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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Ethics, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables, Public Records, Transparency on July 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

“I, along with other members of the Louisiana Legislature, greatly appreciate your contribution to the scholarship funds. Your $1,000 check…can be sent directly to me…”

–Exerpt from solicitation letter by State Rep. Joe Harrison (R-Gray) seeking contributions to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Louisiana Scholarship Fund. The scholarship fund pays the expenses of state legislators to attend ALEC conferences.

“Relative to the attached letter which you mailed out (on state letterhead) soliciting contributions to the ALEC Louisiana Scholarship Fund, please provide me with a complete list of those to whom these solicitations were sent.”

–Public records request submitted on July 5, 2012, to State Rep. Joe Harrison by LouisianaVoice.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in BESE, Education, Ethics, Notable Quotables, Public Records, Transparency on July 4, 2012| 3 Comments »

“I think that John White is still lying. He is in full CYA mode and assumes that he will simply be able to BS his way out of the contradiction the Monroe News-Star has caught him in. After all, it’s a method that has worked perfectly well for him ever since he arrived in Louisiana.”

–Comment by a Times-Picayune reader in response to State Education Superintendent John White’s contention that there was “nothing inappropriate” about his email to members of Gov. Piyush Jindal’s staff in which he outlined his plan for “muddying up the narrative” of reporters who exposed a Ruston school with no accommodations but which was approved for 315 voucher/scholarships.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in BESE, Education, Notable Quotables, Transparency, Vouchers on July 2, 2012| 2 Comments »

“I know that the administration was not prepared to answer questions and the answers they gave were not forthcoming about the voucher program.”

–State Sen. Ed Murray (D-New Orleans), on hearing of State Education Superintendent John White’s emailed plans to baffle the legislature with B.S. over the issue of the department’s approval of 315 vouchers for a Ruston school that has no classroom space, desks, teachers or books to accommodate the additional students.

“Timmy Teepell joins OnMessage as a partner and head of our new Southern Office.”

–Press release last Oct. 24 on the appointment of Timmy Teepell as a partner and head of OnMessage’s non-existent Southern office in Baton Rouge.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Notable Quotables, Retirement on June 23, 2012| 4 Comments »

“There are tremendous ramifications for our members and the system.”

–Cindy Rougeou, executive director of the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (LASERS), in discussing the neet to obtain a determination from the IRS on whether or not Piyush Jindal’s recently approved “cash-balance” 401(k) type retirement plan for new hires, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2013, will be eligible for tax-exempt status–a question one would reasonably expect Jindal to have determined well in advance of presenting his new plan for legislative approval.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Education, House, Senate, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables on June 22, 2012| 1 Comment »

“Is that worthy of the people whom we represent that when we have disagreements with people, we’re going to try to have a chilling effect on whom they communicate with?”

–State Rep. John Bel Edwards (D-Amite), head of the House Democratic Caucus, commenting in March on a request by the law partner of the executive director of the State Republican Party for copies of all emails he had exchanged with representatives of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers over Gov. Piyush Jindal’s sweeping education reform package.

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