Posted on 10/30/2005 6:07:06 AM PST by LA Woman3
An expert in fraud leads the fraud?
Why is anyone surprised???
Were we not already acknowledging that Louisiana and New Orleans were dysfunctional societies where corruption was the normal business of the day.
The whole state seems to be made up of grifters and the police are among the worst offenders.
*ping*
This is why we gave to a Christian charity group instead.
Not defending Louisiana but do you really think this does not/would not happen in any other state? Union is the key word here.
It casts another shadow on Red Cross operations. Why were they setting up in union halls? The electrical union was not the only one. There are so many government offices and churches in Baton Rouge that could have been utilized..
Thank you, Louisiana!
This crap turns one off from wanting to help Katrina relief efforts.
http://www.ibew.org/articles/05daily/0510/051013_LaMem.htm
Members Booted Off Project for Nonunion Labor, Davis-Bacon Suspension Blamed
A steady 20-month project promising 12 hours a day, seven days a week at a southern Louisiana air force base -- complete with housing and three squares a day – was ideal for 75 electricians from the worst-off parts of Louisiana: St. Bernard’s Parish, the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and Lake Charles.
Answering the first big call to come in post-Katrina, the electricians from New Orleans Local 130, Baton Rouge Local 995 and Lake Charles Local 861 reported to work wiring temporary tents at the Alvin Callendar Naval Air Station in Belle Chasse on September 12 for signatory contractor Knight Enterprises. Three weeks later, they were off the job, discarded for out-of-state nonunion electricians following President Bush’s Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law suspension.
This is also why I never give to the Red Cross. When something happens, I give only to the Salvation Army.
"tired and overworked"
and Me Maw's tranked.
would that be the committing division or the preventing division?
Didn't we buy Louisiana from the French? Time to sell it back to those weasels as their kinfolk are just as disgusting to me as the French are!! Looks like thwe Baton Rouge fraud unit learned at the knee of the masters of fraud...what a crock of crooks!!
It does not/would not happen in "most" other states, in combination with all the other acts of corruption that seem to be going at the same time, in Louisiana;
unless that is its a politically corrupt state like my state of New Jersey; where there is very little grass roots of either party, just party bosses and corruption.
However, that said, I do think that, rightly or wrongly, the perception is that the "cutlure of corruption" has sunk deeper into the populace in Lousiana.
As bad as New Jersey political corruption is, I cannot imagine any unit of any New Jersey city police force, taking the cars off a dealers lot as their prize in the midst of a hurricane - just to use one example. I cannot imagine the staff of a New Jersey jail abondoning it with its prisoners locked in their cells, for two and half days as flood waters rose inside - to use another example. I cannot imagine any major New Jersey city keeping a local network of influence together (no whistle-blowers) whereby the police are getting state and federal money for 600 supposedly filled but actually not filled positions - to use another example.
Maybe the perceptions from the total body of anecdotal evidence are wrong. Unfortunately, it will take major efforts with Louisiana citizens sacking many of the current regimes and dominating public discourse with demands for accountability from elected officials, before many outside Louisiana will think that things have changed.
I for one will not change my opinion of Louisiana as long as there is no major public movement to impeach Nagin and Blanco. Without that movement, my perception will be that it is business as usual in Lousisana.
By the way, I read a news report last week that 35 major companies from Lousiana who set up temporary evacuation offices in Houston are planning on staying in Houston.
Pathetic and Desperate, but I guess if you are losing members and relevance everyday, you will resort to anything.
Yep...Louisiana...Yep Unions.....Wonder if Fitzgerald has time for these cases? How many can he process in 2 years?
Any uncorruptable officials found should be tried, convicted and exiled to swamp country where they shall be forced to eat only cajun cooking three squares a day. They shall also be sentenced to read excerpts daily from "The Life and Times of Huey Long" for the rest of their natural lives.
Only in this way will the state be cleansed of uncorruptable public servants.....and Louisiana will again be proud to keep its title of the Most Corrupt State in the Union.
(....permission granted to substitute the name of your own state in the above).
Leni
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