Louisiana Voice

Question: What’s more dangerous than Bobby Jindal as governor?

Answer: Bobby Jindal with an automatic weapon in his hands.

Question: What’s more dangerous than Bobby Jindal with an automatic weapon in his hands?

Answer: Bobby Jindal as president.

Question: What’s dumber than Bobby Jindal holding an automatic rifle at a target range?

Answer: Jindal holding an automatic rifle at a target range with no ammo magazine.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p51Ic7kgpA

(From: http://www.thelibertypapers.org/)

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This artist is obviously a state employee or surely he would come forward and take credit for his brilliant work! Perhaps someday, after he retires, he can make his identity known so that we may pay him proper homage.

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Unlike the Jindal administration, we are not transparent when it comes to identifying either our sources or those who support us financially.

Oh, we do report all income to the IRS, but because we are not a non-profit, we are not required to reveal our funding sources—and we won’t, for obvious reasons.

Many of our contributors are state employees and the last thing they need is for a vindictive Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-Iowa, R-New Hampshire, R-Florida, R-Anywhere by Louisiana) to learn their names. Can you say teagued?

Our fund raiser continues and we still need assistance to help us offset the cost of pursuing stories the other media continue to ignore. Just as the identities sources for news tips and leads are protected as priority one, so too do we protect the names of donors.

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Capital News Service/LouisianaVoice

P.O. Box 922

Denham Springs, Louisiana 70727-0922

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Unlike the Jindal administration, we don’t claim to have a mysteriously appearing surplus in our budget here at LouisianaVoice.

In fact, our financial resources are stretched quite thin in our efforts to keep our readers current on events in Baton Rouge that affect their lives every day.

Like many of our readers, I am a retired state employee who is on a fixed income. I established LouisianaVoice as a means of keeping the citizens informed of what really goes on with your state government and the ones you elect to represent you.

Our fund raiser continues and we still need the assistance of our regular readers to help us offset the cost of pursuing stories the other media continue to ignore.

Many of you have responded but we still have a considerable ways to go in order to keep up with our mounting expenses that include gasoline burned traveling this state to meet with confidential sources, to pay for copies of records and for legal costs when they are incurred as we are sometimes forced to call on the courts to help us enforce compliance with the state’s public records laws.

We have had one contribution made in the memory of the late John Hays of Ruston, one of the premier investigative reporters in the history of Louisiana journalism. Another was made in honor of my late journalism professor at Louisiana Tech, Wiley Hilburn. To say I was moved by those gestures would be an understatement.

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If you prefer not to conduct an internet transaction, you may mail a check to:

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Denham Springs, Louisiana 70727-0922

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If you like what we do, please help us do a better job by contributing whatever you feel you can afford to underwrite our efforts to report stories no one else will cover.

When we began, our efforts were limited to the immediate Baton Rouge area and there were few issues with which we dealt.

Today, we travel the state, from New Orleans to Shreveport, from Slidell to Lake Charles, from Morgan City to Monroe and the number of issues we’ve tried to address has continued to grow as evidenced by the greater assortment of coverage we provide.

While not every lead or tip that we follow produces a story, we still devote considerable time, energy and expenses in an effort to determine if there is a story. Even though there may be no initial story, we file away the information and often that information surfaces at a later date to fill in gaps in subsequent stories.

Some contributors in our last fund raising effort gave $50, $100 and even more. We’re not asking everyone to do that because we know many of you cannot afford these types of expenditures. We only ask that you please give what you can, even if it’s only $5 or $10.

You may contribute by credit card by clicking on the yellow Donate icon on the right hand side of this page. Then click on Continue immediately above the display of credit card logos. There is an option for you to make an automatic monthly donation, if you so desire.

Some of our readers have complained that the Donate button does not appear on their page. If you are experiencing that problem, click on this link and look for the yellow Donate button: https://louisianavoice.com/

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Capital News Service/LouisianaVoice

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Denham Springs, Louisiana 70727-0922

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