Louisiana Voice

We’re halfway through our Spring fundraiser and we’re short of our goal, so you’re being respectfully asked to help us if you’re in a financial position to do so.

If you like stories like the two below, help us keep them coming. Associated Press let us know about that lame quote by Ralph Reed as he defended President Inepstein’s posting of him as Jesus trying to revive a deceased (or at least a very ill) person.

But other than being a person “who sits on Trump’s faith advisory board and who once served as leader of the Christian Coalition,” as the AP explained to us, just who is Ralph Reed?

Well, we at LouisianaVoice knew and we duly reported that he was head of the Christian Coalition and was used by lobbyists Jack Abramson and Michael Scanlan and Repugnantcan political operative Grover Norquist to funnel about $7 million from the Mississippi Choctaw Tribe’s gambling interests into Reed’s Christian Coalition, ostensibly to fight the expansion of gambling by the Coushatta Tribe in Alabama next door–only they failed to tell the Christian Coalition that it was funneling money from one gambling interest to fight another because the Christian Coalition was opposed to gambling of any kind, anywhere. Reed also received $25,000 per month as a retainer for the operation, known as “Gimmee Five.” Norquist was used as a conduit for the money-laundering scheme for which Abramoff and Scanlan each went to prison while Norquist and Reed skated to bigger and better things.

LouisianaVoice also explained in the story immediately below this one how money greases the wheels of legislation, but not necessarily in a way that is best for the special interests but not necessarily good for the rest of us.

That’s why we exist. So, if you can chip in a few bucks, it would be greatly appreciated. Just go to: https://louisianavoice.com/ and scroll down to click on the yellow rectangular “KEEP US INDEPENDENT” button. From there, just follow the directions to make a ONE-TIME contribution. Those making contributions of $50 or more will received a signed copy of my latest book, The Dinosaur Club. It’s about a group of retired reporters in their 70s and 80s who accidentally stumble upon a child sex trafficking ring. They hitch up their Depends, drink their Metamucil and Ensure, adjust their hearing aids, grab their walkers and canes and set about attempting a takedown of this scourge on society.