Seventeen times this has NEVER happened before
Any time now, City/Parish Attorney, Paul Escott, will issue an opinion on whether or not a simple ordnance can amend the home rule charter to fix the precinct errors. Those errors are now codified into a new home rule charter, approved by voters on December 8th. Words...
Problems kept quiet until day after challenge period
In what may turn out to be the most startling discovery so far in the wake of the December 8th “fix the charter” vote, on December 18th, the Lafayette Parish Registrar of Voters notified Lafayette Parish administration of errors included in the amended...
History says precinct fixes should go to the voters
As we watch and wait for the masterminds of Lafayette Parish to come up with their plan to fix what they broke, potential outcomes have been the talk of the town. In short, the City of Lafayette’s precincts are mangled to the point of being...
Nix the Charter?
It’s true that there are some serious problems with the charter presented by the council and approved by voters during the low-turnout December election. Many local voters agreed that local government is broken, which is something made quite evident by all the...
Unintended Consequences of the LCG Council Split
Unintended Consequences Lafayette City/Parish Council Split It’s only been a few weeks since the Lafayette City/Parish council announced their intention to separate into two distinct councils, and we’ve already found two twists in Louisiana State Law that...
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