Mayoral and Police Chief Elections

[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Parish Circuit. That feels like kind of like a. Like a wrestling announcer. You know what I'm talking about? Welcome to another episode of the Parish Circuit. You know, like, I feel like that could be like they over emphasize all their consonants and their. Their syllables and stuff. The Parish Circuit. [00:00:22] Speaker B: We could make it a thing. We could make it a thing. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that one could work. You know, let us know. Faithful listeners, what type of intro do you approve of? We also have sound effects buttons. Oh, they're not working right now. Hold on, wait. Right. I feel like we could implement lots of fun things in here. We just haven't done it yet. [00:00:45] Speaker B: Yeah, man, the opportunities are endless. [00:00:48] Speaker A: Well, speaking of, it's election season. You like that I did that transition right there. It just happened. It just. That was natural. That was all natural. We are here, ladies and gentlemen. Early voting has started. It is October 20th. Early voting has begun. Who you voting for? Who. Who is on the ballot? Who's on the docket? Who's on the ticket? The big races are easy. Like, we don't even really need to talk about those. Honestly, the big races are all pretty simple. But what we will talk about today is some local races. So we just ran two articles. We got a couple of interviews. We ran two articles, one with Ebony Mart, one with Rod Sias. First off, thank you guys so much for doing interviews with our beat reporter. We appreciate that. We took those interviews and kind of worked them through, thought about some points and wrote some articles based on those things. So now what I'd like to do is kind of take some time and go back and think through those two candidates more specifically and then spread out and think about the other campaigns. Now, as of today, October 20th at 2:26pm, Elbert Guillory has said that he will do an interview with us. And he gave us his phone number. And I called that phone number and I got his assistant. I don't think it's happening. I left the phone number, you know, like, maybe it'll happen. We gave him some times that we have available to recording. One of them is right now. Maybe he'll walk in, you know, like, maybe while we're recording this episode, Elbert will just walk in here and be like, I'm ready, cowboy hat and all. [00:02:28] Speaker B: Did someone see him out on the street with a broom and a mop? Is that real? [00:02:32] Speaker A: I did see, yeah. No, that was me. I'm driving down 190 eastbound and I see him right next to the Autozone. He's walking up and down the sidewalk with a mop in one hand and a broom in the other. I'm like, albert, you know what? You know what? This is good marketing. [00:02:52] Speaker B: It's just an old fashioned way to go about things. And look, it might, it might work. [00:02:56] Speaker A: He's just doing a good job. He went and made a video the other day of him standing next to a hole with a pipe that had sprung in it. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I saw that. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And there's water spraying everybody everywhere. And the whole point of his video was like, where's the crew at? What's happening here? [00:03:14] Speaker B: That's some. [00:03:14] Speaker A: That's great content. Like, he's, he's got, he's got the game tuned in, man. Like, he knows, he knows how to run a campaign in 20, 26. And this dude's like 80, you know, like, he's dialed in 81 maybe, man, this guy, like, he's out to do it. But anyway, so Albert, you know, he's. He's his own story. We'll see. Maybe we'll get an interview with Albert before election day. Let's see what happens. Yeah, but we will talk about the guys that we have gotten interviews with, which is Rod Sias and Ebony Martin. Okay, so let's do Rod size first. Let's talk about that one first. So he's running for mayor, and I want to talk about the dignity economy thing. Remember that, Dave? We talked about this a little bit not too long ago. The dignity economy. Now, the point of his dignity economy is he says that every decision that is made should be made with the poorest people in town in mind. That's the gist here. Like, I'm paraphrasing. Every decision that's made should be made with the. With the poorest people in town in mind. [00:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he worded it kind of like in a cris crisis, who would be the most vulnerable? [00:04:18] Speaker A: That was one of his illustrations. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Those are the people that should, basically, that way of thinking, should dictate the policy. [00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah. What would happen to them? Should dictate everything that you do, in other words. Yeah. So what would happen to the poor people? Should dictate everything that you do. And there's a lot of things that we could say about that. My favorite thing, though, is your point. Whenever you and I were chatting about this before, you brought up the point. If, if we did that and we did it regularly, then we would not work to develop our economy and we wouldn't fix the roads and we wouldn't Fix the roads. Because if you do any type of structural improvements or systematic improvements or economic improvements, if the GDP goes up, if the average income for Opelousas goes up, if things get better and more people live here and the law of supply and demand works with real estate the way it always does, it gets more expensive to live here. Now what's happened, the poor people are pushed out. Right. Those two systems don't fit together. You know what I'm saying? [00:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah. A place that is prosperous, nice to live, it's just going to be more expensive. [00:05:30] Speaker A: It's going to be more expensive for people to live there. [00:05:33] Speaker B: So, yeah, anyway, that's just one example of, I think a place that this way of thinking can get you. That doesn't actually help, but I think [00:05:41] Speaker A: that the counter to that would be. Well, but what we could do is just go full socialism, just full communism, [00:05:50] Speaker B: full command, economy, top down. We decide what goes where. [00:05:54] Speaker A: We determine everything. We determine who can live where. We determine. Because that would be the kind of system you would have to build. If you're going to try and increase the economy, if you're going to try to develop the economy. Okay, economic development. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Shout out. [00:06:07] Speaker A: If you're going to try to develop the economy, if you're going to try and build these things up, the only way that you could do this without effectively raising cost of living on poor people is by mass control. Right. You'd have to say, we'll only develop the economy over here. We'll only allow businesses and new ventures and expensive houses over here. We'll only fix the roads over here, not over there. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Well, there's lots. And there's lots of problems with that. Obviously, every time the government intervenes, whether through taxation or regulation, they create inefficiencies. [00:06:42] Speaker A: So long term, how much worse would [00:06:45] Speaker B: it get by expanding this type of. Maybe more of a socialistic economy? Command economy. Long term, it's only going to stagnate the economy. People who want to do business, who want to grow businesses, start businesses, it's going to only deincentivize them. It's only going to incentivize being poor. [00:07:05] Speaker A: I mean, I just want to open the floodgates. Like, just incentivize businesses as hard as we possibly can and move into the city of Opelousis. [00:07:12] Speaker B: But I was. [00:07:12] Speaker A: No taxes, no permits. [00:07:14] Speaker B: But think about that. What you're. [00:07:16] Speaker A: In fact, we give you money. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, you stepped over. [00:07:19] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, I went too far. Sorry, sorry, sorry. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Well, here's what I was thinking. To incentivize when we say the government incentivizing business, you know, because of the current tax structures that we have and things like that, there could be a place where I would be in support of like a. Actual financial support from the government of businesses. But generally speaking, the way that a government probably should incentivize business is by simply not doing anything to restrict them. [00:07:46] Speaker A: Oh. [00:07:46] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying? Because anytime that the government inserts itself, even if it's in a like, hey, we'll give you money, we have this taxpayer money that we've taken from the people and now we're going to distribute as we see fit to businesses. That is an example of. It's another form of government, you know, intervention in the economy that isn't. Shouldn't be there. But, but, yes, but like, we're on the same page. [00:08:08] Speaker A: I think, I think so too. [00:08:09] Speaker B: That how would we incentivize businesses in Appaloosas? It would be to remove the restraints of them coming here and flourishing, namely taxes. [00:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:19] Speaker B: Unnecessary regulations. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:21] Speaker B: Get rid of. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Get rid of all that crap. Turn that dial up to 11. [00:08:24] Speaker B: Let the businesses let these people in and. And flourish. [00:08:27] Speaker A: Amen. That sounds great. Yeah. I had the temptation just now to nuance what you were saying a little bit, and I suppressed it. I said no to that. In the spirit of the Parish circuit. I was like, we're not going to nuance this. We're just going to let it lie. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Good. Good job, Stuart. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that positive feedback. No Nuance. Welcome to no Nuance. November. No, it's still October. Nevermind. [00:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll have to wait on that. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Let's talk about Ebony Martin. Let's talk about Ebony Martin. So she's our. She's our other person. So there's, you know, rod size. I think that's the high point from our interview with RO Broadsides, you know, like, so functionally communist. Like, that's, that's, that's where that type of worldview lands you. You. You land in this place where you say, yeah, I'm a socialist. I'm a. Okay, so let's move on. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Right? Yeah. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So Ebony Martin. Ebony Martin had some interesting things to say in her interview with our bead reporter and published an article about it. Actually, some of her people came back and they were. I assume they're her people. I don't know. They said that our interview was bad or that we didn't say things that we said in our interview. I don't know exactly. They said we took things out and we put things in. That's what they said. I saw that on the post that we put up most recently about the Ebony Martin interview. I thought that was interesting. I was like, if there's something wrong, please tell us and we'll fix it. And they were like, you know, what's wrong? [00:09:44] Speaker B: Well, I wonder if they're just talking about our, like, any. Any added commentary, because obviously, like, if we publish an article on something like we're commenting on, it's editorial that's happening. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Yeah. This is not just the news. This is news and editorial. But I think that. I think most people know that. I saw somebody talking on one of our posts about Jesse Bellard, and they were like, no, these are Christians. They're talking about things from a Christian worldview. That's the whole point of the pod. And I was like, look, people get it. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Somebody gets it, and we'll talk to anybody. We don't just talk to people who, like, we agree with, obviously. [00:10:20] Speaker A: Ooh, I like that. [00:10:22] Speaker B: And so, yeah, just, like, come talk if you want. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, obviously, we've demonstrated that in this episode with. There's plenty of nuance that we would provide to Jesse Bellard, to Bobby Gidreau, to Zsa Zsa. Like, we don't agree 100% with any of these people, and some of them we disagree with more. Right. But the point of this is to bring a Christian worldview, to bring the Bible to bear on all of life here in Appalousa, St Landry parish and beyond. That's what we're really chasing here. We're trying to get this thing done. Let's build Christendom. Let's go. Deploy. Okay, so let's talk about Ebony Martin. So she came in, a couple of her big tenants. The first one was that she wanted to provide human rights training to the officers. And I think our point from that was a good one. Rights based on what? Who decides what the rights are? Who decides how we should deal with rights appropriately? And one of the examples is, like, the Second Amendment. That's a right. Right. So how do we do that? And I think the general point is, provided that we're. When she says human rights, what she actually means is officers being trained to rightly apply the Bill of Rights. I'm great with that. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:11:42] Speaker A: You know, like. But if she means human rights in the international world takeover. Globalistic kind of view, where fighting to bring human rights into certain areas of the world is actually just a mechanism to try to take over that area of the World, we have a different problem. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Yes, yes, I agree. Yeah. In some of those cases we're getting outside of this area here, but in those areas globally, they're in fact sometimes trying to, what would be the word. Export bad things to those places. From a biblical perspective, if they're defining rights as, let's say abortion or something like that, we're actually exporting anti rights. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Yeah, we're taking rights away. We're exporting the deletion of rights. I don't know how you would even say that, honestly. [00:12:41] Speaker B: But yes, but if we're talking about the Bill of Rights, let's do it. [00:12:45] Speaker A: Amen. Dial that thing in. Should we push the button? [00:12:48] Speaker B: Should we talk about the purpose of the Bill of Rights launch just in case? [00:12:51] Speaker A: Please, David, because people forget give us a 62nd bill of rights. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Look, it just people in our modern era, we all grew up statists. We've talked about that before. [00:13:03] Speaker A: That means you too, listener. [00:13:04] Speaker B: Yeah, we've grown up. [00:13:06] Speaker A: No matter how based you are right now, you started out a status and [00:13:10] Speaker B: what it means is none of us would really like admit to that maybe out loud, but functionally we look to the government as a sort of God. That's where morality is dictated. They're the ones who save us. They're the ones who have the answers, all that stuff. [00:13:25] Speaker A: These guys are going to help us. [00:13:26] Speaker B: But that's not the premise upon which our country was founded. And the Bill of Rights in the Constitution as a whole is literally there to restrain government. The Bill of Rights is what the basically Congress and the government cannot do. That's what the Bill of Rights is. [00:13:46] Speaker A: Wait, wait, wait, David, back in 1783, [00:13:53] Speaker B: the flock cameras were pointed at the government. They weren't pointed at the citizens. [00:14:01] Speaker A: The world has changed dramatically since this has happened. But let's, I mean for real, let's talk about this. So the right to bear arms. There can be no law that infringes the right to bear arms. But wait a second, there's a lot of laws that actually infringe on that. Right. Do you get what I'm saying? [00:14:26] Speaker B: Right. So that's how the Bill of Rights begins. Congress shall make no law. Right. [00:14:35] Speaker A: And yet here we are. [00:14:38] Speaker B: That infringes these things. [00:14:40] Speaker A: And yet here we are. [00:14:41] Speaker B: And yet here we are. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah, so I'm a Bible guy. I should say that. I'm not a Bill of Rights guy or a Constitution guy. I'm a Bible guy. But I do think that we should have our. If we're going to have this document and it's going to do what it said it was supposed to do. And it was written by these dudes who at the very least had a Christian worldview in play as they're writing these things out. We should probably take this seriously, right? We should probably say, hey, this is what we need. And one of those is the second amendment. Absolutely. Free speech is a huge deal. And also it has to do with really understanding what these rights really mean, man. This could be its whole own episode, honestly, talking about the bill of rights. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Absolutely. But for now, for now, voter in opelousis remember these things for this upcoming [00:15:41] Speaker A: election when we're talking about human rights. What rights? And our argument would be like, it needs to be the bill rights. These would be the billow rights. But she also had this thing, speaking of flock cameras. She had this interesting statement where she was like, I'm not against flock cameras, but she was like, but they need a written policy. What is I. Okay, so like, but who writes. Who writes it and what does it say? You know what I'm saying? [00:16:14] Speaker B: Sure. [00:16:14] Speaker A: I have a proposed policy for flat cameras. Burn them down, get that crap out of here. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Or responsibly recycle them. How about that? But either way, I can write a [00:16:29] Speaker A: policy, get them off the street. Yeah, get those the heck out of here. What do you mean, flock cameras? Get that crap out of here, man. We don't want no flaw cameras. It's like CCTV in England. What are those cameras for? Well, we're just monitoring public safety. [00:16:42] Speaker B: Speaking of. Look, and that's another thing that we do as a society a lot is we sacrifice freedom for safety all the time. And that's actually bad. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Well, part of it is the degeneration of society as a whole. [00:16:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Like, the farther we get away from the moorings of a biblical Christian worldview, the more oversight and law is required to go. Like, we just had Jesse Bellard on the pod not too long ago, and he was talking about how it took an officer for every hundred people to keep the trail ride events safe. An officer for every hundred people, right? [00:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it was something like 40 or 50 officers. [00:17:26] Speaker A: I think he said 35. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:28] Speaker A: I think he said 35. [00:17:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Misremembering. [00:17:30] Speaker A: I think he had 35, 36, something like that. And there was like 3,500 people there. To which I'm remembering our conversations in previous episodes as well, where it's like. But there was plenty of time in human history where we didn't need that here in this country. We didn't need that level of policing in order for people to just function and exist. Because we were a moral people. Right. We were in submission to the law of God. Now, I think we gave that up specifically in the south, but throughout the country, whenever we decided to embark at man stealing, I think that God. Here we go. Let's talk about this. I think that God's judgment is poured out on America because America embraced man stealing and tried to justify it with the Bible. I think straight up. Like, I think the stuff that's gone sideways with us since our inception as a distinctly Christian nation has happened largely because of man stealing. And it was not just a Southern thing. Like, it was. It was. Everybody was doing this. Okay. It was a Southern and a Northern thing. What? Nobody with clean hands with this stuff. Abraham Lincoln only freed the slaves in the south, which. With his Emancipation Proclamation. He did not free any Northern slaves. We got stuff to deal with here. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Yep. So your point is that there's. The United States is experiencing. Has experienced probably over a century of judgment for that particular sin. [00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And we've fallen into moral disrepair. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Some of the evidence of that is. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:19:05] Speaker B: The moral bankruptcy. [00:19:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:07] Speaker B: That we see right now. [00:19:08] Speaker A: And now we have flock cameras. [00:19:10] Speaker B: Now we have flock cameras and we have the slaughter of the innocent in the womb. So if we want. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Who's protecting them? Where's their flock camera? [00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Who's protecting their rights? [00:19:23] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:19:24] Speaker B: You know, in the nation as a whole. But. But yeah, so if we. We want to see blessing instead of cursing and, you know, we gotta repent of our sins individually, but also, you know, as a. As a nation. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. Absolutely. All right, well, let's talk election. So that's the two interviews that we've done so far. We have Ms. McKnight who is lined up for an interview at some point. I don't know when, but our beat reporter is responsible for that. She's going to be doing that interview at some point in the near future. [00:20:00] Speaker B: That's. Yeah. Devin. Manuel McKnight, mayoral candidate. Did you want to list the candidates again or. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah, do it. [00:20:08] Speaker B: Yeah. So we got Julius Alcindor, the incumbent. [00:20:11] Speaker A: The incumbent. [00:20:12] Speaker B: Sona Anderson, Donald Broussard, Elbert Guillory, Kenan Lamb, Devin McKnight and Rod Sias. Those are your options. Opelousis for mayor. [00:20:24] Speaker A: And everybody's a Democrat except for Albert, right? [00:20:29] Speaker B: That's correct. Yeah, they're list. Yeah, they're all listed as Democrats except for. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Except for Albert Guillory. Okay. [00:20:35] Speaker B: Who has been a Democrat in his political past. But is. Is a Republican now. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Gasp. Sorry. Gasp. Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, I can't actually vote in the mayoral election because I don't. I don't live inside of the city limits. I can't vote for the mayor election. I can't vote for the chief of police election. So I don't have a. I can. I don't have a. A dog in this fight. Our business is located here in the middle of town, like I do. So I guess I have a dog in this fight in that sense. [00:21:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker A: But I mean, let's talk about the space man. Let's talk about it. Let's see. Let's see what we got. Like, what's the future gonna be? What are we gonna. What are we gonna do with this? How are we gonna. How are we gonna move forward? Who is gonna be the best mayoral choice for the city of Opelousas? Who's it gonna be? I have. I have some hot takes. Do you have some hot takes? Do you have some thoughts? [00:21:40] Speaker B: I'd love to hear your hot takes first, Stuart. [00:21:42] Speaker A: All right, so here's my hot takes. I'm between Albert and Julius. [00:21:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:21:47] Speaker A: Okay, Straight up. I'm between Albert and Julius. So Elbert, because he's running on campaign. Conservative campaign. Conservatism. Conservatism. [00:22:01] Speaker B: And I would love to. [00:22:02] Speaker A: He's running on that as a platform. He's saying it out loud, right? [00:22:04] Speaker B: I'd love to talk to him about that. [00:22:07] Speaker A: If only we could get him in for an interview. [00:22:08] Speaker B: I know. [00:22:11] Speaker A: Talk about fiscal responsibility, specifics of that. [00:22:13] Speaker B: That would be amazing. [00:22:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I would think that would be great. But I'm. I'm between Albert and Julius. If I was going to be able to vote in this Julius, because I know him and I have a relationship with him, and I've got his number in my phone. I have some interactions with him in the past that seems to have been fruitful. I've been to his house before. He and I have had some conversations. I feel like I understand him a little bit. I know there's a lot of scuttlebutt going on around there about Julius and how he's got his hands in certain pockets and people have their hands in his pockets and he's being controlled or he's asking for money from people. I understand all of that. I get it. But the point is, I'm saying, in comparison to the docket that's out there right now and the information that we have, which is admittedly not much, people have not described their campaigns very Effectively. [00:23:05] Speaker B: We talked about that on a previous episode where everybody's kind of just saying the same thing, but nobody's giving any specifics about how they're to going. [00:23:12] Speaker A: It's the squishy campaign rhetoric, you know, hope and change. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Can I just. I'll throw this in there so I don't forget. I just want to thank the random person that lives down the street from me. This has helped my local election decision making process. [00:23:31] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:23:32] Speaker B: Because during the national elections, they had the love is love and the Biden Harris signs in their yard. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Okay. [00:23:41] Speaker B: And some other things. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Okay. [00:23:42] Speaker B: So now whichever local people they put in their yard, I know not to [00:23:46] Speaker A: vote for those who are the local people they have in their yard. Is it Rod Sias? [00:23:51] Speaker B: I think it was rod size. [00:23:53] Speaker A: I knew it. [00:23:54] Speaker B: And I think it's Jamie Davis. [00:23:56] Speaker A: Oh, of course it was. Yeah. Anyway, so I was like, Jamie Davis, super, super live. Jamie Davis is gonna get smoked. But, you know, I'll talk about that. Julia Letlow is coming in. I think that's mostly a power play between the Democrats and the Republicans to see how much vote they can take from Letlow with this guy. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Interesting. Yeah, they're, they're, I don't think they're actually trying to win. They're testing the waters. Yeah. Okay. [00:24:16] Speaker A: It's actually trying to win now. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Speaking of now, it's getting out of our region a little bit. [00:24:20] Speaker A: But Albert and Julius. Albert because he's running on platform conservatism. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yep. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Okay. And then Julius because he's the guy. I know that's where my head is for mayor. Okay, sorry, go ahead. [00:24:32] Speaker B: I think that's fair. No, I mean, I, I don't honestly have much to add there. I think if someone is kind of outspokenly socialistic, that's just going to be a no, no, big fat no for me. Which there's probably a few on this docket, to be honest. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:51] Speaker B: But, yeah, but anybody who actually seems somewhat serious about some fiscal conservatism, some actual presents, maybe some actual practical ways to bring in business, then, yeah, I could see myself voting for them. [00:25:06] Speaker A: Truth be told, that's what attracted me to Julius whenever he was running. Years and years ago, Julius was openly, publicly practicing fiscal conservatism. In fact, he was making points, I believe it was, when he was serving on city council about how the budget needed to get put straight on city council and he was willing to lock things up, if I remember correctly, on city council until the budget got put in order correctly. He was like, we don't have money for this. We're not doing this. He was the standing no vote on council for a while, and that was like, oh, look at this. I mean, you know, Democrat, but fiscally conservative. Okay, we could talk about this. So anyway, nice. We also want everybody to repent and believe in Jesus. All right, what do you got, Dave? What's next? [00:25:51] Speaker B: Did we want to talk about the people running for police chief? [00:25:59] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it. I mean, let's go. So we've got. [00:26:07] Speaker B: So we got the incumbent, Greg LeBlanc. Okay. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Who's going to jail. All right, next. [00:26:15] Speaker B: Pending the trial. [00:26:17] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. Pending. Pending investigation. [00:26:19] Speaker B: Happen after the election. Okay. Yolanda Lewis, Ebony Martin. [00:26:24] Speaker A: Ebony Martin, Lawrence Richard. [00:26:26] Speaker B: And then this list pulled up. Donald Thompson. [00:26:30] Speaker A: But one or two of these people, Donald dropped out. I know for sure ebony's still in. Yolanda's still in. I know for sure those two are still in. And obviously Twin Blanc is in. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. I'm not sure about Lawrence Richard, but. But what's interesting, apparently Ebony Martin is actually running no party. All the. All the others are Democrat. I don't know if that means anything, [00:26:54] Speaker A: but who knows what that means? [00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah, [00:26:58] Speaker A: I saw Elbert interacting in a positive way with her article that we wrote about her. He was like, she's got some good ideas. So, again, I don't think any of these guys are conservative in the way that I would use the word. [00:27:10] Speaker B: Sure. [00:27:10] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? I don't think that's true. I don't know that many of them have the reformation front and center for what they're trying to accomplish or, like what we're trying to accomplish. But so if I'm running down those candidates based on what we know about them, from the conversations that we've had with them, here's facts. So Twin got arrested, charged while he was in office, had an affair with a subordinate, cheating on his wife, Gunplay was involved, and he is accused of obstruction and malfeasance for destroying evidence in the. In the investigation. Okay. That's a huge deal. That's a huge, like. Like massive deal. Okay. And that. That disqualifies him from being in the office, period. Full stop. We said this three years ago, right? When everything actually happened. Homie needs to. Homie needs to roll out and take care of his family. [00:28:14] Speaker B: He should have resigned at the time. [00:28:17] Speaker A: He didn't. [00:28:17] Speaker B: And he's. [00:28:18] Speaker A: And, yeah, the honorable thing to do would have been to resign. [00:28:20] Speaker B: And he shouldn't be running again. [00:28:22] Speaker A: No. [00:28:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Then we have Yolanda Lewis. Yolanda, who has a pretty good reputation with most people in town, they like her, she likes them. She had some charges come up with herself not too long ago for accessing. [00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Some accessing criminal records in an improper way. I don't know exactly what the charges were, but she was using a computer to pull up records on somebody that she shouldn't have been doing. Whatever that. Whatever that exactly means. Her and a handful of other people from the surrounding area got charged with that. Exactly how those charges ended, I'm not sure. But she's also running. She's got some stuff on her sheet there, whatever that means. And then we've got Ebony Martin. Out of those three, like. So we're playing the game. We have to pick one. Is that the way it works? We have to pick one? [00:29:13] Speaker B: Well, you look. It was actually. I think it was an episode that didn't go live. So maybe now I'm holding you to it, even if the people that are listening wouldn't have held you to it. So you're welcome. Yeah, you said that we were gonna, you know, tell people. Yeah, there's gonna be a Parish Circuit voter card, you know, Voter card. So, yeah. [00:29:31] Speaker A: So who's gonna be. Who's it gonna be, out of those three? Yeah, yeah, it'd probably be Yolanda. [00:29:36] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:37] Speaker A: I mean, honestly, she seems to be local. She seems to have the experience. Again, these are people. This is a person that I know and I've interacted with in the past, generally, positively. So there's something to be said for that. It's not twin, right? It's definitely not twin. And I'm just not impressed by any of Ms. Martin's policies that she's put forward. So if I'm voting, I don't live in the city limits, though I'm voting, though. I'm voting. Probably Yolanda. It's probably going down with Yolanda. All right, what's it? What is it? She calls herself the cop with the gold fronts. Is that what she says? [00:30:18] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:30:19] Speaker A: No, I think that's actually. I'm not being amazing. I'm not being rude. This is serious. [00:30:25] Speaker B: No, no, I'm not doubting you. I think that's hilarious. [00:30:27] Speaker A: With the gold fronts. [00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:29] Speaker A: No, that's it. Yeah. How'd she said it? She said, oh, now I can't find it. Oh, man. But it exists. It exists. Oh, man. All right, well, those are the two big ones. What else is there? There's, like, alderman races going on. There's school district races going on. Those get complicated. There's tons of districts. [00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:30:51] Speaker A: Lots of different alderman races going on. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Which maybe we should at least, like, publish a little article or something that at least, like, lists everybody out and maybe gives if there is anything available on what they've said they want to do. Put it out there. [00:31:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, maybe. [00:31:04] Speaker B: So we get our. Our top, you know, top intern on [00:31:07] Speaker A: the case, the beat reporter. [00:31:09] Speaker B: Yeah, get them working on it. But, yeah, interesting stuff. [00:31:14] Speaker A: Done. Done. Well, guys, thanks so much for listening to another episode of the Parish Circuit. We appreciate you. Maybe you're listening to this episode and you're like, I can't believe that they just recommended that person for office. To which I'd be like, sweet. Talk to me about it. Maybe you come on the show and record an episode. That'd be cool. We could talk about it then. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be fun. [00:31:37] Speaker A: That'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. Good times. All right, guys, thank you all so much for listening to another episode of the Parish Circuit. You go to the parishcircuit.com, find blogs, articles, podcasts, all those great things, and we'll chat more about it later. The election is here. It's time. Gird your loins. Here we go.