[A Citizen Reporter]

"Anyone who wants to sacrifice the good of our people to politics and cronyism needs to rethink their actions. Louisiana can no longer tolerate the perception that you must pay to play if you expect to do business in this state. We must put the sins of the past behind us and use our recovery as an opportunity to earn the trust and confidence of the nation."

Though she's looking to lay blame at Wash DC, this looks like an admission of guilt, if you ask me.

[bayourant]

She is talking about the sins mainly from the Edwards years that still plage us. People forget that alot of this LOuisiana corruption charge comes from that era. Besides the Romer administration that starting nailing the coffin on corruption people forget we just came out of 8 years of Republican rule in the Governorship(MIke Foster). There were real no scandels then.

[hsalaw]

Louisiana can no longer tolerate the perception that you must pay to play if you expect to do business in this state. We must put the sins of the past behind us and use our recovery as an opportunity to earn the trust and confidence of the nation.

Translation: Everybody now knows Louisiana politics are crooked, and New Orleans' are the crookedest of all, so now we have to pretend that we've changed so that they'll give us BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to steal, mismanage, and just plain run off with. Oh, and "Chocolate City" Nagin wants his share, too.