Stories like the one below won’t be found in your daily newspaper or your local television newscast (the latter of which seems to exist only to keep the lawyer ads from bumping together).
I don’t prowl the halls of the legislature and I don’t attend too many legislative committee meetings. The deals that are detrimental to the interests of Louisiana taxpayers are not made in those meetings. Oh, sure, the official votes are taken in open for all to see but too often, decisions are made long before the actual votes.
I try to explain not that these things happen—we all know they do—but why they happen.
I’ve attempted in the nine years of LouisianaVoice’s existence to illustrate that power does in fact corrupt. I’ve tried to point out cases of mismanagement, misappropriations, malfeasance, and betrayals of the public trust. I’ve not made a lot of friends within the power structure, but that’s okay. I didn’t start this blog as a vehicle to popularity.
I started LouisianaVoice as an effort to show Louisiana’s citizens that their interests, their concerns, have been left at the door of state offices, commissions and boards while those with the checkbooks have been welcomed into the inner chambers of power and influence.
If you like what I do here, please help me continue those efforts by clicking HERE (you will be asked to verify that you’re not a robot) or on the yellow DONATE button to the right and making your contribution by credit card or by mailing your check to:
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