“If you find that we’re doing something wrong, I hope you’ll let us know.”
—Louisiana State Office of Fire Marshal Chief Brant Thompson, to LouisianaVoice publisher Tom Aswell several weeks ago after learning we were examining expenditures of the fire marshal’s office.
“Oh, we will, Brant. You can count on it.”
—Our response.
You people are getting worse than the MSM…you are always looking for something to bitch about and try to take someone down
Yeah, but isn’t it ironic how they seem to go out of their way to help us?
Sure sign that there IS something to hide when someone complain about investigations.
Give me a break, fake profile. No one here is making up fake news. This is actual investigative journalism revealing actual malfeasance . You doth protest too much. I’d bet you are part of this swamp.
I’m a longtime employee of this agency and have been through two administrations. I don’t know how others were run, but I have seen malfeasance first hand. Joel Domangue was thrown under the bus for actions by Butch Browning.
Several others were fired/forced to resign for not playing by Thompson’s rules. If you honestly think that these are fake news articles and trumped up charges, you don’t work for this agency.
I have seen innocent men and women be forced to sign resignation papers on bogus claims because they didn’t fit in Thompson’s gameplan.
I’ve seen hundreds of years of experience leave this agency because of outright HARASSMENT from Thompson, while Browning sits back and smiles while wearing his military ribbons.
It’s truly a SCARY time to work for this agency. Please pray for anyone in the OSFM.
Oh, yeah! Good investigators are what we all need!!
The uncontrolled spending in the SFMO, and bulling of employees started shortly after Browning took over, and got worse when Thompson show up. Also they looked the other way when a now Deputy Chief Caruth was doing major womanizing of female deputies, and belittling male deputies
Please tell us what Thompson has done right for the SFMO
I ask what has Thompson has done for the SFMO, what has Browning done for office, and I know Caruth has done nothing for the office except run good hard working deputies off.