I Remember Kurt Comeaux
I knew Kurt Comeaux professionally - he in his role as a probation officer, me providing criminal defense to the indigent. I observed Kurt in court more than I conversed with him. Actually, we exchanged very few words. I found him to be extremely professional, courteous, and congenial. After reading about his death, and realizing he was that probation officer guy, I was not surprised by the high regard those who worked with him had for Kurt. Somebody said he was always the first through the door and you could always trust Kurt to cover your back.

In his too-short life, Kurt Comeaux displayed the leadership qualities that represent the best our community has to offer.

We can't afford to sacrifice any more like him.

Back in the days of shock and awe
We came to liberate them all
History was the cruel judge of overconfidence
Back in the days of shock and awe

Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
Our chief was landing on the deck
The sun was setting on a golden photo op
Back in the days of "mission accomplished"

Thousands of bodies in the ground
Brought home in boxes to a trumpet's sound
No one sees them coming home that way
Thousands buried in the ground

Thousands of children scarred for life
Millions of tears for a soldier's wife
Both sides are losing now
Heaven takes them in
Thousands of children scarred for life

We had a chance to change our mind
But somehow wisdom was hard to find
We went with what we knew and now we can't go back
But we had a chance to change our mind.

"Shock And Awe" from Living With War
by Neil Young

DPW Chief Made Personal Use of Cameron Generators
Lafourche Parish Department of Public Works Director Ray Cheramie provided members of his immediate and extended family personal use of at least three of nine Cameron Parish Generators loaned to Lafourche Parish on September 1, 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Documents obtained from the Parish Administration reveal that Mr. Cheramie was "issued" five of the nine generators - two on Sept. 2 and three on Sept. 3. The documents also reveal that Mr. Cheramie dispensed 4 of the 5 generators to a like number of individuals or groups. Additionally, the documents apparently provided reasons each generator was loaned. However, this information was censored by use of a black felt-tipped marker. Notwithstanding the censorship, some of the reasons could be deciphered. All reasons appeared to relate to the medical condition or age of the recipient(s).

One of the generators was provided to Eulla Cheramie and Carroll Cheramie. Research in the Lafourche Parish Clerk of Court conveyance records reveals that Eula Cheramie and Carroll Cheramie are Mr. Cheramie's mother and brother, respectively.

A second generator was provided Forrest Domangue. Mr. Domangue is the grandfather (*) of one of Mr. Cheramie's sons-in-law.

TPRTK can also confirm, through multiple documents, that a third recipient is the brother-in-law of another of Mr. Cheramie's sons-in-law.

This arrogant abuse of the public's trust is but the latest example of similar actions by members of Parish President Charlotte Randolph's Administration. This blog first revealed on March 1, 2006 that Ms. Randolph had charged plane tickets and meals for her husband, George, to a Parish credit card. Those transactions are the subject of a current criminal investigation by the State's Attorney General.

The same week Mr. Cheramie provided public generators for the personal use of his family, thousands of Lafourche Parish residents, many with medical needs such as Mr. C.J. Griffin of Golden Meadow who requires the use of a respirator, were without electricity. During the same time, hundreds of Lafourche residents volunteered their time and money helping those in need, while Parish Department heads like Mr. Cheramie were racking up thousands of dollars in illegal overtime, which they were later required to refund to the Parish.

People were perishing, while the Randolph Administration was pillaging.

Copyright 2006, Carl A. Chauvin. All rights reserved. Article, or portions thereof, may be used and research documentation provided if approriate credit is given to the writer or The Public's Right To Know. In other words, I ain't giving my work away without proper credit no mo'.

(*) link removed

Charlotte "Clueless" Randolph's Top Ten "just didn't occur to me" List
10. "just didn't occur to me" that I couldn't charge my husband's plane tickets and meals to a parish credit card

9. "just didn't occur to me" that I couldn't allow my husband to drive a parish vehicle.

8. "just didn't occur to me" that I couldn't pay salaried employees overtime.

7. "just didn't occur to me" that I would have to do more than cut ribbons, be photographed and travel as Parish President.

6. "just didn't occur to me" that I would have to still be accountable, even though I was elected by the big shots in the parish.

5. "just didn't occur to me" that I couldn't get the Parish Council to raise the cost of public records to $1 to try to stop that asshole Carl A. Chauvin.

4. "just didn't occur to me" that I would get such bad press. (Except from the Comet's editorial staff, which seems to be MIA since about October.)

3. "just didn't occur to me" that I wouldn't be able to raise $15.88 million so I could have a slush fund going into reelection year.

2. "just didn't occur to me" that I could not censor public records involving my misuse of public funds.

1. "just didn't occur to me" that coastal restoration and not drainage is the most pressing problem in Lafourche Parish. (It's like the 10th Ward doesn't exist to this woman except, perhaps, as a bank.)

Charlotte, you are way out of your league. So much so, that you are endangering large segments of the population in Lafourche Parish. Your failure to fight aggressively to get Lafourche Parish the money it needs to protect itself in the wake of Katrina is unacceptable. New Orleans is getting billions for levees. We, on the other hand, are getting nothing. Due to your lack of leadership skills and the limitations in your level of abilities (in other words, you are a light weight), a golden opportunity to advance our cause at the most opportune time in our history has been lost. What we needed from our public servants is the laying of a heavy guilt trip on the Feds to get us the money we need for coastal restoration and levee protection. Instead, you told them we suffered no damage and that they should concern themselves with the needs of other parishes. Maybe, had you visited the 10th Ward since Katrina, instead of skirting it by using Hwy. 3235 on your way to your camp on Grand Isle, you would be better informed on the subject.

Most critically, you have lost the Public's confidence, even amongst your friends.

Leadership is a trait you earn and develop, it can't be bestowed by big shots.

You have failed. You must go.

I hereby call for your resignation.

Shout Out!
Special shout out goes to a new reader - the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office. Welcome! I'm a law-abiding citizen. I sware! However, the Cameron Parish Generators story, now, that's something ya'll may be interested in. I can turn over what I find. Just ask.

Somebody at the legislature is pretty obsessive about reading this blog, unless its more than one legislator. The blog has been hit 5 or 6 times today alone from there. Keep hitting baby! Jack that daily hit count up!

Also, someone at a local multinational corporation is apparently very interested with something I have posted the last two days. Normally, I get a hit a day from that ip. Today: 3 hits. Are we talking about Cameron Parish Generators?

Shout out to another frequent visitor - The New York Times. Dudes! What, ya'll want to do a profile or something?

And as always, the biggest Shout Out to my loyal reader(s) with the Customs and Border Patrol. Ya'll keep us safe, now! (Funny how the Feds can waste millions on a fence to give the appearance we are trying to keep Mexicans out, but not on levees to protect our families from storm waters.)

How do I know all this stuff? Click that little blue globe to the right below archives. It'll tell you lots.

"just didn't occur to me"
Lafourche DA Cam Morvant chastised Parish President Charlotte "Photo Op" Randolph at Tuesday's Council meeting for not providing the public notice of a meeting held between a Shell Oil executive and the Parish Council earlier this month, according to an article in the Comet's Wednesday edition. The meeting was likely in violation of the open meetings law which requires notice to the public of any meeting of a public body where a quorum is present and public business will be discussed.

"Photo Op" was quoted as saying that it "just didn't occur to me" that notice to the public was necessary.

It appears that lots of stuff hasn't occurred to "Photo Op" since the inception of her term.

Continuing Mystery of the Cameron Parish Generators
I obtained the following document relative to those Rock 'n Rollin' Generators from Charorge's Misadministration last week:

"LAFOURCHE PARISH GOVERNMENT
LOCKPORT FIELD OFFICE

Cameron Parish Generators

On September 1, 2005, nine generators were brought to the Lockport Field Office from Cameron Parish.

On September 1, 2005, one 8000 North Star generator was issued to Ray Cheramie, but was later returned back to the Lockport Field Office, because is was determine to be broken.

On September 2, 2005 two 6500 North Star generators were issued to Ray Cheramie.

On September 2, 2005 Lynwood Benoit with maintenance came and said he had to window units for the Galliano Sheriffs Office and the Galliano Annex and he might need 2 generators to run them. No generators were issued to him.

On September 3, 2005 three generators were issued to Ray Cheramie.

Generators that were left at the Lockport Field Office and were not issued:
1 Titan 5500 generator was not issued.
1 Honda 5500 generator was not issued.
2 North Star 6500 generators were not issued.

On September 20, 2005, Cameron Parish came to the Lockport Field Office and picked up all 9 generators.

Thank you,
Wayne Bonvillain"

No! Thank you, Mr. Bonvillain! The only problem with this memo is not the answers it provides, but rather the questions it raises.

What did Mr. Cheramie do with the five generators he was "issued"? Were they used for a public purpose? If so, what was that public purpose? Did the Galliano Sheriff's Office and Galliano Annex ever get generators? Did any of the five generators "issued" to Mr. Cheramie ever make their way down the bayou? How did the generators make their way back to the Lockport Field Office before being picked up by Cameron Parish? Could no public use have been made of 3 or 4 generators that "were not issued"? Do the generators know a song was written about them? (Alas, they likely perished in Rita.) Did I miss any questions ya'll want asked?

Goodbye Leeville. Goodbye Dulac. Goodbye Venice.
In a move rarely seen in American history, our government, on all levels, has decided to abandon areas of our State populated by 30,000 fellow Americans and Louisianians. Those people did nothing wrong - they pay theirs taxes, they send their sons off to war to preserve our way of life, they're law-abiding people, they're good, loyal Americans. The problem is that they simply live below some imaginary line beyond which our governments have decided is too expensive to protect. Their areas have been excluded from the so-called levee re-alignment proposed by our usually wrong Corps of Engineers, while our public servants stand mute in the face of this tragedy.

Shame on you USA! Shame on you Louisiana! Shame on you Terrebonne, Lafourche and Plaquemines Parishes!

Why was public money wasted on Mary Landrieu's trip to Holland, if all they came back with is "we can't do that"? Sounds to me that it was little more than a publicity stunt.

Write David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, Charles Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Reggie Dupre, Loulan Pitre, Damon Baldone, Charlotte "Holland was a Photo Op" Randolph (none of whom live below the imaginary line, by the way) and express your displeasure that we won't build levees on the coast where they belong.

Wonder where the levees would be built if any of these public servants' families lived in Dulac, Cocodrie, Chauvin, Pointe au Chien, Montegut, Leeville, the Settlement below the floodgates, Grand Isle, Empire or Venice?

I Can Hardly Believe My Ears
I was listening to some of KLRZ's love fest coverage of DA Cam Morvant's 4th annual fund raiser, when to my ears came the most amazing realization - Donald Vizier and I actually agree on something. Were it not that I am in excellent physical health, I would have probably had a stroke.

During his interview with Cam and Capt. Kirk, Donald, totally unprompted, opined that the Parish Council should give up its parish-wide tax for drainage and turn it over to the levee districts. I COULD NOT AGREE MORE! Now if we could only teach you some business ethics and humility, Donald.

Donald's reasoning was flawless - the levee districts are in a better position to know about local drainage needs.

Yo, Donald, not that I would accept your money in my fight to defeat the parish-wide drainage tax in July, but, you should seriously think about organizing on your own to beat that thing.

With disparate forces like those represented by Donald Vizier and me, who usually agree on nothing, on the same side of this issue, sounds like parish-wide drainage taxation ends in July!

RISE UP SOUTH LAFOURCHE AND TAKE CONTROL OF OUR TAXES!

It's Time For Political Action!
I will likely be forming a Political Action Committee (PAC) to oppose the July parish-wide taxes. I'll lay out the legal details later, but the short and sweet of it is no cash, only checks. And if you can't live with your name being in a campaign finance report, then you can't oppose the election through this means.

I'm thinking I'd like between $2,500 and $5,000 to do it right. I envision mostly yard signs, Vision ad channel and the newspapers. If I get some serious money, we could do a poll. That'll eat $2 to $3K easily.

I'm thinking of calling it "No More Games PAC" or "The $74,000 Election PAC". Any ideas are welcomed. Don't send checks yet. I'll let you know.

Top Ten Things You Could Buy With the $74,000 Being Squandered On The July 15 Tax Re-Newal Election
I need one more good one. HELP!

10. Anonymous said... A whole lot of Abita Amber!!! Thu May 11, 08:16:20 PM
(Dude! Follow the instructions! How much beer? And this is the last beer one. But I couldn't resist giving you a link. No, nobody can say alot of statuesque red-heads, flying dogs or doe-eyed cows. Take this thing seriously! I want some good imaginative stuff. Come on Ted, you have a fertile imagination. You imagine you have some significant role in the success of Fourchon. That success was inspite of you, not because of you. George, let's just say, you can sit this one out. OK? Imagination ain't exactly your strong suit.)

9. Anonymous said... How about 18.5000 minutes on a 1-900 call at $4.00 a minute? MMMMMMMM Abita Amber... 10:19 PM

(The Psychic Friends Network?!?! Ya'll are making me rethink whether Charorge's idea of how to squander that money is such a bad idea afterall and will kill any credibility I may have earned. Help me somebody!)

8. 2006 BMW 5-Series, MSRP: $42,500-81,200.
(This is what I'm talkin' 'bout!!!!)

7. Two years at Tulane + two years at Nicholls = a college education or four years at Nicholls and three years at a public medical school = your kid's a doctor.
(This one is really damaging to Charorge. You can give your kid a college education or a medical degree for the money they will waste on an unnecessary election! Lordy!)

6. Six-night transatlantic journey from New York to Southampton on the Queen Mary 2 costs $38,258. (each presumably) That price doesn't include a plane ticket back to the U.S., which will seem like pennies compared to the sticker price of the cruise.
(To be a big shot, it takes more than just acting like one, Charorge! This is the real deal!)

5. 1996 Catalina - 32' Sail Boat $74,000

4. Sadly, the cost of nursing home care for one year = $74,000

3. Anonymous said... You can get stopped for speeding 21 to 30 MPH over the limit ($191.50). Get tickets for having window tinting that's too dark($141.50), a burnt head or tail light($50), not wearing a seatbelt($25), and having an open beer in the passenger section of your vehicle($141.50). Take the tickets to court and be charged with court cost($41.50) 124 times in the Town of Golden Meadow. Mon, 15 May 2006, 5:47 AM
(You got some imagination! Good Work!)

2. From Saturday's Comet real estate listings: 3 Apt. complex, large carport, 1-3BR 1 1/2BA trailer, 1-2BR 2BA apt, 1-1BR 1BA apt. All under 1 roof, live in one, rent two to pay note. All apts. rented. In Schreiver. $70,000. With the $4K left, you could prob'ly get a decent used pickup.

Sale Tax Year to Year Comparison and Property Reassessment Revenues
I'd like to see a sale tax collection and revenues due to property reassessment breakdown from the beginning of Charorge's Misadministration through date. Those are tools the Public needs at its disposal to determine whether new taxes are really needed or whether no amount of money can satisfy Charorge. Wonder if a public records request could get that? Whoever is monitoring this blog for Charorge today, would ya'll be a sweetheart and provide that information to me via this request? (George, I know you are a loyal reader.)

Bush-like Purge In The Offing For Charorge?
Some have speculated that the only thing that may salvage some sort of political career for the quickly imploding Charorge is a W style house cleaning. Charorge could name a fall guy or guyette and shuffle a few people around and, perhaps, bring in a new face or two who actually have a clue.

I don't know if anything can keep them from going down in flames. Watch the Council meeting. The public comments at the beginning of the meeting were uniformly devastating. The 6 or 7 speakers were from all parts of the parish and several complained about Charorge not returning phone calls. (Maybe if Charlotte would travel less and be in the Parish more, she could return calls to common folk.) Poor Mr. Andrus, how could Charorge's Misadministration have screwed up a board appointment so badly?

Fairly or not, the word on the street is uniformly negative. I'd love to see a poll just about now. I can't help but wonder whether the big shots in Lafourche First are doing a little more than scratching their heads in dumbfoundment. ("How could we have been so wrong? She was perky during her Chamber days. Plus, we thought since her and George styled themselves as being in the PR business, they knew something about PR, at least.")

In any event, things are looking pretty bleak up at the Ponderosa. Forces from all parts of the Parish are talking about actively opposing the July 15 tax renewals simply out of principal. They have not been convinced that election is a wise investment of $74,000. It looks more like a ploy to get noncontroversial taxes out of the way so that a tax increase can be placed on the Sept. ballot.

Could I possibly interest you in an Abita Amber about now, George?

Charorge Has No Long Term Maintenance Plan
Parish Administrator Cullen Curole revealed on KLRZ today that the Charorge Misadministration has no long term plan to maintain all the public works they are building. Its policy is to spend all the money they have on projects to get the maximum short-term political credit it can get and let those in the future worry about maintenance. I guess that is a way to do it, but is it the most prudent and is it what is best for the Public?

Charorge has talked alot about master plans, at least early in their term, but since then, we have seen no movement in the direction of developing a long term plan for our Parish's future. Why? Because Charorge is more concerned about their future than yours and that means SPEND IT ALL NOW!

The Votes Are In From The Chene 'A Cowan
Late last week, the political scribes, who dwell under that venerable tree, and barometer of political fortunes, just north of the Golden Meadow town limits known as the Chene 'A Cowan, were making jokes about not wanting to ride in a vehicle occupied by Charorge. Translation: Charorge, you need to find another line of work. C'est fini.

Charorge's Gold Star Commission
Lame-Duck Lafourche Parish President Charorge Randolph announced at tonight's meeting they were going back to the drawing board in their headlong pursuit of separating you from your money so that they can build projects for themselves and their friends and cattle in Central Lafourche. (Apparently, cattle have been given the vote.) You know, like the Edgar Guidry pump station which is about 500 yards from their abode. (Talk about an excellent TV commercial idea for one of their opponents!)

What Charorge's plan is is to convene a committee made up of people from each district which will recommend projects to them that they can use to resusitate their ill conceived and received general obligation bond, with the results to be placed on the September 30 ballot. (Haven't we heard this song before?) Charorge explained the withdrawal of their slush fund proposal by stating that things have changed since March 1 and that FEMA would be footing the bill on some of the drainage projects (for Central Lafourche cattle?). Therefore, the need for the general obligation bond had disappeared. Yeah, and a dog doesn't lick himself! And termites don't eat wood!

Betcha the Lockport to Larose $3 Million levee project will make a second appearance.

I say, no more parish-wide taxes. If you can't pay for it, you don't get it.

It's time we stop pretending we are one big happy parish. What we are is two parishes, one leeching off the other. And the other is getting mighty tired of getting screwed every which way.

Five Minutes!?!?
Maybe my watch was malfunctioning, but how is it that 6 or 7 members of the Public, during the Public Comment part of the meeting, took nearly an hour and a half of time to speak, if Council policy is to limit such presentations to 5 minutes? Dem comments shoulda been finished in 30 to 35 minutes. Yo, Council, there is something called the Equal Protection Clause in both the US and La. Constitutions and the Courts have said that it means you can't treat similarly situated people differently. Wonder if I get cut off at a real 5 minutes or tonight's 5 minutes if I ever speak before the Council again?

Look, man, it's not like I'm complaining. Each one of those members of the Public, a vast conspiracy, were firing broadsides at our favorite and hard to miss target, Charorge and Charorge's rumbling, stumbling, bumbling Misadministration.

I encourage you, dear fellow conspirators, to attend Council meetings and use your 5 or 6 or 10 minutes. Maybe somebody could sing "Cameron Parish Generators". "I'm jus' talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators, baybay!" (Hope none of ya'll are English Teachers.) I'll bring the karoake machine with the music! You'll be on TV! It could be better than American Idol! Stop laughing! I'm serious!

Note: I did turn in a form to talk about those mysterious Cameron Parish Generators, but changed my mind.

Screw the Public; It Ain't Our $70,000!
In a marked schizophrenic move, the Lafourche Parish Council, by a 7-2 vote, decided to change the election date for a variety of parish-wide tax re-newals from September 30, a date they had approved earlier, to July 15. The move was made in order to improve the chances of passing the tax measures due to historic lower turnout for elections with few matters to be considered by voters and, in the process, subvert the democratic process and express how little trust Charorge's Misadministration has in YOU. Since there will be nothing else on the ballot, the State will not pay for the election. The $70,000 price tag will be footed entirely by Lafourche taxpayers.

The only two Councilmen voting against the proposal were Tommy Lassaigne and Daniel Lorraine. They argued that it should remain on the September ballot because more people would be voting and we have better things to spend the money on. (You know how many jacuzzis, bottles of whiskey and 23 year old statuesque red-heads you could buy or rent with $70K? Disclaimer: This was just an example for those of you who may partake in such frivolity. This blog is a work of serious journalism and does not condone or encourage illegal activities of any sort.)

Apparently, the rest of the Council got some convencing backroom deals, even our hero "Laptop Lindel" and "NO GO", who had sponsored the original amendment to place the whole shabang on the September ballot. What a little arm twisting can do!

If, like me, you vote against these tax re-newals simply on principal, you can't be faulted. It's a way to show your displeasure for the cavalier way our money is being squandered. Don't worry, they'll simply re-place the re-newals on a later ballot.

In a related topic, the Council took Charorge's $15.88 million miscarriage out of its misery by voting to remove it from the September ballot. Shucks!

Small Claims Court for South Lafourche
Councilman Brent Callais has taken the bull by the horn to attempt to create a court of limited jurisdiction based in South Lafourche. Such a court handles civil matters below a certain money amount, misdemeanors and juvenile matters, but not divorces, successions, anything calling for a jury trial and various other matters. There are various reasons to create such a court:

- It would handle small claims matters, which are currently being handled by non-lawyer justices of the peace, through an elected judge who is a lawyer.
- The distances 10th Ward citizens would have to travel to attend court would be greatly reduced.
- It would reduce the district court docket load.
- Filing fees of such Courts are traditionally lower than those of District Courts.
- Job creation accessible to people residing in the 10th Ward.

But, of course, as things are in this Parish, there is opposition from many of the Thibodaux politicians who got started in long-term, lucrative careers, in part, through the help they received from the voters of the 10th Ward. No one ever accused those from Thibodaux of being particularly appreciative, have they? I'll name names if I can find some paper. But, I can't prevent your imaginations from running wild.

Props to Brent.

Uncensured Documents Delivered! End of Public Records Suit!
I received, by certified mail, yesterday, Charorge's expense records. I'll be filing my Motion to Dismiss today. And so ends the chapter begun in November, 2005.

I'll be publishing total expenses, asking questions, and making observations soon. At this point, I can tell you Charorge sure likes to travel. Wonder what we got in return?

Definitions: Charorge - a mash-up of Charlotte and George.

The Public's Right to Know 1st Annual Candidate Qualification Party
Qualifying for the Sept. 30 Election will be from 8-9-2006 to 8-11-2006. Me and a Parish Councilman, who will remain anonymous, talked about doing a tailgate party in Thibodaux on that Friday afternoon. The Clerk of Court's office is open until 4:30. Maybe we can just do an afternoon thing. That little park next door should be completed by then. Last one to qualify gets a case of beer. Maybe we can get KLRZ to do a live remote. Dude! The possibilities are endless! PARTY!!!

Cameron Parish Generators
People try to screw us a-a-roun' (Talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators)
Just because we had AC the week after K-K-K-atrina and they didn't (Talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators)
Boy, that cold beer was awful cool, while you all just s-s-stewed (Talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators)
Dey wasn't our generators, dey was jus' on l-l-l-oan (Talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators)
Thanks for the overtime, I wish I could have kep' i-i-i-t(Talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators)
Hope I stay out of jail, I jus' couldn't hep i-i-i-t(Talkin' 'bout Cameron Parish Generators)
I’m just talkin’ ’bout Cameron Parish G-G-Generators
I’m just talkin’ ’bout Cameron Parish G-G-Generators
I’m just talkin’ ’bout Cameron Parish G-G-Generators

These were Cameron Parish Generators
These were Cameron Parish Generators
These were Cameron Parish Generators, baby!
These were Cameron Parish Generators, baby!


- credit and apologies to Pete Townsend

Names will be named. The noose tightens.

Greater Lafourche Port Commission Election!
There, I finally wrote something about it.

Excitement is in the air! Rumors are flying about who is running and who they're running against. I ain't naming names!

Is the old guard taking its last breathes? Are the good old days of rampant pocket-lining going to return? Is the new generation going to complete the changeover of power they missed by a hair last time? Is Charorge still out there trying to drum up opposition to our two most able Young Turks or have they withdrawn into the cocoon of survival mode? Will someone read this blog tomorrow using that Customs' account? (Bingo!: nwg001-ce1.customs.treas.gov, 03 May, Wed, 07:57:34) Ya'll talk amongst ya'llselves.

But, with Loulan having retreated to Fauborg Marigny as our absentee representative and Ted going off to the Highway 1 Collision (misspelled by design), the only one left to torment is Donald and that won't be as much fun. It certainly helps if the one you are taking to task in writing can actually read and comprehend complex ideas sometimes.

Enough with OxyRush, Back to Charorge!
The voter's of the St. John community gave a resounding thumbs down, 120 yes, 776 no, to a tax increase for its fire district Saturday. Will the Charorge Misadministration get the message or are they totally delusional? If you can't pass a local tax to benefit local interests, you can't pass a tax where one area is paying 50 to 65% and getting 5% back. You can't pass a parish-wide tax unless the 10th Ward votes for it or is knocked unconscious by the Russian army's aerosoling heroin into the area on the day of the election.

I say, let's keep the $15.88 million general obligation bond on the September 30 ballot! Let the voters have some fun! I'm a diab yeah me!

Rush Arrested, Finger-Printed and Mugshot!
Anonymous said...
The Public has the right to Know the truth. Your commentary on Rush Limbaugh is completely inaccurate. He was not and never has been arrested and his agreement is not probation. You better stick to attacking the idiots in Thibodaux and leave those with IQ's over 40 alone.

Tue May 02, 05:35:44 PM

Honey, its called denial, that's what you're in. Professional help is available, angry white guy. When someone is finger-printed and mugshot, he is arrested. One follows the other. Ask any cop you meet on the street. They don't go through that procedure unless you have been arrested. They cut Rush some serious slack by not making him do the perp walk for the cameras. They paid him the courtesy of allowing him to turn himself in.

OH! OK! I got it. You want to play semantics. Sweetheart, a surrender is also a courtesy extended by law enforcement. It is a surrender to the authorities in lieu of being arrested. Had he not surrendered, he would have been arrested. Same result, a booking - fingerprinting, mugshot,$3,000 bail. (See the one before last paragraph in the story.)

What Rush got was "diversion". It is an alternative to going through the criminal legal process of arraignment, pre-trial negotiation and trial or plea. In Louisiana this alternative procedure is designed for first time offenders and is called "pre-trial intervention". It is an authority that is at the discretion of all District Attorneys in La. The idea is to give those who don't have a history of criminal activity a second chance. We usually see this in minor drug cases and 1st offense DWIs.

Rush is on probation. One of the requirements of the agreement is that he pays a $30.00 per month supervision fee. That is supervision by a probation officer. That's right, Rush must go through the indignity of meeting with a probation officer once a month.

You can spin this whatever way you want to, but the fact is your hero is a stone junkie. May be a recovering junkie, but a junkie nonetheless.

Also, professional wrestling is staged! It is entertainment! It ain't for real!

What may also surprise you is that there is no Easter bunny! Furthermore, there is no tooth fairy! And, (you'll love this) there is no free lunch, except maybe for ne'er do well rich kids like W!

Furthermore, I take umbrage at your suggestion that people in Thibodaux are idiots. They may well descend from simple farm and plantation folk and possess a bad sense of entitlement to share disproportionately in the riches of the 10th Ward, but they do have some good qualities. Some of their houses are nice. They have preserved their historic district, more or less. A few of them are attractive females. They produce some decent judges and meals.