Louisiana Voice

Members of ACT UP, an LGBTQIA+ organization that was instrumental in outing then-4^th District Congressman Jim McCrery has released 26 pages of emails and text messages which it says indicates that family values Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is himself a closet gay.

ACT UP was also in the forefront of efforts to prod Louisiana’s political establishment to take the growing AIDS epidemic seriously back in the 1970s and 1980s.

It was almost exactly one year ago that LouisianaVoice FIRST REPORTED that ACT UP was turning its attention to Johnson—not because he might be gay but because he goes to such lengths to conceal the fact, even openly opposing the LGBTQIA+ community while hiding behind a Bible and the flag.

The documents turned over to LouisianaVoice indicate that several major news organizations, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The London Times, The New Yorker, The Baton Rouge Advocate and The Shreveport Times, attempted to learn of any gay proclivities of Johnson but none ever published a story.

But the documents cite specific instances of homosexual activity on Johnson’s part, including:

• An affair with a Minden attorney after they had won a major verdict in court resulted in a divorce when the attorney’s wife caught them together. In fact, Johnson was an attorney for that firm when he represented the state in challenging several same-sex couples who opposed the state’ ban on same-sex marriage.
• Another attorney, also caught by his wife with Johnson and subsequently divorced, once practiced in Shreveport but now is in New Orleans.
• Johnson also is said to have picked up a 15-year-old boy at a Bossier City gym believed to have been used to groom troubled boys.
• Johnson is said to have also frequented at a gay dance bar in Shreveport dating back to the 1980s.

Of the alleged affair with the Minden attorney, the ACT UP document said, “It seems MJ (Mike Johnson) and another attorney in the law firm worked together on a case and had a big win. The two ended up celebrating by having sex that afternoon at the other attorney’s house and the wife caught them unexpectedly. A divorce followed and the records are sealed in the Webster Parish Court House. Everything was hushed up, MJ moved on to another firm.”

If true, Johnson would not be the first gay person to serve in Congress or other high elective or appointive office. But others, like Barney Frank and Pete Buttigieg, were openly gay, making no effort to hide their sexuality. Attempting to conceal the fact that one is gay, on the other hand, could leave that person subject to blackmail which could jeopardize national security.

McCrery was outed in 1992 when a Dallas teacher claimed he had sex with the congressman on two occasions jus before he won his first election in 1988. Just as Johnson would do later, McCrery supported antigay legislation and policies.

Julia Letlow, in her current TV ad in her campaign to succeed Bill Cassidy as US senator, says, with oh-such sincerity, “I’m holding FEMA and the big insurance companies accountable to lower costs.”

Whoa. Sounds good but she might want to check with the folks in North Carolina to see how well they’ve succeeded in “holding FEMA accountable” from recovery from the ravages of Hurricane Helene two years ago.

And she might want to check in with the guy she calls the “greatest president ever” to hear what he has to say about FEMA’s role in disaster recovery in the future.

As evidenced by Vivek Ramaswama, aka Vile Rama-smarmy, perhaps we all should hit the pause button and consider just how low the bar is and to what length candidates might promise stunningly miraculous results if they are elected.

That’s because even as Letlow is PROMISING to “hold FEMA accountable,” TACO Don is out there proclaiming that the burden of disaster recovery is going to be SHIFTED TO THE INDIVIDUAL STATES.

In fact, says Politico, Trump has taken longer than his predecessors—and even his own administration during his first term—to respond to state requests for aid after major storms

The residents of NORTH CAROLINA are already familiar with what Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states can expect when the next big one hits anywhere from Texas to Florida, including Louisiana.

Normally, it might be fun to watch a freshman senator take on a sitting president but in the case of Louisiana, it’ll just be yet another disaster.

Caught an interesting story online this morning.

A federal judge (appointed by the Pedophile-President, no less) has dismissed (with prejudice) a case in which the Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded that Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson turn over state voter data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Trump-appointed judge slams door on DOJ as court losses pile up days ahead of midterms

Dismissal with prejudice means it cannot be brought up again.

District Judge David Barlow on Friday dismissed the case the Department of Justice brought against Henderson, a Republican, demanding that she turn over state voter data. The administration sought to compel Henderson, the state’s top election official, to hand over a complete list of Utah voters, including their names, birthdays and addresses as well as their driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.

States which have refused to comply with DOJ’s “demands” include Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico (it is still New Mexico, by the way), Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine and Washington, D.C.

Those, like Louisiana, that have rolled over, include Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Alaska.

Missouri and Kansas provided publicly-available versions of their voter lists or instructions on how to obtain them while Hawaii, Delaware and Idaho were sued for not providing full information sought.

Trump’s defeat in Utah is the latest of more than two dozen voter-roll LITIGATION LOSSES but not to worry; Louisiana’s GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles) legislature, governor and attorney general went down without so much as a whimper of protest, rolling over to the wishes of a clown who possesses the color, texture, personality and IQ of the interior of a fully-baked sweet potato.

You see, back last spring, there was this bill, HOUSE BILL 691, to be precise, that sailed through both chambers of that beacon of good government, the Louisiana Legislature, on its way to becoming Act 6 when Gov. Squeaky Landry just couldn’t wait to sign it into law.

The bill, by Rep. Gerald “Beau” Beaullieu (R-New Iberia) “requires the secretary of state to annually submit to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program administered by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security a check against every registrant in the state voter registration computer system for which the requisite state data exists. The data shall be submitted prior to 180 days before a regularly scheduled federal general election.”

Rep. Gerald (“No Problem”) “Beau” Beaullieu

And just what data does the bill require to be submitted to the Gestapo feds?

Let’s let THE LENS, which tried to alert us to the dangers before the bill was passed, explain that: “Under the bill, the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office would be required to submit personal identifying information, including addresses, birthdates [driver’s license numbers] and [last four digits of] Social Security numbers, for all registered voters in the state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which will check the information against a federal database that is typically used to verify citizenship of people applying for government benefits.

Of course, there were some in the legislature who tried to warn us of the pitfalls of a police state having such personal information. Rep. Edmon Jordan (D-Baton Rouge) said the state shouldn’t provide a person’s social security number with a federal law enforcement agency without consent or probable cause but Beaullieu, in a typically Republikkkan response, said he saw no problem with doing so.

Rep. Edmond Jordan

Just for the fun of it, do you want to know how your state senator or representative voted on providing your personal information to an agency like DHS which has no second thoughts about shooting American citizens in the street?

Yes? Okay, here’s how the HOUSE voted (74-29 with two abstentions).

The compliant SENATE was equally lopsided (29-8 with three senators taking a walk).

Each of the eight senators voting no, by the way, are Democrats while the two Repugnantcan senators running for the 6^th District congressional seat, Rick Edmonds and Blake Miguez voted to give your personal away.

Just thought you’d like to know that had our governor, his sock puppet attorney general, Liz Murrill, Beaullieu and the rubber-stamp Repugnantcans in the legislature chosen to protect your sensitive information, they could have done so.

But they didn’t choose your interests over blind loyalty to Dirty Diaper Donnie, did they?

Let me see if I have this right.

In Michigan, according to the Gospel of Trump, Abdul El-Sayed is a looming threat to baseball, apple pie and the American way of life.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C. home was raided because of some suspected (but unproven) glitch in her naturalization papers, making her a walking hazard to the fabric of evangelicals everywhere. In fact, the world’s most infamous convicted sex offender/pedophile has deemed her unfit for office and decreed that he is declaring her House seat vacant (even though his expressly prohibited from doing that by a little thing called the U.S. Constitution).

Texas Rep. Chip Roy was a little more explicit when he said of Islamists, “Kill them. Kill them all.”

Yet, Trump appointed DR. MEHMET OZ as administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the agency that oversees medical care for tens of millions of Americans.

Dr. Oz, in case you were unaware, is Muslim.

Trump accepted aa a gift a $400 million 747 BOEING JETLINEER from the Qatari royal family and the entire Trump family has major business ties with Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund INVESTED $2 BILLION with a private equity firm founded by Trump son-in-law “Jared bin Lyin” Kushner.

The Qatari royal family and Saudi Arabian leaders are all Muslim. Every. Single. One.

Keep in mind, if you will, Kushner is one of Trump’s envoys negotiating Mideast peace negotiations, leading one to wonder which side he’s representing.

All that’s rather interesting, especially the obvious hypocrisy practiced by Trump and family.

But now a real bombshell has exploded over the head of Kushner and, by extension, Trump and the what passes for an administration in Washington.

Kushner allegedly accessed a secret Gulf-funded bank account while Dutch spies watched his phone, and moved money to a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man, according to an explosive new book.

Kushners Hacked Phone Reveals Shocking Links to Warlord and Hitman – Chronology

Excerpts from a new book, published in Vanity Fair last week, investigative journalist Matthew Cole wrote that Dutch military intelligence found screenshots of Kushner’s iPhone on a Russian military intelligence server back in 2018, then exploited a flaw in the phone to watch his screen themselves starting in early 2018.

Investigators believe the hacking incident occurred during Kushner’s tenure as a senior advisor, where he played pivotal roles in shaping key policies and international relations.

According to sources familiar with the investigation, the breach reportedly led to the revelation of financial transactions made by Kushner that are alleged to involve payments to individuals linked to organized crime.

The Internet exploded with dozens stories–by AP, Bloomberg, MSN, Israeli Times, The New York Times, Forbes, Vanity Fair, et al–of the newest revelations and the story is still developing. Stand by as new details continue to emerge, as they most certainly will.

Meanwhile, it’s more than a little interesting—and curious—to watch Repugnantcans contort themselves into human pretzels as they condemn Muslims on the one hand and embrace them with the other.

You gotta admit, it’s one helluva October Surprise.