“My service as vice chair of the Labor & Industrial Relations Committee in no manner alters my duties or the constraints placed upon me under the Code of Governmental Ethics.”
—State Rep. Chris Broadwater (R-Hammond), in an email letter to LouisianaVoice last year. Broadwater, former Director of the Louisiana Office of Workers Compensation (OWC), took a job in 2010 with a company that was awarded a $4.2 million contract by OWC only weeks before his resignation.
Louisiana Voice 
The Honorable Representative Broadwater Decoded:
Duties – Avail my influence & service as Vice Chair, and previous service as Director of the OWC, as a vehicle to unethically derive huge financial gains & power, that I would otherwise not be afforded.
Constraints – As it pertains to fulfilling my duties asserted above; none!