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here is a link to the .mp3 audio file of todays show
after-interview caller "randy from uptown" (talking about senator hines): "was that a commercial for legislative term limits? you just kind of repackaged it? the longer he talked (hines) the better kennedy looked. i've never met a worse advocate for his position, he basically threw the temper-tantrum that kennedy accused him of having thats why hes doing this" garland robinette: "two things were amazing, number one he (hines) never did answer the question. one of his biggest things is, kennedy has to be taken out of this position because he selectively stops people from getting their agenda on the board." "randy from uptown" "GOOD!"
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sb14 is a bill filed for revenge against state treasurer john kennedy by senator "doc" hines and representative joe salter.
last year senator hines and agricultural commissioner bob odom (who recently the state supreme court reinstated theft, bribery and money laundering charges against) wanted to squander $135 million [100.2 eur] taxpayer dollars on a syrup mill that was to be located in senator hines district. according to sec'y kennedy who did "two financial studies indicated that the mill would go bankrupt." also senator hines son-in-law had a "vested interest" in the syrup mill. so sec'y kennedy kept it off the state bond commission agenda.
so in typical louisiana corrupt fashion senator hines and his sidekick state representative joe salter filed sb14 which would take away most of sec'y kennedy's power and authority at the state bond commission. this is despite the fact that the state bond commission eventually overrode sec'y kennedy and added the syrup mill to the agenda and it was (after a public outcry) eventually killed.
this vividly illustrates the fact that louisiana politicians are more interested in corruption than in honesty and morals. louisiana politicians arent interested in creating a better louisiana because they dont know how. after all, you cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. indeed, all they know is corruption because they are corruption.
click link to view from the legislatures website
disgustingly, our own senator joe mcpherson voted for corruption and the good ol' boy network.
Senate President Don Hines on Tuesday backed off his attempt to oust state Treasurer John Kennedy as permanent chairman of the state Bond Commission.
But the bill the Senate approved on a 25-9 vote would still give the Legislature’s top leaders majority control of what projects end up on the commission’s agenda.
And the Senate added another twist, deciding a majority of the Bond Commission members could place an item on the agenda with a week’s written notice.
The bill now heads to the House for debate.
“It’s only 50 percent as bad as it was but it’s still bad,” Kennedy said after the vote. “It just politicizes the Bond Commission.”
The Bond Commission oversees borrowing for projects using public money.
Kennedy added: “I don’t think most people are fooled about what this is about. This is Doc’s payback for me not supporting his sugar mill.”
Hines is a physician and his nickname is “Doc.”
Kennedy kept a Bunkie syrup mill project — pushed by Hines and Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom — off the Bond Commission agenda.
The two-year dispute ended when the commission rejected the $135 million project in November.
As Senate Bill 14 came up, Hines asked senators to strip the provision that would have rotated the chairmanship of the Bond Commission among the state treasurer, the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate.
Hines said he was taking the step in response to senators’ reluctance to embrace the idea because of “news media and conservative talk radio” questioning “of the motivation of this bill.”
Hines said the executive committee that he proposed is needed because of “the arrogant and arbitrary manner,” in which Kennedy decides what the bond commission should hear.
Kennedy’s approach is “not in the best interest of the people of this state,” he said.
Other people have complained about Kennedy’s treatment of projects, Hines said.
“People should be able to make applications to the Bond Commission and not be hassled,” Hines said.
Kennedy said backers of the Bunkie mill project would not submit required paperwork. The commission overrode his decision and added the project to the agenda.
Hines’ son-in-law had a vested interest in the project and two financial studies indicated the mill would go bankrupt, Kennedy said.
Kennedy said he had no objection to the amendment offered by Sen. Reggie Dupré, D-Houma, which allowed a majority of the Bond Commission members to place an item on the agenda by filing a written request with the treasurer.
Under Dupré’s change, the item would have to be in compliance with commission rules and regulations.
Dupré originally offered an amendment that would have eliminated Hines’ executive committee but it was withdrawn.
and so we enter the final day of 2005. chad over at DP gives us a nice year end reminder of the morons we have elected to our state government. thanks chad.
dr. don its time to go home you are done. anyway c b forgotston wrote a nice commentary on his blog that we are reproducing below - everyone who is concerned and loves louisiana should read mr forgotston's blog. its located here: www.forgotston.com
c.b. forgotston
Apparently, Senate President Don “Doc” Hines doesn’t get the concept of a representative democracy. That is a form of government where the citizens elect others to represent and vote on their behalf. In LA, that would be the legislature.
According to the story in today’s Baton Rouge paper, when Hines received a petition from Rep. Steve Scalise to call a special session, he “threw it in the trash can.”
The petition was a direct result of an outcry from the citizens of the state for action on the levee boards. Gov. Blanco had previously not committed to calling such a session, so Scalise, on our behalf, was pursuing the only other legal means of calling a session to redress our concerns. Hines’s arrogant and disrespectful response was a slap in the face to every citizen of LA. It was a failure to recognize the role of a legislature.
Hines owes every citizen of LA an apology and especially to those of us who are victims of the ravages of Hurricane Katrina which were due, in part, to the negligence of the levee boards.
Kudos to Scalise for his efforts which apparently cause our governor to finally take action.
C.B. -------------------from www.2theadvocate.com --------- Session to focus on levee boards By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON and MARK BALLARD mmillhollon@theadvocate.com Capitol news bureau
Consolidating the levee boards is emerging as the central issue for the upcoming special session. The question on some lawmakers' minds is whether Gov. Kathleen Blanco can build a consensus for it.
"The worst thing we can do is to call a special session, spend a lot of taxpayer money … and come out of there with no success," Rep. Tom Schedler, R-Mandeville, said Friday from Atlanta, where he was attending the Peach Bowl.
Blanco told legislators late Thursday that she plans to call them into session in late January "to consider a variety of legislative proposals."
Her announcement came on the heels of Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, circulating a petition for lawmakers to call themselves into session.
Senate President Don Hines, D-Bunkie, admitted Friday that he crumpled up Scalise's petition.
"I threw it in the trash can," Hines said. "I just thought it was unnecessary for the Legislature to do this."
Politics doomed an attempt to consolidate regional levee boards during the November special session. The legislation by Sen. Walter Boasso, R-Arabi, cleared the Senate but died in the House.
Earlier this month, a U.S. Senate committee investigating hurricane response heard testimony about turf wars that broke out during the levee breaches that flooded the New Orleans area after the hurricane.
Army officials complained they were blocked by one levee district from fixing a breach. Another levee board official said annual inspections amounted to officials having "beignets and coffee."
Blanco already has testified before Congress about her response to Katrina. She is expected to testify again in February.
The feeling among State Capitol figures is that consolidating the levee districts would win points for Louisiana in Washington.
Sen. Jay Dardenne, R-Baton Rouge, said consolidation of the levee board could have been accomplished during the special session in November had Blanco been willing to push. But she did not.
Dardenne said Blanco appeared to be pulling away from having a second special session until the last couple of weeks, when lawmakers, citizen groups and business interests began pressuring the administration to address the levee board issue.
Two weeks ago, Blanco announced that she always had embraced consolidation of the levee boards but felt it couldn't be accomplished in the November meeting.
"The groundswell to do something about the levees has forced her into some action," Dardenne said Friday. With Blanco's backing, changes to statutes to change out the dozen and half levee boards for one entity could easily be accomplished in a week or so, he said.
"The consolidated levee board will be a slam dunk. It should have been a slam dunk last special session," Dardenne said from Disney World, where he is vacationing with his family.
Blanco supporters responded to criticism about not backing the Boasso bill by saying his measure was introduced too late in the last special session to receive adequate attention. Instead, Blanco pushed a bill that would create another panel above that of the existing levee boards. That bill passed.
High-ranking politicians, including Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, as well as the business community criticized the Legislature for failing to pass measures that would consolidate the levee boards.
However, Hines, who was hand-picked by Blanco to lead the Senate, said he does not understand the rush for consolidating the levee districts considering that the Army Corp. of Engineers has control of rebuilding the levees.
"Everybody is screaming and yelling for the consolidating of the levee boards," he said. "I don't see where it is going to accomplish much right off."
Schedler supported levee board consolidation in the recent special session. But he said Friday that a lot of questions arose after the session, including whether small, privately funded levee districts would be affected.
He said he plans to meet with Boasso in the next few weeks to work out the kinks on the legislation.
Schedler said it's crucial to Louisiana's future for Blanco to iron out the issues and build a consensus.
"I think she's got to attempt to pull this thing together," he said. "I still think we're very disjointed. We have some talented people. I don't see a consensus developing (or) one clear focused message coming out of Louisiana."
monday sb14 watch doc hines, joe salter, bob odom and the boys "whip your ass" state bond commission bill.... ====
6:15 pm cdt monday 25 june 2007 the house just adjourned for the day. it looks good that sb14 is dead.
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10:19 am cdt monday 25 june 2007
message from JOHN KENNEDY
The House once again deferred consideration on SB 14 this morning. On a technical note, if the bill is not heard by 6:00 PM today, it will require a 2/3rd vote to even bring up for debate after 6:00 PM. We'll keep you posted. Thanks! JK --END--
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screen grab from legis house chamber video feed house speaker joe salter deferring sb14 on representative dorsey's motion. 9:42 am cdt monday 25 june 2007. moments earlier speaker salter remarked that all senate bills must be finished by 6:00 pm this evening.
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9:42 am cdt representative dorsey moves to defer sb14.
updated house in session monday 25 june 2007
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4:36 pm cdt sunday 24 june 2007 the house just moved to defer sb14 for today.
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**updated at 4:19 pm cdt sunday 24 june 2007
the louisiana state house of representatives comes into session sunday 24 june 2007 4:00 pm cdt
screen grab from legis video feed speaker joe salter gavels the louisiana house of representatives to order 4:13 pm cdt sunday 24 june 2007 ==== click here for legis.state.la.us live video and/or audio feed
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1:29 pm cdt sunday 24 june 2007
message from JOHN KENNEDY SB14 will sit on the calendar until the end of the session, so it could come up at any time... --END--
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only about 100 hours remain in what is one of the worst legislatures in louisiana's history...then its onward to the fall elections...louisiana's jungle primary is on saturday 20 october 2007 and the runoff will be on saturday 17 november 2007.
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new orleans times-picayune sunday 24 june 2007 editorial on sb14:
EDITORIAL: Revenge isn't sweet
House members should reject a bill that would water down the authority of the state treasurer over the State Bond Commission, thereby making it easier for lawmakers to push boondoggles and pet projects.
Senate Bill 14 would create an executive committee of the Bond Commission, consisting of the Senate president, House speaker and state treasurer. That panel would set the agenda for the commission, a power that the treasurer, as chairman, now enjoys. It would also allow a majority of the full commission to put items on the agenda via written requests.
Senate President Donald Hines, sponsor of the bill, has reason to be unhappy with Mr. Kennedy. The treasurer fought efforts to use state bonds to build a syrup mill in Sen. Hines' district -- a mill that would have benefited the senator's son-in-law, who is a sugar cane farmer.
Sen. Hines has insisted that this bill has nothing to do with the syrup mill and is simply a matter of good public policy. But no one should be fooled. This is a political maneuver, and Mr. Kennedy shouldn't be punished for defeating an ill-conceived project. Moreover, his hands shouldn't be tied so that he can't fight the next one.
There was talk of amending this bill to require a unanimous vote of the executive committee -- an effort to prevent the two legislative members of the executive committee from ganging up on the treasurer. But it would be far better to kill this measure than try to make it slightly less deplorable.
If the House doesn't have the good sense to reject it, Gov. Kathleen Blanco should veto it. link
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louisiana house of representatives convenes at 4:00 pm cdt sunday 24 june 2007 bills to watch are in the house order of the day
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**updated saturday 23 june 2007**
saturday latest on sb14
2:29 pm cdt saturday 23 june 2007
message from JOHN KENNEDY Its been passed over on the house calendar, meaning the votes weren’t there. But its not over till its over. --END--
wst... note: the louisiana house of representatives convemes at
6. Senate Bills on Third Reading and Final Passage Regular SB14 HINES BONDS - Provides for the chairmanship and an executive committee of the State Bond Commission. (1/14/08)
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2:26 pm cdt friday 22 june 2007
message from JOHN KENNEDY SB 14 HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR TODAY But it is still technically alive and on the calendar... …still can be brought up at any time. --END--
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updated at 2:10 pmwithout objection representative salter deferred sb 14.
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1:19 pm cdt 22 june 2007
sb14
will central louisiana's delegation stand with treasurer kennedy?
message from JOHN KENNEDY SB 14, (the Hines Bond Commission bill) may be voted on by the House within the next few hours. --END--
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**update** senate bill 14 is set for house final passage vote today friday 22 june 2007. please contact your state representative and ask him or her to vote "nay" to sb 14
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tom konvicka tells us on his weather blog (see link) that tomorrow - friday 22 june 2007 will be a day just like today sunny with low humidity...great.
nearest we can tell, today at 106pm cdt the summer solstice occurred here. for a little while, the days will have just over twelve hours of sunlight. by the first of december the day time will have diminished to a little over ten hours. we used the june and december charts for new orleans at timeanddate.com because we went on to the la department of wildlife & fisheries website to get tomorrows sunrise and sunset times to link to, but we cant see the data for june, may, july and august. its probably there but we arent looking at it right...or something.
this could be embarrassing, but if we're that blind we want to know -- below is the screen grab of the of the sunset-sunset table as it appears to us right now.
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we looked on the news releases page for a random email address to someone that we could ask and found one there in a news release by mr. martin bourgeois "shrimp season to close in portions of zone 2". so we wrote mr. bourgeois and asked him to pass on our question ("sunrise-sunset table page problem?") about how to read the sunrise-sunset table or if four months were indeed missing. so we hope to hear something back. the page is here.
also tomorrow the louisiana house of representatives order of the day says that sb14 is set for its third reading and final passage vote.
this is the syrup mill retribution bill in which state agricultural commissioner bob odom and his gang (led by doc hines and joe salter) promised to "whip your ass" with.
please contact your representer (heres the list of representatives by parish) and urge him or her to vote "nay" to sb14 final passage. you can also help to get the word out by calling talk radio.
louisiana's state treasurer john kennedy does a good job in exposing and preventing waste, fraud and abuse in louisiana state government. however, instead of doing that what is right because louisiana politicians being what they are; prefer to play the "get even" game. so, predictably state senate president donald e. "doc" hines and state house speaker joe r. salter have schemed together to file a self serving (and probably unethical) sb14 (see link) to remove treasurer kennedy from his constitutionally mandated role as chairman of the state bond commission to make it a rotating chairmanship between senator hines and representative salter (or the senate president and speaker of the house) "and then the state treasurer." if you notice sen. hines and rep. salter have fixed it up so that the treasurer would have to wait 3 years to be chairman. additionally they set up an "executive committee" made up of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house and the state treasurer. this executive committee will set the agenda for the bond commission meetings. they did this so they can outvote 2-1 treasurer kennedy.
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new orleans times-picayune writer ed anderson wrote a great article about this called "bill would weaken treasurer's power." heres some excerpts:
Under existing law, the treasurer is permanent chairman of the commission, the panel that approves spending for capital construction projects and bonds to finance statewide and local projects.
State Treasurer John Kennedy said Friday the bill is aimed at diluting his power because he has been an outspoken critic of a sugar syrup mill Hines wanted the commission to approve for his Bunkie district, and because he has been a vocal opponent of some of the administration's spending priorities and the lack of progress in rebuilding the hurricane-hit areas of the state.
governor blanco gives us yet another reason to vote her out.
Blanco spokeswoman Marie Centanni said [...] "the governor said she thinks it's a great idea."
"I am going to fight this with everything I've got," Kennedy said. "This is an attempt to stop a statewide official from doing his job. . . . I am not a member of their club. I make the right people mad. If we had this in place you wouldn't have one sugar mill (in Lacassine); you'd have six."
please contact your senator and representative NOW! and ask them to oppose this bill -- senate bill fourteen currently assigned to the senate and governmental affairs committee.
somehow, senator hines sb963 prevailed as hb1440's history shows that despite its being reported favorably by a 10-0 vote of the house committee on the environment, the state house on 01 may 1997 designated it a duplicate of sb963.
on 17 july 1997 governor mke foster signed sb963. on 15 august 1997 it went into full force and effect as act 908.
act908 enacted r.s. 36:259(BB)(3) which placed within the department of health and hospitals the fluoridation advisory board which act908 likewise created out of thin air by enacting r.s. 40:5.11. central louisiana member of the fluoridation advisory board: frederick m. hilburn, ii, 3212 pine ridge drive, pineville, louisiana 71360 (318) 445-6654.
act908 besides creating another state dead-head, political patronage board simply "encourage[d] each public water system...to provide fluoridation of its water supply by january 1, 2000."
however, here it is 2008 and the state water systems are not complying - this is even mentioned in one of the below videos and we will get back to that later.
on 20 march 2008, lake charles democrat, willie mountprefiled her senate bill no. 312. sb312 amends r.s. 40:5.11 by striking out the word "encourage" and inserts: "each public water system...shall acquire, install, operate and maintain appropriate equipment and material in order to maintain the level of fluoride in its water system in the optimal range..."
sb312 rushed by stealth through the louisiana legislature
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video direct link on 30 april 2008, sb312 was heard by the senate committee on health and welfare conveniently chaired by the bills author lake charles democrat, willie mount. the entire hearing -- if you can honestly call it that -- took less than 14 minutes. no opposition to sb312 was allowed or even asked for.
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video direct link on 06 may 2008, sb312 was passed by the state senate in under 6 minutes.
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video direct link on 28 may 2008 sb312 was heard by the house committee on health and welfare a committee again conveniently chaired by its handler in the state house kay 'bucket of bolts' katz. this "hearing" took around 20 minutes. no opposition was heard or asked for.
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video direct link on 12 june 2008 the state house passed sb312 in around 15 minutes.
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video direct link on 17 june 2008 the state senate in under 2 minutes rejected the house amendments.
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on 18 june 2008 the senate appointed a conference committee. those senators were: senators mount, cheek and cassidy.
on 19 june the house appointed its conference committee consisting of representatives: katz, labruzzo and nowlin.
video direct link in less than 2 minutes the senate adopted the conference committee report. the conference committee report was signed by senators: willie mount, sherri smith-cheek and bill cassidy -- senator cassidy by signing the conference committee report and and voting for sb312 shows that he is just another quack doctor and/or another big government thug masquerading as a conservative republican. senator cassidy is running, hopefully unsuccessfully, for united states congress for louisiana's sixth district. representatives kay 'bucket of bolts' katz and john labruzzo - interesting video of this clown -- only representative ricky nowlin refused to sign, which isnt saying much since he said that he supports fluoridation.
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video direct link on 22 june 2008 in under 15 minutes the house adopted the conference committee report and this cleared the way for sb312 to be sent to the governor. only state representative sam jones had the courage to speak out, but even he was afraid to go all the way and bring up the health hazards associated with fluoridation.
throw out all the scientific researchdone by ph.d's and scientists, chemists, nobel prize winners and so forth on the tremendous health hazards of fluoridation. as these video's clearly show in a louisiana context, knowledge doesnt apply. in fact knowledge is the last thing that any louisiana legislator wants. knowledge to a louisiana legislator is like kryptonite to superman or as chris rock might say, knowledge to a louisiana legislator is like a book to a nigger.
we normally frown on using wikipedia as a source. however, the below list of fluoride incidents is taken from wikipedia. where a link to a reference was provided we've checked it and linked directly to it. those references that didnt have a link we reproduced below. we guess someone with a lexis-nexis or something similar subscription (which we dont have) could find them.
At least 17 incidences of fluoridation equipment malfunction, and their associated deaths and poisonings, have been documented in U.S. newspapers and medical journals. [129][130] [131] [132] [133][134] [135]
Perhaps the worst incident in the United States occurred in Hooper Bay, Alaska in 1992. When fluoridation equipment failed, a large amount of fluoride was released into the drinking water supply and 296 people were poisoned; 1 person died,[136] marking the first reported death due to fluoride toxicity caused by drinking water from a community water system.[137 andhere]
3 dialysis patients died and 6 were sickened at the University of Chicago Hospitals when the water filtration system failed on July 16, 1993. A hospital spokesperson said that the deaths and reactions “were consistent with fluoride exposure.”[138]
Schoolchildren in Portage, Michigan experienced vomiting and stomach pains when an electrical surge caused excessive amounts of fluoridation chemical to be injected into the school’s well in July 1991. [139]
In June, 2002, 23 employees of Humphry Systems Inc. in Dublin, California became ill after a fluoride pump malfunctioned near the business. All of the affected workers had drank from the water fountains, and experienced vomiting and nausea. [140]
34 restaurant diners became sick after a fluoridation equipment malfunction caused an acute outbreak of fluoride poisoning in August 1993, in Poplarville, Mississippi. Severe gastrointestinal illness was reported by 34 out of 62 customers in a 24 hour period. [141]
A dialysis patient died from fluoride overdose in Annapolis, Maryland when 1,000 gallons of excess fluoride chemical spilled into the drinking water on November 11, 1979. 7 others became critically ill. Brain damage, a heart attack and many other illnesses resulted.[142]
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129 Flanders, R. A.; Marques, L. (May-June 1993). "Fluoride overfeeds in public water supplies". Illinois dental journal 62 (3): 165-169. 130 Gessner, B. D.; Beller, M.; Middaugh, J. P.; Whitford, G. M. (January 1994). "Acute fluoride poisoning from a public water system". New England journal of medicine 330 (2): 95-99. 133 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, July 31, 1993, Fluoride Blamed in 3 Deaths: Traces found in Blood of U. of C. Dialysis Patients Gary Wieby 134 EVENING CAPITAL (Annapolis, Maryland), November 29, 1979, Fluoride Linked to Death, Mary Ann Kryzankowicz 138 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, July 31, 1993, Fluoride Blamed in 3 Deaths: Traces found in Blood of U. of C. Dialysis Patients Gary Wieby 142 EVENING CAPITAL (Annapolis, Maryland), November 29, 1979, Fluoride Linked to Death, Mary Ann Kryzankowicz
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there is still time to stop sb312 from becoming law. as of the date and time of this post it still hasnt been signed by governor piyush "bobby" jindal so there is still time for you to contact the governor and ask him to veto it. click here to go to the contact the governor form at his website.
alternative copy and paste this link into your address bar: http://www.gov.la.gov/index.cfm?md=form&tmp=email_governor
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this is hil-freaking-larious watching the snake charm wear off the states mental migets as they begin to realize that piyush is what we've maintained all along -- nothing more than a fast talking con-artist and a scam.
anyway, today, retired lake charles american press columnist, jim beam, craps his depends (see link) over word that gov-elect piyush scam "confirmed that former House Speaker Charlie DeWitt, D-Alexandria, is among some current legislators who are helping him get the pulse of the new Legislature."
mmhmm
now you have to watch mr. beam because he doesnt always get his facts exactly um correct, as shown in this piece he wrote back in the summer against senator joe mcpherson.
sure enough, in todays piece mr. beam hides behind the words of some mysterious reader -- "One reader put it this way, “Has Jindal watched DeWitt’s speech against the passage of ethics legislation this past session — and it was an antiethics speech, no matter what he said ..."
it just so happens that central la politics blog has that video available and its embedded along with the embed state of representative jeff arnold's comments on hb730 in their post here.
anyone bothering to watch that video can easily see that rep. dewitt's words were not "antiethics" at all and neither was his speech "against the passage of ethics legislation." in reality it was two louisiana state senators who killed the so called glass pockets ethics reform. those two senators were robert adley and donald "doc" hines.
by the way, the self serving senator robert adley should have had his ass handed to him in this just recently concluded election. however, the gannett controlled shereveport press were remiss in their duties when they failed to remind their readers of senator adleys contempt for ethics reform. not only does louisiana need ethics reform, we need media reform.
its also a lie when mr. beam writes "The House voted for 88-13 for the bill on May 30, rejected Senate changes to the measure on June 26 and voted 51-49 on June 28 to send it back to a conference committee where it died when the session ended. DeWitt spoke against and voted against the bill the first time around and repeated that performance June 28."
the house of representatives roll call vote [one page .pdf] shows that on hb730 on 28 june 2007 rep. dewitt voted yea.
in louisiana we citizens not only have to watch the lying politicians we also have to watch out for the lying media.
dependable piyush media whore john maginnis in his column yesterday repeats the lie that "The Senate refused to exclude local officeholders, the House refused to include them..."
so on the one hand we have jim beam and his mysterious reader(s) already writing off the piyush administration stating “Gov.-elect Jindal will...find himself in the same place as (Buddy) Roemer and (Dave) Treen did when they were out-politicked by the ‘good ol’ boys ..” while on the other hand, john maginnis is assuring us that "what legislators, particularly Democrats, unwittingly accomplished [hb730] was to tee up the [ethics] issue perfectly for candidate Jindal, who made it a compelling but safe platform plank, as did other Republican candidates."
good grief!
believe very little to nothing that you read and see in the media. this bunch wakes up in a different world everyday. research things for yourself. if we had just ignored the media and done that all along we wouldnt have found our state, our nation and our world in the mess its currently in.
louisiana state senator walter boasso is running for louisiana governor. today he met with kalb-tv's news director michele godard to give an interview for kalb's video blog. more later...
its nice to see that state senator and louisiana gubernatorial candidate walter boasso, isnt afraid to take on and take a jab at the piyush scam. others could take a lesson from senator boasso.
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Rain Update, 1:10 p.m.
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Our OEP Director has been asked about the effect the rain from folks who
were concerned about it over topping. The pic below was taken today and
show 6-7″ ...
brief dashcam clip of alleged sex offender arrest
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brief dashcam clip of alleged sex offender arrest
some guy on a bicycle was allegedly looking at children through binoculars
across the street from the k...
Saying goodbye to our Old House
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I never thought this day would come. We had to say goodbye to the “Big
House”, the old house, the Hynson-Ringgold house (and many other names)….
We were tr...
57th presidential inauguration 21 january 2013
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57th presidential inauguration 21 january 2013
oath of office and speech + more.
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Part 7: The Return of Jesus
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The return of Jesus Christ brings the rebellion of the Antichrist to a
decisive end. The armies gathered at Armageddon are destroyed, the
Antichrist and Fa...
Responding to Ben Dunson’s Critique of Kinism
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By Davis Carlton Dr. Ben Dunson, Professor of New Testament at Greenville
Presbyterian Theological Seminary, has posted an article critiquing Kinism.
Dunso...
The Real Origins of Neocons
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*Russian Lies: Shadow of Jabotinksy*
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
Philip Weiss reviews *They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, ...
Our Future Looks Glorious…if We Repent
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“The Lord will not let the righteous go hungry…” ~ Proverbs 10:3 I remember
how this text struck me as I read it for the first time as a young boy[...]
Last Days Lunacy and End Times Madness
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Podcast: LAST DAYS LUNACY and END TIMES MADNESS (The following commentary
is a reprint of the chapter Bible Basics 101: Last Days/End Times and The
Second ...
click link to view from the legislatures website
and so we enter the final day of 2005. chad over at DP gives us a nice year end reminder of the morons we have elected to our state government. thanks chad.
c.b. forgotston
screen grab from legis house chamber video feed
the louisiana state house of representatives comes into session
screen grab from legis video feed
new orleans times-picayune sunday 24 june 2007 editorial on sb14:
www.legis.state.la.us
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chris roy jr beats lance maxwell by 988 votes
in a close race "sam" little beats "buddy" quinn by nine votes!
good ol boy and pig trougher bryant hammett was vanquished by neil riser.
eric lafleur defeated donald newton, grandson of outgoing, term-limited state senator "doc" hines.
looks like yvonne dorsey of purple circle and colomb foundation infamy defeated jason decuir by 93 votes
click link to watch the video
