.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That doesn't have to defend the law if the law
is unconstitutional, And so.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Of course the agmorl said, this is the proper result.
Our focus is on arguments in the United States Supreme
Court and addressing the flaws in the courts jurisprudence that
deprives the legislative legislature of their constitutionally constitutional duty overdrawing maps.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And that's really what this comes down to, is how
are we going to draw these maps all across the
country because right now there's two different standards and they conflict.
The Civil Rights Voting Act the way it's been interpreted
says you have to have a proportional number of minority
majority districts in order to not be violating that law,
which means you must consider race first and foremost when
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you are drawing congressional boundaries. But the Constitution in the
fourteenth Amendment says we all have equal protection. Well, that
means you can't be taking race into account. You can't
be giving one race of people a benefit that another
race of people would get. Because we are all created equal.
Everybody has to be judged the same. So it's not
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all right to go into your redistricting and go, Okay,
these people because of the color of their skin, these
people are special, and these other people, because of the
color of their skin, they are pariahs. That they're the problem.
You can't draw a boundary for them. You have to
draw the boundary for the other people because these other
people they're better.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But see I think the larger argument here that the
Black Caucus was making and it was an abject failure
in terms of logic, is that what they're basically saying
is is ag Murrew has that once the legislature passes
a law, any law, right, that the Attorney General is
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obligated to defend it, no matter what right. And so
that's the argument that ag Murrow was not upholding her
constitutional dude, is that no matter what the at least
according to the Black Caucus. This is the argument there
making the Louisiana Legislature, the Black Caucus, within the Louisiana Legislature,
they basically said, you have a duty, no matter what
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the legislature passes, to defend it. But here's the problem
with that logic. The attorney general's first obligation it is
not to the legislature's ego. No, it's to the constitution
of this great State of Louisiana and of the United
States of America. Because if the legislature passes a map
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that violates constitutional principles, especially ones that weaponize race for
political advantage, then it's the Attorney general's duty to stand
up and say, hold on, this doesn't pass constitutional muster.
So that's not a betrayal of her of aging Murrell's obligations.
I think it shows integrity and so far as she
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understands what her role is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And she did defend it court when it first went there,
until the Supreme Court asked a different question. And this
is why the Supreme Court wanted to come back to
this case. It's very rare. I can't remember another case
where the Supreme Court heard arguments in one session, decided
not to rule on it. Instead said hey, guys, come back,
same case. We have a different question for you. And
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I can't think of another case who they've done that,
But that's what they did with this one. Well, when
they asked the different question, is the Voting Rights Act
the way we've been interpreting it is that constitutional? That
is when that is when Agmurle changed her defense of
the law. She was defending it and now she says
I can't defend it based upon the question you're now asking.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And you know, the left and folks like those within
the Louisiana Black caucase, you know, they're perfectly happy when
an attorney general, for example, in another state like California
or New York makes a decision that is contrary to
the law or constitution, you know, benefits that as long
as it benefits their partisan But when a Republican like
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ag Merle dares to follow her conscience and the Constitution,
by the way, suddenly it's a dereliction of duty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
We can't continue to judge people on the basis of race.
I don't know why. That's a hard concept. We'll grab that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're listening to American ground Radio. American ground radio sounds
so good. Patriots asked for it by name. In fact,
there's going to be an emoji for it pretty soon.
Well that's what I heard, is that's not true. That's true, right, Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Welcome back to America Groun Radio. Stephen Power Lewis.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I was about to say the only Democrat congressman from
the state of Louisiana, but of course we have two.
We have two now. But I was about to talk
about Congressman Troy Carter from New Orleans. Oh. He is
wringing his hands. He says, Oh, this is day eight,
day nine of the shutdown, and you know, we've got
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to we've got to communicate, you know, we've got to
work together.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
To really talk about Democrats. Democrats do need to work together.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
No, no, no, no, he's talking about he's talking about
the Senate in particular, that the Senate has to work
through their differences. Well, you know, here's the difference, Congressman.
Conservatives believe government should be smaller and leaner and accountable.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Wait wait, wait, that's not that has nothing to do
with the shutdown.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
No I get that. No, no, it has everything to
do with because because that's the reason that Republicans in
Congress will not negotiate for the nonsense that the Democrats
are proposing.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Except that that makes it sound like the Republicans put
in a poison pill of making the government smaller. No,
the Republicans just said we want to continue spending at
the Biden level. Nothing to do with trying to even
shrink the size of government. This is simply saying we
just want to keep the government open, and the Democrats
are saying, no, we don't want to keep the government
open unless you add another one point five trillion dollars
on the debt. It's not about Republicans trying to shrink
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the size of government. It's about the Democrats trying to
go through and explode it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I guess it's it's a matter of perspective government. I mean,
Republicans do believe in smaller government, and that is the
reason that they're not advocating or otherwise willing to vote
for one point five trillion dollars in new deficit spending.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It's completely it's completely unnecessary what the Democrats are trying
to do. But here in the Republicans, the Republicans have
simply just said, let's just continue for another couple of
weeks spending money at the same level we are spending
it under the Biden administration, until we can finish our budget.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
B But the divide here is you can't communicate your
way around the divide here, and that is one point
five trillion dollars in new deficit spending, right There's you
can communicate that all day long. But until you can
come together to understand that increasing government spending by one
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point five trillion, which includes.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Money for health care for illegal aliens, that's that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, But it's not. The Senate isn't failing to pass
these measures because there's no dialogue, Congressman Carter. They're failing
to pass these measures to put to get the government
back open because Democrat Democrats won't budge an inch from
their addiction to spending.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
They don't want the government open. They want to be
using the shutdown as a political tool. That's why the
government shut down.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And I will say that all of this feigned, you know,
hand ringing by Congressman Troy Carter. Yeah, it's a little
ridiculous because if he really wanted to do something about it,
he would call out his Democrat brethren and say, look,
you know what, this is a clean cr this is
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a clean continuing resolution. Let's just get the government back open.
And let's let's debate the agenda, the whatever woke agenda
that that my party wants to put forward. We'll do
that at another time, but right now, let's just get
the government. There's too many people affected, and let's just
let's just do the right thing for the American people.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The reason the government shut down is because the Democrats
don't want to vote to open up the government. That's it.
That's the only reason. Let's dig deep, going so Streetport
Mayor Tom Arseneau is proposing a new two fee on
water bills in Shreveport.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
UH.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
This is a look as a small government conservative. I
am always opposed or at least suspicious of new taxes.
If you're putting a fee on a water bill, that's
a tax.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
The Supreme Court said those are the same.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Words, but it's a temporary tax.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay. Yeah, I was gonna get to that.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
In order to be fair, we do need to look
at what all of this is about. Right, Yes, I'm
opposed to new taxes. I also want to be fair.
So what is this one about. One of Arsenal's biggest
priorities as mayor is fighting blight. Is that fair to
say he wants to fight black That.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Will is block by block initiative, which I think could
be used as a blueprint for cities all over the
state of Louisiana. I agree, if you're going to go
in and you're going to clean up neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Go in with people who live in the neighborhood, and.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
You literally have to go block by blah by bloh.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Blit is a big problem in any city. It's especially
a big problem in Streetport. It's not just some abandoned
houses here and there. It's abandoned houses, abandoned apartments, abandoned hotels,
abandoned office buildings too. Blight does have a cost on citizen.
It lowers your property values. It gives opportunities for crime,
which will lead to more blight because crime causes poverty,
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It prevents new development. People will be more likely to
invest in a piece of property if they can start
building on it, if they don't have to start by
destroying a building that's on that property first. Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh? Absolutely, of course, Well yeah, because I mean well,
first of all, I no one's going to buy that
property with junk on it, with junk on it, especially
in a especially in a part of town where the
property values are already low.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So blight does need to be addressed. And demolishing abandoning
buildings does cost money, and that's part of why these
these properties were abandoned in the first place. Now, Arsenal
released a FAQ A Frequently Asked Questions list. He says,
the city has reached the point where doing nothing is
more expensive and dangerous than acting.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And I think that that's probably right.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We've had all these fires, We've had all these things
burning a house down and then that actually catches the
house next door to it on fire. Yeah, it is
a problem.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You can't just look the other way. I mean, especially
is leader of a city. This is a problem, right,
and you've got to address it somehow.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So I don't think the question is should the city
be addressing blight? Absolutely, I do think that's something that
only government can do. Therefore it's something government should do.
It does go after, it does affect other citizens' right
to pursue happiness, and to the point that blighted properties
become havens for crime. Blight can also become a liberty
or even a life issue. So this is a legitimate
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function of government addressing blight.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
It is, and there's a lot of we'll go ahead,
all right.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So the question then is where's the money come from?
Because if this is a legitimate function of government, the
government should do it. Now, how do you pay for it?
For abandoned properties, It is not going to come from
the property owners. They don't have the money. That's why
they abandon the property. Arsenal said, at this time there
are no state or federal grants available for large scale demolition.
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We are going to explore whether the National Guard might
be able to assist in the demolition process if they
are deployed to Shreetport as the governor question. Now, I
think that's an interesting idea, how to use the National
Guard to help fight crime. If you can get that approved,
I think that would be great. But if you can't,
now we still got to get the money from somewhere
to address this issue.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
No, and I get that, and I want to address
this part of it. Though. There's a lot of folks
that say, why should I pay for the negligence, the
negligent ownership of someone else in my community, the.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Same reason why you pay to house somebody in jail.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
No, no, no, but true, true, And I get that part,
and I'm not about letting someone off scott free. But
at the same time, just think about it in this way,
and this may be a crude way of putting it,
but if a dog walks up onto your porch and
leaves you just a heaping mound of you know what, okay,
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and you come out the next morning and you go,
oh my gosh, you know, I got a big pilot
you know what on my porch, No one in their
right mind says I didn't make that mess. The dog,
the owner, somebody needs to come clean that up. And
then every morning you just keep stepping over the same
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pile of whatever. No, you're going to take care of it,
and then you're going to keep your eye out and
you're going to try to figure out who is accountable
for this. But if you don't clean up your own
mess right there on your front porch, who's going to
want to come visit you.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
The other thing I do like about this proposal is
that it's temporary. Eighteen months is what he says would
be needed to raise the money to address all the
blight in the city. Lafayette did that with their airport.
They did a temporary tax. It went away when they
were done with it, and it was a good way
to fund the airport. Look, before we raise taxes, I
still think we need to make sure that we're not
spending money on non governmental organizations. If they're an NGO,
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they need to be non governmental. We need to make
sure we're spending the money the right way. But part
of that is we do need to address blight. We'll
be back.
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Welcome back to American Grammado and Stephen Parr with Lewis Ar.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So back to my example here. If a dog wanders
up to your porch and leaves a big pile of
you know what, a steaming, smelly, wow fly attracting pile
of you know what. Okay, but you've got two choices here.
You can stand there and complain about how it's not fair,
how it wasn't your dog, how it's somebody else's responsibility,
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or you can grab a shovel and take care of
business and clean it up. Because if you don't, guess what,
the next time somebody comes over your neighbor, you're in laws,
maybe even someone who is thinking about doing business with you,
they're going to see it. They're going to smell it,
and they're going to think that you, that you are
the problem. They're not going to ask who made the mess.
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They're going to judge by whether you cleaned it up.
And that, my friends, is exactly and Stephen, how cities
have come to think about blight. That's why somebody has
to take this cause of blight, and oftentimes it is
it's not the city's fault, and it's not the taxpayer's fault.
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And yes they're footing the bill. Buildings get abandoned, owners
move away, they pass away, they stop paying taxes. You know,
maybe someone had a dream to build a business, but
the dream died and the building decayed. It happens. But
when you are the city, when you're the one left
holding the bag, or in this case, holding the mop
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or the shovel or the whatever. You can't just sit
back and say, well, it's not our fault, because just
like that pile of you know what on your porch,
the longer you ignore it, the worse it gets. And
blight has.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Certainly been a big problem in Shreeport for a very
long time, and we've had lots of, you know, kind
of halfway measures of trying to address it every now
and then. But I do believe that Mayor Arsenal sees
this as a big problem, something that's preventing further investment
in the city of report. That's something that does need
to be addressed, and you got to cut you gotta
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come with the money from somewhere. Again, I'm still not
convinced that the city is spending money one hundred percent
the way it should. Can we is there three million
dollars If you take all the money we're given to
NGOs from the city's report, does it add up to
three million dollars? Because that's what he says he needs here,
So you can stop giving money to NGOs. Now we
got three million dollars to handle blight, and we're not
having to raise taxes, no.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Absolutely, And We've all visited cities where the streets were
clean and the grass was cut and the sidewalks you know,
were repaired. I mean, you know there aren't jagged and
broken up. That's a place that feels alive. When you're there,
you're like, this is a nice place, right, Why can't
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why can't we have nice things? You know about back
where we live now, we.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Don't even edge the grass on the side of the road.
We just let it grow into the road.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
But that's a place. When you visit that place, it
feels alive, right, It's like a place that's worth investing.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
It feels safe.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
But when you have a city that is full of
boarded up windows and broken fences and weeds that are
that are taller than your truck, right, I mean that
essentially says stay away. It does, and it does. And
back to my example of the you know that you
know what on the porch. It doesn't matter whose dog
made the mess. If you're the homeowner or in this case,
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the mayor and the city council, you've got to clean
it up. And where that money comes from, I don't know.
We can talk about that, we can certainly debate about that,
but the responsibility. You can't just say I didn't make
the mess. My neighbors didn't make the mess. Why aren't
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those that are responsible for making the mess the ones
being held accountable.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Well, because they don't have any money. You know, it
comes back to that old adage of lawyerism. Don't sue
poor people. Well, if these people don't have any money,
like if their best asset is the is the blighted
piece of property, that's the only asset they have left,
and you sue them, what are you gonna get? But
you're gonna get a bliighted piece of property. And you
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still have the same problem. But now you've added court
costs on top of that.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
But here's the other part of that. In the meantime,
property values around your property values will continue to decline. Right,
So you can spend a little money that begrudgingly, that
is against every fiber in your body, But at the
end of the day, in doing so, you actually are
increasing the value of your your own homes, the value
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of your property, of your business property, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
And again, only a government, only a city government, can
deal with the blight situation. This is not something that
just private citizens can start going on and tearing down
other buildings. No, because then you're violating someone else's rights.
This has to be a government entity that does it.
That means if only a government can do it, then
only a government. This is something a government should be doing.
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Government should be addressing blight for the safety and security
and the pursuit of happiness reasons of its citizens. Again,
the only question is where does the money come from?
And if it's not from a temporary two percent tax,
an eighteen month tax on water, where are we going
to get that money from? And that's really where we
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should just focus this discussion at this point. If we
can show that there's already money in the budget that
we can pull from other things, because a budget is
an expression of a city's priorities, this is a blighte
situation has to be addressed. If you can show that
there's money in the budget that can go to solving
the blight issue, great, let's show that. However, if the
money's not there, then perhaps a two percent fee on
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water is a smart way of dealing with this. If
it's an eighteen month thing, you don't have to go
to a bond election, which will cost money. You don't
have to go into debt to do it, which would
be another problem. So that's where the discussion should be
on this.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Let's see if I agree. But if we always a
lot of folks say nothing ever changes. Well, if you
take the attitude that you're not going to clean up
what is wrong, even if you didn't cause it, then
nothing will change. But that's not what real leadership is.
The cost of doing nothing is always far greater than
the cost of doing what's right.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
And we've got enough isoors in our cities in Louisiana. Again,
go to some of those places in Texas where they're thriving,
and you just don't see the blight that you see
all throughout Louisiana. This is something we have to address
if we want to keep our children here and have
other people's children move here.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Welcome back to America, Great Radio. Stephen Parr with Lewis.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
All right, So this is the second year in the
row in a row, say in a row. That's much
better that the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of
Health is not holding any kind of public flu vaccine
events or taxpayer funded advertising campaigns pushing the flu vaccine,
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and you know what, I think this makes sense. I
think that it is not government's job to market pharmaceutical
pharmaceuticals to the people of the state. I think if
your doctor recommends the flu vaccine for you, okay, that's
between you and your doctor. Oh. I can hear the
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left right now saying, oh, you don't feel that about abortion. Well,
that's not between you and your doctor. That's actually an
unborn baby.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I meant, your doctor trying to give you a flu
a flu inoculation would be trying to protect your life.
Preventing abortion is about protecting the life like the unborn,
and a doctor hopefully would recommends you know, we're gonna
we're gonna keep things alive. That's kind of the supposed
to be the job of doctors.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
But it's not the job of government to market medicine.
The job of government in this instance, I think, is
to provide honest information, make these vaccines available obviously, and
let grown ups make adult decisions here instead of saying
everybody's got to get this. Yeah, well, I mean, who
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is Ralph Abraham to know exactly what your medical condition
is and whether or not that's the right decision. By
the way, it was Senator Cassidy that actually wanted to
mandate that the governor, or Ralph Abraham write a blanket
prescription for COVID, for the COVID vaccine, which is.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Way more dangerous than flu vaccines are.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
So let folks, look, we're all smart, grown ups. We
can make that decision between us and our doctor.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
All of us are smarter than any one of us.
I mean, that's just one of the things that the
Left doesn't seem to quite understand, but it's true. We
have another hour of American ground radio coming up. Stick around.
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Speaker 3 (01:04):
Happy Wednesday to all of you. Steven and I are
here in Lower Manhattan in New York City, and we
are covering what has to be one of the most
disastrous mayoral races in the history of American cities. I mean,
you just I.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Mean hopefully not. I mean so far it's not been great.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well, I mean if the polls hold. Yeah, I mean
certainly doesn't look very good right now. But look, the
polls didn't look very good for President Trump back in
twenty sixteen. Either right, there are a lot of folks,
a lot of conservative folks. It's oh, there's no way,
there's just no way Hillary is going to be the
you know or excuse me, that Trump is going to win,
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and then of course Hillary is going to be the
next president. Of course they were all dead wrong, and
polling isn't obviously fool proof. And I think as more
folks here in the Big Apple wake up to what
could be, which is basically electing a communist as mayor
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of the largest city in the country.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, for folks that have been paying attention to the
New York City race, you've got Zorn mam Dami, who
is He's a state assemblyman, hasn't really done much else
in his life. He's only a pretty young guy. He
is the Democrat nominee to be mayor for New York City.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Been elected or excuse me, He's been endorsed by the
Governor of New York Kathy hokeel.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well and AOC and C.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But you know who has not endorsed him. And this,
this whole segment is not supposed to be about the
mayor's race in New York City, but I will say,
you know who has not endorsed him President Trump. Well, no,
of course not. But Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffreys.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, which is interesting. It is very very interesting that
he has not endorsement.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But you can't be a serious candidate of any kind,
even if you're the governor of New York and endorse
what is communism? Of course, he describes himself as a
democratic socialist, So I don't share union. Yeah, I don't
care what you call it. You're a communist. I mean,
he's anti capitalism, he's an anti Semitic. I mean, we
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could go on and on. He wants to government run
of grocery stores in every borough of New York City.
But the reason that I bring all of that up
is that you can't help but draw a contrast, a
very sharp, bold Louisiana style contrast with what's happening back
home in Shreeport with what's happening here in New York City.
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Because what New York City is about to do to itself, Yes, possibly,
if the polls hold, is exactly what Mayor Tom Arsenal,
who's running for reelection in streetpoort, it's what he has
avoided doing during his administration. Of course, he was the
first Republican mayor of shreet Board in twenty six years. Okay,
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and here's the contrast here in New York City, they're
promising everything to everyone, and these are all things that
government shouldn't be doing. This is we're talking about cradle
to grave handouts, rent, rent forgiveness, free subway rides, guaranteed
income for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh, raising the minimum wage to thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, I remember it was just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Democrats wanted did it up to fifteen and set we said,
they're just going to keep going now thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And setting aside what almost eighty million dollars to fund
transgender surgeries.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They want to make New York City a transgender sanctuary.
They say.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Anyway, they're going to experiment with all of the They're
going to experiment, but we already know the results every
time these socialist type policies are employed, if they fail
time and time again.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And people get hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But me and while back home in Shreveport, Mayor Arsenal
who's running for reelection, he's announcing tonight that he is
running for reelection. He has done something extraordinary and not
and and extraordinary, and not by doing everything, but but
by doing the right things right because government's role is
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not he understands what city government's role is. It's not
to make us all happy. No, it's not to make
us equal. It's not to experiment with every social science
theory that's cooked up. Under you know, whatever right government
exists to preserve order, to protect our liberty, to enforce
our laws, to provide essential services, that's what you do.
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And that is what Mayor Arsenal has quietly been doing.
And you've got folks on both the left and the right,
you know, saying that he's not conservative enough. Then you
know those on the left are saying, oh, he's too conservative.
But what he's been doing, I mean, because politics aside,
partisanship aside. He has been fixing the roads, he has
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been improving the trash pickup.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think most importantly, he has been bringing down crime.
I mean, crime spiked under Adrian Perkins and that was
a big, big problem and under Mayor Arsenal, crime has
been coming down in Shreetport. It is a safer city
today than it was when he was first sworn into office.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And I think financially the city is. I don't know
that the city is better off financially, but at least
we've got an honest look at what our finances look like.
You've got folks that are reviewing the books and being
able to provide the mayor and the city Council with
some real, honest to God numbers about where we are.
(06:53):
Because if you don't know where you are, you can't
make decisions with respect to what the city's policies are.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So, you know, he's announcing Mayor Arsenal is announcing tonight
that he's running for reelection for the to be mayor
of Shreveport.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That election will happen in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
But again, I think what's important here the distinction between
what's going on in New York City and look, a
lot of left leaning, progressive cities that want to experiment
with all of these social experiments. That's not if you
look at the data, the most successful cities in the country,
the ones that are attracting people, that are actually growing,
(07:35):
that are actually attracting investment, private investment, not a whole
bunch of public private partnership HUI, or are government subsidies,
but businesses that are investing in capital expansion, that are
hiring folks. Those cities, the ones that are the most
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well run cities. They just get the basics right right,
pick up our trash, fix the potholes, keep the water running.
And I know there's a lot of folks say with
the water quality, but you're also dealing with equipment in
the city of Streetport, like so many other cities throughout
the state of Louisiana, the water filtration, the water. You know,
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the water treatment system is very old.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, it's very old.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And the pipes are that are that are supplying that
it's very.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Old well, and we've been working into that consent decree
with the water system, and you know that's been a big,
big burden on Streetport for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So look, Mayor Arsenal, No, he's not flashy, he's not
going to blow up on TikTok no. But what he
has provided, I believe, and why I believe he should
be re elected, is he has provided a steady hand
on the wheel and sometimes, folks, that's exactly what keeps
a community from veering off a cliff.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Which is what we were doing under Agent Perkins. The
streetwear is absolutely heading in the wrong direction. It's absolutely
heading in the right direction now, and I think that's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
All right, Well, tell you what. Let's get to the
top three things you need to know before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
First thing you need know before maul.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The Louisiana State Police have released a video to the
public of a fatal crash involving an LSU football player
last year. Kieran Lacy was driving a green Dodge Charger
at a high rate of speed while passing four cars
in a no passing zone. Two other cars got into
a crash ahead of him. As Lacy returned to his
proper lane, one of the people involved in that crash
died from his injuries. Lacey was later charged with negligent
(09:42):
homicide and leaving the scene of wreck. He ended up
committing suicide during a high speed chase from police in Houston.
Lacey's family insists that the video evidence shows Lacey was
irresponsible for the crash, and say the Louisiana State Police's
charges against him eventually contributed to his suicide.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, certainly, from looking at the State Police video, he
at least was driving recklessly. Oh yeah, And I think
that's an important lesson that for all of us, because
there are folks that drive recklessly in our community and
the question is how do you respond when that happens.
Because the person who lost his life in this I
don't think made the best decision.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
No, the person that lost their life wasn't doing anything wrong.
They were the one hit by the car.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The oh, it was the vehicle in front of them
that tried to take some evasive action.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Second thing you Needablefore tomorrow, eighty three thousand Louisiana students
are unable to access their special tuition savings accounts. It
comes after the website crash. The state run website crash
earlier this week. The Louisiana Office of Financial Assistance Post
online LSFA is experiencing technical difficulties. We are unable to
answer phone calls, emails or assist customers at this time.
The Board of Regents is assuring account holders that their
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accounts are fully insured and their money will eventually returned
to them, but they're currently unable to explain why the
website crashed and when it will be restored. Oh wow,
it's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Was it an internet issue or.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They have no idea? And the third thing you need
before tomorrow. The Saint Tammany Parish council member Kathy Sidon
is running for US Senate. Siden is a LSU graduate
in her first term as a parish council member. She
is a mother of four who used to work for
Dell Computers before moving back to Louisiana. Siden's campaign website
(11:24):
says she's one hundred percent pro life and supports President
Trump's America First Agenda. Sidon says career politicians like Senator
Cassidy have failed us for too long. It's time for
a mother who will fight like her children's lives depend
on it, because they do well.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And they do absolutely, but I think Senator Kennedy certainly does.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Cenaer Cassidy.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Cassidy. Yeah, I get it, I
get it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I understand she's running. I'm just not sure it's got
the experience to be a senator. But hey, it's what
the primary is for. We'll be right back. Stick around.
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Speaker 1 (13:14):
Welcome back to America.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Parative Stephen bar with Lewis sar Avlony.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Louisiana judge has just slammed the door on one of
the most outrageous, politically motivated lawsuits that we have seen
in a long time in Louisiana. And there have been
a lot of politically motivated lawsuits. This was a lawsuit
by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, and they were suing
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the Attorney General Liz Merrele okay, saying you better, you better,
you better defend this congressional map, this sixth six district
congressional map.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, So this is the highly jerrymandered congressional map. And
this is the one that you know, Republicans put out
because there was a Democrat judge who said the previous
map was not racially jerrymandered enough. So Republicans said, bet,
and they created the most racially jerrymandered map they could
even think of. And then now that got that got
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a lawsuit against it by people who weren't.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
By the Black CAUCUSUS.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Before that, so people that weren't black suit to stop
the map. It was always Supreme Court streep corps is
going to rule on it. And then went, you know what,
we're gonna hear arguments again asking if this is even
the right way of doing things. Should we be reinterpreting
how the Civil Rights Voting Act is interpreted? And Liz
Merle once the Supreme Courts that we're gonna listen to
it again, Liz Merle said, actually, I can't defend this map.
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This map is unconstitutional and the Voting Rights Act is
something that needs to be changed. We we don't interpret
that correctly. And so the Black Caucus sued, saying, no,
Liz Merle, you have to defend this map because it
was drawn by the legislature, and and that's why they
started suing.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, and look, let's not make any mistake about this.
This wasn't about representation. This new congressional map wasn't about
representation or justice or fairness. This was just about raw
political power. This was about This was race based jerrymandering
that the left has been peddling for decades. And they
dressed it up as civil rights. But that's not what
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it was.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And here you have it's racism, is what it is. Right,
because the left says that they have this idea that
if someone is black, they cannot be represented by someone
in Congress who's white. If some if you have if
you have a black voter, this is the left's mindset.
This is what the Black Caucus says. If there's a
voter who's black and they have to vote for a
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white person, then they aren't represented. In Congress, and that
is racists and it's wrong. You're telling me that Steve
Scalize doesn't listen to any of his black concs, that
he doesn't represent any black constituents in Congress. Absolutely not.
Look Over in Texas, you've got Wesley Hunt. He's from
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the Houston area, right, he happens to be black, he's
a Republican. His district is majority white. Okay, So are
you telling me that the white people in the Houston
area who elected Wesley Hunt can't be represented by Wesley
Hunt because Wesley Hunt's black. That is the same logic argument.
That's the logic that the left says. That's why the
left says we have to have these minority majority districts
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because you can't be represented by somebody who's not the
same skin color of you. That is the definition of racism.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And you know what's ironic here, you know, because I
know there are a lot of folks who say, well,
it must just be some conservative judge that you know,
obviously is racist and Republican and conservative, et cetera. This
was Judge E. Bonnie Johnson Rose Ebony Ebony Johnson Rowell.
(16:57):
You could say ebony Okay, or she may say she
may see bonnie. Yeah, not quite sure. Okay, I don't know,
Judge Rose. Okay, she might pronounce it ebony. I mean
it's with an I the end. Yeah, e bonnie as
I pronounced it's ib No, no, no, it's e b oh. Okay,
(17:19):
So evan e b as in boy yes, oh in
ebony or nevertheless, Judge Rose, how about that? Okay? Can
we agree on that?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Rose by any other name?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So, Judge Rose is a Democrat, and she is a
Democrat who was suspended by the Louisiana State Supreme Court
in April for purely inventing laws from the bench. Do
you remember this? I remember this, Judge, Judge Judge Rose.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So the so the Democrat Black Caucus got the judge
they wanted because this.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And she had to concede that that ag merle Uh
was completely on point here.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That doesn't have to defend the law if the law
is unconstitutional, And so.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Of course the agmorl said, this is the proper result.
Our focus is on arguments in the United States Supreme
Court and addressing the flaws in the courts jurisprudence that
deprives the legislative legislature of their constitutionally constitutional duty overdrawing maps.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And that's really what this comes down to, is how
are we going to draw these maps all across the
country because right now there's two different standards and they conflict.
The Civil Rights Voting Act the way it's been interpreted
says you have to have a proportional number of minority
majority districts in order to not be violating that law,
which means you must consider race first and foremost when
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you are drawing congressional boundaries. But the Constitution in the
fourteenth Amendment says we all have equal protection. Well, that
means you can't be taking race into account. You can't
be giving one race of people a benefit that another
race of people would get. Because we are all created equal.
Everybody has to be judged the same. So it's not
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all right to go into your redistricting and go, Okay,
these people because of the color of their skin, these
people are special, and these other people, because of the
color of their skin, they are pariahs. That they're the problem.
You can't draw a boundary for them. You have to
draw the boundary for the other people because these other
people they're better.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But see I think the larger argument here that the
Black Caucus was making and it was an abject failure
in terms of logic, is that what they're basically saying
is is ag Murrew has that once the legislature passes
a law, any law, right, that the Attorney General is
(19:52):
obligated to defend it, no matter what right. And so
that's the argument that ag Murrow was not upholding her
constitutional dude, is that no matter what the at least
according to the Black Caucus. This is the argument there
making the Louisiana Legislature, the Black Caucus, within the Louisiana Legislature,
they basically said, you have a duty, no matter what
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the legislature passes, to defend it. But here's the problem
with that logic. The attorney general's first obligation it is
not to the legislature's ego. No, it's to the constitution
of this great State of Louisiana and of the United
States of America. Because if the legislature passes a map
(20:34):
that violates constitutional principles, especially ones that weaponize race for
political advantage, then it's the Attorney general's duty to stand
up and say, hold on, this doesn't pass constitutional muster.
So that's not a betrayal of her of aging Murrell's obligations.
I think it shows integrity and so far as she
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understands what her role is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And she did defend it court when it first went there,
until the Supreme Court asked a different question. And this
is why the Supreme Court wanted to come back to
this case. It's very rare. I can't remember another case
where the Supreme Court heard arguments in one session, decided
not to rule on it. Instead said hey, guys, come back,
same case. We have a different question for you. And
(21:21):
I can't think of another case who they've done that,
But that's what they did with this one. Well, when
they asked the different question, is the Voting Rights Act
the way we've been interpreting it is that constitutional? That
is when that is when Agmurle changed her defense of
the law. She was defending it and now she says
I can't defend it based upon the question you're now asking.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And you know, the left and folks like those within
the Louisiana Black caucase, you know, they're perfectly happy when
an attorney general, for example, in another state like California
or New York makes a decision that is contrary to
the law or constitution, you know, benefits that as long
as it benefits their partisan But when a Republican like
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ag Merle dares to follow her conscience and the Constitution,
by the way, suddenly it's a dereliction of duty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
We can't continue to judge people on the basis of race.
I don't know why. That's a hard concept. We'll grab that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're listening to American ground Radio. American ground radio sounds
so good. Patriots asked for it by name. In fact,
there's going to be an emoji for it pretty soon.
Well that's what I heard, is that's not true. That's true, right, Okay.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Welcome back to America Groun Radio. Stephen Power Lewis.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I was about to say the only Democrat congressman from
the state of Louisiana, but of course we have two.
We have two now. But I was about to talk
about Congressman Troy Carter from New Orleans. Oh. He is
wringing his hands. He says, Oh, this is day eight,
day nine of the shutdown, and you know, we've got
(23:23):
to we've got to communicate, you know, we've got to
work together.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
To really talk about Democrats. Democrats do need to work together.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
No, no, no, no, he's talking about he's talking about
the Senate in particular, that the Senate has to work
through their differences. Well, you know, here's the difference, Congressman.
Conservatives believe government should be smaller and leaner and accountable.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Wait wait, wait, that's not that has nothing to do
with the shutdown.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
No I get that. No, no, it has everything to
do with because because that's the reason that Republicans in
Congress will not negotiate for the nonsense that the Democrats
are proposing.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Except that that makes it sound like the Republicans put
in a poison pill of making the government smaller. No,
the Republicans just said we want to continue spending at
the Biden level. Nothing to do with trying to even
shrink the size of government. This is simply saying we
just want to keep the government open, and the Democrats
are saying, no, we don't want to keep the government
open unless you add another one point five trillion dollars
on the debt. It's not about Republicans trying to shrink
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the size of government. It's about the Democrats trying to
go through and explode it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I guess it's it's a matter of perspective government. I mean,
Republicans do believe in smaller government, and that is the
reason that they're not advocating or otherwise willing to vote
for one point five trillion dollars in new deficit spending.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It's completely it's completely unnecessary what the Democrats are trying
to do. But here in the Republicans, the Republicans have
simply just said, let's just continue for another couple of
weeks spending money at the same level we are spending
it under the Biden administration, until we can finish our budget.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
B But the divide here is you can't communicate your
way around the divide here, and that is one point
five trillion dollars in new deficit spending, right There's you
can communicate that all day long. But until you can
come together to understand that increasing government spending by one
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point five trillion, which includes.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Money for health care for illegal aliens, that's that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, But it's not. The Senate isn't failing to pass
these measures because there's no dialogue, Congressman Carter. They're failing
to pass these measures to put to get the government
back open because Democrat Democrats won't budge an inch from
their addiction to spending.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
They don't want the government open. They want to be
using the shutdown as a political tool. That's why the
government shut down.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
And I will say that all of this feigned, you know,
hand ringing by Congressman Troy Carter. Yeah, it's a little
ridiculous because if he really wanted to do something about it,
he would call out his Democrat brethren and say, look,
you know what, this is a clean cr this is
(26:13):
a clean continuing resolution. Let's just get the government back open.
And let's let's debate the agenda, the whatever woke agenda
that that my party wants to put forward. We'll do
that at another time, but right now, let's just get
the government. There's too many people affected, and let's just
let's just do the right thing for the American people.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The reason the government shut down is because the Democrats
don't want to vote to open up the government. That's it.
That's the only reason. Let's dig deep, going so Streetport
Mayor Tom Arseneau is proposing a new two fee on
water bills in Shreveport.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
UH.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
This is a look as a small government conservative. I
am always opposed or at least suspicious of new taxes.
If you're putting a fee on a water bill, that's
a tax.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
The Supreme Court said those are the same.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Words, but it's a temporary tax.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay. Yeah, I was gonna get to that.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
In order to be fair, we do need to look
at what all of this is about. Right, Yes, I'm
opposed to new taxes. I also want to be fair.
So what is this one about. One of Arsenal's biggest
priorities as mayor is fighting blight. Is that fair to
say he wants to fight black That.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Will is block by block initiative, which I think could
be used as a blueprint for cities all over the
state of Louisiana. I agree, if you're going to go
in and you're going to clean up neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Go in with people who live in the neighborhood, and.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
You literally have to go block by blah by bloh.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Blit is a big problem in any city. It's especially
a big problem in Streetport. It's not just some abandoned
houses here and there. It's abandoned houses, abandoned apartments, abandoned hotels,
abandoned office buildings too. Blight does have a cost on citizen.
It lowers your property values. It gives opportunities for crime,
which will lead to more blight because crime causes poverty,
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It prevents new development. People will be more likely to
invest in a piece of property if they can start
building on it, if they don't have to start by
destroying a building that's on that property first. Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh? Absolutely, of course, Well yeah, because I mean well,
first of all, I no one's going to buy that
property with junk on it, with junk on it, especially
in a especially in a part of town where the
property values are already low.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So blight does need to be addressed. And demolishing abandoning
buildings does cost money, and that's part of why these
these properties were abandoned in the first place. Now, Arsenal
released a FAQ A Frequently Asked Questions list. He says,
the city has reached the point where doing nothing is
more expensive and dangerous than acting.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And I think that that's probably right.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We've had all these fires, We've had all these things
burning a house down and then that actually catches the
house next door to it on fire. Yeah, it is
a problem.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You can't just look the other way. I mean, especially
is leader of a city. This is a problem, right,
and you've got to address it somehow.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So I don't think the question is should the city
be addressing blight? Absolutely, I do think that's something that
only government can do. Therefore it's something government should do.
It does go after, it does affect other citizens' right
to pursue happiness, and to the point that blighted properties
become havens for crime. Blight can also become a liberty
or even a life issue. So this is a legitimate
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function of government addressing blight.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
It is, and there's a lot of we'll go ahead,
all right.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So the question then is where's the money come from?
Because if this is a legitimate function of government, the
government should do it. Now, how do you pay for it?
For abandoned properties, It is not going to come from
the property owners. They don't have the money. That's why
they abandon the property. Arsenal said, at this time there
are no state or federal grants available for large scale demolition.
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We are going to explore whether the National Guard might
be able to assist in the demolition process if they
are deployed to Shreetport as the governor question. Now, I
think that's an interesting idea, how to use the National
Guard to help fight crime. If you can get that approved,
I think that would be great. But if you can't,
now we still got to get the money from somewhere
to address this issue.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
No, and I get that, and I want to address
this part of it. Though. There's a lot of folks
that say, why should I pay for the negligence, the
negligent ownership of someone else in my community, the.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Same reason why you pay to house somebody in jail.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
No, no, no, but true, true, And I get that part,
and I'm not about letting someone off scott free. But
at the same time, just think about it in this way,
and this may be a crude way of putting it,
but if a dog walks up onto your porch and
leaves you just a heaping mound of you know what, okay,
(30:48):
and you come out the next morning and you go,
oh my gosh, you know, I got a big pilot
you know what on my porch, No one in their
right mind says I didn't make that mess. The dog,
the owner, somebody needs to come clean that up. And
then every morning you just keep stepping over the same
(31:08):
pile of whatever. No, you're going to take care of it,
and then you're going to keep your eye out and
you're going to try to figure out who is accountable
for this. But if you don't clean up your own
mess right there on your front porch, who's going to
want to come visit you.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
The other thing I do like about this proposal is
that it's temporary. Eighteen months is what he says would
be needed to raise the money to address all the
blight in the city. Lafayette did that with their airport.
They did a temporary tax. It went away when they
were done with it, and it was a good way
to fund the airport. Look, before we raise taxes, I
still think we need to make sure that we're not
spending money on non governmental organizations. If they're an NGO,
(31:47):
they need to be non governmental. We need to make
sure we're spending the money the right way. But part
of that is we do need to address blight. We'll
be back.
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Speaker 3 (33:15):
So back to my example here. If a dog wanders
up to your porch and leaves a big pile of
you know what, a steaming, smelly, wow fly attracting pile
of you know what. Okay, but you've got two choices here.
You can stand there and complain about how it's not fair,
how it wasn't your dog, how it's somebody else's responsibility,
(33:36):
or you can grab a shovel and take care of
business and clean it up. Because if you don't, guess what,
the next time somebody comes over your neighbor, you're in laws,
maybe even someone who is thinking about doing business with you,
they're going to see it. They're going to smell it,
and they're going to think that you, that you are
the problem. They're not going to ask who made the mess.
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They're going to judge by whether you cleaned it up.
And that, my friends, is exactly and Stephen, how cities
have come to think about blight. That's why somebody has
to take this cause of blight, and oftentimes it is
it's not the city's fault, and it's not the taxpayer's fault.
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And yes they're footing the bill. Buildings get abandoned, owners
move away, they pass away, they stop paying taxes. You know,
maybe someone had a dream to build a business, but
the dream died and the building decayed. It happens. But
when you are the city, when you're the one left
holding the bag, or in this case, holding the mop
(34:42):
or the shovel or the whatever. You can't just sit
back and say, well, it's not our fault, because just
like that pile of you know what on your porch,
the longer you ignore it, the worse it gets. And
blight has.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Certainly been a big problem in Shreeport for a very
long time, and we've had lots of, you know, kind
of halfway measures of trying to address it every now
and then. But I do believe that Mayor Arsenal sees
this as a big problem, something that's preventing further investment
in the city of report. That's something that does need
to be addressed, and you got to cut you gotta
(35:20):
come with the money from somewhere. Again, I'm still not
convinced that the city is spending money one hundred percent
the way it should. Can we is there three million
dollars If you take all the money we're given to
NGOs from the city's report, does it add up to
three million dollars? Because that's what he says he needs here,
So you can stop giving money to NGOs. Now we
got three million dollars to handle blight, and we're not
having to raise taxes, no.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Absolutely, And We've all visited cities where the streets were
clean and the grass was cut and the sidewalks you know,
were repaired. I mean, you know there aren't jagged and
broken up. That's a place that feels alive. When you're there,
you're like, this is a nice place, right, Why can't
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why can't we have nice things? You know about back
where we live now, we.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Don't even edge the grass on the side of the road.
We just let it grow into the road.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
But that's a place. When you visit that place, it
feels alive, right, It's like a place that's worth investing.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
It feels safe.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
But when you have a city that is full of
boarded up windows and broken fences and weeds that are
that are taller than your truck, right, I mean that
essentially says stay away. It does, and it does. And
back to my example of the you know that you
know what on the porch. It doesn't matter whose dog
made the mess. If you're the homeowner or in this case,
(36:39):
the mayor and the city council, you've got to clean
it up. And where that money comes from, I don't know.
We can talk about that, we can certainly debate about that,
but the responsibility. You can't just say I didn't make
the mess. My neighbors didn't make the mess. Why aren't
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those that are responsible for making the mess the ones
being held accountable.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Well, because they don't have any money. You know, it
comes back to that old adage of lawyerism. Don't sue
poor people. Well, if these people don't have any money,
like if their best asset is the is the blighted
piece of property, that's the only asset they have left,
and you sue them, what are you gonna get? But
you're gonna get a bliighted piece of property. And you
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still have the same problem. But now you've added court
costs on top of that.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
But here's the other part of that. In the meantime,
property values around your property values will continue to decline. Right,
So you can spend a little money that begrudgingly, that
is against every fiber in your body, But at the
end of the day, in doing so, you actually are
increasing the value of your your own homes, the value
(37:52):
of your property, of your business property, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
And again, only a government, only a city government, can
deal with the blight situation. This is not something that
just private citizens can start going on and tearing down
other buildings. No, because then you're violating someone else's rights.
This has to be a government entity that does it.
That means if only a government can do it, then
only a government. This is something a government should be doing.
(38:17):
Government should be addressing blight for the safety and security
and the pursuit of happiness reasons of its citizens. Again,
the only question is where does the money come from?
And if it's not from a temporary two percent tax,
an eighteen month tax on water, where are we going
to get that money from? And that's really where we
(38:38):
should just focus this discussion at this point. If we
can show that there's already money in the budget that
we can pull from other things, because a budget is
an expression of a city's priorities, this is a blighte
situation has to be addressed. If you can show that
there's money in the budget that can go to solving
the blight issue, great, let's show that. However, if the
money's not there, then perhaps a two percent fee on
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water is a smart way of dealing with this. If
it's an eighteen month thing, you don't have to go
to a bond election, which will cost money. You don't
have to go into debt to do it, which would
be another problem. So that's where the discussion should be
on this.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Let's see if I agree. But if we always a
lot of folks say nothing ever changes. Well, if you
take the attitude that you're not going to clean up
what is wrong, even if you didn't cause it, then
nothing will change. But that's not what real leadership is.
The cost of doing nothing is always far greater than
the cost of doing what's right.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
And we've got enough isoors in our cities in Louisiana. Again,
go to some of those places in Texas where they're thriving,
and you just don't see the blight that you see
all throughout Louisiana. This is something we have to address
if we want to keep our children here and have
other people's children move here.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Welcome back to America, Great Radio. Stephen Parr with Lewis.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
All right, So this is the second year in the
row in a row, say in a row. That's much
better that the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of
Health is not holding any kind of public flu vaccine
events or taxpayer funded advertising campaigns pushing the flu vaccine,
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and you know what, I think this makes sense. I
think that it is not government's job to market pharmaceutical
pharmaceuticals to the people of the state. I think if
your doctor recommends the flu vaccine for you, okay, that's
between you and your doctor. Oh. I can hear the
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left right now saying, oh, you don't feel that about abortion. Well,
that's not between you and your doctor. That's actually an
unborn baby.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I meant, your doctor trying to give you a flu
a flu inoculation would be trying to protect your life.
Preventing abortion is about protecting the life like the unborn,
and a doctor hopefully would recommends you know, we're gonna
we're gonna keep things alive. That's kind of the supposed
to be the job of doctors.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
But it's not the job of government to market medicine.
The job of government in this instance, I think, is
to provide honest information, make these vaccines available obviously, and
let grown ups make adult decisions here instead of saying
everybody's got to get this. Yeah, well, I mean, who
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is Ralph Abraham to know exactly what your medical condition
is and whether or not that's the right decision. By
the way, it was Senator Cassidy that actually wanted to
mandate that the governor, or Ralph Abraham write a blanket
prescription for COVID, for the COVID vaccine, which is.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Way more dangerous than flu vaccines are.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
So let folks, look, we're all smart, grown ups. We
can make that decision between us and our doctor.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
All of us are smarter than any one of us.
I mean, that's just one of the things that the
Left doesn't seem to quite understand, but it's true. We
have another hour of American ground radio coming up. Stick around.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
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