The response to our first-ever fundraiser has been wonderful. The readers who have responded have done so generously and there is simply no way to adequately express my heart-felt appreciation.
As good as the response has been, however, I still need additional funding to accomplish all my goals. I constantly get tips and information on stories that need to be written and the stack is growing. Without additional writers, there simply is no way to get to everything that needs to be covered. And as you probably know, my goal when I launched LouisianaVoice was to keep my readers informed about the stories that don’t get reported.
I simply refuse to take a press release and run it without examining the story completely. I was taught by my grandfather to question authority. By that he did not mean to break laws or defy convention. He meant to never accept what people said without examining the motivations for their saying it. He also taught me not to listen to what politicians say but rather to what they do not say. That is the legacy by which I want LouisianaVoice to be known.
Please, if you have not already done so, help us to continue our coverage and to bring you even more revealing stories about your state government, the money that runs it and the lengths to which office holders will go to obtain financial rewards—be it campaign contributions from or jobs with special interests.
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Tom
Just wanted to affirm what an unadulterated pleasure it was to converse with you the other day on the phone. The floodwaters of Katrina paled compared to the destruction Jindal the Destroyer has wrought upon Louisiana, most prominently in the vital realms of higher education and health care, but also including such collateral damage as the entire $2 million appropriation for the Louisiana Endowment for the humanities and the hundreds of cultural projects and institutions it supported. Virtually the entire leadership of these vital areas of human endeavor has been eliminated, to the point where no one of any real merit has any interest in coming to Louisiana. Even the quisling John White has been backed into rebellion as the mercurial and contradictory governor undertakes to destroy the future of the state’s children. And with the ambitious but visionless Dardenne and Vitter hovering on the horizon to fill the void with a predictably greater void, one despairs for the state. One would have hoped that after decades of dwelling in the subbasement of national achievement a rising tide of indignant reform might have been generated, but the evidence is scant.
All the more reason to continue to fight the good fight. Onwards my friend. The fate of millions of people depends on the valiant truthsayers like yourself.
Michael Sartisky, PhD Sent from my iPad
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