Louisa City Council candidates declare for elections, Flip & Flop Diamond Party has impressive showing
By: Mark Wayne, Lead Investigative Reporter
Date: June 2022
Tuesday was an exciting day for the future of Louisa as several candidates filed to run for City Council in the upcoming election cycle. While the field does include some seasoned veterans of the City Council, there are also several inaugural candidates.
Incumbent candidates Tim Parcell and Eliza Wafer both echoed their feelings they haven’t achieved everything they wanted to in their previous term.
“I really felt like my initiative to create a Town Bird Watcher Program hasn’t taken off,” stated Ms. Wafer. “We desperately need someone in town dedicated to monitoring and tracking these fowl beasts. Heed my warning, these birds are up to something!”
Newcomers Petunia Fester and Calico Barley are running as a part of the newly-formed Flip & Flop Diamond Party. Though neither candidate has answered our direct questions, the party’s platform states:
Due to rising gas prices, we the members of the Flip & Flop Diamond party make it our primary goal to pass a resolution for the residents of the Town of Louisa that all automotive gas expenses should be eligible as a homeowner’s expense tax write-off or deduction on their city taxes.
Our second priority is to pass a resolution forcing whatever version of Lisa’s Front Porch is currently occupying its space to stay open for dinner at least 5 nights per week. Because it’s all basically just Lisa’s Front Porch, and we are okay with that.
Firebrand candidates Bo McMilligan and Bary Bobson released campaign platforms detailing their commitment to beefing up security at the United States Post Office branch in Louisa after it was robbed in December… of 1900.
TIME-OUT FROM COMEDY: Actual Piece of Louisa History
The Louisa Post Office was robbed on December 29th of 1900 by an alleged expert thief skilled with using nitroglycerin. The thief blew up the safe and stole $500 in money and $900 worth of stamps and money orders for a whopping total of $1400 at time, or worth roughly $48,000 in today’s money. They took everything except for a registered letter, which they apparently just overlooked… So at least one person still got their mail that day.
Here is the article from Jan. 3, 1901 edition of The Bee out of Earlington, KY.
We’re going to shamelessly plug the Lawrence County Public Library (LCPL) which has links to the archives of The Big Sandy News available on the U.S. Library of Congress website back to 1885. The LCPL is currently working on archiving more recent editions of The Big Sandy News.
So, go support your local library and thank the workers for all the hard work they do for the community!
(*The Big Sandy News edition is not available for this particular incident, but the story was widely circulated in other newspapers around the area.)
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