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lee ann whitt named alexandria zoo director
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lee ann whitt named alexandria zoo director
lee ann whitt named alexandria zoo director
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the gannett/town talk is reporting that the city of alexandria, la. has elevated lee ann whitt to alexandria zoological park director.
mayor jacques roy made the announcement this morning from a press conference at the zoo. read more
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no...you're not looking in the mirror...this is a baby angolan colobus monkey born at the alexandria zoo on 25 july 2009 ~ see summer animal births 2009
"[T]here are more signs of economic distress in Rapides Parish. Records filed at the Court House show more of the negative trends. They are open Accounts, Judgements, Evictions, Promissory notes and seizure of Homes and property." ~ cenla news, steve coco, hard times in rapides parish
the 2010 session is not going to be an easy session. one billion dollars will have to be cut and the next year two billion. "that means that city governments throughout the state of louisiana will have to shift some priorities ... we need to be proactive looking at those circumstances now." ~ district 26 state rep herbert dixon
"The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results." ~ nathan barker, upstate reporter, gouverneur times 'virus in the voting machines: tainted results in ny-23'
here we go with the jacques roy + ems + david pugh + sam sansing + cleco + conflict of interest + fraud + waste + abuse et al. meme again.
the thing about this three year old case, is that all the men on the city council are all men of means who have the resources as well as friends who know how to conduct an investigation. they have had over three years to put something together to show or even suggest that the mayor acted unethically.
yet in all this time they still cant even explain the basics. the legal committee had an agenda item
2. To discuss the Mayor’s potential conflict on the Cleco Case and ability to sign a contract involving the litigation and to discuss potential violation of Article 7.2 of the Charter.
but in all this time they still dont know dates, times, who was deposed (councilman johnson did inform us that he wasnt 'decomposed') definitions, or even the circumstances of the mysterious early 2007 trip mayor roy took to orlando, florida to meet with r.w. beck.
so all this tells us that they dont really want an investigation. they just want something to throw up in the air from time-to-time.
of course it doesnt help matters that the mayor and his crew seem to enjoy using a "former" klansman to constantly "do his dirty work for him," against the blacks on the council. especially, seeing how the mayor is always on about how much he loves black folks n' shit.
curiously, in all this time no one at the very least; out of an abundance of caution, has filed a complaint to the state bar. it would seem that if the office of disciplinary counsel found that the mayor did something wrong -- that would be all the evidence they would need to remove him.
the most that we can figure out they're saying here is that david pugh and sam sansing were energy traders in the employ of cleco. sometime during their employment they discovered that cleco was overcharging the city of alexandria for electricity.
so they ratted cleco out to the city and it gets confusing because the next thing that pugh or pugh and sansing did was incorporate a company called energy management services, l.l.c. (ems) which then got a contract with the city to get paid a percentage of whatever the city collected from cleco's overcharge. nice.
apparently, no one has thought to walk across the street to the parish courthouse and look in the the clerk's file at the court minutes and learn the name of the attorney's who have personally appeared before the bench and/or signed the pleadings.
as far as we know its never been reported who, after jacques roy withdrew, became mr. sansing's attorney. it could be the mayor's brother chris roy, jr. or the mayor's father chris roy but that wouldnt seem to pass the political smell test as people could reason that the mayor was passing along information to them -- after all blood is thicker than water.
anyway, in around june of 2005 the city of alexandria filed a fraud lawsuit against cleco. in september 2005 during hurricane rita, then alexandria, mayor ned randolph fired three of his top hands. some have asked if the mysterious firings were connected to the cleco litigation.
in 2006 jacques roy was elected mayor of alexandria on 07 november 2006 and was sent into that office on 04 december 2006. not 05 december as they say in the video. when someone cant remember important dates like that it makes us wonder what else they are sloppy about.
supposedly, the concern here is that the mayor still represented sam sansing while being privy to the cleco file. some of the cleco file (like the audit) was or is sealed.
then there was the mysterious trip the mayor took to orlando in early 2007 to meet with r.w. beck relative to the city's fraud suit. the legal committee seems to think that the mayor still represented mr. sansing then.
one thing is for sure -- the gannett/town talk is desperate to keep a lid on the whole thing. today they reported in "roy: lawson behind potential ethics probe." that story contains the line
Lawson denied leading the charge against Roy, saying Goins and Larvadain got wind of court testimony from Roy's attorney saying the mayor might have committed ethics violations in the Cleco case.
yet they dont bother to tell the reader the name of this attorney. or where is the written or audio transcript of this court testimony and what lawsuit and the date that it happened in. it would seem that a competent reporter would look all that up and either confirm it happened or report that it appears to be a rumor.
one other interesting tidbit that the liars over at gannett/the town talk as well as kalb have suppressed and refused to report was that one of the first acts that jacques roy's brother, state representative chris roy, jr. did after being sworn into office in january 2008 was to award a lucrative tulane legislative scholarship to sam sansing's daughter.
so yeah the whole matter needs investigating. in louisiana though the only group that does public corruption investigations much less prosecutions are the feds.
awhile back an emailer pointed out to us that you cant operate a speed trap unless you can control the police force. then kalb reported saturday night that citizens of the grant parish, louisiana town of colfax voted to quit electing their own police chief in favor of the position becoming an appointive one by the mayor and town council.
who in their right mind would vote to give up the right to elect their own police chief? what kind of leaders would think such a proposition was a good idea to put before the people?
now there is not even a semblance of separation of powers or balance of powers between those reserved to the people and those held by the town government. do you think that the mayor and town council are going to allow the police chief to investigate them for anything? its more likely that the mayor and town council will be having the police investigate you if you should get uppity enough to speak out against them.
its deer hunting season here in the bayou state. when this vid and photo's were taken (01 november 2009) it was bow season for deer.
there is a rather large hunting club in the neighborhood and looks like someone was stealthy enough to harvest a deer. we dont hunt deer but there is certainly nothing wrong with it; is there anything better than sitting around the campfire with your friends enjoying fresh venison backstrap breaded and fried together with onions, french fries, a nice garden salad, hot rolls and washing it all down with your favorite beverage?
or how about breakfast with deer sausage patties, eggs, toast or biscuits, jelly and a tall glass of orange juice.
like the old coonass said: "if the good lord made anything better he kept it for himself."
so what the hunters do is after they field dress their harvest they usually dump the bones, skins and entrails in the woods near one of the entrances to their club. there is nothing wrong with this either. they have to dump them somewhere and the hunters, besides providing the neighborhood dogs with a 'treasure trove' they are also helping to feed all the wild critters during their bleak days of winter - like the coyotes, buzzards and probably raccoons and who knows what other fascinating creatures that you will find lurking around in the swamps and bayou's of our gret state.
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our dog 'sha-nay-nay' is enjoying her prize.
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so what are you doing here? get yourself outside and enjoy these crisp days of fall.
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no...you're not looking in the mirror...this is a baby angolan colobus monkey born at the alexandria zoo on 25 july 2009 ~ see summer animal births 2009
