Monday, July 28, 2008

The DeSoto Hillbillies Millionaires


Not unlike winning the lottery:

MANSFIELD, La. -- They had to repeat the amazing number, $28.7 million, over and over, to make sure it was real and would not go away. Even then, the members of the DeSoto Parish Police Jury -- the county commission -- could hardly believe it.

They laughed, rocked back in their chairs, shook their heads, stared at the ceiling and muttered oaths to each other. "We have -- $28.7 million," said the president, Bryant Yopp, to settle the matter, definitively if still incredulously. It was nearly one and a half times the parish’s entire annual budget.


To be honest, I had to look up the exact location of DeSoto Parish--I knew it was up "north," but I always confuse it with LaSalle (Jena)...DeSoto's over along the Texas border, and it looks like part of the Toledo Bend Reservoir is also along the parish line.

Here's hoping the petrochemical money doesn't turn out to be a mixed blessing.

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