[Howlin]

She bought a six million dollar house? On a government payroll -- both of them? I mean how much can HE make?

"My name is on lots of legislation."

That sounds familiar.

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Raymond Blanco, a vice president of the University of Louisiana in Lafayette

Judge Raymond Reggie at Vodkapundit, research into Raymond Reggie's past turned up more than just one previous family scandal which have already cost taxpayers millions of dollars - and also involve Victoria Reggie, current wife of Senator Ted Kennedy (D) MA.

Relatives of the Judge, including his two children received over 34 years of scholarship funding through public funds established to assist in defraying the college costs of the financially needy. Other, even more serious financial misdeeds include being convicted of misapplication of funds of the Acadia Savings & Loan of Crowley, a thrift he founded in 1959 and which failed in 1987.

That crime is alleged to have cost taxpayers over $40 Million dollars while his political connections allowed him to walk away with little more

[bonfire]

Has anything changed in LA politics for the last umpteen years?

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The godmother

Greater Baton Rouge Business Report,
August 17, 2004 by John Hill


The Lafayette Mafia, as Capitol wags refer to the Blancophiles who keep coming to state government at the behest of Gov. Kathleen Blanco, has taken over the state department of economic development.

First came Michael Olivier, the New Iberia native who formerly ran the Lafayette economic development team before heading to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Blanco tapped him for the $250,000 post as the state's top job hunter, dismissing criticisms of his job performance in Mississippi as something that just happens when you spend your career in public life.

Second in command is Duane Blumberg, who was preparing to retire to Arizona in December from his job as vice president for research and graduate studies at University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is not only a colleague of First Gentleman Raymond Blanco, ULL's vice president for student affairs, but also is a good friend of both Blancos.

One thing that has emerged from her appointments, slow as they have often been in coming

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mold is forcing Gov. Kathleen Blanco (Louisiana) and her husband, Raymond, to make other living arrangements this summer. The Blanco family will vacate the Governor's Mansion after the legislative session so construction workers can clean the air ducts and replace the heating and air conditioning units. Alleged molds according to World Environmental Testing report that invaders included aspergillus, penicillium, mucor, cladosporium, and alternaria.

Facility Planning and Control Director Jerry Jones said the Blancos will live in a rented house in Baton Rouge for at least two months until the $525,000 project is completed.