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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Boards, DHH, Health Care, Notable Quotables on March 11, 2014| 8 Comments »

“This isn’t my face. I used to be real pretty.”

—Roblyn Ruggles, quoted in the Aug. 31, 1993 Wall Street Journal after eight oral-surgery procedures left her disfigured, without jaw joints, mouth permanently agape, and unable to bite into a sandwich or purse her lips for a kiss—a victim of jaw implants marketed by Drs. John Kent of the LSU School of Dentistry and his partner Charles Homsy of Houston.

“Dr. (Conrad) McVea stated both to me and to the Board that I could not be expected to comply with professional standards because I had not accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior.”

–Dr. Randall Schaffer, who is Jewish, in his federal lawsuit against the Louisiana Board of Dentistry and its members, including Dr. McVea, its attorney and its private investigator after the board revoked his license when he turned whistleblower against Dr. Kent’s faulty jaw implant.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Governor's Office, Notable Quotables on February 14, 2014| 12 Comments »

“There was a time when liberals in this country believed in debate. There was a time when the left preached tolerance.”

—Gov. Bobby Jindal, speaking at the Ronald Reagan Foundation and Library Thursday.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Contract, Contracts, DOA, Notable Quotables on January 27, 2014| 1 Comment »

“Do not ask about the law. Do not research the law.”

—Message written on a white board in a Division of Administration office.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Contract, Contracts, Ethics, House, Senate, Judges, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables, Office of Workers' Comp, Politicians on January 8, 2014| 1 Comment »

“My service as vice chair of the Labor & Industrial Relations Committee in no manner alters my duties or the constraints placed upon me under the Code of Governmental Ethics.”

—State Rep. Chris Broadwater (R-Hammond), in an email letter to LouisianaVoice last year. Broadwater, former Director of the Louisiana Office of Workers Compensation (OWC), took a job in 2010 with a company that was awarded a $4.2 million contract by OWC only weeks before his resignation.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Contract, Contracts, Courts, Ethics, Judges, Notable Quotables on January 3, 2014| 1 Comment »

“Quite simply, the court finds defendants’ protestations that they acted in ‘good faith’ when installing the awnings and soaker hoses to be incredible. Defendants breached their duty to preserve the status quo on death row with the goal of thwarting accurate measurement of temperatures, humidity and heat index. This intentional, and by plaintiffs’ unrebutted account successful, destruction of unfavorable evidence is quite sufficient to satisfy the ‘bad faith’ standard.”

—Federal Middle District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson, in ruling for sanctions against a Baton Rouge law firm with $3 million in state contracts, for its actions in a lawsuit against the state by three death row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

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