Scathing e-mail leaked: Shreveport Mayor Perkins tells councilman to stay out of city operations

[TexasTowelie]

Underground pipes aren't the only thing leaking in Shreveport.

In a salty e-mail slipped out of Government Plaza, Mayor Adrian Perkins asked Councilman John Nickelson to abandon his probe for details on a billion dollar deal.

Perkins sent a bulk e-mail to the City Council last week showing a lasting struggle between the administration and one council member.

Perkins essentially told Nickelson, District C, to stay out of the administration's business after Nickelson asked for public records on a $1 billion contract.

“I am writing because I find it disturbing that you continue to circumvent my office with actions that disrupt the operations of the city," Perkins wrote Nickelson.

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[rampartc]

1. sounds like a councilman doing his job

i'm not that familiar with details in the far north, but my instincts are that both of these men are probably democrats, but the equivalent city officials in bossier city would be republican?

[TexasTowelie]

2. Far north?

You haven't crossed the Mason-Dixon line.

[rampartc]

3. i'm probably delerious right now, towelie

barry finally moved far to the north and is probably around caddo parish (Shreveport) by now. I hate those slow moving storms.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Tell me about it.

I was stuck under Hurricane Harvey for four days and then Wharton flooded as the rainwater came down the Colorado River. It just so happened that I found the last loaf of bread in town at the convenience store a few blocks away. The store shelves were half-empty for the next week since the truck routes from San Antonio through Houston were under high water. No bread, tortillas, pastries, milk, eggs or fresh produce for about a seven day period before things began to improve.

There was also problems with cell phone coverage and I was trying to wire money to my brother in San Antonio, but Western Union was also down. I had a barrage of about a dozen hate voice mails from my brother in about a 3 hour period, but I was able to send out an email to my sister in Atlanta who got in contact with him and let him know it wasn't my fault. He did have a credit card, so he wasn't left helpless and if he thought about going to a bank to see a teller he could have gotten cash.

I hope that you don't have to face any problems with the drainage from the storm.

[rampartc]

5. we're still concerned with the height of the mississippi

but we did not even lose power over the weekend.

I was in new orleans for katrina, and a week afterward. it was a pleasant surprise when we were flown out that the telephone and credit card still worked.