Tuesday, September 28, 2010
STORIES OF THE DAY (Tuesday, September 28th)
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REPORT: CHAMBER PAC CAMPAIGNS FOR 'HOPE & CHANGE'- GIVE US A BREAK!
Tea Party Radio: 'Down With Dardenne'
Dardenne says he "Protected Elections After Katrina", LOL: He wasn't even SOS
Former athletics commissioner spent association money on cigars, clothing
Ex-state senator could be disbarred for 5 years
No. 2 hopefuls tell plans
Military medal distribution bothers lawmakers
Vitter Comments on Obama Plans to Form New Gulf Coast Task Force
Oil Spill Panel: Public trust lost in federal confusion
Experts evaluate police
Oliver Thomas sees the light, says no to self-pity
Mose Jefferson is denied a change of venue
Report finds U.S. would make Internet wiretaps easier
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Labels: DARDENNE, FUTUREPAC, KATRINA, LOUISIANA, POLITICS, VITTER
Monday, June 01, 2009
STORIES OF THE DAY (Monday, June 1st)
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Check Out The Advocate's Politics Blog
WHY ARE THEY EVEN DEBATING SB 335? IT'S CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Lawmakers Looking At List Of 648 Accounts, $13.47 Billion
EDITORIAL: Film credits worth a nudge
Critics argue over "feel good" legislation
LSU plan frustrates faculty
EDITORIAL: Make sure you're ready for hurricane season
Bill to limit school boards' power struggles in session
Mayor Ray Nagin cuts back on city credit card charges
EDITORIAL: The two cities of Orleans
Interstate 69 realigned to avoid LSU AgCenter Pecan Station
VIDEO: Today O'Reilly Will Ask Jindal to investigate Acorn
LSU says cuts to higher education will mean big changes
PERKS- Lawmakers line up for tickets to LSU baseball regional
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Labels: KATRINA, LEGISLATURE, LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS, NEWS, POLITICS
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
STORIES OF THE DAY (Wednesday, August 27th, 2008)
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Jindal Outlines Tentative Plan For Gustav Evacuation
GUSTAV MIGHT CRASH POLITICAL PARTIES
Gallup Daily: No Bounce for Obama in Post-Biden Tracking (McCain Up By 2%)
RACE FOR LA. SENATE SEAT GETTING UGLIER
Senate Race Gets Bitter With Blanco, Vitter Barbs
Louisiana's Own Jimmy Breaux Leaps Off The Screen To Captivate Voters
FOLLOW THE $: Why Cazayoux Says One Thing In LA & Does Something Else In DC
Leader Of The National Traditional Values Coalition Stands With Gorman
EBR RACE FOR DA: WHAT WILL MOREAU DO?
Mayor Kip Holden: An Immovable Force
Ragin' Cajun Lives Up To His Nickname
MELANCON: OBAMA CAMPAIGN AN UPHILL FIGHT IN LA
Why The People Must Get Involved
A Bully Political Pulpit
A BANANA REPUBLIC? THAT'S NUTS
Mayor Faces Fight
City Attorney Dodges Arrest- Second Time He Took A Powder
Jena Six figure's hearing on bid to play ball kicks off today
MITCH TO RING NASDAQ BELL
Shaw Deals To Create 2,900 Jobs In La.
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Labels: KATRINA, KENNEDY, KIP, LOUISIANA, MCCAIN, OBAMA, POLITICS
Saturday, October 20, 2007
ELECTION DAY SPECIAL "GEAUX VOTE" EDITION
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GEAUX VOTE!
IMPORTANT REMINDER TO ALL VOTERS
Make Your Voice Heard
IMPROBABLE FAVORITE EMERGES- "AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THE STATE"
Ballot Is Brimming For Important Vote In Today's Election
VOTER HOTLINES!
Shooter Narrowly Misses Former Senator
Senator Mary Landrieu Opposed to Keeping Internet Tax-Free
"REAL TIME" ELECTION RETURNS (AFTER 8 PM TONIGHT)- CLICK HERE!
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LANEWSLINK.COM has been named the "BEST NEW POLITICAL WEBSITE" in Louisiana!
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Labels: CAMPAIGN, GOVERNOR, JINDAL, KATRINA, LEGISLATURE, LOUISIANA, POLITICS
Monday, May 07, 2007
LANEWSLINK.COM (Stories of the Day)
“Remember Otis of Mayberry, the town drunk, I think Otis is secretly running the Road Home program.” -Treasurer John Kennedy
Kennedy on Blanco Road Home Program- "Their incompetence is breathtaking"
WWL Channel 4 (CBS) (excerpt)
The Road Home program has been the object of homeowners’ ire for some time with what is perceived to be the snail’s pace of payouts of funds to applicants.
Video: Watch the Story However, since it was revealed last week that the program is probably a few billion shy of the funding it needs to meet the obligations of homeowners, it has been open season.
“Their incompetence is breathtaking,” said State Treasurer John Kennedy on the Eyewitness Morning News last week. “Remember Otis of Mayberry, the town drunk, I think Otis is secretly running the Road Home program.”
Possibly to counter feelings like those expressed by Kennedy, the Road Home has been airing a series of ads to bolster its image. However, the ads seem to have had a reverse effect, upsetting some who wonder why money is being spent on ads when there apparently isn’t enough to pay homeowners.
A spokesperson for the Road Home told Eyewitness News that the money for the ads is provided in its contract, but the perception could be a problem.
“It may be time to cut those ads,” said Walter Leger of LRA.
Lawmakers to debate proposals to reverse income tax increases
by Robert Travis Scott - Times-Picayune (excerpt)
BATON ROUGE -- After four years of heated discussion in forums ranging from committee hearings to talk radio, the debate over the controversial 4-year-old tax change known as the Stelly Plan has reached a climactic moment in the state Capitol.
Opposition to the income tax increases under Stelly has mushroomed into a major campaign in the Legislature to reverse some of its provisions. In the House alone, 27 bills have been filed to amend Stelly.
Although critics have harped about Stelly in the past, this session they're banking on the fact that the state is in a good position to afford tax cuts, because of record state tax collections sparked by a hurricane recovery economy and high oil prices.
That, matched with vocal expressions of frustration among lawmakers' constituents, has ripened the opportunity to roll back at least a portion of Stelly that placed a greater burden on middle-and upper-income taxpayers.
"I'm going to pursue it with passion because that's what people in my district want," Rep. Jane Smith, R-Bossier City, said during a House committee briefing last week on proposed legislation. "The average person on the street just believes they've been disenfranchised. It's the outcry in my area."
The House Ways and Means Committee, which handles tax bills, has called for a "Stelly Day" of hearings that begin this morning to review the various proposals. The Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee begins a similar review this afternoon. No votes on bills are expected today, but the discussion this week is likely to shape the outcome for the session.
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Labels: BLANCO, GOVERNOR, KATRINA, LOUISIANA, POLITICS
Sunday, April 01, 2007
SECOND HIT SONG PARODY ON JOHN BREAUX
OUR SAVIOR JOHN BREAUX
THE DEAD PELICAN
BY CHAD E. ROGERS
(excerpt)
CLICK LINK BELOW TO PLAY:
http://www.thedeadpelican.com/BREAUXSAVIOR.HTM
TO THE TUNE OF KINGFISH (Randy Newman)
Transcript of Song:
There’s a hundred billion dollars in New Orleans,
In New Orleans there are billions everywhere
The houses fell down, our relatives drowned
Didn’t one of them bureaucrats care
Everybody gather round, I came back to save you
Your loss I have found
I’m a Democrat you are too
I’m gonna take good care of you
Who made millions off the citizens
Spent thirty years in the public trough
Who looks after Democrats like you
John Breaux do
Who threw a party at the Hilton Hotel
Invited all the lobbyists for Blanco to see
People at Washington Mardi Gras’ eyes bugged out
Cause all those guys looked just like me
John Breaux, John Breaux, everybody sing
John Breaux, John Breaux, It’s a D.C. thing
Who moved his registration to Mary-Land
And his drivers license too
Ain’t no Louisiana citizen gonna run this state
Gonna be run by lobbyists like me and you
John Breaux, John Breaux, friend of the millionaires
John Breaux, John Breaux, He says he’s gonna save this land!
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Labels: BREAUX, GOVERNOR, KATRINA, LOUISIANA, POLITICS
Thursday, February 08, 2007
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by C.B. FORGOTSTON - Forgotston.com (excerpt)
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New Orleans has now recorded at least its 22ND murder in the first 38 days. (See the most recent. Click link above for WWL story.)
New Orleans has now recorded at least its 22ND murder in the first 38 days. (See the most recent. Click link above for WWL story.)
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The 22 murders do not include "justifiable homicides" and other violent deaths. The most recent murder occurred on Tuesday night, but the report was not posted until this morning.
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I find it interesting that WWL-TV in New Orleans is the only media outlet that consistently reports murders in New Orleans. Covering up the violence is not going to help solve the problems. Perhaps its all about not scaring the tourists.
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The residents are on their own. More as it happens.
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by EDITOR - Advocate (excerpt)
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While term limits in the Legislature will ensure that there are many new faces in the Louisiana House next year, a number of the House members who can’t run for re-election are expected to seek Senate seats. How will they fare?
While term limits in the Legislature will ensure that there are many new faces in the Louisiana House next year, a number of the House members who can’t run for re-election are expected to seek Senate seats. How will they fare?
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One has attempted the feat, and Rep. William Daniel was defeated in his bid to replace state Sen. Jay Dardenne, R-Baton Rouge, who was elected secretary of state last year.
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Physician William Cassidy helped make the term-limited Daniel’s running for the Senate an issue. “I don’t think the public intended term limits to be a Lazy Susan of politicians seeking other offices,” Cassidy said in one forum before the December special election.
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by EDITOR - Opelousas Daily World (excerpt)
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As the candidates begin to make their announcements and line up support for the upcoming gubernatorial campaign and campaigns for the Louisiana legislature, we beg them to make their points about Katrina, then shut up and move on to other things.
As the candidates begin to make their announcements and line up support for the upcoming gubernatorial campaign and campaigns for the Louisiana legislature, we beg them to make their points about Katrina, then shut up and move on to other things.
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Frankly, we think we are far from alone in our weariness over fingerpointing, whining, complaining, posturing and constant harping over a storm that continues to focus all of our attention and most of our money on a New Orleans area that can't or won't get its act together.
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There are issues important to the future of all of the state that are simply being pushed aside because nobody can seem to see west of the Mississippi River or north of Baton Rouge. Hello, out there. We have needs, too.
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Labels: CRIME, KATRINA, LOUISIANA, POLITICS
Slow recovery arouses emotions
AMERICAN PRESS
BY JIM BEAM
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You sit down to watch the evening news, and the big story that day isn’t Iraq. It’s about the slow pace of hurricane recovery in Louisiana, and you can’t help but get emotional about the sad state of affairs.
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First comes the embarrassment about your state being on the receiving end of more bad national coverage. Then you just get disgusted that more isn’t being done to help the displaced in Louisiana.
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Democratic members of Congress are complaining about the slow pace of the controversial Louisiana Road Home housing program.
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Apparently they aren’t aware it is being administered by a company selected by Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a member of their own party.
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U.S. Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., have joined a chorus of other Democrats who are complaining about the snail’s pace of the program. Their fiery comments came during congressional hearings Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Labels: BLANCO, KATRINA, LOUISIANA, POLITICS
