we saw that...

john labruzzo: more evidence that the republican party really is the stupid party

www.thedeadpelican.com

hurricane gustav evacuees [video here]

the idea came to labruzzo after hurricanes katrina and gustav when the state was forced to evacuate, shelter and care for tens of thousands of people. ~ new orleans city business

dopey rino chris hazel has the stumblie-mumblies

geezo-crimey, is this guy pathetic or what? and to think that this guy is a lawyer and a former long-time assistant district attorney. no wonder he had to quit and become a politician -- he was probably tired of having his ass handed to him over and over again by mike small, george higgins and david stone.

we dont know about you, but we are sick and tired of these political hacks and fraudsters who in order to get votes claim to be conservative republicans because it's currently fashionable to say you're a republican, then when they get to baton rouge, or washington district of criminals, do the exact opposite.

this could all be easily stopped if the louisiana republican party had honest and respectable leaders. sadly, the louisiana republican party has one of the most incompetent, ineffective jokes of a chairman in roger villere. you never see "chairman" (and we use that term lightly) villere come out to criticize or censure louisiana republican politicians when they sponsor or vote for legislation that is totally opposed to republican party ideals as shown by its own written platform.

whats obvious, is that the louisiana republican party, starting with "chairman" villere and extending down into the local level, has been infiltrated and taken over by an organized crime gang.

make no mistake -- we are not taking up for nor promoting the democratic party either -- democrats are just another branch of the organized crime gang. when are louisianaians going to wake up to the fact that the republican party and the democratic party not are, but already have, destroyed this state and nation and quit voting for these losers?

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more quinn family nonsense

yesterday, in "your mail" the town talk published a spam captioned: 'State needs Jindal's leadership.' by james quinn. (btw heres some real "jindal leadership" for you other than this jindal garbage mr. quinn would have us believe) one reason its spam is because at least as of the time of this posting the town talk left out the usual disclaimer that mr. quinn is executive director of the louisiana republican party. its spam because mr. quinn's mother louisiana state senator julie quinn has been outted in our fake republican watch series, its spam because the louisiana republican party chairman -- RINO -- roger villere is not doing his job according to the republican party platform, policy or ideals. its spam because the louisiana republican party is FUBAR and its spam because we shouldnt listen to these people they dont know what the hell they are doing...or do they? :-|

dont get the wrong idea, we've had it with both parties, we dont support a governor blanco reelection either.

instead we will vote third party candidates: the libertarian party, constitution party, INDEPENDENTS!...and you should too. ;-)

another pro-tax fake republican sen mike michot sb245

La. State Senator Michael "Mike" Michot (R) Lafayette

americans for tax reform knows how to call a rino a liar

on saturday 06 june 2009 the so called louisiana republican party central committee passed a resolution "opposing all increases in taxes and fees including the cigarette tax."

previously, karen carter peterson a new orleans area democrat had her house bill no. 75 which called for among other things a one dollar per pack increase in the cigarette tax. that bill died in committee.

not to be out done, rep. peterson reintroduced her cigarette tax as house bill no. 889 this time calling for among other things only for a fifty cents per pack tax increase.

both bills are called the "louisiana healthier families act" or as we prefer to call them " karen carter peterson's increase convenience store smash-n-grab robberies, clerk murdering and black marketeering enhancement act of 2009."

anyway, on 08 june 2009, two days after the aforementioned rscc resolution, HB 889 came before the house committee on ways and means where it passed this time by a vote of 8 - 7.

two of the eight favorable votes were cast by republicans - rep. stephen carter and rep. frank hoffmann. if these two so called republicans would have obeyed the resolution (not to mention the republican party platform as well as everything that republicans are supposed to stand for) or if the republican committee chairman hunter greene would have bothered to have voted and voted no, then HB 889 would have stalled in committee.

not long after the committee vote americans for tax reform released the below statement where they actually name names. atr further reveals that rep. carter's word is worth squat because he actually signed a "taxpayer protection pledge" which by this vote he promptly broke.

we guess rep. frank hoffmann is an honest liar cause atr makes no mention of his signing the pledge.

click here to download one page .pdf [262 kb]

contrast atr's statement to what bayou buzz is trying to represent as gop chairman roger villere's "stern response."

"On Saturday, the Republican State Central Committee passed overwhelming a resolution in opposition to tax and fee increases. Today, members of the House Ways & Means Committee, whether explicitly or implicitly allowed Speaker Pro-Tem Karen Carter Peterson’s tax increase to go to the floor. I’m disappointed by today’s vote, but I’m hopeful that Republicans and conservative Democrats will stand up for taxpayers and reject this regressive tax that will hurt Louisiana small businesses." ~ source

chairman villere's incompetence knows no bounds. he doesnt give the bill number, he doesnt name names. he doesnt take the committee chairman to task for not voting. from reading his statement you wouldnt even realize that any republicans played key roles in the bills favorable passage. wtf?

why is an out of state group issuing far superior statements on the workings of the louisiana republican party than the republican party itself?

when are louisiana republicans going to wake up and realize that roger villere is working a plan to destroy the party? when are news outlets like bayou buzz as well as the states conservative talking heads going to stop covering for villere's incompetence and start speaking out?

louisiana rethugs announce 2012 caucus locations

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sec'y kennedy switches

no surprises there. our opinion pretty closely mirrors that of daily kingfish writer "senate 2008 guru" who writes:

Six weeks after Louisiana's highest ranking elected Republican, Senator David Vitter, made it clear that he cheated on his wife with prostitutes, the state's Treasurer, John N. Kennedy, declared that "I have concluded that the Republican Party is the party that best reflects my values today." Some great values, huh?

more piyush scammery: gary chouest

lies, deception, fraud and trickery have been and shall remain the hallmarks of this administration. piyush was a liar and a deceiver from the beginning but fortunately for those hip to these things, a viewing of that disaster of an inauguration ceremony portends that piyush and all those around him are bunglers and are destined to be found out.

C-LOGISTICS LLC: Galliano, on 10/2/2007, $5,000 to Republican Party of Louisiana.

OFFSHORE SERVICE VESSELS LLC: Galliano, on 9/14/2007, to $5,000 Jindal Campaign for governor.

ALPHA MARINE SERVICE LLC: Galliano, on 9/14/2007, $5,000 to Jindal Campaign for governor.

CHOUEST OFFSHORE SERVICES: Galliano, on 9/13/2007, $5,000 to Jindal Campaign for governor.

ROSS CHOUEST: Galliano, on 5/18/2007, $2,500 to Jindal Campaign for governor.

CASEY CHOUEST: Galliano, on 5/18/2007, $2,500 to Jindal Campaign for governor.

GARY CHOUEST: Galliano, on 5/18/2007, $5,000 to Jindal Campaign for governor.

ROSS CHOUEST TRUST: Galliano, on 1/25/2007, $50 to Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority.

DINO CHOUEST: Galliano, on 1/25/2007, $50 to Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority.

DAMON CHOUEST: Galliano, on 1/25/2007, $50 to Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority.

CASEY CHOUEST TRUST: Galliano, on 1/25/2007, $50 to Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority.

DIONNE CHOUEST: Galliano, on 1/25/2007, $50 to Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority.

C-LOGISTICS LLC: Galliano, on 11/3/2006, $100,000 to Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority.

source: Louisiana Board of Ethics via the advocate

the tea party of louisiana is rethuglican controlled garbage

www.lanewslink.com

la gop chairman roger villere: assclown

www.thedeadpelican.com

its a start jeff crouere!

over on ringside, jeff crouere wrote a great article taking to task the national republican party. thats all well and good however we wish mr. crouere would focus instead on louisiana's own lousy republican party. its fubar. the thing about RINO's is that we dont want them to change and start acting like republican's again because they never were republicans they are users taking advantage of the people of louisiana's goodwill towards the republican party.so we really hope to see an article by mr. crouere or one of the other lousiana pundits about cleaning up louisiana's republican party. its full of fake republicans and RINO's how about starting with the chairman roger villere. he doesnt do anything. a good chairman would be telling his membership that you cant file that legislation and call yourself a republican...you cant vote and support those things and be a republican...you need to find another party. the entire leadership needs to resign because they are do nothings themselves.

In the last two years of this administration, Republicans in Congress should try something new, instead of being RINO's (Republicans in Name Only), how about acting like real Republicans for a change. - jeff crouere 28 november 2006

piyush "mr. ethics bobby" jindal caught being unethical - again!

less than a month ago, the piyush scam was caught and then admonished for using louisiana state university and the university of louisiana at lafayette's colors and logo's. now the piyush scam has been caught using fuzzy bookkeeping regarding his campaign finance reports, leaving us wondering what's going to come out next...

the baton rouge morning advocate explains:

By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Published: Sep 7, 2007 - Page: 1A

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal is planning to amend his most-recent campaign finance report for the governor’s race in response to an ethics complaint.

The Kenner Republican, who is making ethics a cornerstone of his campaign, did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

His spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers, said Thursday that Jindal campaign officials do not believe they violated state campaign disclosure laws.

“We will file an amendment out of an abundance of caution,” she said.

Another gubernatorial candidate, state Sen. Walter Boasso, also is the subject of an ethics complaint.

Republican Party of Louisiana State Central Committee member Scott Wilfong of Baton Rouge contends Boasso, D-Arabi, failed to detail which media outlets received money to air his TV commercials.

Wilfong confirmed that he filed the complaint Thursday but refused to comment further on it. He said state ethics officials told him not to talk about it.

Boasso did not respond to a request for comment.

Boasso’s campaign spokesman Brian Welsh said the campaign has reported and disclosed “every penny.”

The election is Oct. 20.

The complaint on Jindal claimed he should have reported $118,264.76 in mailers that the Louisiana Republican Party did on his behalf. The party listed the expenditures in its own campaign finance report.

Republican Party chairman Roger Villere said he is not sure Jindal knew about the mailers.

“If someone’s looking on his, that’s the wrong thing. He wouldn’t be responsible for reporting something we did,” Villere said.

The state’s acting ethics administrator, Kathleen Allen, said she could not confirm that complaints have been filed against Jindal or Boasso.

Complaints are confidential unless a violation is found, she said.

Speaking generally, Allen said a candidate might have to report direct mailers paid for by a political party if he or she helped coordinate the content.

New Orleans public high schoolteacher Chris Stow-Serge said he filed the complaint against Jindal after combing through the finance reports with friends.

Stow-Serge said he is not supporting any particular gubernatorial candidate. He said he was active with the College Democrats at Tulane University.

Stow-Serge said he has never before filed an ethics complaint.

He said he hopes Jindal is called out for the “hypocrisy of running a campaign about ethics.”

goofy gop chairman weighs in

chad over at dp is running a statement from louisiana republican party chairman roger f. villere, jr.

"With the end of the legislative session Democrat Governor Kathleen Blanco completes another chapter in her abysmal tenure."

state senator julie quinn RINO files

update: state senator julie quinn sued by jefferson parish

• Mud-Wrestling Mamas -- State Sen. Julie Quinn of Metairie, a first-term Republican whose district also includes parts of Uptown and the Northshore, faces the ex-wife of her current beau, the above-mentioned John Young pere. Young and Quinn both went through bitter divorces since they last ran for office and have since found each other -- much to the apparent ire of the former Mrs. Young, former TV news anchor Mary Lou McCall, who qualified against Quinn. McCall, who suffered an ignominious fall from TV grace after a bout with severe alcoholism, seemed to be on a tear last week. In addition to qualifying against Quinn, she also sued retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan, her TV co-host for 19 years, for breach of contract, defamation and violation of her pension rights. Quinn also faces the woman she beat several years ago in a bitterly contested special election, state Rep. Dianne Winston of Covington. Others in the race include Dr. Monica Monica of Metairie, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress against David Vitter in 1999; state Rep. Alex Heaton of New Orleans; and Doug Johnson of Hammond. All are Republicans, and all look to be well financed except McCall. Then again, many suspect Quinn's ex, hotelier Pat Quinn, would be only too willing to help unseat his former spouse. This could become the muddiest race in the state.

louisiana peyton place

doofy rino hollis downs is a clown

on thursday, 28 april 2009, the house committee on ways and means met to consider two bills. the first bill that they considered was state representative hollis downs' HB 456, a bill that would require that the tax on gasoline, diesel fuels, and special fuels to be adjusted annually in accordance with the bureau of labor statistics consumer price index.

incredibly, it seems that everyone has already forgotten last years SB 672 the massive legislative pay raise fraud bill, which, likewise, tied the "legislators" pay raise to the consumer price index. see house floor amendments: amendments proposed by representative tucker to reengrossed senate bill no. 672 by senator duplessis.

this meant that the legislators would likely receive an automatic yearly pay raise of an unknown amount without any further debate or public input. out of sight, out of mind.

furthermore, since the cpi represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population like food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication and other goods and services for example tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services and funeral expenses.

also included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls. in addition, the cpi includes taxes (such as sales and excise taxes) that are directly associated with the prices of specific goods and services. see cpi faq what goods and services does the cpi cover?

do you understand what a mistake it is in allowing the legislature to tie taxes, etc to the consumer price index? because the legislature either outright or working in concert with their criminal friends in city and parish government and congress can manipulate the consumer price index!

think of karen carter peterson's HB 75 dollar a pack cigarette tax.you might be a nonsmoker thinking that the tax wouldnt affect you but it does. every tax and fee affects everyone else.

any sane, rational person should be able to understand that if the legislators were willing to tie something as important to them as a pay raise to the consumer price index, then its not a good idea to tie a tax on all the people to the same thing.

in case you're wondering, yes, hollis downs voted for SB 672. see SB 672 house final passage vote of 13 june 2008.

anyway, we watched the committee meeting on the live stream and saw hollis downs make his ignorant statement criticizing the governor (you cant believe one word that comes out of the governor or his staff's mouth but in this instance he appears to oppose HB 456 and rightfully so) where he called on the governor and his team "to be leaders, and not just philosophers."

how dare this asshole, hollis downs, who claims to be a member of that party which stands for lower taxes, etc., etc., (you know the drill) and who brings this sham of a bill before the legislature criticize the governor for opposing it.

whats more, where is the republican party leadership at? where is roger "daffodil" villere with his scathing press releases at? why isnt he taking to task hollis downs for his very unrepublican bill?

and not only hollis downs there is also rino eddie lambert's HB 254 and rino's kevin pearson a jim tucker's HB 687. this is just two out of many bills that come to mind that an honest, respectful, authentic gop party boss (which roger villere is not) would be raising hell over.

villere instead of doing his job is off harrassing rep. karen carter peterson with a massive public records request. [click here for one page .pdf 18 kb]

roger villere is the sorriest excuse for a gop party boss ever. what he needs to be doing is getting a grip on his own party and calling out all the rino's that so infest it. but years have went by and he does nothing.

are louisiana republicans ever going to get a clue and realize that roger villere is working a plan to destroy the louisiana republican party? will they ever run his ass off and not only villere -- but the rest of the criminals who are killing the la gop? it sure doesnt look like it from here.

if you're a republican, grow a backbone. have some integrity for a change. speak out against these rino legislators and demand the removal of all these incompetent, corrupt criminals from the leadership. or turn out the light on your way out -- cos the republican party is going down -- the sooner the better -- simple as that.

HB 456 was voluntarily deferred that means that it can come back up again. so you better get on the phone and call your representative and tell him or her to vote no to HB 456 as well as HB 254 and HB 687.

dont bother emailing them because many of them just delete their emails unread.