Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards touting his “West Point Honor Code” in the 2015 race for Governor of Louisiana
With U. S. Senator John Kennedy widely expected to announce his run for Louisiana Governor in the 2019 campaign within the next 13 days, we deemed now an appropriate time to roll out our 7-minute video of Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards making an absolute mockery of his “West Point Honor Code” which he touted so frequently in his successful 2015 campaign to become Governor of Louisiana. Here’s the video production:
News headlines over Gov. Edwards’s first term as Louisiana Governor demonstrating him making a mockery of his much-touted “West Point Honor Code.”
Of course, Gov. Edwards can expect to be hammered hard in next year’s campaign entailing this segment of a debate between former U. S. Sen. David Vitter and him on November 16, 2015:
Candidate John Bel Edwards emphatically asserts he will not need to raise taxes to solve Louisiana’s alleged budget woes.
Entailing the news headlines featured in the fist video above, as always, we welcome anyone to visit the JBE Fraud Website which Sound Off Louisiana founder Robert Burns formed on December 8, 2015 (a solid month before Edwards was inaugurated into office) when it became official that former LSP Col. Mike Edmondson’s reappointment was assured.
That fact ALONE demonstrated that Edwards had no intention of adhereing to any West Point Honor Code. Why? Because practically the entire state (and that most certainly included Edwards) knew of Edmonson’s significant character flaws. Furthermore, Edwards is going to have great difficulty trying to credibly deny any knowledge of how badly flawed Edmonson was given the video on the preceding link wherein candidate Edwards readily acknowledged those flaws on July 24, 2014, not long after he announced his candidacy for Louisiana Governor.
Get ready for one heck of a race for Governor in 2019, folks!
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Larry Carter, President of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers
Larry Carter, president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers union, found himself encountering no walk in the park entailing his appearance before the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday, November 12, 2018 where he spoke of planned efforts in the 2019 Louisiana Legislative Session to seek pay raises for Louisiana public school teachers and support workers:
Three-minute highlight of Carter’s presentation before fielding questions.
Carter asked to defend sought-after pay raises given student performances.
Carter asked if sought-after teacher raises exceed those of other state employees.
Carter asked to defend pay raise proposal based upon teacher productivity.
Carter asked about the impact and sustainability of the Teacher Retirement System and its Unfunded Accrued Liability were his group to obtain its goal of 2.75% annual increases in public education funding.
Cater fields a series of questions entailing potential teacher walkouts if efforts to obtain pay raises in 2019 are either unsuccessful or deemed insufficient.
CLICK HERE to view Carter’s full presentation before the Press Club.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards who, via his Executive Counsel, Matthew Block in an email of September 27, 2018, stated that he will NOT adhere to his West Point Honor Code and demand payment of $168,000 from the Louisiana Auctioneer Licesning Board resulting from funds absconded from taxpayers via state surplus auctions awarded to one of his drug-addicted appointees to the Board, Jacob Brown.
Sound Off Louisiana subscribers are familiar with our September 10, 2018 open challenge to Gov. Edwards to demand payment from the Louisiana Auctioneer Licensing Board (LALB) to reimburse taxpayers for the $175,000 in funds one of his appointees, Jacob Brown, fleeced us out of upon Louisiana State Police arresting Brown for writing two checks totaling just over $175,000 to the state which bounced (more details available here).
Gov. Edwards’ office did respond to us indicating that Gov. Edwards would not be making such a demand of the LALB notwithstanding the detailed statements we provided his office entailing LALB members openly advocating that the agency self-insure against these type losses because of the huge cash hoard it has accumulated. Gov. Edwards, in a response through his Executive Counsel, Matthew Block, sent to us on September 27, 2018, indicated that the most the Edwards administration is willing to do is to sue Jacob Brown, which they did on July 6, 2018.
Well, at today’s (November 5, 2018) LALB meeting, attorney Anna Dow reported that the bonding company has already paid the lousy $10,000 bond applicable for Brown to the LALB, and she wanted lightening-fast approval of the Board to issue checks to four aggrieved parties with the proceeds being pro-rated. As we noted in this feature, the State will get the lion’s share of the bond payment as a direct result of Gov. Edwards and Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne aiding and abetted Brown’s Ponzi scheme. How? They agreed to let him conduct yet another auction (NSF check notwithstanding) only 39 days after a $27,000 NSF check was known to exist on a prior state surplus auction conducted by Brown. The highly predictable result was yet another NSF check to the State for $148,000. That $148,000 NSF check constituted a needless and totally-avoidable loss to taxpayers, which vastly inflated our losses and also drastically reduced any payment to private-party clients of Brown from the bond coverage because of the pro-rating formula. As depicted in the following brief video from today’s LALB meeting, the State will receive $7,000 of the $10,000 bond payment:
LALB votes to issue check of $7,000 to State of Louisiana (making the net loss to taxpayers $168,000) provided the State of Louisiana agrees to hold the LALB harmless!!
Notice what we have placed in bold just below the preceding video. The LALB is insisting that the State of Louisiana hold the LALB harmless as a condition of accepting the $7,000 payment! Why should the State (i.e. us taxpayers) do that? After all, it was this Board who voted NOT to increase any bond coverage and stated “we can cover any losses!” Now, Gov. Edwards was challenged to make good on his Honor Code by insisting, based on his own appointees’ words that they honor THEIR OWN COMMITMENT to cover such losses, that the LALB remit a check to the State of Louisiana for the $168,000 (net of bond payment) we’re now out. As noted above, he has now failed his own Honor Code miserably by admitting that he is NOT going to seek payment of the $168,000 loss balance from the LALB. Much easier to seek yet more tax increases we assume!
Our original plan was to draft a certified letter to Attorney General Jeff Landry asking him to intervene on taxpayers’ behalf and sue the LALB to recover our $167,000. However, given how fast the LALB wants the terms of this bond payment to be accepted by the State, there is simply no time for a formal certified letter. Accordingly, we are now scrambling to get subscribers to contact AG Landry and not permit the bond payment to be accepted with that stipulation attached to it.
On Monday, October 29, 2018, a very prominent state public official contacted us and wanted to know what Gov. Edwards’ response to our challenge was. We talked with this official for well over an hour. We are now going to reach out to him and ask that he contact AG Jeff Landry to seek to have him block any acceptance of this bond payment with that stipulation attached to it and also to pursue suing the LALB to recover our taxpayers dollars.
It’s our sincere hope that Landry will do so and that he will have yet another instance of suing Edwards and/or his appointees in court and walking away with yet another victory.
We respectfully ask that you join us in those efforts by contacting Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Office via email ([email protected]) or by phone (225-326-6705) and join us in our efforts, and let’s get our $168,000 back!
Look for further posts on the LALB entailing actions at its last two meetings in coming weeks (though for those curious, here’s today’s meeting in its entirety), but this is a top-priority item we felt was needed to be distributed ASAP because the LALB members are scrambling to get that check issued with a signed “hold harmless” stipulation from the State of Louisiana which we believe is very much unwarranted in light of the LALB’s culpability for causing such a massive hit to taxpayers!
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