Louisiana Political News Service

Blanco Road Home Propaganda Firm Throws Away Our Tax Dollars!
Louisiana Political News Service (excerpt)

Our sources at several television stations around the state are telling us that the firm who bought the advertising for the Blanco Road Home program has not only cancelled the ads but they paid for them in full.

That's correct they pre-paid for the ads two weeks in advance and are not even bothering to go through the normal process of collecting a pro-rated share back from the stations who auction off the cancelled time. They just paid the full price for no, repeat, zero advertising time.

They just threw our hard earned taxpayer dollars out the window! The least they could have done is used the air time for a Blanco litter ad or something.

Television advertising money for the Blanco Road Home program propaganda campaign is funded with taxpayer dollars via ICF much maligned Road Home administrator.

Interesting questions to be answered are: who actually created the ads, who placed the buy and just how much of OUR MONEY did they waste, before and after the cancellation of the airing of the spots?



Pinnacle Pulling Down All Advertising in BR Market
Louisiana Political News Service

Last night the Baton Rouge Metro Council was asked to do a very routine thing. Send a resolution to the State Bond Commission saying that the council "would debate" the issue of calling an election at their May 23rd meeting. Not vote, just debate!

In a (6 to 5) vote taken last night they refused.

Now, Pinnacle is in the process of deciding what they will do next. Will they leave, sell the license for a big profit, and simply decide to withdraw from the Greater Baton Rouge Area. Maybe invest their money somewhere else, like investing more in their new Atlantic City $1.2 billion project. That's one option.

Another other option is: Build it somewhere else in another parish.

And finally another one: Fight it out in Baton Rouge and see if the Council will really put it on the ballot.

Now, the problem is: because that was such a small vote, bonding firms on Wall Street, people who loan money for such projects, are now probably very hesitant to loan money for this kind of project in the Baton Rouge market. In short, ripples of this action went to Las Vegas and Wall Street giving Baton Rouge the identity of having a hostile political environment.

For now they have pulled down all advertising in the BR market.
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