Louisiana Voice

It’s October and that means the kickoff of our semi-annual fundraiser.

I don’t have a medbed to offer you to cure every illness known to man, including amputations, like Donald Trump.

And I can’t reduce prescription drug prices by 1500 percent.

I don’t rail against socialism while accepting government incentive checks or social security payments.

I didn’t bring about a government shutdown in a defiant effort to deny health care to millions of Americans.

I haven’t dressed down 800 military generals and admirals on the meaning of war ethos.

And I haven’t made billions of dollars by using the Oval Office to hawk merchandise to my MAGAT followers.

In fact, the only thing I can offer is a light to shine into the darkened corners of federal, state and local government to keep you informed about just what our elected and appointed officials are up to.

For example, how many of you were aware that members of Congress continue to get their paychecks during the shutdown while federal employs, including military, must work without being paid?

Who knew that Livingston Parish Librarian Amanda Jones had been honored by Time magazine as one of 100 influential Americans?

To continue to illuminate the dark corners of government takes time – and money. Accordingly, I humbly come to you to ask for your continued support of this news service.

Please click on the yellow DONATE button (above right) to make a one-time contribution via credit card. (Unlike Trump’s fundraisers, there is no hidden stunt to make your contribution a recurring withdrawal. That’s dishonest. This fundraising effort is conducted only twice a year, in October and April.

I sincerely appreciate your help in the past and respectfully ask for your continued support.

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Senator Bill Cassidy claims the shutdown will harm Americans needing the National Flood Insurance Program. True enough, but the lame-duck senator overlooks other effects that he conveniently neglects to mention – because it doesn’t fit into Donald Trump’s game plan.

“If Democrats would stop trying to please the fringe of their party and start focusing on the real, immediate needs of the American people—like keeping the government open, maintaining flood insurance, and protecting access to rural health care—we could solve this today,” Cassidy said.

Well, senator when you put 22 million Americans at risk of losing healthcare or of seeing their premiums skyrocket, you’re hardly talking about a “fringe” element.

As a physician, you, of all people, should understand that – if you weren’t so determined to curry the favor of a psychopath and if you were not such a coward yourself.

Or maybe you’re buying into Trump’s absurd AI post of Lara Trump hawking a non-existent “MEDBED CARD” that will supposedly give Americans access to regrowing missing limbs, reversing aging and healing any illness, thanks to technology developed by the U.S. military – with possible help from alien technology.

If that’s not sufficient evidence of a president who has entered the hazy, addled world of a dangerously-clouded and disoriented mind, I’m at a loss at what it would take.

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