http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/louisiana/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:52:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420279/posts What exactly did Mary Landrieu get for her vote supporting Obamacare? According to Chad Rogers at The Dead Pelican, besides the $300 million payoff she boasted about on the Senate floor, she also secured national Democratic support for her brother Mitch's New Orleans mayoral campaign: "It is widely known that Landrieu received $300 million in medicaid funding in exchange for her vote to begin debate on the Obama health care proposal. But sources tell The Dead Pelican that Landrieu's vote has also secured support for her brother Mitch in the New Orleans mayor's race, by the National Democratic party." One... And So it Goes in Shreveport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420279/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:52:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418376/posts LC Man faces 44 sex charges with juvenile By Lee Peck - bio | emailLAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Justin Ernest Lee of Lake Charles now faces at total of 44 sex charges in Beauregard and Calcasieu Parish for incest with a 14-year-old family member. 30-year-old Lee was arrested last week by Beauregard Parish Sheriff's investigators and charged with 2 counts of aggravated incest after the juvenile confided in a family member. Officials say the incidents happened at a home in Ragley.After further investigation, investigators say Lee admitted to more sexual encounters with the juvenile at his home off Rushmore Drive in... KPLC TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418376/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:49:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417837/posts Here is the Initial Report from the Streamlining Government Commission in the State of Louisiana. Among the recommendations to trimming the state government are: 1. Trimming the state fleet of vehicles by roughly 30% by December 31, 2011. 2. Abolishing all special funds in the State Treausry by June 30, 2011. 3. Outsourcing and consolidating different activities within the State Departments. The State Legislature will review the recommendations once that are submitted to the House and Senate Governmental Affairs committees early next year to determine which recommendations to adopt. Louisiana Commission on Streamlining Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417837/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:46:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417417/posts Today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal put out an op-ed piece touting Louisiana’s economic gains in an otherwise-rough year... The Hayride http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417417/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:23:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416029/posts New population figures give a boost to the GOP By: Chris StirewaltPolitical EditorDecember 28, 2009 The 2010 census is sure to be controversial.Republicans will thunder about the community organizers who get hired to do the counting, and Democrats will wail that the homeless and migrant workers are undercounted.But in the final pre-count estimate just released by the Census Bureau, we already have a broad idea of where the results are headed and what they will mean politically.The numbers are cause for alarm for Democrats.Of the states gaining House seats -- Texas (three) and Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416029/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:44:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412685/posts Politics: Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state's future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate votes up on eBay. Nelson, the 60th vote in the middle-of-the-night Senate party line vote on health care reform, will go down in American political history as the inventor of the permanent earmark. His seemingly principled stand against including federal funding for abortion evaporated like the morning dew as he decided to take what was behind door No. 1. The deal for Nelson includes special Medicaid funding for Nebraska, along... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412685/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411252/posts 18 states allow for recall votes on US Senators. The 18 states allowing for recall are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. The Senate oath of office is: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411252/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411363/posts Louisiana really seems to take the term "Big Easy" to hear as it clocks in as the happiest state in America, while New York is the least happiest or saddest. The list that measures the Happiness level states in America was the result of work done by researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK and Hamilton College in the United States and published in the journal Science. "The researchers examined a 2005- 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens in which Life-satisfaction in each U.S. state is measured. This provided a... Now Public http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411363/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:41:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411350/posts Not that this will come as any great shock, but Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), the lone Democrat holdout against the current iteration of healthcare reform, announced Saturday he will vote for the bill. Also unsurprising: much like Mary "Louisiana Purchase" Landrieu (D-La.) before him, Nelson sold his vote and his very soul for some financial benefits to his state. As Politico reported moments ago: Sen. Mary Landrieu got the "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up most his state's future Medicaid tab -- forever. As part of the deal to win Nelson's support, the federal... newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411350/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:09:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409170/posts Politics: If the Democrats' stitched-together Frankenstein monster of health care reform gets the 60 votes to get through the Senate, it will have been done through an assortment of bribes and brass knuckles. (snip) Sen. Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, has also been critical of the buy-in and public option, but he has an additional issue about whatever comes out of the Senate not involving public funding of abortion in any way. Michael Goldfarb on the Weekly Standard blog quotes a Senate aide as saying the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the... Investor's Business daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409170/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:29:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408366/posts A St. Rose man armed with a semiautomatic hand gun was shot and killed by a homeowner after attempting to burglarize a home in St. Rose just before 1 a.m. this morning. Michael Cockerham, 21, of Turtle Creek Lane in St. Rose, was shot and killed by Tyrone Taylor, 53, after kicking down the rear door of Taylor's residence in the 300 block of First Street in St. Rose. Cockerham was located in a yard a few houses away with a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the St. Charles Parish Coronor's... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408366/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:39:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406306/posts Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) rejected the notion that determining the Constitutionality of pending legislation was part of her job. The Senator’s shucking of this responsibility came in response to a questioner asking her where in the US Constitution is there the authority for congress to force people to buy health insurance. “My job is to get all I can for my constituents,” Landrieu argued. “Unlike most of my peers, I got $300 million in added benefits for my constituents in exchange for my vote in favor of the health care bill. I’m not going to let myself be bothered by... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406306/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:45:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406093/posts BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU's governing board has agreed to the expropriation of property to build a new public teaching hospital in New Orleans and a nearby new veterans hospital. Without objection Friday, the LSU Board of Supervisors approved the use of expropriation. The resolution allows state officials working on the projects to seek a court order to seize private property if the owners refuse to sell. A judge would decide the purchase price the state must pay. More than 450 separately-owned parcels of land are located in the footprint of the planned U.S. Veterans Affairs' hospital and the $1.2... WWL TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406093/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:27:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400081/posts BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a winter weather advisory for portions of southeast Louisiana and extreme southern Mississippi, including the Capital area. The advisory will be in effect from 6 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Saturday. A wintry mix of rain and snow is expected to develop across the Metro Baton Rouge area, the Florida parishes and southwest Mississippi by Friday evening. Forecasters said the combination is expected to change to all snow early Friday night. They added the snow will continue through the early morning hours of Saturday before ending.... wafb http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400081/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:39:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394629/posts RUSH: I didn't know this stuff was going on out there, I just was advised of it -- and we're going to treat you to it as you and I listen to it perhaps for the first time together, depending on whether or not you watch PMSNBC. The other day, I guess it was Monday, I opened this program by saying, "That might be the most expensive prostitute in the history of prostitutes," regarding the $300 million payoff from Dingy Harry to Mary Landrieu to get her vote to open debate on the health care bill. So on MSNBC during... Rush Limbaugh http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394629/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393948/posts Landrieu bashed for ‘backroom’ vote dealingBy GERARD SHIELDS Advocate Washington bureau Published: Nov 24, 2009 - Page: 1A WASHINGTON — They’re calling it the Louisiana Purchase. State and national Republicans on Monday continued bashing U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., for voting to allow debate to begin on the Senate health-care bill while securing up to $300 million to insure the state’s poor. “Mary Landrieu had an opportunity to kill this legislation,” said Roger Villere, state Republican Party chairman. “This was the vote that mattered.” Landrieu’s “aye” Saturday was crucial to moving the Democrat’s health-care measure along in the U.S. Senate.... 2theadvocate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393948/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:26:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393318/posts BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, has been in the spotlight since her vote Saturday, allowing debate to begin on the national healthcare bill. Included in the deal, Landrieu secured as much as $300 million for Louisiana's Medicaid program, something she said Gov. Bobby Jindal asked for, leaving him in a sticky situation. "It is the number one request of my governor, who is a Republican," Landrieu said Saturday on the Senate floor. She told her fellow senators she is proud of the move she made Saturday. She voted to allow debate on the national healthcare bill... WAFB.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393318/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:33:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392702/posts You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. That’s the way it’s always worked in Washington, so the news that Mary Landrieu will hold a fundraiser in New Orleans for Senator Harry Reid comes as no surprise. Reid procured a substantial dose of cash to Landrieu’s Louisiana in exchange for her crucial “moderate” vote. Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana garnered a lot of attention before the healthcare vote last night as to whether she would or wouldn’t vote yes to send the monstrosity of a bill to the floor for debate. After rumors of a $100 million dollar bribe by Senator... The Admonition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392702/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392696/posts Dear Senator Mary Landrieu, In the words of Ricky Ricardo, you got some splainin’ to do. This state is clearly against this health care bill and you voted to move it forward despite the overwhelming wishes of your constituents. Avoiding your constituents can not continue to be your response. Reserving and filling the front four rows with people who are obviously for the health care bill at a town hall only serves as an indication that you are more interested in advancing this agenda than serving your constituents. Don’t hide from your constituents over this Thanksgiving break, don’t stay in... LouisianaConservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392696/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:49:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392421/posts MOBILE, Ala. -- Action movie star Steven Seagal is best known in these parts for having played the cook who thwarted a terrorist plot in the 1992 thriller "Under Siege," which was filmed here aboard the battleship USS Alabama. But these days he has another assignment. For almost 20 years, Seagal has been working as a fully commissioned reserve deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana. His law enforcement work is chronicled in a "Steven Seagal Lawman," an upcoming A&E reality TV show that will premiere on the cable channel at 9 p.m. CST Dec. 2. A&E is... The Mobile Press-Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392421/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:54:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391458/posts Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million. ABC NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391458/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:15:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390315/posts am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill. In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.) Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390315/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:24:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387331/posts White voters led defeat of bond issue Mayor-President Kip Holden’s proposed $901 million capital improvement tax package failed Saturday because of a lopsided “no” vote in suburban, predominantly white areas of East Baton Rouge Parish, according to an analysis of precinct vote totals. Voter turnout was substantially higher in predominantly white precincts, and the votes tended to be a reverse of those cast in predominantly African-American precincts, where the tax package enjoyed its strongest support. “The suburban vote was really strong, and really lopsided,” said Wayne Parent, an LSU political science professor. The tax package failed with 64 percent of... The (Baton Rouge) Advocate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387331/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386687/posts A giant combination of sales and property taxes -almost a billion dollars - is going down in flames tonight in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Our friends at the Baton Rouge Tea Party led the charge to defeat this boondoggle. Congratulations are due. Here is their website. http://www.batonrougeteaparty.net/Default.aspx Here is today's news story about the vote. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/70085962.html Louisiana Secretary of State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386687/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:35:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385968/posts Jail For Corruption. William Jefferson was sentenced today for quite a few federal offenses. Among them bribery. He’s most famous for having the freezer with $90,000 in cash inside. According to Politico: Jefferson’s sentence was the harshest ever handed out to a former lawmaker, but Justice Department officials said Jefferson warranted such a severe sanction due to the unprecedented scale of his corruption. Jefferson appeared in court Friday afternoon in a black suit and a red tie, with his five daughters, his wife and his brother. Jefferson did not speak at his sentencing, and his attorney Robert Trout says he... Storyballoon.org/videos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385968/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:49 GMT