March 7, 2025 • 54 mins
State Rep. Ricky Templet faces off against activist Andrea Manuel in a debate for the (West Bank) District 1 Jefferson Parish Council seat. Hosted by the Crimefighters organization, the March 29 election is to fill the unexpired term of Marion Edwards. Hy and Christopher are joined in the questioning by Crimefighters President Irv Magri. The third candidate in the race, Mayor Timothy Kerner Jr., was invited to attend the debate and had committed to come, but did not show up. Early voting for the election starts March 15.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing to
fill the holes while then are feeling their pie kits
pied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road, every bisition
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to no more corruption and dysfunction. It's gone on a table.
Divine its avention.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
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Speaker 3 (01:02):
Today, Christopher Tidmore, you're a roving reporter, resident radical moderate
and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at louisianaweekly
dot net. And on this week's show, The Founder's Show
has gone on the road to do a debate with
the Crime Fighters Organization. We were proudly invited by IRV
Magriy the crime Fighter's president, to moderate the debate between
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for the first District, which is the West Bank for
the Jefferson Parish Council. We all three candidates in the
election were invited. Tim Temple decided not to attend, but
Ricky Template, a state representative and former District one council member,
faced off against Andrea Manuel in a one hour debate
and we're happy to bring you that debate here on
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WRIO and WSLA. Today's debate is moderated by yours truly,
Christopher Tidmore as well as High and IRV Magory, the
president of the crime Fighters organizations, and we took questions
from the audience as well. Listen in to the debate
between Ricky Template and Andrea Manuel. The special election for
the first District, which basically is everything on the West
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Bank from Gretna and Terrytown all the way down to
Grand Isle, and so you have everything being talked about
from coastal erosion to insurance costs to how to get
young people to ring communities. That first District race will
go up for special election on March twenty ninth, with
early voting starting March fifteenth. It is to finish the
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unexpired term of Marion Edwards, who resigned. Ladies and Gentlemen.
Ricky Template goes off against first time candidate Andrea Manuel,
a former staffer on the Jefferson Parish Council, and of
course Ricky Template, as I pointed out, is a state
representative and a former Jefferson Parish Council person. And IRV
Magor will give you sort of a background on the district.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
People have been asking me, as y'all come in what
area that includes? Real quickly, I'll let them explain it
to but basically is from Gretna, let's say, to Hobby,
but a few precincts in Morero and grand Isle, Lafitte,
Barataria and so forth.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
So all three candidates has to come. Mayor Kerna.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm pretty sure he told my secretary, my pro bono secretary, melody, melody,
where are you hun?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Didn't he say it was gonna come? Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Okay, Well anyway, so I can't answer why he's not here.
We're gonna start off the debate. Each candidate has four minutes.
Do you give an opening statement? We're gonna start off
by alphabetical, so miss Okay, Miss Emmanuel, will you please
start off.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Good evening everyone.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
My name is Andrea Manuel, and I'm so excited to
be here tonight. First of all, I'd like to thank
the crime fighters for hosting us tonight. I also want
to thank each one of you to for spending time
to get to know the candidate. I am a lifelong
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resident of Jefferson Parish. I'm a graduate of a Jefferson
Parish public school system, and I'm a graduate of Xavier
University of Louisiana. I know the benefits of having a
good education. Tonight, I'm here as a candidate. I'm here
to tell you why you should vote for me to
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be the candidate that you endorse for the Jefferson Parish
Council District one seat. Let me start by telling you,
first of all, why I'm running for this seat. I
ask myself, Andrea, what can you do in the community
that you live that benefits them by using your time
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and your talents, And this opportunity presented itself. Well, I'm
running for Jefferson Parish Council District one because I understand
the unique challenges and strengths of District one, which is Terrytown, Gretna,
Jean Lafite and Grandall. There's lots to do well. I'm
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willing to roll up my sleeves and work. There's nothing
that either of my opponents are willing to do that
I am not able to do, which means bringing goods
and services to our community.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I intend to.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I intend to represent the district in its entirety. My
career has been dedicated to serving others. I want to
bring the same dedication to Jefferson Parish Council. I want
to ensure every resident that they have a voice. I
believe in investment in school, supporting local businesses, improving infrastructure,
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and ensuring government transparency. I will work tirelessly to make
sure that Jefferson Parish has everything that it needs. I
have a degree in psychology, my master's in forensic psychology.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I have been a missionary in Venezuela.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Puerto Abla Espanol contre la hinting I can speak Spanish
to the Hispanic community, which constantly is growing. I intend
to reach to the broader of our community. In closing,
I will work on understanding the needs of Jefferson Parish
as a whole, and I would be honored to represent
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every resident and make sure everyone has a voice. So
I'm asking you tonight to please consider endorsing endorsing me
Andrea Manuel as your council choice District one.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You're listening to a special edition of the Founder's Show.
Here in wrn O and WSLA, we are hosting the
crime Fighters Debate for the District one seat for the
Jefferson Parish Council Andrea Manuel versus Ricky Template. IRV Magre
is joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore as our moderator
for today's debate.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Now, I'm Missiter Ricky Tomplay.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
I appreciate a talk play a lot. I can introduced
that way A couple of times when I served in
Baton Ruge, I'd get two introductions from the governor. He
would say tom Play and then he would say representative Template.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
So I answer to both of them. But thank you
very much.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, to our French speaking audience, is time play well English,
it's Template.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Look, thank you so much for all of y'all taking
out of your time tonight to be here, because it
shows how much you're invested.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
In your community.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
I want to make sure we say Thank you to
the Crime Fighters Organization. There are sixteen thousand members strong
that actually fight each and every day for the victims
of crime. They put their voice and their money and
their time trying to make sure the victims have a voice,
because that's one thing we're losing in this state, in
our country, is that the victims don't have much rights anymore.
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And I really appreciate that y'all fight for those rights.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I'm rich the template. I'm running for District one.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Office because this is where I live, work and play,
and I raised my family. My beautiful wife's here tonight,
my son's here tonight, and I think that's all what
we all are doing here with running for offices, that
we're fighting to have a great place for our families
to be able to grow up in. And that's why
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I'm here fighting.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
For this look.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I served as a Gretna City councilman, I served as
a State rep. And I served as District one councilman
as well as serving the whole parish of four hundred
and fifty thousand people with all dignity, and every time
had the endorsement of the Crime Fight Association. I'm not
sure if y'all can hear me in the back. But
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you know some of the laws that I helped carrying
Baton Rouge, and one of the ones I'm most proud
of is the Major Crime Task Force. Y'all heard of
it as the Major Crime Task Force, but it started
out as the West Bank Major Crime Task Force where
it included Jefferson Parish, Gretna, Placaman's, New Orleans, and Westwego.
It was a task force after Katrina that we helped
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form that actually was attacking crime across all borders. It
took place right after Katrina. I had been able to
keep the funding in place since Katrina, and then the
state cut the funding, and I was able to keep
the funding in place locally with the parish, and just
last year we funded it permanently, the Major Crime Task
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Force to protect us so where we live here in
Jefferson Parish to the tune of a million dollars a year,
and it has a ninety percent convictionery that is incredible
in it. And I really liked the applause Chief Loss
and all law enforcement for making that happen here on
the West Bank. So please give a round of applause.
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I have passed many bills that fight for victims' rights,
and I've always been there. I've been very pro law
I have to tell a story, and I know I'm
running out of time, But during Katrina, I was on
the streets, Okay, which chief off of Lawson and all
the law enforcement on the West Bank when Oakwood was
burning down and you were trying to protect our neighborhoods.
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And I have kept that mindset of what those of
officers went through and the victims that were victimized during
that time a period because I was there. You know,
there's a bill that I also passed. We're dealing with
these synthetic bass salts, if you remember correctly where kids
were buying. They called them bass salts at convenience stores,
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but you could smoke them and get a high on them,
and they were legal.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I passed the first bill that dealt with those synthetic drugs.
I'm around the town, Okay, and.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Made it illegals that where they couldn't sell those anymore
to our children and kill them. Look, I'm running back
for District one to represent the people because it's the
place I believe in Bretna to Grand Isle, it is
my backyard, and I know it like the back of
my hand, and looking forward to continue representing all the
y'all and making Jeffson Powers just about a place.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
For all of us to live, work and play. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Now, members of the audience, I hope you all have
some good questions for these candidates.
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edition of The Founder's Show. Here in wrn O and WSLA,
we are hosting the Crime Fighters Debate for the District
one seat for the Jefferson Parish Council. Andrea Manuel versus
Ricky template IRV Magray is joining Hi McHenry and Christopher
Tidmore as our moderator for today's debate.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Okay, I'll ask a question to both candidates, what do
you see as the major current problems facing District one
on the council, including Grand Isle, Lavie, Barataria.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
And the West Bank MS Vanion.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
The thing that I say that is most prevalent, and
district one is the coastal erosion because of the thousands
of bakers that we.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Lose in Louison.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
There are lots of talk and now it's time for
some action. We really have to be really super proactive
and I'm ready to get on to roll up my
sleeves and even if it's going to Congress, we need
to get it done.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
A question there.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I own property and lived on Grandell for many years
of my life. Talk about erosion, you're right on my property.
I lost three hundred feet by one hundred and eighty
feet in from nineteen hundred and sixty one to Hurrican idem.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
We are okay.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
People don't realize we don't get the water really from
the gulf side.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
We get our waters.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Mayor David Kamadell will tell you we get it from
the rear from camel out of Bay coming up. Could
you possibly think about obtaining funds to put a rock
jetty around the entire island which it needs, with of
course the ability to pump out should the water come
over the levee.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I also have to take just a moment to recognize
my husband who's here with me also, and he is
also a Tobo captain. He is on the water all
the time. That is his for the past thirty years.
That's what he's been doing. It's important to use every
means necessary to make the island, to save the residents
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property and to keep the community safe.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
It's time.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It cuts across right by. I'm next to the bridge.
I'm about.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Say three hundred yards about two hundred yards from the bridge,
and it cuts across not only my property, it cuts
across Highway one.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
You see. I have the Gulf on my.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
South coming out of Bay on the north, and it
cuts right in front of my on my property and
it cuts Highway one in one.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
It cuts it into two.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And I have to people cannot people cannot evacuate. If
they only evacuate early, we have trouble getting them. I
used to be the assistant chief of police after refir
after I retire for the NLPD, I was the assistant
chief of police and grand.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Al well what I also would say, it's people like
you who have their stories, not stories, life skills. I
plan if elected to do a listening tour, I need
to hear what's really going on. It's one thing to
hear what the news is showing. But it's another thing
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to knock on the doors of an individual and say,
what are your concerns in District one? How can I help?
So that's one of the number one things on my list.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You're listening to a special edition of the Founder's Show
here in WRN and WSLA. We are hosting the crime
Fighters Debate for the District one seat for the Jefferson
Parish Council. Andrea Manuel versus Ricky Template IRV Magrey is
joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore as our moderator for
today's debate.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Okay, same question to mister templay a template.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
We'll look all of us in this room.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
So the number one pressing issue for all of us
are keeping our youth because, believe me, we're losing our
twenty five to thirty five year old kids, and we're
having trouble maintaining our seniors who are on fixed income.
And the main issues is a homeowner's insurance. Ladies and gentlemen,
people cannot afford to stay here the way our homeowner
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insurance is being used today in our flood insurance. So
what we need to figure out is an innovative way
to do a pilot program just here in Jefferson Parish,
take some of our fun balance that is sitting in
the bank and creates a unique pilot program figuring out
how that we institute a pilot program that makes insurance
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affordable for our young to stay here and our elderly
not to leave. Because when your homeowners insurance no costs
more than your note for your home, it's a problem.
So you know, I'm proposing that we take at least
one hundred million dollars out of our fun ballance somehow
and create this pilot program on RVIL. On your comment about,
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you know, the coastal protection on the backside of the island,
you couldn't be more correct. People think when a hurricane
comes in that it automatically comes from the Gulf. Hurricane
Katrina when it hit us, it went on the east.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Side of the river.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
That meant all the water was being blown out of Lafite,
Barataria and Crown Point on the backside of the island.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
It didn't get the water from the Gulf.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
It came up to the bay and La Feet was dry,
but the island was ten feet underwater. So twelve point
five feet at his house. So we did, and I
can tell you what I've done so far. Had put
six million dollars towards building new rock jetties behind the
island to breakdown the coastal and wind and waves, as
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well as the state matched that money, and they had
finished a our jetties, but they left openings. Now we
need to come back and do in between those openings
to do a full correction on such. But on the
front of the island after Ida, there was over one
hundred what we fought for to redo the whole island,
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beach front and Levey over one hundred and twenty million
dollars from FEMA that came in and it's now being
completed as we speak.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Thank you very much. A question from Justine, I only
for one.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Day tell you that I am a woman of God.
And when I tell you, I was working on my
own power, saying I'm going to do this, I'm going
to do this, this is how I'm going to get
to the community, and I need this.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
The spirit would not let me rest.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I was fighting against the spirit and flesh of doing
what I thought I should be doing to get where
I need to go and what God wanted me to do,
so I yielded and afraid, not sure what's gonna happen.
I had to do with the spirit, so I did
a spiritual move.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That's driftly it. You're welcome.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
For both candidates. Okay, you're both bought up insurance. Okay,
how on a local level can you possibly affect our
insurance rates? And how long of a period of time
are you talking about when you build these rock levees
that will impede the floor of water. Therefore flood insurance
would be affected and so forth and sore, And that's
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not gonna be happening in a short order.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So why don't y'all try to answer that?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Go ahead, let's start with a stay representative of Rick template.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Well, especially on the island in grand Isle, which is
our coastaliled and ladies and gentlemen. We want Lafite and
grand out out there that we needed to protect us
here the fight.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
We wanted to stay out.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
In the golf and out in the bays because our
levees that's around Jumps and Parish are all earthen levees.
They're designed for rising water. They're not designed for hurricanes
to beat them up.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Directly.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
So we need grand Isle out there and Lafeed out
there to be our first line of defense. To answer
a question on rocks, the governor committed last year to
fifty million dollars to finish the rocks on the gulf
side of the island. Not just I talked about the
levee being finished, was one hundred and twenty million after
itders them. So they will finish on the gulf side
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the protection of fifty million dollars completing the rock jetties
on the Islan on the golf side, which will make
a dramatic difference with wave action because during Ida they
had one hundred and ninety mile an hour winds clocked
on some boats. The section of the island that had
protection of rocks survived, the section without it didn't. So
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this is going to be a drastic change of protecting
all of us here because we had the island out
there with the protection. As far as how do we
do it locally for insurance, we have to try something new.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
We have to think out of the box.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
This pilot program could probably be funded directly through Jefferson
Parish and see if it works. If you don't try,
you never know and if it works and you prove
it works, then you go to the state. Then you
go to the FEDS and say, we have a proven
record that this works, we need you to fund it
for further action.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Miss Andrea Manuel, candidate for first districts as well past Cancel.
The two questions to remind are what about rocks and
better fortifications for our coastal farr islands like grand Isle,
and also your thoughts on insurance and rower insurance rates?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
What First of all, should I be elected, I would
pick up where our council previous councilmen started left off.
Jefferson Paris has great resources, great accommodations that are made
for these occasions. What I would do is as I
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pick up where they left off and.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Get some research.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
We are not the only one facing these tragic events Florida.
It happens in Mississippi. There are lots of places where
these traumatic experiences are happening. We need to get some research,
find out some solutions that's been working for other states,
and see.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
What's best for us locally.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
We have to have a listening tour to find out
about this gentleman's problem.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Find out there are things we have not even heard of.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
So until we get out and we listen do our
worst research, we're going to continue to see the same thing.
It's time for some fresh perspectives and.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
I'm the one to bring it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And if I can follow up on the question of insurance,
the Governor chairned a lot of heads when he came
out and said this past week, what we're seeing with
insurance companies is they've enriched shareholders, but it's made the
American consumer or I don't know if we should be
against it should be against public policy in this country
for an insurance company to be publicly controlled. We have
to have an honest discussion about it. Our conservative Republican
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governor actually broached the idea of a government owned, government
controlled property insurance company. And this is and it would
could be done on a state level or a parish level.
Is that something you would embrace, Andrea Manuel, and then
we'll go to you set represent a template.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Everything's on the playing field. There's no cut and dry
answer that I would give. The most intelligent way that
I could answer this is saying it needs to be
researched and see what's beneficial for the community as a whole.
It should not be something what's going to be the
most profit for the state, the government. It needs to
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be well thought out and the decision needs to be
made based on information, not emotions.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You're listening to a special edition of The Founder's Show.
Here in wn and WSLA, we are hosting the Crime
Fighters Debate for the District one seat for the Jefferson
Parish Council. Andrea Manuel versus Ricky template IRV Magrey is
joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore as our moderator for
today's debate.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So you'll understand a lot of people on grand isl
can no longer for the insurance, so they're selling their homes.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
We're losing a lot of what we call the natives.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
They're not just selling them, they just in abandon them.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yes, but okay, that's what I'm saying. This has to
be looked at very very hard, quite frankly. I mean,
I've been on the island basically most of my life
and to see your home, I've lost my home completely,
not that it matters, and we were all not ninety
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percent of us were insured with ages Aegis insurance company
out of Pennsylvania, and they would only write my home
was a praise at about four hundred thousand, because I'm
right on the water, not near the water, on the water.
In fact, they had a just built a forty but
forty deck and uh, it's when everything's gone. Fifty seven
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legal file, cabinets, four boats, six six golf courts. I
rented golf courts on the island so they could ride
up and down the beach. I lost all my family pictures,
just everything. But what I'm saying is, but they have
to understand, as mister tom Play said, the water is
coming in from the bay. Barrett's having correction coming out
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of bay, is coming in from the back end. Justine
can tell you we got twelve point five feet of water.
It's hard to fight twelve point five feet of water, ladies, gentlemen, okay.
And the company, the insurance company would only pay me
one twenty five from my home because that's all they
would insure us, one twenty five. Then get you if
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you had four hundred thousand dollars home, you got one
twenty five. So we took a real beating to say
at least yeah, well yes, sir, it's.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
A template, thank you, stay right.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
So it was it do you want me to answer
as far as the assurance, Look, I could, I could
support the idea just as long as the public has
a choice if they want to use it or use
a private company as well. Everybody needs to have that
option to use the government or use a local or
some type of insurance company.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Okay, thank you, yes.
Speaker 12 (28:37):
Sir Deve Connelly from Kenner. I want to get back
to the Major Crime Task for us and thank you
for standing it up when you were in the House
and the supports you've had it. You've always supported law
and order and you just got it funded the last
session as you went on the council. What are the
efforts going forward? There was some opposition as far as
funding the Major Crime Task Force and helping it, and look,
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it's been a major for us and Kennery. It just
took off for real. You know the lady that that
that was responsible or part of that it's going to
be responsible for the death of that young reporter.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (29:08):
They were instrumental because it's cross jurisdictional issues we had
and gathering evidence to present. But what's the challenge going
forward with the Major Crime Task for us and keeping
it funded and making sure that it's a tool that's
that we always can rely on.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
So we we just passed before I left the council. Well,
we made it part of the the budget as a whole,
so to continue it someone would have to take it
out of the budget and have an anti look at it.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
You know, one of the things that chief commonly brought
up is one of the issues. It just addressed. The
major crime caast was addressed. But if y'all are all
going to remember this one a year and a half ago,
they had that young girl that was putting a bucket
and left left on a doorstep.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, the.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Major prime task for us all working together was the
one that helped with the Sheriff's department to solve that
that day. It works and we can believe in and
that's everybody working together. There's nothing we can do alone.
You know, there's this world out there. Everybody wants to
say III if you get to say we and us
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because it gets done together. And there's a movement ladies
and gentlemen to divide our powers and divide our West Bank,
and we have to look at that and make sure
we'll all keep working together to make it a better
place and safer place for us to all grow up in.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And I want to acknowledge Chief Connelly, Keith, I did
not see you in the audience. I apologize, brother Keith.
The only two places I grew up was Kenner and
grand Isle and Abock Town where I was born, of course,
but Kenner where I served this Chief of Civil Defense
in Kenner for many years.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And Keith, you did a wonderful job.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
I want to say this on the apprehension of the
female that you you are. You all arrested, of course
regarding the twenty seven year old Kansas City Chiefs sports reporter,
and I thought you did a wonderful job, bang you.
And you also did a wonderful job in a couple
of busting a couple of.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Meth labs and making some great narcotic arrest over there
in counter roll.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
So I know that author Lawson's made quite a few
good at bust and ed La Pere and so forth.
So I salute you all. But Keith, you did a
wonderful job there, brother.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Okay, I'm sorry. Any other any other questions of the candidates.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Anybody have a question, Okay, yes, ma'am, Hi.
Speaker 13 (31:49):
My name's Joni Mintz, and I hear people talking about
the plan, and I listened to the Lieutenant governor a
couple of weeks ago, and from what I'm understanding, he
said there were two plans and it was kicked out.
I guess you are y'all familiar with those plans the
Lieutenant governor yes, yes. And what I'm confused about, because
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there's been so much time, are there any plans on
the table or for insurance?
Speaker 8 (32:17):
The governor announced that he would like to try to
create a public insurance just kind of like FEMA has
flood insurance. I think he wants to create some type
of state, you know, public insurance plant.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
I haven't see.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
So there's there's the La Citizen and you know familiar
with that. A lot of us are paying that, and
we're wondering it's from the state of en role and
since your only option, and so when you called if
you have a question, they basically hang up on you
because there's no competition. So and then you're paying and
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you don't even know what you're getting. You could have
little clauses. So I'm just wondering why, because so many
people are frustrated. I'm recently selling my house because of it.
And I'm just one, And why aren't our greatest minds
getting together, And there's already a plan in action. We've
been dealing with these highest prices for like three years
at least.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
What she's talking about, I think to both candidates they
have the Louisiana citizen.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
But it's a last resort, so to speak. Okay, because
all of so many insurance.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Companies, so many insurance companies have backed out of Louisiana.
And I do want to make this statement real closely
because somebody asked me earlier today, is mister Template or
Tom Play is the also is he the brother of
the insurance commissioner?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
The answer is absolutely not correct.
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Sure, And the only reason I asked this because I
don't the problem coming up is that the banks would
offer close if if you're not in short of people
can't afford it, then they would leave their houses, the
banks would not pay on them, People's properties become worthless,
you know. So it's a it's a really serious issue.
So I'm just wondering, if you or you were elected,
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would you all make sure you've got the greatest minds
of this on this and got this problems you know,
yes to both candidates.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Correct, Yes, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Johnny Menzim was a good question, a great.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Question, and that's kind of what I alluded to earlier.
We answered the question a little bit. We need to
look at a local, self funded parish incentive for insurance. Okay,
A not a citizens is like the insurance of the
last resort, and it's probably three times as much as
you would probably pay at one point if you could
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get somebody to write your insurance. But you and I,
you and I have trouble getting insurance. Everybody in this
room has trouble getting insurance. They get stick a shock
every year when a bill comes in, and they wonder
if they can afford to stay.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Where they are.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
So what I'm proposing is that we think out of
the box and put some of our brightest minds together
here in Jefferson Parish because we have very intelligent people here.
We have four hundred and fifty thousand residents, great businessmen,
and we try to figure out locally to see how.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
We can impact that.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Okay, I had just briefly had said, this is not
a unique situation. It's happening in other states.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
In great numbers. It's even happening right now.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
And what we need to do is find out what's
working where and bring it and implement it where we
are going to see real changes. And it's enough complaining.
It's enough talking about we live every day our insurance.
And I was an insurance agent and as life insurance.
But still insurance is serious and you want to get
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the benefits. It's too secure, give you a peace of mind.
So if elected, I would be extremely proactive because it's
affected me as well.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
If we could follow up on quality of life issues
while we're in an insurance is hurting a lot of
young people from buying house, but that's not the only property.
One of the challenges we're finding in the Ring suburban
communities outside of the city is a lack of young people.
They're getting older consistently. How do you draw young people
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into historically Ring suburban communities morero Weswego, Gretna, Terrytown that
once were the place where young people went and lately
have become an older and older demographic. We'll start with
you State Representative Rick Template, candidate for District one Jefferson
Parish Council.
Speaker 8 (36:47):
Well, you know we're doing some of those things now,
you know, and I know people hate studies. It's not
one of the things we all enjoy because hey, we
feel like we're wasting money. But every study that we
have looked at has said everybody wants more bikeable, walkable communities,
and that is what we're slowly creating.
Speaker 9 (37:07):
Look at Gretna. Gretna is thriving.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Because it's more of a bikable walkle community where people
get to know each other in an neighborhood, walk to
the local bar, go to the local restaurant. Westwego has
the same thing. Bikable walkable communities. What parks you can
go to, entertainment you can go to. We're doing that
right now with one of the largest parks in Jefferson Parish,
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which is halfy y'all probably don't even.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
Know exists parked for meal.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
It's six hundred acres here on the west Bank off
of lafitte Le Rose Highway, that actually has a two
thousand foot board walk through the woods, has a splash
park for our youth, has a dog park for you
to take your kids, and it has one in the
top seventy in the world. Disc golf course and you
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say disc golf course, Well, when I was in District one,
we created that disc golf course because for twelve dollars
a father could go to academy and buy a frisbee
or a disc golf course and go play with his kids.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
And I have a large investment.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
We've created a bike trail and bike and walking trail
all the way around the parish that goes from the
Levee to lafitte Le Roue's highway and it's almost complete now.
So we're doing those types of things that.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
Keep the youth here.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
But we need to figure out just how we bring
a few more businesses that actually entice them and want
to stay here. And we're working on that with through
Jetco and the Jefferson Parish Chambers.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Andre Emmanuel, candidate for a District one, What would you
do to draw young people to the ring communities on
the West Bank.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
First of all, it's a collaboration of a whole. It
starts with the family unit. If we have strong family units,
we have husbands and wives and they have the resources
they need to vibe for their families.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
That's the core.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
The family have to have a sense of belonging wherever
they live in the community. I grew up in one
in the poorest community in Jefferson Parish in Shrewsbury. In
that community it may have been poor, but there were
summer camps where we went and we had baseball games.
We went to other playgrounds and we had a sense
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of belonging. We went to Metory playground and ran track.
We had fun. After you learn, and then the next
part is education. We have the families, then we have
to educate. The teachers are leaving in record numbers. I
have been an educator for the past sixteen years and
I worked from K to twelve. In that spectrum, our
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children are lost because they do not feel that they
have the proper educators. We have teachers just sitting in
the classroom. If we don't invest in our educators, we
can't educate our children and connect them who will go
along to start our businesses. Then we have the boys
and Girls clubs that can bring other business owners into
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these how into these communities to show children what does
it look like to be a nurse, what does it
look like to be a doctor, what does it look
like to be an engineer. All of those resources and
the things that we have here in Jefferson Parish. If
they're brought together, we cannot just get along. We can thrive,
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and our children will not want to go anywhere else.
I've been in North America, South America, and Central America,
all of those Americas, but I always come right back
here because I love it. I believe in it, and
I want to be a part of making it the
place where our children stay. Two grown older children live
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in different states, one in Houston and the other one
is in Missouri.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
I want them home with my grand babies.
Speaker 7 (41:07):
But they're like, oh no, I'm not coming back, Mama,
And I say, but I'm not leaving, So elect me.
I will take my education skills, I will take all
of my language skills, and the twenty percent Hispanics community,
I will bring them and reach abroad of our community.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
We can do this if we work together, don't y'all?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (41:32):
Am I clapping for myself.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yes I am now, ladies and gentlemen. Any more questions
before we close with each candidate giving a three minute
closing speech.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Any other questions?
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Okay, with no other questions, Let's close with with our candidate,
Miss Andrea Manuel, and thank you Miss Manuel for lobbly debate.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
You're very welcome. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much
for your time and attention. Most of all, thank you
for being actively involved in the community in which you live.
It's important to know who is going to be sitting
in the seat that's going to make the decisions about
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the things that happen.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
Where you live. It is important to ask questions.
Speaker 7 (42:24):
It is important to make plans and find out plans.
We can do this together. I am here, i am dedicated.
I am not going anywhere. I've got my husband right there,
my two children, they're not here tonight. But we are
a family and we are a community, and if we
come together, Jefferson Parish will be something like you've never
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seen before. And I'm asking you to vote for me
to be that person. Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 8 (42:59):
Well. Once again, like I said earlier, thank you all
for coming out here tonight. And I want to say
thank you to the crime fighters for what they do,
not for us being here, but for what they do
for the victims out of our community that sometimes feel
like they have no hope, and they do a great
job of that.
Speaker 9 (43:14):
Look.
Speaker 8 (43:15):
I have been able to serve at multiple levels in
government to represent you. Most of you know who I am,
and I enjoyed doing such. I have voted on budgets
from the state from twenty five billion dollars to the
City of Grettna back in the day, to four million
dollars to the parish where were seven hundred million dollars
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now a billion.
Speaker 9 (43:38):
Dollars a year budget.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
I know what it takes to run government and to
help us move forward in a positive way. I've been
going out out of government for roughly a year in
a few months, and you can see the difference.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
We were united.
Speaker 8 (43:53):
Jefferson Parish was the crown jewel of the state of
Louisiana because we were all working together. That's one of
the things that I'm able to do is unite people
because I don't sit here, like I said earlier and
say a I say we there's always a way to
figure out how to solve a problem if we keep
our mind open. I was a businessman, most self employed
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most of my life, and those of you who are
businessmen know there's times that we have to solve a problem.
We just can't say no, it can't happen. Government sometimes
has that luxury just say it can't happen. I do
the same thing with government like I did my business.
I try to figure out a solution to a problem
and make it happen one way or the other for
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the right reason. And that's why Jefferson Parish is thriving.
I'll give you a prime example what would have been
able to do. Terry Parkway was a sixteen million dollar
project that I was part of from start to finish.
We got beat up for doing the beautification there because oh,
you're wasting tax dollars. Terry Parkway is one of the
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prettiest boulevards and the whole parish now on the West Bank.
You know, for the first time two years ago, Jerry
Town's property values went up in value instead of down.
We're moving to parish in the right direction and we
need to continue that. I said once before and I'll
say it again. My work is not done and I
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want to continue to keep Jefferson Powers moving forward in
the right direction. And with your vote and support and me,
we can do that. And thank you all very much.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
Thank you stay Representative Ricky template Miss Andrea Emmanuel candidates
for District one Jefferson Parish Council Today's debate will be
aired on WRNL ninety nine to five FM on Sunday
from eight to nine and on WSLA ninety three point
nine FM fifteen sixty AM from eight to nine on Friday,
Monday and Wednesday, so you'll run four times in the
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next four days. Thank you both for coming and thanks
to the Crime Fighters Organization.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
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We'll be right back with the chaplain patriotic moment and
the Gospel moment. See you in just a bit, dearly beloved.
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hih McHenry and it's not time for us to go
into our chaplain by by patriotic moment, we just take
a brief moment to remind you of the biblical foundations
of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence, and today we're
going to talk about none other than one of the
greatest debaters of all time, Patrick Henry, one of the
founding Fallows American Revolution, called the or to the American
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American Revolution, and also one of the greatest legal minds
in the history of this country. One of the greatest
trial lawyers. If you had a tough case, you call
Patrick Henry to defend you or to know to the prosecution,
or whatever it was. He was dynamic on the courtroom floor.
And this is what he said when asked how did
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America win against overwhelming odds? Who's actually quoting his uncle,
a Lutheran minister, He said, America did not win because
of religion or by religionists. And he said this cannot
be too overly emphasized or often stated. America won because
of its evangelical faith in the redeemer of this world,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Folks, that man had a solid,
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strong biblical view of life and success in life. He said,
that's the only way we're going to beat the greatest
empire of all times, you know, the greatest military of
the day and everything. We had no chance to win
in that war. Patrick hen Re knew it, everybody knew it,
and yet we won. And that was his answer to it.
Interesting and he said, not by religion or by religions.
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You see, he understood that our faith is not dependent
upon human works, which is what religion is. Our faith,
godly faith, biblical faith is dependent upon faith alone, in
Christ alone, he got that. He understood that, he understood
the message of grace, which means God's love for us
for us is free. It's not conditional on how good
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we are, how well behaved we are, or that we
might do this that or whatever is trick. Basically completely
on God's side, God's love and mercy for us. He
understood the gospel clearly, and if he did, why shouldn't you.
So now we're going to go into our chaplain by
by a gospel moment. We're going to just take a
brief moment to show you how you can know that
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you know that you know what Patrick Henry knew that
you can go to heaven when you die and be
saved from an eternal damnation and a burning hell. Folks,
God really loves you, the scripture says. He says he
loves you with an everlasting love. In fact, the scripture says,
for God's so love the world, that's you, that's everybody.
For God's love the world. That he gave his only
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begotten son, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect God, perfect man,
all the way God and all the way man. He
gave his only begotten son. That who's whoever that's you again,
your court balls in your court that whosoever believeth in him? Well,
what does that mean? Believeth in him? It plain and
simply means believing that Jesus has got and then he
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is the savior. That he died for all your sins,
was buried in roseman dead. If you will really believe that,
that's what all it takes with child like faith, that
whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, not go to hell,
but have everlasting life. Folks, That's what it takes to
come to know God. That's what it takes to go
to heaven. If you've never done this before, please do
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it now. Don't wait till it's too late. Jesus kept
saying repent and believe were Repentance is when you quit
trusting in yourself and put so that you're free. Then
to put faith alone in Christ alone, when you realize
you're hopeless and helps without God, destined to a burning hell,
and there's absolutely no good in you and nothing good
you can do, but trust Jesus. Guess what you got it?
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You have just repented and from that should easily come
believe faith alone in Christ alone. And I think God
moves everything to your advantage to get the second part
of it, believing in the Gospel. The Gospel of the
script says it's the power of God and the salvation,
and that I declare to you the gospel that Christ
died for all of our sins was buried in Rose
the dead. If you've never done this before, do it now.
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Don't wait till it's too late. Believe right now with
all your heart. Well, folks, it's not time for us
to go into our watchmen on the wall time where
we just take a brief moment to remind you of
all the signs of the over two hundred signs given
to us in the scripture about Jesus's Second Company. There's
so many of them it would take me hours. It
takes me a whole day to tell them all to you,
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and I only have a couple of minutes. So here
we go really quickly, folks. What signs do I see
right now? Well, I see a government that's in a
state of almost complete collapse because of its extreme corruption.
It's an extreme sinful future and state. It is now
finally being all exposed. It's been exposed before, but they're
going further. This time, they're actually gonna start prosecuting, which
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is where I've been begging for for years, that the
wicked will be brought to justice and all the truth
will come out, folks. Is happening right now. We're beg
going to see just how wicked and depraved our government is.
The Bible says it's going to be wickedness everywhere in
every area of life, and certainly we're seeing in our
government right now. So look, when all these things happen,
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Jesus says, I'm coming back, and I'm coming back soon.
He is coming back soon. Will it be tomorrow, I
don't know. It might be next year, next decade, but
it's going to be coming down really soon on his folks.
So if you're not ready, you better get the greatest
bunker you can get. That bunker's name is the Lord
Jesus Christ. You can hide in him no matter what's
going on all around you. He's with you all the time.
And that's the bunker you need. That's a safe house
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you need. If you don't have it yet, it's free.
The only purchasing a price is your faith to believe
that Jesus really did die for your sins was bredon
Wilse dead again. If you've never done that before, do
it now. Get your holy ghost in time. Bunker for
the rough things that are coming our way, folks, because
when the end gets here, it's the apocalypse. It's the
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end of this time, and it's coming down with a big, giant,
terrible splash. So, folks, it's not time for us to go.
As we're closed with mont Saint Martin singing a Creole goodbye,
and God bless all out.
Speaker 14 (53:16):
There we call cel goodbye. They think we're just wasted
the time A mid all three sevl.
Speaker 10 (53:38):
Of me.
Speaker 14 (53:41):
There's time for a Creo goodbye.
Bide holes. The politicians addressed, the digitators and magicians. Who's
to see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing to
fill the holes while then are feeling their pie kits
pied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road, every bisition
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to no more corruption and dysfunction. It's gone on a table.
Divine its avention.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And God bless all out there. You are now listening
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Speaker 3 (01:02):
Today, Christopher Tidmore, you're a roving reporter, resident radical moderate
and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at louisianaweekly
dot net. And on this week's show, The Founder's Show
has gone on the road to do a debate with
the Crime Fighters Organization. We were proudly invited by IRV
Magriy the crime Fighter's president, to moderate the debate between
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for the first District, which is the West Bank for
the Jefferson Parish Council. We all three candidates in the
election were invited. Tim Temple decided not to attend, but
Ricky Template, a state representative and former District one council member,
faced off against Andrea Manuel in a one hour debate
and we're happy to bring you that debate here on
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WRIO and WSLA. Today's debate is moderated by yours truly,
Christopher Tidmore as well as High and IRV Magory, the
president of the crime Fighters organizations, and we took questions
from the audience as well. Listen in to the debate
between Ricky Template and Andrea Manuel. The special election for
the first District, which basically is everything on the West
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Bank from Gretna and Terrytown all the way down to
Grand Isle, and so you have everything being talked about
from coastal erosion to insurance costs to how to get
young people to ring communities. That first District race will
go up for special election on March twenty ninth, with
early voting starting March fifteenth. It is to finish the
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unexpired term of Marion Edwards, who resigned. Ladies and Gentlemen.
Ricky Template goes off against first time candidate Andrea Manuel,
a former staffer on the Jefferson Parish Council, and of
course Ricky Template, as I pointed out, is a state
representative and a former Jefferson Parish Council person. And IRV
Magor will give you sort of a background on the district.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
People have been asking me, as y'all come in what
area that includes? Real quickly, I'll let them explain it
to but basically is from Gretna, let's say, to Hobby,
but a few precincts in Morero and grand Isle, Lafitte,
Barataria and so forth.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
So all three candidates has to come. Mayor Kerna.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm pretty sure he told my secretary, my pro bono secretary, melody, melody,
where are you hun?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Didn't he say it was gonna come? Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Okay, Well anyway, so I can't answer why he's not here.
We're gonna start off the debate. Each candidate has four minutes.
Do you give an opening statement? We're gonna start off
by alphabetical, so miss Okay, Miss Emmanuel, will you please
start off.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Good evening everyone.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
My name is Andrea Manuel, and I'm so excited to
be here tonight. First of all, I'd like to thank
the crime fighters for hosting us tonight. I also want
to thank each one of you to for spending time
to get to know the candidate. I am a lifelong
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resident of Jefferson Parish. I'm a graduate of a Jefferson
Parish public school system, and I'm a graduate of Xavier
University of Louisiana. I know the benefits of having a
good education. Tonight, I'm here as a candidate. I'm here
to tell you why you should vote for me to
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be the candidate that you endorse for the Jefferson Parish
Council District one seat. Let me start by telling you,
first of all, why I'm running for this seat. I
ask myself, Andrea, what can you do in the community
that you live that benefits them by using your time
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and your talents, And this opportunity presented itself. Well, I'm
running for Jefferson Parish Council District one because I understand
the unique challenges and strengths of District one, which is Terrytown, Gretna,
Jean Lafite and Grandall. There's lots to do well. I'm
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willing to roll up my sleeves and work. There's nothing
that either of my opponents are willing to do that
I am not able to do, which means bringing goods
and services to our community.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I intend to.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I intend to represent the district in its entirety. My
career has been dedicated to serving others. I want to
bring the same dedication to Jefferson Parish Council. I want
to ensure every resident that they have a voice. I
believe in investment in school, supporting local businesses, improving infrastructure,
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and ensuring government transparency. I will work tirelessly to make
sure that Jefferson Parish has everything that it needs. I
have a degree in psychology, my master's in forensic psychology.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I have been a missionary in Venezuela.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Puerto Abla Espanol contre la hinting I can speak Spanish
to the Hispanic community, which constantly is growing. I intend
to reach to the broader of our community. In closing,
I will work on understanding the needs of Jefferson Parish
as a whole, and I would be honored to represent
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every resident and make sure everyone has a voice. So
I'm asking you tonight to please consider endorsing endorsing me
Andrea Manuel as your council choice District one.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You're listening to a special edition of the Founder's Show.
Here in wrn O and WSLA, we are hosting the
crime Fighters Debate for the District one seat for the
Jefferson Parish Council Andrea Manuel versus Ricky Template. IRV Magre
is joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore as our moderator
for today's debate.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Now, I'm Missiter Ricky Tomplay.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
I appreciate a talk play a lot. I can introduced
that way A couple of times when I served in
Baton Ruge, I'd get two introductions from the governor. He
would say tom Play and then he would say representative Template.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
So I answer to both of them. But thank you
very much.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, to our French speaking audience, is time play well English,
it's Template.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Look, thank you so much for all of y'all taking
out of your time tonight to be here, because it
shows how much you're invested.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
In your community.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
I want to make sure we say Thank you to
the Crime Fighters Organization. There are sixteen thousand members strong
that actually fight each and every day for the victims
of crime. They put their voice and their money and
their time trying to make sure the victims have a voice,
because that's one thing we're losing in this state, in
our country, is that the victims don't have much rights anymore.
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And I really appreciate that y'all fight for those rights.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I'm rich the template. I'm running for District one.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Office because this is where I live, work and play,
and I raised my family. My beautiful wife's here tonight,
my son's here tonight, and I think that's all what
we all are doing here with running for offices, that
we're fighting to have a great place for our families
to be able to grow up in. And that's why
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I'm here fighting.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
For this look.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I served as a Gretna City councilman, I served as
a State rep. And I served as District one councilman
as well as serving the whole parish of four hundred
and fifty thousand people with all dignity, and every time
had the endorsement of the Crime Fight Association. I'm not
sure if y'all can hear me in the back. But
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you know some of the laws that I helped carrying
Baton Rouge, and one of the ones I'm most proud
of is the Major Crime Task Force. Y'all heard of
it as the Major Crime Task Force, but it started
out as the West Bank Major Crime Task Force where
it included Jefferson Parish, Gretna, Placaman's, New Orleans, and Westwego.
It was a task force after Katrina that we helped
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form that actually was attacking crime across all borders. It
took place right after Katrina. I had been able to
keep the funding in place since Katrina, and then the
state cut the funding, and I was able to keep
the funding in place locally with the parish, and just
last year we funded it permanently, the Major Crime Task
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Force to protect us so where we live here in
Jefferson Parish to the tune of a million dollars a year,
and it has a ninety percent convictionery that is incredible
in it. And I really liked the applause Chief Loss
and all law enforcement for making that happen here on
the West Bank. So please give a round of applause.
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I have passed many bills that fight for victims' rights,
and I've always been there. I've been very pro law
I have to tell a story, and I know I'm
running out of time, But during Katrina, I was on
the streets, Okay, which chief off of Lawson and all
the law enforcement on the West Bank when Oakwood was
burning down and you were trying to protect our neighborhoods.
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And I have kept that mindset of what those of
officers went through and the victims that were victimized during
that time a period because I was there. You know,
there's a bill that I also passed. We're dealing with
these synthetic bass salts, if you remember correctly where kids
were buying. They called them bass salts at convenience stores,
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but you could smoke them and get a high on them,
and they were legal.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I passed the first bill that dealt with those synthetic drugs.
I'm around the town, Okay, and.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Made it illegals that where they couldn't sell those anymore
to our children and kill them. Look, I'm running back
for District one to represent the people because it's the
place I believe in Bretna to Grand Isle, it is
my backyard, and I know it like the back of
my hand, and looking forward to continue representing all the
y'all and making Jeffson Powers just about a place.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
For all of us to live, work and play. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Now, members of the audience, I hope you all have
some good questions for these candidates.
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edition of The Founder's Show. Here in wrn O and WSLA,
we are hosting the Crime Fighters Debate for the District
one seat for the Jefferson Parish Council. Andrea Manuel versus
Ricky template IRV Magray is joining Hi McHenry and Christopher
Tidmore as our moderator for today's debate.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Okay, I'll ask a question to both candidates, what do
you see as the major current problems facing District one
on the council, including Grand Isle, Lavie, Barataria.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
And the West Bank MS Vanion.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
The thing that I say that is most prevalent, and
district one is the coastal erosion because of the thousands
of bakers that we.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Lose in Louison.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
There are lots of talk and now it's time for
some action. We really have to be really super proactive
and I'm ready to get on to roll up my
sleeves and even if it's going to Congress, we need
to get it done.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
A question there.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I own property and lived on Grandell for many years
of my life. Talk about erosion, you're right on my property.
I lost three hundred feet by one hundred and eighty
feet in from nineteen hundred and sixty one to Hurrican idem.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
We are okay.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
People don't realize we don't get the water really from
the gulf side.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
We get our waters.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Mayor David Kamadell will tell you we get it from
the rear from camel out of Bay coming up. Could
you possibly think about obtaining funds to put a rock
jetty around the entire island which it needs, with of
course the ability to pump out should the water come
over the levee.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I also have to take just a moment to recognize
my husband who's here with me also, and he is
also a Tobo captain. He is on the water all
the time. That is his for the past thirty years.
That's what he's been doing. It's important to use every
means necessary to make the island, to save the residents
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property and to keep the community safe.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
It's time.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It cuts across right by. I'm next to the bridge.
I'm about.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Say three hundred yards about two hundred yards from the bridge,
and it cuts across not only my property, it cuts
across Highway one.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
You see. I have the Gulf on my.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
South coming out of Bay on the north, and it
cuts right in front of my on my property and
it cuts Highway one in one.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
It cuts it into two.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And I have to people cannot people cannot evacuate. If
they only evacuate early, we have trouble getting them. I
used to be the assistant chief of police after refir
after I retire for the NLPD, I was the assistant
chief of police and grand.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Al well what I also would say, it's people like
you who have their stories, not stories, life skills. I
plan if elected to do a listening tour, I need
to hear what's really going on. It's one thing to
hear what the news is showing. But it's another thing
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to knock on the doors of an individual and say,
what are your concerns in District one? How can I help?
So that's one of the number one things on my list.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You're listening to a special edition of the Founder's Show
here in WRN and WSLA. We are hosting the crime
Fighters Debate for the District one seat for the Jefferson
Parish Council. Andrea Manuel versus Ricky Template IRV Magrey is
joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore as our moderator for
today's debate.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Okay, same question to mister templay a template.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
We'll look all of us in this room.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
So the number one pressing issue for all of us
are keeping our youth because, believe me, we're losing our
twenty five to thirty five year old kids, and we're
having trouble maintaining our seniors who are on fixed income.
And the main issues is a homeowner's insurance. Ladies and gentlemen,
people cannot afford to stay here the way our homeowner
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insurance is being used today in our flood insurance. So
what we need to figure out is an innovative way
to do a pilot program just here in Jefferson Parish,
take some of our fun balance that is sitting in
the bank and creates a unique pilot program figuring out
how that we institute a pilot program that makes insurance
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affordable for our young to stay here and our elderly
not to leave. Because when your homeowners insurance no costs
more than your note for your home, it's a problem.
So you know, I'm proposing that we take at least
one hundred million dollars out of our fun ballance somehow
and create this pilot program on RVIL. On your comment about,
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you know, the coastal protection on the backside of the island,
you couldn't be more correct. People think when a hurricane
comes in that it automatically comes from the Gulf. Hurricane
Katrina when it hit us, it went on the east.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Side of the river.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
That meant all the water was being blown out of Lafite,
Barataria and Crown Point on the backside of the island.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
It didn't get the water from the Gulf.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
It came up to the bay and La Feet was dry,
but the island was ten feet underwater. So twelve point
five feet at his house. So we did, and I
can tell you what I've done so far. Had put
six million dollars towards building new rock jetties behind the
island to breakdown the coastal and wind and waves, as
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well as the state matched that money, and they had
finished a our jetties, but they left openings. Now we
need to come back and do in between those openings
to do a full correction on such. But on the
front of the island after Ida, there was over one
hundred what we fought for to redo the whole island,
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beach front and Levey over one hundred and twenty million
dollars from FEMA that came in and it's now being
completed as we speak.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Thank you very much. A question from Justine, I only
for one.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Day tell you that I am a woman of God.
And when I tell you, I was working on my
own power, saying I'm going to do this, I'm going
to do this, this is how I'm going to get
to the community, and I need this.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
The spirit would not let me rest.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I was fighting against the spirit and flesh of doing
what I thought I should be doing to get where
I need to go and what God wanted me to do,
so I yielded and afraid, not sure what's gonna happen.
I had to do with the spirit, so I did
a spiritual move.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That's driftly it. You're welcome.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
For both candidates. Okay, you're both bought up insurance. Okay,
how on a local level can you possibly affect our
insurance rates? And how long of a period of time
are you talking about when you build these rock levees
that will impede the floor of water. Therefore flood insurance
would be affected and so forth and sore, And that's
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not gonna be happening in a short order.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So why don't y'all try to answer that?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Go ahead, let's start with a stay representative of Rick template.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Well, especially on the island in grand Isle, which is
our coastaliled and ladies and gentlemen. We want Lafite and
grand out out there that we needed to protect us
here the fight.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
We wanted to stay out.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
In the golf and out in the bays because our
levees that's around Jumps and Parish are all earthen levees.
They're designed for rising water. They're not designed for hurricanes
to beat them up.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Directly.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
So we need grand Isle out there and Lafeed out
there to be our first line of defense. To answer
a question on rocks, the governor committed last year to
fifty million dollars to finish the rocks on the gulf
side of the island. Not just I talked about the
levee being finished, was one hundred and twenty million after
itders them. So they will finish on the gulf side
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the protection of fifty million dollars completing the rock jetties
on the Islan on the golf side, which will make
a dramatic difference with wave action because during Ida they
had one hundred and ninety mile an hour winds clocked
on some boats. The section of the island that had
protection of rocks survived, the section without it didn't. So
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this is going to be a drastic change of protecting
all of us here because we had the island out
there with the protection. As far as how do we
do it locally for insurance, we have to try something new.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
We have to think out of the box.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
This pilot program could probably be funded directly through Jefferson
Parish and see if it works. If you don't try,
you never know and if it works and you prove
it works, then you go to the state. Then you
go to the FEDS and say, we have a proven
record that this works, we need you to fund it
for further action.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Miss Andrea Manuel, candidate for first districts as well past Cancel.
The two questions to remind are what about rocks and
better fortifications for our coastal farr islands like grand Isle,
and also your thoughts on insurance and rower insurance rates?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
What First of all, should I be elected, I would
pick up where our council previous councilmen started left off.
Jefferson Paris has great resources, great accommodations that are made
for these occasions. What I would do is as I
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pick up where they left off and.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Get some research.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
We are not the only one facing these tragic events Florida.
It happens in Mississippi. There are lots of places where
these traumatic experiences are happening. We need to get some research,
find out some solutions that's been working for other states,
and see.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
What's best for us locally.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
We have to have a listening tour to find out
about this gentleman's problem.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Find out there are things we have not even heard of.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
So until we get out and we listen do our
worst research, we're going to continue to see the same thing.
It's time for some fresh perspectives and.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
I'm the one to bring it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And if I can follow up on the question of insurance,
the Governor chairned a lot of heads when he came
out and said this past week, what we're seeing with
insurance companies is they've enriched shareholders, but it's made the
American consumer or I don't know if we should be
against it should be against public policy in this country
for an insurance company to be publicly controlled. We have
to have an honest discussion about it. Our conservative Republican
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governor actually broached the idea of a government owned, government
controlled property insurance company. And this is and it would
could be done on a state level or a parish level.
Is that something you would embrace, Andrea Manuel, and then
we'll go to you set represent a template.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Everything's on the playing field. There's no cut and dry
answer that I would give. The most intelligent way that
I could answer this is saying it needs to be
researched and see what's beneficial for the community as a whole.
It should not be something what's going to be the
most profit for the state, the government. It needs to
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be well thought out and the decision needs to be
made based on information, not emotions.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You're listening to a special edition of The Founder's Show.
Here in wn and WSLA, we are hosting the Crime
Fighters Debate for the District one seat for the Jefferson
Parish Council. Andrea Manuel versus Ricky template IRV Magrey is
joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore as our moderator for
today's debate.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So you'll understand a lot of people on grand isl
can no longer for the insurance, so they're selling their homes.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
We're losing a lot of what we call the natives.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
They're not just selling them, they just in abandon them.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yes, but okay, that's what I'm saying. This has to
be looked at very very hard, quite frankly. I mean,
I've been on the island basically most of my life
and to see your home, I've lost my home completely,
not that it matters, and we were all not ninety
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percent of us were insured with ages Aegis insurance company
out of Pennsylvania, and they would only write my home
was a praise at about four hundred thousand, because I'm
right on the water, not near the water, on the water.
In fact, they had a just built a forty but
forty deck and uh, it's when everything's gone. Fifty seven
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legal file, cabinets, four boats, six six golf courts. I
rented golf courts on the island so they could ride
up and down the beach. I lost all my family pictures,
just everything. But what I'm saying is, but they have
to understand, as mister tom Play said, the water is
coming in from the bay. Barrett's having correction coming out
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of bay, is coming in from the back end. Justine
can tell you we got twelve point five feet of water.
It's hard to fight twelve point five feet of water, ladies, gentlemen, okay.
And the company, the insurance company would only pay me
one twenty five from my home because that's all they
would insure us, one twenty five. Then get you if
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you had four hundred thousand dollars home, you got one
twenty five. So we took a real beating to say
at least yeah, well yes, sir, it's.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
A template, thank you, stay right.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
So it was it do you want me to answer
as far as the assurance, Look, I could, I could
support the idea just as long as the public has
a choice if they want to use it or use
a private company as well. Everybody needs to have that
option to use the government or use a local or
some type of insurance company.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Okay, thank you, yes.
Speaker 12 (28:37):
Sir Deve Connelly from Kenner. I want to get back
to the Major Crime Task for us and thank you
for standing it up when you were in the House
and the supports you've had it. You've always supported law
and order and you just got it funded the last
session as you went on the council. What are the
efforts going forward? There was some opposition as far as
funding the Major Crime Task Force and helping it, and look,
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it's been a major for us and Kennery. It just
took off for real. You know the lady that that
that was responsible or part of that it's going to
be responsible for the death of that young reporter.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (29:08):
They were instrumental because it's cross jurisdictional issues we had
and gathering evidence to present. But what's the challenge going
forward with the Major Crime Task for us and keeping
it funded and making sure that it's a tool that's
that we always can rely on.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
So we we just passed before I left the council. Well,
we made it part of the the budget as a whole,
so to continue it someone would have to take it
out of the budget and have an anti look at it.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
You know, one of the things that chief commonly brought
up is one of the issues. It just addressed. The
major crime caast was addressed. But if y'all are all
going to remember this one a year and a half ago,
they had that young girl that was putting a bucket
and left left on a doorstep.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, the.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Major prime task for us all working together was the
one that helped with the Sheriff's department to solve that
that day. It works and we can believe in and
that's everybody working together. There's nothing we can do alone.
You know, there's this world out there. Everybody wants to
say III if you get to say we and us
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because it gets done together. And there's a movement ladies
and gentlemen to divide our powers and divide our West Bank,
and we have to look at that and make sure
we'll all keep working together to make it a better
place and safer place for us to all grow up in.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And I want to acknowledge Chief Connelly, Keith, I did
not see you in the audience. I apologize, brother Keith.
The only two places I grew up was Kenner and
grand Isle and Abock Town where I was born, of course,
but Kenner where I served this Chief of Civil Defense
in Kenner for many years.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And Keith, you did a wonderful job.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
I want to say this on the apprehension of the
female that you you are. You all arrested, of course
regarding the twenty seven year old Kansas City Chiefs sports reporter,
and I thought you did a wonderful job, bang you.
And you also did a wonderful job in a couple
of busting a couple of.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Meth labs and making some great narcotic arrest over there
in counter roll.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
So I know that author Lawson's made quite a few
good at bust and ed La Pere and so forth.
So I salute you all. But Keith, you did a
wonderful job there, brother.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Okay, I'm sorry. Any other any other questions of the candidates.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Anybody have a question, Okay, yes, ma'am, Hi.
Speaker 13 (31:49):
My name's Joni Mintz, and I hear people talking about
the plan, and I listened to the Lieutenant governor a
couple of weeks ago, and from what I'm understanding, he
said there were two plans and it was kicked out.
I guess you are y'all familiar with those plans the
Lieutenant governor yes, yes. And what I'm confused about, because
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there's been so much time, are there any plans on
the table or for insurance?
Speaker 8 (32:17):
The governor announced that he would like to try to
create a public insurance just kind of like FEMA has
flood insurance. I think he wants to create some type
of state, you know, public insurance plant.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
I haven't see.
Speaker 13 (32:29):
So there's there's the La Citizen and you know familiar
with that. A lot of us are paying that, and
we're wondering it's from the state of en role and
since your only option, and so when you called if
you have a question, they basically hang up on you
because there's no competition. So and then you're paying and
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you don't even know what you're getting. You could have
little clauses. So I'm just wondering why, because so many
people are frustrated. I'm recently selling my house because of it.
And I'm just one, And why aren't our greatest minds
getting together, And there's already a plan in action. We've
been dealing with these highest prices for like three years
at least.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
What she's talking about, I think to both candidates they
have the Louisiana citizen.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
But it's a last resort, so to speak. Okay, because
all of so many insurance.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Companies, so many insurance companies have backed out of Louisiana.
And I do want to make this statement real closely
because somebody asked me earlier today, is mister Template or
Tom Play is the also is he the brother of
the insurance commissioner?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
The answer is absolutely not correct.
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Sure, And the only reason I asked this because I
don't the problem coming up is that the banks would
offer close if if you're not in short of people
can't afford it, then they would leave their houses, the
banks would not pay on them, People's properties become worthless,
you know. So it's a it's a really serious issue.
So I'm just wondering, if you or you were elected,
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would you all make sure you've got the greatest minds
of this on this and got this problems you know,
yes to both candidates.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Correct, Yes, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Johnny Menzim was a good question, a great.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Question, and that's kind of what I alluded to earlier.
We answered the question a little bit. We need to
look at a local, self funded parish incentive for insurance. Okay,
A not a citizens is like the insurance of the
last resort, and it's probably three times as much as
you would probably pay at one point if you could
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get somebody to write your insurance. But you and I,
you and I have trouble getting insurance. Everybody in this
room has trouble getting insurance. They get stick a shock
every year when a bill comes in, and they wonder
if they can afford to stay.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Where they are.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
So what I'm proposing is that we think out of
the box and put some of our brightest minds together
here in Jefferson Parish because we have very intelligent people here.
We have four hundred and fifty thousand residents, great businessmen,
and we try to figure out locally to see how.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
We can impact that.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Okay, I had just briefly had said, this is not
a unique situation. It's happening in other states.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
In great numbers. It's even happening right now.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
And what we need to do is find out what's
working where and bring it and implement it where we
are going to see real changes. And it's enough complaining.
It's enough talking about we live every day our insurance.
And I was an insurance agent and as life insurance.
But still insurance is serious and you want to get
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the benefits. It's too secure, give you a peace of mind.
So if elected, I would be extremely proactive because it's
affected me as well.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
If we could follow up on quality of life issues
while we're in an insurance is hurting a lot of
young people from buying house, but that's not the only property.
One of the challenges we're finding in the Ring suburban
communities outside of the city is a lack of young people.
They're getting older consistently. How do you draw young people
(36:30):
into historically Ring suburban communities morero Weswego, Gretna, Terrytown that
once were the place where young people went and lately
have become an older and older demographic. We'll start with
you State Representative Rick Template, candidate for District one Jefferson
Parish Council.
Speaker 8 (36:47):
Well, you know we're doing some of those things now,
you know, and I know people hate studies. It's not
one of the things we all enjoy because hey, we
feel like we're wasting money. But every study that we
have looked at has said everybody wants more bikeable, walkable communities,
and that is what we're slowly creating.
Speaker 9 (37:07):
Look at Gretna. Gretna is thriving.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Because it's more of a bikable walkle community where people
get to know each other in an neighborhood, walk to
the local bar, go to the local restaurant. Westwego has
the same thing. Bikable walkable communities. What parks you can
go to, entertainment you can go to. We're doing that
right now with one of the largest parks in Jefferson Parish,
(37:32):
which is halfy y'all probably don't even.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
Know exists parked for meal.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
It's six hundred acres here on the west Bank off
of lafitte Le Rose Highway, that actually has a two
thousand foot board walk through the woods, has a splash
park for our youth, has a dog park for you
to take your kids, and it has one in the
top seventy in the world. Disc golf course and you
(37:57):
say disc golf course, Well, when I was in District one,
we created that disc golf course because for twelve dollars
a father could go to academy and buy a frisbee
or a disc golf course and go play with his kids.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
And I have a large investment.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
We've created a bike trail and bike and walking trail
all the way around the parish that goes from the
Levee to lafitte Le Roue's highway and it's almost complete now.
So we're doing those types of things that.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
Keep the youth here.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
But we need to figure out just how we bring
a few more businesses that actually entice them and want
to stay here. And we're working on that with through
Jetco and the Jefferson Parish Chambers.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Andre Emmanuel, candidate for a District one, What would you
do to draw young people to the ring communities on
the West Bank.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
First of all, it's a collaboration of a whole. It
starts with the family unit. If we have strong family units,
we have husbands and wives and they have the resources
they need to vibe for their families.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
That's the core.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
The family have to have a sense of belonging wherever
they live in the community. I grew up in one
in the poorest community in Jefferson Parish in Shrewsbury. In
that community it may have been poor, but there were
summer camps where we went and we had baseball games.
We went to other playgrounds and we had a sense
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of belonging. We went to Metory playground and ran track.
We had fun. After you learn, and then the next
part is education. We have the families, then we have
to educate. The teachers are leaving in record numbers. I
have been an educator for the past sixteen years and
I worked from K to twelve. In that spectrum, our
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children are lost because they do not feel that they
have the proper educators. We have teachers just sitting in
the classroom. If we don't invest in our educators, we
can't educate our children and connect them who will go
along to start our businesses. Then we have the boys
and Girls clubs that can bring other business owners into
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these how into these communities to show children what does
it look like to be a nurse, what does it
look like to be a doctor, what does it look
like to be an engineer. All of those resources and
the things that we have here in Jefferson Parish. If
they're brought together, we cannot just get along. We can thrive,
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and our children will not want to go anywhere else.
I've been in North America, South America, and Central America,
all of those Americas, but I always come right back
here because I love it. I believe in it, and
I want to be a part of making it the
place where our children stay. Two grown older children live
(41:01):
in different states, one in Houston and the other one
is in Missouri.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
I want them home with my grand babies.
Speaker 7 (41:07):
But they're like, oh no, I'm not coming back, Mama,
And I say, but I'm not leaving, So elect me.
I will take my education skills, I will take all
of my language skills, and the twenty percent Hispanics community,
I will bring them and reach abroad of our community.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
We can do this if we work together, don't y'all?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (41:32):
Am I clapping for myself.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yes I am now, ladies and gentlemen. Any more questions
before we close with each candidate giving a three minute
closing speech.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Any other questions?
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Okay, with no other questions, Let's close with with our candidate,
Miss Andrea Manuel, and thank you Miss Manuel for lobbly debate.
Speaker 7 (41:58):
You're very welcome. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much
for your time and attention. Most of all, thank you
for being actively involved in the community in which you live.
It's important to know who is going to be sitting
in the seat that's going to make the decisions about
(42:19):
the things that happen.
Speaker 6 (42:20):
Where you live. It is important to ask questions.
Speaker 7 (42:24):
It is important to make plans and find out plans.
We can do this together. I am here, i am dedicated.
I am not going anywhere. I've got my husband right there,
my two children, they're not here tonight. But we are
a family and we are a community, and if we
come together, Jefferson Parish will be something like you've never
(42:48):
seen before. And I'm asking you to vote for me
to be that person. Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 8 (42:59):
Well. Once again, like I said earlier, thank you all
for coming out here tonight. And I want to say
thank you to the crime fighters for what they do,
not for us being here, but for what they do
for the victims out of our community that sometimes feel
like they have no hope, and they do a great
job of that.
Speaker 9 (43:14):
Look.
Speaker 8 (43:15):
I have been able to serve at multiple levels in
government to represent you. Most of you know who I am,
and I enjoyed doing such. I have voted on budgets
from the state from twenty five billion dollars to the
City of Grettna back in the day, to four million
dollars to the parish where were seven hundred million dollars
(43:37):
now a billion.
Speaker 9 (43:38):
Dollars a year budget.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
I know what it takes to run government and to
help us move forward in a positive way. I've been
going out out of government for roughly a year in
a few months, and you can see the difference.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
We were united.
Speaker 8 (43:53):
Jefferson Parish was the crown jewel of the state of
Louisiana because we were all working together. That's one of
the things that I'm able to do is unite people
because I don't sit here, like I said earlier and
say a I say we there's always a way to
figure out how to solve a problem if we keep
our mind open. I was a businessman, most self employed
(44:15):
most of my life, and those of you who are
businessmen know there's times that we have to solve a problem.
We just can't say no, it can't happen. Government sometimes
has that luxury just say it can't happen. I do
the same thing with government like I did my business.
I try to figure out a solution to a problem
and make it happen one way or the other for
(44:35):
the right reason. And that's why Jefferson Parish is thriving.
I'll give you a prime example what would have been
able to do. Terry Parkway was a sixteen million dollar
project that I was part of from start to finish.
We got beat up for doing the beautification there because oh,
you're wasting tax dollars. Terry Parkway is one of the
(44:55):
prettiest boulevards and the whole parish now on the West Bank.
You know, for the first time two years ago, Jerry
Town's property values went up in value instead of down.
We're moving to parish in the right direction and we
need to continue that. I said once before and I'll
say it again. My work is not done and I
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want to continue to keep Jefferson Powers moving forward in
the right direction. And with your vote and support and me,
we can do that. And thank you all very much.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
Thank you stay Representative Ricky template Miss Andrea Emmanuel candidates
for District one Jefferson Parish Council Today's debate will be
aired on WRNL ninety nine to five FM on Sunday
from eight to nine and on WSLA ninety three point
nine FM fifteen sixty AM from eight to nine on Friday,
Monday and Wednesday, so you'll run four times in the
(45:45):
next four days. Thank you both for coming and thanks
to the Crime Fighters Organization.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Frank and folks. Remember you can hear us also on
our website, the Founder Show dot Com at your convenience,
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So those are two great ways to also get our show.
So it is not time for us to take a break.
We'll be right back with the chaplain patriotic moment and
the Gospel moment. See you in just a bit, dearly beloved.
This is your Chaplain by BA of the Republic, Chaplain
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(47:22):
hih McHenry and it's not time for us to go
into our chaplain by by patriotic moment, we just take
a brief moment to remind you of the biblical foundations
of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence, and today we're
going to talk about none other than one of the
greatest debaters of all time, Patrick Henry, one of the
founding Fallows American Revolution, called the or to the American
(47:42):
American Revolution, and also one of the greatest legal minds
in the history of this country. One of the greatest
trial lawyers. If you had a tough case, you call
Patrick Henry to defend you or to know to the prosecution,
or whatever it was. He was dynamic on the courtroom floor.
And this is what he said when asked how did
(48:03):
America win against overwhelming odds? Who's actually quoting his uncle,
a Lutheran minister, He said, America did not win because
of religion or by religionists. And he said this cannot
be too overly emphasized or often stated. America won because
of its evangelical faith in the redeemer of this world,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Folks, that man had a solid,
(48:27):
strong biblical view of life and success in life. He said,
that's the only way we're going to beat the greatest
empire of all times, you know, the greatest military of
the day and everything. We had no chance to win
in that war. Patrick hen Re knew it, everybody knew it,
and yet we won. And that was his answer to it.
Interesting and he said, not by religion or by religions.
(48:47):
You see, he understood that our faith is not dependent
upon human works, which is what religion is. Our faith,
godly faith, biblical faith is dependent upon faith alone, in
Christ alone, he got that. He understood that, he understood
the message of grace, which means God's love for us
for us is free. It's not conditional on how good
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we are, how well behaved we are, or that we
might do this that or whatever is trick. Basically completely
on God's side, God's love and mercy for us. He
understood the gospel clearly, and if he did, why shouldn't you.
So now we're going to go into our chaplain by
by a gospel moment. We're going to just take a
brief moment to show you how you can know that
(49:29):
you know that you know what Patrick Henry knew that
you can go to heaven when you die and be
saved from an eternal damnation and a burning hell. Folks,
God really loves you, the scripture says. He says he
loves you with an everlasting love. In fact, the scripture says,
for God's so love the world, that's you, that's everybody.
For God's love the world. That he gave his only
(49:50):
begotten son, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect God, perfect man,
all the way God and all the way man. He
gave his only begotten son. That who's whoever that's you again,
your court balls in your court that whosoever believeth in him? Well,
what does that mean? Believeth in him? It plain and
simply means believing that Jesus has got and then he
(50:11):
is the savior. That he died for all your sins,
was buried in roseman dead. If you will really believe that,
that's what all it takes with child like faith, that
whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, not go to hell,
but have everlasting life. Folks, That's what it takes to
come to know God. That's what it takes to go
to heaven. If you've never done this before, please do
(50:33):
it now. Don't wait till it's too late. Jesus kept
saying repent and believe were Repentance is when you quit
trusting in yourself and put so that you're free. Then
to put faith alone in Christ alone, when you realize
you're hopeless and helps without God, destined to a burning hell,
and there's absolutely no good in you and nothing good
you can do, but trust Jesus. Guess what you got it?
(50:54):
You have just repented and from that should easily come
believe faith alone in Christ alone. And I think God
moves everything to your advantage to get the second part
of it, believing in the Gospel. The Gospel of the
script says it's the power of God and the salvation,
and that I declare to you the gospel that Christ
died for all of our sins was buried in Rose
the dead. If you've never done this before, do it now.
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Don't wait till it's too late. Believe right now with
all your heart. Well, folks, it's not time for us
to go into our watchmen on the wall time where
we just take a brief moment to remind you of
all the signs of the over two hundred signs given
to us in the scripture about Jesus's Second Company. There's
so many of them it would take me hours. It
takes me a whole day to tell them all to you,
(51:38):
and I only have a couple of minutes. So here
we go really quickly, folks. What signs do I see
right now? Well, I see a government that's in a
state of almost complete collapse because of its extreme corruption.
It's an extreme sinful future and state. It is now
finally being all exposed. It's been exposed before, but they're
going further. This time, they're actually gonna start prosecuting, which
(51:59):
is where I've been begging for for years, that the
wicked will be brought to justice and all the truth
will come out, folks. Is happening right now. We're beg
going to see just how wicked and depraved our government is.
The Bible says it's going to be wickedness everywhere in
every area of life, and certainly we're seeing in our
government right now. So look, when all these things happen,
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Jesus says, I'm coming back, and I'm coming back soon.
He is coming back soon. Will it be tomorrow, I
don't know. It might be next year, next decade, but
it's going to be coming down really soon on his folks.
So if you're not ready, you better get the greatest
bunker you can get. That bunker's name is the Lord
Jesus Christ. You can hide in him no matter what's
going on all around you. He's with you all the time.
And that's the bunker you need. That's a safe house
(52:41):
you need. If you don't have it yet, it's free.
The only purchasing a price is your faith to believe
that Jesus really did die for your sins was bredon
Wilse dead again. If you've never done that before, do
it now. Get your holy ghost in time. Bunker for
the rough things that are coming our way, folks, because
when the end gets here, it's the apocalypse. It's the
(53:04):
end of this time, and it's coming down with a big, giant,
terrible splash. So, folks, it's not time for us to go.
As we're closed with mont Saint Martin singing a Creole goodbye,
and God bless all out.
Speaker 14 (53:16):
There we call cel goodbye. They think we're just wasted
the time A mid all three sevl.
Speaker 10 (53:38):
Of me.
Speaker 14 (53:41):
There's time for a Creo goodbye.
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