Monthly Archives: October 2018

All candidates on the November 6 ballot were required to submit campaign financial reports to the Louisiana Ethics Administration on Monday of this week.   The reporting period is from September 28 through October 17.  These reports give major insight into the status of campaigns.   This is especially true in the Shreveport mayor’s race. […]

Yep, its true. The operating budget that Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler presented to the Shreveport City Council last week proposes more expenditures than estimated revenues. Technically the budget will not be in the red. Tyler intends to spend over $5.9 million of the anticipated December 31 operating reserves. That’s almost 60% of the expected reserves. […]

The Shreveport City Charter requires that the 2019 operating budget be adopted on December 11, 2018.   Mayor Tyler introduced her proposed budget at the Council meeting  on Tuesday.  The Council was briefed with an Executive Summary of the budget consisting of a Power Point presentation featuring 43 slides.   The 543 page budget is […]

There’s an old saying in politics that money does not vote. But money gets votes.   Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler’s recently released campaign finance reports show that her candidacy is not doing well, to put it mildly.   Couple that with a recently released poll, and its no surprise that Tyler has gone underground in […]

Yes, it IS big news. Actually, BIG BIG news. On January 1 of this year, Adrian Perkins was a virtual unknown to Shreveport voters. He was still a student at Harvard Law School. Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler had the highest name recognition of any elected official north of Baton Rouge. And she was a 3 […]

Yes, there have been many, many mayoral forums. Like 10, or maybe 11. And all the mayoral candidates are suffering from “forum fatigue.” But only 3 were televised. Tuesday at LSUS, Wednesday at Centenary College and Thursday at Southern University Shreveport. These forums allowed every voter in Shreveport to see the candidates, or almost all […]

It sounds simple. And in theory it is. But theory and reality rarely match up. Such is the case with the Lake Street railroad crossing. The goal is to re-open the railroad crossing between Spring Street and the Clyde Fant Parkway. This section has been blocked off since January 2015. The ordinance authorizing the temporary […]

Campaign finance reports for all candidates on the November 6 primary ballot were due by Tuesday October 9. The reports cover the period from March 1 through September 27. Candidates for Council District A face incumbent Willie Bradford. He had $1203 at the beginning of the reporting period and he raised $9265. After expenditures, he […]

Steven Jackson’s mayor campaign billboards tout him as the “Champion for the Community”. Maybe the message should be “Champion for my boss”. Jackson has been employed by David Raines Community Health Center (DRCHC) since the spring of 2015. He was elected to the Caddo Commission in December 2015. He took office in January 2016. The […]

Although the latest mayoral campaign reports are somewhat dated, they certainly provide important insight into the campaigns of Ollie Tyler, Adrian Perkins, Jim Taliaferro, Steven Jackson and Lee O. Savage. The reports were due on Tuesday of this week. They reflect campaign finances from March 1 of this year through September 27. Thus campaign financial […]