BR Councilman Slams State Representative Over Wal-Mart

The Advocate reports that East Baton Rouge Councilman Jim Benham accused State Representative William Daniel of "meddling in city-parish" issues regarding a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter on College Drive. Daniel has proposed a tax-incremented financing district for the area to provide traffic improvements.

I'm happy that, after seven years of being in the state Legislature, Mr. Daniels has finally realized that transportation issues are very important to the city of Baton Route and to his constituents. Perhaps now, instead of lobbying state agencies for millions in state contracts for his company in order to line his own pockets, he will devote more time to getting desperately needed state funds for state roads in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Posted by AJR at March 13, 2003 10:51 AM