Fraud in the US Congress is nothing new. Republican J.R. Majewski campaigned for a congressional seat in Ohio in 2022 as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The truth was he never saw Afghanistan and instead of combat, he helped to load planes at an air base in US ally Qatar, far from the fighting.
Madison Cawthon was elected to the House from North Carolina in 2020 despite consistently contradicting himself on his background and qualifications.
Matt Gaetz won election in Florida and stories surfaced almost immediately about sex with underage girls, drug use and other controversies.
But for pure brass, no one could surpass the forged credentials of GEORGE SANTOS whose lies about his background were so perverse that it got him expelled from Congress.
But now, though, comes word that Louisiana may well have its very own professional chameleon in the person of former US Rep. and now State Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, thanks to a little old-fashioned journalistic digging by New Orleans Public Radio station WWNO.
Abraham, Louisiana’s top public health official, it seems, may have misrepresented his own credentials in claiming in several state communications and web platforms to be a family medicine doctor.
True enough, he is a veterinarian and owner of a couple of north Louisiana pharmacies but those to not equate to board certification as a “practicing family medicine physician” in Richland Parish, as stated on his official online Health Department BIOGRAPHY.
Similar qualifications are found in other publications, including a NEWSLETTER for Medicaid providers.
Earlier this month Abraham issued an edict to state health workers to cease promoting seasonal vaccines such as influenza and pneumonia and even posted on the Department of Health website (alongside his questionable qualification perhaps?) a letter criticizing the state’s COVID response.
Parish health units, he assures us, will continue to stock vaccines but they aren’t allowed to promote mass vaccination.
“Rather than instructing individuals to receive any and all vaccines, LDH staff should communicate data regarding the reduced risk of disease, hospitalization, and death associated with a vaccine and encourage individuals to discuss considerations for vaccination with their healthcare provider,” Abraham wrote in his communication, obtained by The New Orleans Advocate.
Abraham was appointed by Jeff Landry who apparently did not do a very good job of vetting his health czar. The guv deftly deflected inquiries about the new directive, the first such that has been reduced to writing. Instead, he referred questions to the Department of Health, which, of course, would never speak up without a nod from Landry and most certainly would never be critical of any program promoted by the administration despite the face that “Staff at Louisiana’s health department fear the new policy undermines their efforts to protect the public, and violates the fundamental mission of public health: to prevent illness and disease by following the science,” according to NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.
You can read the full story on WWNO by clicking HERE.
Louisiana Voice 
it is apparently national and state policy to appoint people who are not prejudiced by professional expertise and are thus able to be free thinkers.
I read both the hyper links and nowhere does he hold himself out to be a board certified Family Practitioner. I am disappointed in you Tom. Just because a Dr practices Family Medicine with out such a certification does not make him any the less a family medicine practitioner. All a certification does is increase one’s mal practice insurance costs as now the professional is holding himself out as an “expert” in a given field. I know many great family physicians who don’t believe that some extra added letters behind ones name is an indicator of expertise. I know several lawyers who have speciality certifications who still could not practice law out of a paper bag. Suspect the same is true about doctors. It is mostly used for marketing purposes. Your increasingly vitriolic screeds against anything Landry or Trump are quickly leading me away from your newsletters. I really cannot decide who is more entertaining, you or Michael Lunsford but you each occupy the same niche, just at different ends of the spectrum. I really have grown to expect more of you. Take a deep breath and calm down.
Greg, go back and read my post. I never said he held himself out to be board-certified. I did say that he was not board-certified, but never that he claimed that he was. I said that his bio said he was a “family medicine doctor.”
Tom also calls out Democrats who are morally and ideologically bankrupt, irredeemably corrupt, willfully ignorant, and utterly sold out liars. There’s just so few of them in comparison to your everyday MAGA fascist.
Thanks Tom, Mr. Winham and Mr. Spillman. Dr. Abraham is from Richland Parish, my home, and he is a Dr. He is also a pilot and very rich. He also has a sense of humor. He has no business being a Trumpite or some make believe czar. thanks