Posted on 04/24/2012 11:11:08 AM PDT by carjic
Moved to Shreveport area for business. (Sorry for vanity) So is this a lib town or Conservative or What? If any freepers are here please give me some scoop. I was listening to 710 am talk and heard this guy called Moon Griffon on a weekday talk show trashing Jindal bad and thought he was a big time lib. Then I catch him again and he sounds like me...big time conservative who is disowning the pubs because they are chicken S..T and no different than the libs. Any suggestions? I don't know a soul in this whole state.
I mostly agree with the previous poster. Shreveport is a lot more like East Texas than it is like Southern Louisiana. More conservative socially. Crime is HORRIBLE in certain neighborhoods and therefore drives the crime stats of Shreveport up, however, if you stay out of those areas it’s a very safe place to be.
710 is a good station. Almost all the hosts are conservative. Griffon is just an ego-maniac though. His hatred of Jindal is mostly because he expected to be a large influence on policy and he really hasn’t been. Jindal has done a great job as compared to Blanco who he replaced. Just ignore that blow hard when it comes to anything he says about Jindal. He gets it right on most of the others though.
Welcome to Northwest Louisiana. I have lived and worked in the Shreveport area for many years, and am now retired in DeSoto Parish. You will find the business climate in Shreveport/Bossier to be very robust. Many of the horror stories regarding employment and business decline you hear in the national news simply do not apply here — the Shreveport area is thriving.
One other thing to beware of - The (Shreveport) Times, the local Gannett rag. Full of the typical screeching liberals that infect Gannett newspapers nationwide.
Occasionally, a conservative local columnist will be allowed to opine.
There is one exception, Vickie Wellborn, one of the best local government (along with your’s truly) reporters in the state. She knows what to look for at city council, school board, and police jury (county commission) meetings.
Other than her, believe nothing published in that paper.
May I too welcome you to Louisiana. We are a conservative state, but in the larger cities there is a concentration of grasshoppers. Ants are scattered all over our state. Your conservative views are welcomed so please feel at home.
As for Moon Griffon, he is quick to criticize, condemn and complain, but he rarely offers any solutions to the problems he focuses on. In the case of Gov. Jindal, he (Griffon) loves to hide behind his friend C. B. Forgottson. Moon lets C. B. do a lot of his dirty work.
Griffon is also a hypocrite. He bemoans about all the taxes that we pay while at the same time he has as one of his major sponsors a solar panel company. This solar panel seller provides ads on Moon’s show that let us all know that 80% of the cost of the panels will be paid for by the state (50%) and the feds (30%). The state and feds are none other than we taxpayers. So as far as Griffon is concerned, it is acceptable for our tax money to be squandered as long as he gets his share in the form of a sponsorship.
Moon is quick to call Gov. Jindal a hypocrite, but Moon should not throw stones as long as he is living in the glass house.
So, we conservatives in Louisiana are apparently stuck with The Moon Griffon Show until someone better and smarter comes along. I am surprised that is is taking so long for his replacement to surface. The “better and smarter” bar is actually set rather low in Moon’s case. Personally I can’t wait.
I’m also a South Texan, Corpus Christi. I’m in industrial construction and heavy maintenance and have worked the old Pennsoil-Atlas plant in Shreveport twice. I now live about 90 miles south of you on the Texas side.
As for a place in the area to live... Shreveport proper had a lot of white flight a generation or so back. “Progressive” Democrats took over the city government. I’d look out around Cross Lake in the Greenwood area. Bossier City isn’t bad, but is really a mostly military town with both the good and bad that comes with it. The Lake is nicer and quieter and has (had?) good schools.
Go over to Bossier City to “Ralph & Kakoo’s and order the Mahi Mahi smothered in Hollandaise and Grilled Shrimp. The older nice Restaurant in Shreveport I liked was closed down last time I went through.
Get a bass boat... good recreation and likely as not your clients will be out there with you. There are a lot of nice lakes in the area on both sides of the boarder. Hunting and shooting are also popular there.
Welcome carjic! I’m about an hour west of you in Longview. You’ll like it around here. Be sure to check out nearby Caddo Lake.
Other than that, Moon is pretty conservative.
I guess I was not clear. My fault. I did not need help with my business. I was just trying to figure out politics here. I don’t know a sole here so there was no one to ask. Business is good. But thanks
Probably one of the most conservative legislators in Baton Rouge.
Senator Barrow Peacock - District 37
Welcome to the webpage for Senate District 37, Shreveport-Bossier.
“I was just trying to figure out politics here.”
Independent, unique, outspoken and energetic. Louisianans do many things very well. Conformity is not one of them, however.
Franklin is North and West of Morgan City.
Welcome to a great place my friend. Try excursions to Cajun country and you will not be disappointed. Louisiana is basically three places in one, The rest of the South (northern Louisiana), Nova Scotia, France and Spain on the Bayou (Cajun country), and Paris on the cheap (New Orleans). Sprinkled along the Mississippi River and many of the South Louisiana bayous you’ll find remains of the old South still on view at the plantation homes which have been restored and opened to the public. Festivals galore as well. In all, quite a mix of things to do and places to see. Enjoy!
Just reading your post makes me miss particular places and people.
Longview
Thank you for your answers.
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