Louisiana Voice

Like most starving writers, I do this blog not for financial reward and certainly not to make myself feel good.

I write LouisianaVoice for one reason: to inform readers about ways our elected and appointed officials let us down every day by betraying the trust we place in them. And far from making me feel good, sometimes what I write infuriates me.

It upsets me when I see poor people, old people, disabled people and anyone else unable to speak up for themselves taken advantage of. It makes me very angry when people in positions to help their fellow man choose instead to ignore those in need in order to help themselves.

It angers me to my core to know that lobbyists for the special interests have the ear of our elected officials while those of us who carry the heaviest tax burden are ignored.

I’m no saint and I have my faults, God knows. But LouisianaVoice was born out of frustration and indignation and I will continue to try and be a voice for the voiceless, a spokesman for the unrepresented, an advocate for the forgotten.

To do that, however, it is an inconvenient truth that financial backing is a necessity. I have to pay for the web page, for public records, for gasoline and auto repairs, and for meals when I’m on the road chasing down a story. From time to time I even have to defend a so-called SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) lawsuits aimed at silencing LouisianaVoice. We’ve won every time but it costs money. (I guess when they start suing, I must be hitting a few nerves.)

I do two fundraisers per year—in October and April. April is an awful time, I know, because of federal income taxes, but those are the times.

I depend on the generosity of readers to keep LouisianaVoice going.

And so it is that I humbly ask for your continued assistance in keeping LouisianaVoice your source of news about mismanagement, corruption, unethical behavior, unscrupulous public officials, and governmental waste.

I’ve been doing this for eight years now. I have survived a major flood, what I thought was a heart attack (it was an angina attack, thankfully).

Please help me continue via credit card by clicking on the yellow DONATE button (on the right, above the illustration of my Jindal book) or by sending a check or money order to:

Capitol News Service/LouisianaVoice

P.O. Box 922

Denham Springs, Louisiana 70727