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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Boards, Coastal Erosion, Commissions, Ethics, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables on May 28, 2014| 2 Comments »

“We’ve really done a lot…thanks to CPRA (the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority).”

—House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rep. Gordon Dove (R-Houma), who also is a member of the CPRA, commenting prior to his vote in favor of an amendment to SB 469 which would make the prohibition against suing oil companies for damages to the state’s wetlands retroactive to include the year-old lawsuit against 97 oil companies by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E). (While he was busy patting himself on the back for his accomplishments in protecting Louisiana’s wetlands, one of his trucking companies was being cited by the State of Montana for dumping radioactive waste in that state.)

 

“This bill  is a 110 percent get out of jail free card.”

—SLFPA-E attorney Gladstone Jones, offering his opinion of SB 469 during Sunday’s committee hearing.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Budget, Campaign Contributions, Ethics, Governor's Office, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables on May 26, 2014| 3 Comments »

“We’re taking money away from the disabled community and giving it to motor sports?”

—State Sen. Dan Claitor (R-Baton Rouge), questioning the transfer of $4.5 million for the developmentally disabled to fund repairs to an auto race track in Jefferson Parish.

“The answer to your question, Sen. Claitor, is ‘yes.’ All right, any other questions?”

—State Sen. Jack Donahue (R-Mandeville), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in his response to shut down discussion of the move and to silence Claitor.

 

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in BESE, Charters, Education, Grant, Grants, Notable Quotables, Recovery School District, RSD on May 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

“We were directed to doctor the data to allow the schools to become eligible.”

—Former employee of the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE), who claims that LDOE employees under former State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek and in “at least the first year” of his successor, John White, were directed to skew data to allow several charter schools in the Recovery School District (RSD) in New Orleans to become eligible for several million dollars in federal grants.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Governor's Office, Health Care, Notable Quotables on May 6, 2014| 3 Comments »

“At the age of 24, Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster appointed him as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, giving him authority over 40 percent of the state’s budget. Under his direction, Louisiana’s Medicaid program went from a $400 million deficit to a $220 million surplus.”

—Forbes Magazine writer Avik Roy, in a puff piece on Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in October of 2011—right after Jindal won re-election to a second term and shortly before his poll numbers plummeted and less than three years before his plan for privatizing the LSU hospital system crashed and burned.

 

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Notable quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Budget, Contract, Contracts, DHH, Finances, Governor's Office, Health Care, Higher Education, LSU, Notable Quotables, Privatization on May 2, 2014| 2 Comments »

 

“CMS has no legal basis for this decision.”

—Gov. Bobby Jindal, commenting on the decision by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Friday to refuse to sign off on the administration’s privatization plan for six LSU System hospitals.

 

“How fitting that Jindal’s plan to be gone before his many bombs, some supposedly planted with delayed fuses, may well blow early.”

—A political observer, commenting on the sudden collapse of Jindal’s hospital privatization plan which may have blown a $300 million hole in the state budget scheduled for debate on the House floor next Thursday.

 

“People could die. The sick will get sicker. Our precious hospitals are in turmoil. The state budget is in tatters. Governor Bobby Jindal sits in the midst of this fiscal and healthcare debacle clutching his dreams of the presidency at the taxpayers’ expense.”

—State Rep. Robert Johnson (D-Marksville), commenting in a prepared statement on the CMS decision to scuttle Jindal’s hospital privatization plan.

 

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