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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 440 of 440Hey Kelvin, give me an address where to have the AG's investigator pick up your attorney so they can ride together. You may want to keep the travel expense as low as you can on this one.
Myron, Bridgette and therefore, Sanders don't like Lampert and they don't like Hobb's opponent, Darrell Hickman. Apparently Hickman represented Myron's former sister in law against Myron's brother in a divorce case and got a child support order on the brother. Myron ain't liked Hickman since. It's obvious why they don't like Lampert. First, he's white, and second, he won't be their lackey like Hobbs is. I heard that some folks who were pissed at Hobbs for being the mouthpiece for myron and co. including his rant against the current mayor are the ones who got Hickman to run. Word is they're helping him, too.
Oops, I meant lackey like Harry Silver is for them.
My blood pressure is starting to spike because I am seeing red. The boys want a throw down and I guess they think everyone in Alexandria is too stupid or spineless to make an attempt to thwart them. I hope they have miscalculated. They have as far as I am concerned.
That's outrageous! The city of Alexandria should not spend one penny to pursue legal action to delay those two council elections. It should be completely up to the candidates to take their own legal action (or voters who protest and want to go to court.) Not the job of the city to hire some Af. American lawyer from Baton Rouge who just wants to make a buck and make his alexandria buddies--myron and company happy. Due to the make-up of the council, the administration is probably not going to be able to stop this if the council votes to proceed. So, I urge citizens to show up at the city council meeting on Tuesday to demand that the council NOT attempt to postpone the election!!!!
It ain't Sanders. Everyone knew that Sanders was lifted out of the Bridget Brown Law Firm from the Lawson Building and was destined to develop into the crook that he has become. I mean, his wife and Lawson's wife and Bridget formed LLCs to hide lucrative
"consulting" contracts from public scrutiny.
To get mad at Kelvin for being crooked would be like blaming a skunk for stinking. The problem is that Randolph lacks the courage or character to correct the problem that he created/permitted by running that sorry SOB off and reporting him to the Bar Assn. for all of his disloyalty, dishonesty, and double dealing. When you are being regularly screwed by your own in-house chief counsel, you have had the treatment.
That rotten bastard will be fair game in a few weeks and then he better be packing his family, his LLC, his Hobbs sign, and his bar license, and changing area codes.
after roys flier today, i keep getting a visual of delores, gut shot, in the fetal position, on the floor at one of her hen parties.
thats too strong
right. i meant a visual representing her candidacy. not delores herself. should have made that clear. or used the more familiar iceberg ripping the titanic open.
You wish, Biff. Delores is doing great today. Has a heavy schedule and is out there working hard. Unlike your guy, Delores has developed the tough emotional skin it takes to run for public office. She is well aware that while it may not always be pleasant, she wouldn't be picked on unless she was number one. That is very energizing to her. Your guy has so much trouble taking punches, he would have blown a gasket by now.
mr. reality check. so you are saying delores is delusional? she's been exposed as a liar to the entire town and it has no effect on her? now that is scary!
Did they ever get her records from teh City?
The city is notorious for delaying and refusing Freedom of Information Act requests. They seem to forget that the citizens own the city.
No, Biff, that's ridiculous. Delores is not delusional. She understands that unfortunately, this can be a mean process. No candidate, including Delores can allow something like that to make them "curl up on the floor" and stop working to get elected. Conversely, I want someone like her to be mayor. A person who is tough enough to suck up personal feelings and keep working.
spanky, we need a good crowd at the city council meeting tuesday. i just talked with lampert and he tells me in his district it might be like nine votes that are affected. the numbers are not big in hobbs district and actually can be properly changed to be in the right district. regardless, a lot of people on this blog need to make the city council meeting. kelvin is ignoring his orders from NED and this might get ugly.
Biff, You probably thought I was full of it but now you heard it straight. Folks do need to show up en masse and in force.
I was going to vote for ROY, but that mailout today left me with a bad ffeling in my mouth. I was feeling good about Roy, and his positive campaign, but mudslinging, true or not, is just not the type of person I want for mayor.
And yes, I already knew that about Delores. Yes, she looked bad, but what the hell does it have to do with Roy??
How does it affect how HE would run Alexandria??
There will be a Special City Council meeting on
Monday, September 25, 2006 at 11:30 A.M.
in the City Council Chambers to discuss the following:
To consider a report from the Administration and City Attorney on concerns regarding the elections of Council Districts 2 and 4 and To consider adoption of a resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Administration to take necessary actions that may be required.
Kelvin is such a lying sack of shit. He told others to come to the meeting on Tuesday. That, I suppose, is the purpose for the 11:30 setting. Lampert and Hickman will both be in court on a Monday morning. We should show up there and raise 9 kinds of unshirted hell.
Lets see if I got this straight. The city supplies the information for pre-approval to the Justice Department. That information was wrong, so the City wants to stop the election due to its own mistake? If this is so, I suggest we call the Justice Department in to ivestigate whether this was the typical City incompetence or was done as as a conspiracy of the council. I sure hope that Kelvin can come with a lot more answers on why this happened before a lawsuit is filed.
i'll be there at 11.30
~looks for michele godard to be there 'with cameras rolling' ;-)
this whole thing is to protect hobbs. he knows he has a whipping coming and has gotten his blow buddy kelvin to delay the election. my information is that albin has already told the mayor he can't stop the election. the mayor conveyed that to kelvin who has conveyed to others he will do as he pleases. this is utterly amazing.
Another example of how Kelvin operates can be found from this letter sent in 2004:
May 13, 2004
MR. KELVIN G. SANDERS
Attorney At Law
P.O. Box 71
Alexandria, LA 71309-0071
RE: February 23, 2004 Finance Committee Meeting
Dear Kelvin:
It is with much disgust and with heavy pen in hand that I feel compelled to respond to your
correspondence of May 10, 2004, addressed to Mr. Tommy Hollingsworth, of my client, Rapides
Parish Waterworks District Number 3, of Ward 10. At the outset, the views and opinions
expressed herein are solely mine and are in no way sanctioned nor approved by my client, Rapides
Parish Waterworks District Number 3. You are about to see that I, as a citizen of Alexandria
with no political ambitions, am free to speak the truth with no concerns of political correctness.
You should also be advised that I will not be intimidated.
As you will recall, the week prior to February 23, 2004, the Alexandria Daily Town Talk
reported that, without it being previously placed upon the agenda, the City of Alexandria retained
Ms. Bridgett Brown as a local bonding attorney. The Town Talk article stated that such was
done to give local attorneys an opportunity to handle some of the City's bond work, and such
were also the reasons expressed in your correspondence of May, 10, 2004.
A couple of days after that February, 2004, action by the City of Alexandria, Mr. Joe
Fuller, of the Rapides Parish Police Jury, requested a meeting with himself, Mr. Hollingsworth
and Ms. Brown. Although Ms. Brown subsequently did not attend that meeting, according to Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. Fuller requested that Water District 3 retain a bonding brokerage firm which
retains Ms. Brown as its local counsel. After that meeting, Mr. Hollingsworth telephoned me and
requested that I get with the District's bond counsel, Mr. Jerry Osborne, to seek his opinions of
such a relationship. Mr. Hollingsworth was unsure if Mr. Fuller was requesting the District to
retain Ms. Brown directly or if she would be counsel for the brokerage firm. Mr. Hollingsworth
also requested me to attend the February 23, 2004, finance committee meeting of Water District
3.
At this point, I would refer you to the copy of a portion of the transcript of that finance
committee meeting, which is attached hereto. At that February, 23rd meeting, after Mr.
Hollingsworth spoke, I was asked for my opinion. I gave my opinion, which was based upon my
legal knowledge, Mr. Hollingsworth's recollection of his meeting with Mr. Fuller, and the article I
had read in the Town Talk. I stand by my opinion, had a right under both the federal and state
Constitutions to make it, and have no regrets for making it. In case my opinion was not clear to
you I will restate it for you: It is my opinion that Bridgett Brown is using local Black political
figures in an attempt to obtain legal work by clients currently being represented by other
attorneys. I think the facts show this to be true, in my opinion. It is also my opinion, that Mr.
Fuller, who did not even consult with the police juror of Ward 10, in which District 3 is located,
attempted to use his position as a police juror to obtain legal work for Ms. Brown. Giving Ms.
Brown the benefit of the doubt, for the time being, I will only report this to the State Bar
Association should this open solicitation on Ms. Brown's behalf continue. I, nor the Bar
Association, look kindly upon other attorneys soliciting legal work from clients I and Mr.
Osborne's firm are currently representing. I do not feel that I made any racial slurs in my
comments, and, once again, I do stand by the opinions I did state.
As Ms. Brown's request for the tape of that February 23, 2004 meeting was not made
until April 16, 2004, and as there were there were no members of the general public in attendance
at that meeting, it appears clear to me that Ms. Brown was contacted in an attempt to discredit
me or to impede the investigation I was instructed to initiate into the much publicized laying of a
waterline to Ball Mayor Roy Hebron's private property. I can also assure you, as you know after
driving to Tioga with Ms. Brown and listening to the tape of that meeting, that the finance
committee's decision not to retain any additional counsel or bonding companies at that time was
absolutely not based upon any racial considerations. In my opinion, those Board members based
their sound decision simply upon not expending the public's funds where not necessary.
Now I would like to address the particular points of your May 10, 2004 correspondence, a
copy of which is also attached.
First and foremost, I wonder why the City Attorney of Alexandria, Louisiana travels to
Tioga with Ms. Brown to listen to a tape of a meeting in which a business deal benefitting her was
discussed. Furthermore, why does Alexandria's City Attorney, on City time and on City
letterhead, presume to involve himself into the internal affairs of a Ward 10 water district? Your
use of the public fax machines and office staff appears to be, in my opinion, a misuse of public
funds for personal business, which in my opinion is also illegal and should, no doubt, be of interest
to the City Council and Mayor.
Next, I would hope that should you write to my clients, and others, about me in the future,
that you be man enough next time to also send me a copy (which I was not copied on and had to
call your office to request). If you truly desire dispute resolution or clarification, it has been my
experience that such is better reached by confronting the source, instead of behind the back
maneuvers.
Also, I never claimed that Ms. Brown's representation of the City of Alexandria was
unethical, rather, in my opinion, an attorney soliciting clients in such a manner is unethical. But
since you bring the issue up, the last time I read the Alexandria City charter, it required any
attorney retained by the City, other than the City Attorney, be done by the adoption of an
ordinance, with all of the notice and hearing requirements mandated for an ordinance. As a citizen
of the City of Alexandria, please inform me if such was still required and whether such was
complied with. If Ms. Brown was not retained by the City for legal work, perhaps you could
clarify the contents of that Town Talk article.
Your May 10th correspondence also states that: "the City of Alexandria has made it a point
to give local attorneys an opportunity to provide professional services in the bond closing arena."
If that is so, I wonder who such an opportunity was offered, as I nor many other local attorney's I
have spoken with were ever approached. Therefore, please provide me with a list of other local
attorneys that were contacted regarding such "opportunity", other than Ms,. Brown of course.
Any actions or comments that "unnecessarily create racial tension", as you stated, come
not from me, but from local black political figures, such as yourself, using your positions for the
personal financial interests of Ms. Brown.
It is my understanding that Rapides Parish Waterworks District 3 is going to investigate
this matter as you requested as City Attorney of Alexandria. However, accept this as my
response, and mine only. I would appreciate your response to my above questions, and please do
not hesitate to contact me directly should you require any additional information from me. I
remain,
Very truly yours,
___________________________
GREGORY R. AYMOND
Attorney At Law
GRA/hlg
Enclosure
cc: Hon. Ned Randolph, Mayor, City of Alexandria
Hon. Clarence Fields, Mayor, City of Pineville
Hon. Roy Hebron, Mayor, Town of Ball, C/O Henry Lemoine, Attorney At Law
Mr. Richard Lindsay, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District A
Mr. Steve P. Bordelon, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District B
Mr. Ezra Reed, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District C
Mr. Theodore Fountaine, Jr., Rapides Parish Police Jury, District D
Mr. Donald H. Wilmore, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District E
Mr. Joe Fuller, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District F
Mr. Jerry P. Wood, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District G
Mr. Richard W. Billings, Rapides Parish Police Jury, District H
Mr. Scott Perry, Jr., Rapides Parish Police Jury, District I
Mr. Myron K. Lawson, Alexandria City Council
Mr. Roosevelt L. Johnson, Alexandria City Council
Mr. Louis J. Marshall, Alexadnria City Council, District 1
Mr. Everett C. Hobbs, Alexandria City Council, District 2
Mr. Charles F. Smith, Alexandria City Council, District 3
Mr. Richard L. Ranson, Jr., Alexandria City Council, District 4
Mr. Charles L. Fowler, Jr., Alexandria City Council, District 5
Mr. Ray E. Adams, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Otha O. Hailey, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Wes Hebron, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Thurman M. Kelly, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Ms. Glynda Lincecum, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Les Prestridge, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Rich Dupree, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Roger Toney, Commissioner, Rapides Parish WaterWorks #3
Mr. Tommy J. Hollingsworth
Ms. Bridgett Brown
To bad the Nedster won't have it in him to fire Kelvin
Yes Biff, It is moe bizarre than I could convey.
Good lord. Does Aymond want to be the center of the universe or what. Greg baby - this ain't about you or your backwoods water well. Are you aware of anything that has happened since 2004?
ok everyone, let's load up the council meeting monday at 11.30. we need to nip this coup in the bud.
and reality check, you sound more like a democrat than a republican. delores lies TWICE, get's called down for it, and somehow SHE is the victim. cry me a river.
Biff:
That's silly. I am an independent. DB has Republicans, Demos and Indie's supporting her. You'll be singing a different tune on Sept. 30--maybe "fly me to the moon" with your wacko bloated up nutcase of a doctor candidate.
Yes Sic n Tard, I am aware that Kelvin, Bridgett, and Lawson are still operating much the same way now in 2006. Recall the old addage; "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". From Bonds to elections, these operations need to be exposed and stopped. I suggest that if you do not like a particular post, that you scroll on to the next one. But thank you for your helpful and insightful coments.
Biff, Greg, Spanky, sic & tarred:
We may not agree on our choices for mayor. But let's make peace, for a while guys and work together for the common good of our city. Because one thing we can agree on is that we should flood the special council meeting on Monday. I was told that just cause the big time BR lawyer is coming in, it doesn't mean the city is planning to be the one to file the injunction. But that's from the administration. Problem is the "silly council." But I agree that we should raise holy hell about it to make damn well certain no tax dollars pays an outside attorney about this.
mr. reality check. i think you greatly underestimate roys last barrage. that flier makes delores look like...... well... a liar.
Hey, I am in. All I am about is fair and just government. It galls the hell out of me to know that our city attorney is acting against the mayor's wishes in this matter and going so far out on a limb to alter the outcome of a process that has begun. This smacks of politics of the most repugnant kind.
Hey Folks, help me light up the lines.
ELECTIONS FRAUD HOTLINE
Complaints of election irregularities, including voter fraud and abuse, vote buying and threats to disrupt or inhibit the election process can be reported to the Elections Compliance Unit at (800) 722-5305 or (225) 342-4479.
looks like we're gonna need a new thread for all this election chatter.
'Tis better to out a lier than be a lier. Why is Scarlet so angry and surprised that someone noticed. See Scarlet. It ain't going away.
Who knows Tommie Seaton from Rodney Alexander's office?
liar liar pants on fire ---it ain't going away
What is with these telephone polls? They ask if you are voting for Roy or Brewer. Last time I checked there were more than two candidates running for mayor. I have talked to two people that haved received these calls from pollsters. They told them they had decided to vote for Sams and got hung up on. The more I hear about some of the other candidates and their campaign tactics (or whatever term they use for the mudslinging that is going on), the more certain I am that Sams is the man for the job.
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