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Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:32 pm to zuluboudreaux
quote:I generally agree with the rest of your post, though it's a bit too much tin foil hat, but can you please point me in the direction of the nearest progress the parish is making under his administration?
Mr Bergeron is an “outsider” and that threatened the good ole boy politics in the parish. I support Mr Bergeron and the progress the parish is making under his administration.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:35 pm to Tarps99
An American politician going to DC is a wee bit different than going to Africa.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 12:08 am to Woolfpack
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An American politician going to DC is a wee bit different than going to Africa.
I’ll expand:
An American politician going to DC, to build relationships with other local and national politicians is as much his job as anything else. Politics is about relationships and working with others to bring funding and resources to your Parish. Literally everyone that has anything to do with Louisiana politics is at Washington Mardi Gras.
He was out of town for a two day winter event. People aren’t dead, houses aren’t gone.
This is a wee bit different than going to Africa during wildfires that caused death and destruction to attend an inauguration in Ghana.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 12:11 am to OweO
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But if my electricity is out and the only thing that is keeping it from coming back on is the parish president being out of town
Wtf? Did he take the key to the Parish breaker box with him?
Posted on 1/25/25 at 6:11 am to CypressTrout10
I used tap water once, this could’ve been me
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:27 am to LSUFAITHFUL2
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An American politician going to DC, to build relationships with other local and national politicians is as much his job as anything else. Politics is about relationships and working with others to bring funding and resources to your Parish. Literally everyone that has anything to do with Louisiana politics is at Washington Mardi Gras.
And Lafourche Parish President Archie Chiasson is there also.
Houma Courier
The D.C. Mardi Gras events are more than parties, he explained. They allow networking and access to officials with whom Terrebonne and Lafourche leadership might not otherwise get to meet. Speaking by phone Wednesday, Bergeron said that evening he and Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson would be hosting the first ever Bayou Region event. This is the 76th year Washington, D.C., has held Mardi Gras events.
“We’re coming here to come to their offices and have meetings, sitting across the table from them, in situations where those people don’t come down where we are,” he said. “It’s been one-on-one relationships and meetings with the Speaker of the House (Mike Johnson), and (Steve) Scalise, and all these kind of things, and it’s all wrapped around Mardi Gras.”
Some topics Bergeron has pushed for when speaking with these officials included funding for a pump station in Dularge, funding for Houma’s power plant, and emphasizing the troubles FEMA’s risk rating model affecting flood insurance is causing for residents of Terrebonne Parish.
[link=(Check out this article from The Courier: Terrebonne Parish President Jason Bergeron juggles Washington Mardi Gras, snow storm https://www.houmatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/01/24/terrebonne-parish-president-juggles-washington-mardi-gras-snow-storm/77905374007/)]Houma Courier[/link]
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:44 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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It was cold for two and half days. Stop being such a pussy
In retorospect, everything went very smoothly, but ahead of time who knew? There could have been massive power outages with tens of thousands exposed to extreme cold.
When you take a job, like Parish President, Mayor, Secretary of Transportatiion, etc., your job has to be your priority, otherwise don’t take the position.
The same thing is true about the fires in L.A. That Mayor had every reason to believe this year would be no different than the last 20, only it wasn’t.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:38 am to Penrod
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When you take a job, like Parish President, Mayor, Secretary of Transportatiion, etc., your job has to be your priority, otherwise don’t take the position.
I’d say going to DC for this particular event is the norm for every parish president, and is how he gets money for his parish. But you’d have to actually know the amount of deals that get made at the Washington Hilton during that week. Been there done that for 4 years
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:39 am to OweO
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The point is that when you run for that position there are expectations that come with it. If they can't do their job then what's the point of their job?
I didn’t know they didn’t have phones and computers in Terrebone. What do you think he was going to do had he not been in DC? Go out and start shoveling all the roads?
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:41 am to Penrod
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In retorospect, everything went very smoothly, but ahead of time who knew?
Anyone with a brain, it was a little snow
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:42 am to Tarps99
Dumbass take.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:45 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Anyone with a brain, it was a little snow
Not for South Louisiana. A little snow is what we got in 2017. This was a once in a life time event.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:48 am to OweO
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Not for South Louisiana. A little snow is what we got in 2017. This was a once in a life time event.
It was gone within 2 days, people are playing golf today. If you could read a forecast you knew it would be fine. Yes, a lot of snow fell but it warmed up within 36 hours
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:49 am to OweO
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Not for South Louisiana. A little snow is what we got in 2017. This was a once in a life time event.
Okay? And like always South Louisiana needs daddy government to show them the way to survive. South Louisiana sure is soft for people who act so damn tough about culture all the time.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 10:52 am to Tarps99
How many lives and homes were lost.?????
This post was edited on 1/25/25 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 1/25/25 at 11:02 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Anyone with a brain, it was a little snow
It was a lot of snow. We were fortunate that it was very light powder. Had it been wet snow it would have produced a ton of power outages, as our distribution lines are not designed for that, plus a lot of trees would have broken from the weight.
Hindsight is 100%, but if there had been a crises of folks without power, and had it been a Democrat, this board would have lit up with fickle knuckleheads like Mingo.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 12:14 pm to Penrod
Couldn’t agree more Penrod.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 12:18 pm to LSUDUCKMAN67
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Especially when the Governor skipped out on his fundraising event to come back to the state to lead on the efforts for the storm.
Washington MG for this small town Terrebonne parish dude is something he would never pass up lol
Posted on 1/25/25 at 1:30 pm to Penrod
Oh look it’s Penrod being a bitch.
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