City voters carried Boulet’s longshot victory
Saturday’s race for mayor-president came down to who showed up, and this time the city of Lafayette was the clear decider.
Saturday’s race for mayor-president came down to who showed up, and this time the city of Lafayette was the clear decider.
Since his election, the mayor-president has taught classes at UL, formed two LLCs and obtained a license to produce title insurance, on top of processing expungements for clients — all in search of supplementing his income.
Legislative bodies appropriate money, not the executive branch. But that’s exactly what’s been happening at LCG for more than a decade in conflict with a pair of attorney general opinions.
The roles have reversed from the 2020 budget cycle, and now the City Council ought to play budget hawk.
Shortly after Robideaux’s October 2015 victory, he bought a north Lafayette home owned by Marcus Bruno’s wife, one listed for years in arrest reports as the residence of a repeat drug offender.
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