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More Public Safety or More Public Money?
In a shocking move, Sheriff Mark Garver refused to book a murder suspect into the Lafayette Parish Jail. Is this about protecting the public or padding his budget?
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CAUGHT: Livingston Schools Electioneering Scheme!
Remember the Livingston 1¢ school tax from March? We’ve been waiting to see if they would eventually comply with Louisiana campaign ethics laws. Nope!
This could never happen – but it happened
The surest sign of a suspicious financial transaction is a short deadline. It’s no accident, then, that it was an artificial deadline that justified breaking the rules and breaking the bank.
BACK THE BLUE VS. BLACK AND BLUE
Let’s take a short break from Youngsville Chief Rickey Boudreaux and have a look at the St. Martinville police department. Why? Because they demanded our attention.
CAUGHT: Election Rigging in Youngsville!
There are all kinds of ways to rig an election, and no place is immune. What we found in a recent Youngsville election is nothing short of shocking.
Only 36 to hold the line
This kind of political brinksmanship happens at the federal level so often that we're almost numb to it. Here in Lousiana, the senate has been keeping their budget adjustments secret for a month. The goal, of course, is to wait until the last possible moment to spring...
IT’S BIGGER THAN YOU EXPECTED
EXCLUSIVE! Details discovered of a new scandal involving unnamed targets of the FBI public bribery case involving Dusty Guidry and Jack Montoucet. Current but unknown Louisiana legislators are now implicated in syphoning $3 MILLION more of your tax dollars right out of Louisiana’s treasury!
A Stench Along the Teche – Outcomes of the St. Martin Parish Criminal Justice System
As many wonder why crime continues to tick ever upward across Louisiana, we take a closer look at the St. Martin Parish “Cigar Club.” Estimates are that this club has decided to NOT prosecute upwards of seventy percent (70%) of criminal cases in the parish.
A few bills we’re watching – May 22, 2023
Citizens for a New Louisiana’s presence is felt in the Capitol daily, as legislators decide the fate of hundreds of bills. Here’s a sample of just a few good and bad ones and their current status.
The Youngsville Situation – what Lawrason could not foresee
In Lawranson’s day you could still depend on a disgraced official to have enough integrity to voluntarily resign his position from office before he was run out of town.
VICTORY: Anti-Erotica library bill clears committee!
Great news! Heather Cloud’s Senate Bill 7, to protect children from erotica in every single public library in Louisiana cleared a committee hurdle today by a vote of 5:1. Now it moves to the Senate Floor.
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