Louisiana Voice

The one overriding question Louisiana voters must, MUST ask themselves before casting their votes for U.S. Senator in November is a simple one:

Can we trust Julia Letlow?

We can remember the recent attack ads in the Republican primary between her and State Treasurer John Fleming in which it was asserted (accurately, it turned out) she failed to disclose more than 200 stock trades on times and that many of the transactions reeked with the pungent odor of insider trading.

And of course, her response was she was not personally making those trades, that the investment firm Merrill Lynch was managing and executing transactions in her portfolio while neglecting to meet the 45-day reporting deadlines.

Of course, Merrill Lynch is NO PARAGON OF VIRTUE when it comes to above-board dealings but it’s highly doubtful that it would neglect such a requirement after the embarrassment of that 2008 debacle.

Now, after having disposed of Fleming in the primary and expected to win over Democratic challenger Jamie Davis, Letlow, we learn one of those transactions was the purchase of stock in Meta and Nvidia, a company which will provide chips which will power the Meta data centers.

Just by coincidence, we’re sure, Meta plans to build a massive data center in Richland Parish, smack-dab in the middle of Letlow’s current House district and also by happenstance, she was a party to one of those cursed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that shield critical information from the prying eyes of the public and press.

It’s going to be a little difficult for her to pass the blame for the NDA off on some third party since HER SIGNATURE is featured rather prominently at the bottom of that document. The digital news source for the document, as is becoming more and more commonplace, is not the traditional media, but THE LOUISIANA ILLUMINATOR, which has become the most reliable source for Louisiana political news.

So, Letlow signed the NDA, which provided her valuable access to confidential information relative to Meta’s plans for that giant data center in Richland Parish, which in turn, provided her with valuable investment information.

Oh, and that NDA? Turns out it was not one of those that has garnered so much negative publicity of late, but a separate document provided exclusively by Meta—and it’s identical to an earlier NDA Louisiana’s “transparent” Gov. JEFF LANDRY SIGNED WITH META..

Letlow, in much the same manner as another prominent politician who presently occupies the Oval Office, began buying stock in the two companies within months of signing her NDA and six months after signing the paper, she gushed, “What a day for Richland Parish!” She said at the event’s launch that she “even skipped a vote in Washington” to be on hand for the formal announcement. “Don’t tell anybody, please,” she joked while making sure not to tell anybody about her investment in the company she was there promoting. Why, it was almost the investing equivalent to hiding in a food cart to escape a reported assassination plot while leaving others vulnerable. The vulnerable in this case would be all those loyal Repugnantcan residents of her district—and now, with her candidacy for higher office, make that the entire state—who live at or below the poverty level.

Her campaign asserted she had no role in any of her trades nor did the NDA play any role in them because she was unaware the trades were taking place.

If you believe that….you must believe it was vandals who destroyed the lining in the Reflecting Pool and that Trump has always been a faithful, doting husband.

This is the type story that could tighten the November race between her and Davis considerably.