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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Campaign Contributions, Education, Elections, Ethics, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables, Politicians, Retirement on December 30, 2013| 5 Comments »

“If I closed my mind when I saw this man in the dust throwing some bones on the ground, semi-clothed, if I had closed him off and just said, ‘That’s not science, I am not going to see this doctor,’ I would have shut off a very good experience for myself and actually would not have discovered some things that he told me that I had to do when I got home to see my doctor.”

—State Sen. Elbert Guillory (R/D/R-Opelousas), defending Louisiana’s Science Education Act, the 2008 law that allows creationism to be taught in public school science classrooms during a Senate Education Committee hearing last May. 

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Audit Reports, Auditor, Education, Notable Quotables, Vouchers on December 19, 2013| 1 Comment »

“Overall, the proficiency rating for the Scholarship (voucher) Program is 41 percent. This rating is based on the percent of students who scored basic and above on standardized tests during academic year 2012-2013.”

—Report by the Legislative Auditor on the Louisiana Department of Education’s “Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program.”  (Hosanna Christian Academy in Baton Rouge, which subjects job applications to an extremely personal questionnaire based on religious believes and sexual activity and orientation while receiving $1.4 million in state funding, and New Living Word School in Ruston which the audit report says overcharged the Department of Education by more than $395,000 before subsequently being removed from the program, had proficiency ratings of 41.2 percent and 21.1 percent, respectively.)

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Elections, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables on November 16, 2013| 5 Comments »

“This race was never about why not to vote for Neil Riser. It was about why to vote for Vance McAllister.”

—Vance McAllister (R-Monroe), Saturday night after defeating heavy favorite State Sen. Neil Riser (R-Columbia) for the 5th District congressional seat.

Nothing.

—The comment/concession from the Riser campaign. (Ouch!)

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Campaign Contributions, Civil Service, Governor's Office, Notable Quotables on October 15, 2013| 6 Comments »

“No member of a civil service commission and no officer or employee in the classified service shall participate or engage in political activity; be a candidate for nomination or election to public office except to seek election as the classified state employee serving on the State Civil Service Commission; or be a member of any national, state, or local committee of a political party or faction; make or solicit contributions for any political party, faction, or candidate.”

Article X, Part I, Paragraph 9 (A) of the Louisiana State Constitution.

“No person shall solicit contributions for political purposes from any classified employee or official or use or attempt to use his position in the state or city service to punish or coerce the political action of a classified employee.”

Article X, Part I, Paragraph 9 (B) of the Louisiana State Constitution.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Congress, Health Care, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables on October 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Proposed law creates the Louisiana Health Insurance Exchange in the Department of Insurance. Provides for the powers, duties, functions, responsibilities and obligations of the Exchange.”

—The Digest of Senate Bill 307 of the 2007 Louisiana Legislature by then-State Sen. Bill Cassidy. The bill, had it passed, would have created a Louisiana version of ObamaCare while Barrack Obama was still a U.S. Senator from Illinois and more than a year before he was elected President.

“The House has repeatedly passed legislation to fund the government and protect millions of American families from the devastating effects of Obamacare.”

—Sixth District Congressman Bill Cassidy, in a prepared statement on Tuesday, Oct. 1 about the government shutdown.

Could there be a reason that public opinion of Congress is at an all-time low?

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