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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in ATC, Notable Quotables on March 22, 2013| 6 Comments »

“The Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control shall require a background investigation by means of fingerprint checks by the Office of State Police and the FBI of each applicant…

“…The submittal of fingerprints shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of a permanent alcoholic beverage permit by means of fingerprint checks by the Office of State Police and the FBI.”

“Such fingerprints shall be available for use by the Office of State Police and for transmittal to the FBI for a national criminal history record check.”

—Excerpts from Title 26:80 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Contract, Contracts, Governor's Office, Health Care, Notable Quotables, Public Records, RFP, Request for Proposals on March 21, 2013| 8 Comments »

“Are you refusing to tell this committee who is going to be recommended by DHH to receive the award? Yes or no.”

—Former Sen. Rob Marionneaux (D-Livonia) in June of 2011, to DHH Secretary Bruce Greenstein in efforts to learn if Greenstein’s former employer CNSI won a $184 million, 10-year contract.

“I’m not going to be able to say today.”

—Greenstein, responding to Marionneaux.

“You are the department. Who is the person above you? Who is your boss?”

—Sen. Jody amedee (R-Gonzales), during the same hearing to confirm Greenstein’s appointment as DHH Secretary as he attempted to learn the name of the contractor.

“The Governor.”

—Greenstein, in response to Amedee.

“We have zero tolerance for wrongdoing.”

—Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols on Thursday, in announcing the cancellation of the CNSI contract hours after her office was served with a subpoena by the FBI in its investigation of the CNSI contract.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in ATC, Governor's Office, Notable Quotables, Revenue on March 21, 2013| 10 Comments »

“When you kick employee’s (sic) butts and make them work, sometimes you get a little crap on your boots.”

—Louisiana Alcohol Tobacco Control Director Troy Hebert, responding to a LouisianaVoice request for a one-on-one interview. (We assume that was our interview.)

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Education, Higher Education, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, LSU, Notable Quotables, Politicians, Revenue on March 19, 2013| 2 Comments »

“Many Legislators would rather get re-elected than make the right decision. They say they’re not going to raise taxes but they’re going to allow us to raise tuition.”

“Federal revenue for higher education is double what the states are doing now. I don’t have faith in legislators but I do have faith in them wanting federal money.”

“The power of Washington to hold states accountable may be the most important answer that we have. The more federal dollars are attached to state behavior, the less likely state legislatures are going to remove themselves from funding responsibility.”

—F. King Alexander, President of University of California Long Beach and more recently LSU President-designate, speaking on “Strategies for Fiscal Housekeeping” at the 14th Annual Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability in Government Financing California, Feb. 11, 2011.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Ethics, Governor's Office, Health Care, Higher Education, LSU, Notable Quotables, Privatization on March 18, 2013| 1 Comment »

“These sections of the code generally prohibit Board of Trustees members from receiving anything of economic value for any transaction involving any of the colleges and universities that are under the jurisdiction of the Board of Trustees.”

—Former State Board of Ethics Chairman Gray Sexton, in a July 1996 ruling that the Natchitoches Times could not provide printing services for the Northwestern State University student newspaper because Times Publisher Lovan Thomas was a member of the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities, the governing board for state colleges and universities, including Northwestern. The LSU Board of Supervisors is preparing to accept a memorandum of understanding from a Shreveport foundation to take over two LSU-run hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe even though the foundation’s incoming CEO is a member of the LSU Board of supervisors.

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