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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jul 15, 2019, 01:43 AM Jul 2019

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

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.

Read more: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2019/07/08/scathing-perkins-shreveport-business-public-records-city-clean-water-contract-leaked-politics/1673876001/

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