Sound Off Louisiana

Former Lafayette Parish School Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper

Special Note:  Four (4) days after our feature,  KLFY (Channel 10) in Lafayette ran this feature to include an updated figure of $1.8 million! 

In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, founder Robert Burns provides a prelude to a fascinating upcoming mini-series entailing former Lafayette Parish Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper and the massive legal fees the System incurred in defending litigation filed by him after the School Board first dismissed its free legal representation, former Lafayette Parish District Attorney Roger Hamilton (who was siding with Dr. Cooper on irregularities) and hired the law firm of Sills Hammond to begin an orchestrated campaign to fire Dr. Cooper.  The Board succeeded in firing Dr. Cooper on November 4, 2014.  Our prelude feature follows:

Burns provides a prelude to the Cooper mini-series and discusses the massive legal fees the School Board incurred pertaining to his tenure and his termination.  CLICK HERE for prior feature on the Lafayette Parish School System stating that it will “take weeks just to download the invoices.” (and the letter Burns sent to Lafayette Parish District Attorney Keith Stutes seeking for him to “politely nudge” the Board into conforming to the public records law and provide the records (see Stutes’ letter to current superintendent Donald Aguillard dated March 22, 2018, one day before a Fed Ex package arrived at Burns’ door with the legal invoices referenced in the table, below)).

Note:  Table below was updated on March 26, 2018 to reflect additional invoice totals supplied by the LPSS entailing Phelps Dunbar for 2014 and through March of 2015 which the system had inadvertantly left out of our public records request at the time of the filming of the above video on March 25, 2018.

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Louisiana Inspector General Stephen Street, Jr.

UPDATE (3/22/18):  Entailing the hearing referenced in the video below entailing whether the evidence gathered by Inspector General Street’s Office entailing Nate Cain may be suppressed, on March 22, 2018, the Court issued this ruling indicating that the matter was being taken under advisement.  No doubt Street was disappointed that the ruling wasn’t made directly on the bench on March 20, 2018 that the evidence would not be suppressed, and his anxiety is likely high that the evidence may in fact all be suppressed, causing his case to collapse just as it did for Corey delaHoussaye.

The long-awaited follow up to Sound Off Louisiana’s refresher on Corey delaHoussaye is now complete:

Burns demonstrates Street’s puppet status to any Governor and dispels any notion whatsoever that Street has any independence.

Supporting Documents and Article Links:

Advocate article in which Greg Phares, former Inspector General investigator states, “The law is not clear.  The statute is contradictory.”

Documents for Federal court hearing on whether Inspector General’s evidence will be suppressed:

Cain’s Motion to Suppress     U. S. Attorney’s Opposition    Cain’s Reply to Opposition

Street’s recent protective order in dehaHoussaye v. Stephen Street et. al.

LA R. S. 49:220.23(D)(1) which specifies, Street’s contention in the above video notwithstanding, that he CAN be removed from office by a sitting Governor merely with a majority of the House and Senate concurring with his action.

Sound Off Louisiana post entailing Corey delaHoussaye explaining why he sued Inspector General Street.

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards

Viewers will recall our recent post entailing the embarrassment Jacob Brown became to Gov. Edwards.  In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, founder Robert Burns openly praises Gov. Edwards for his resolve to remove occupation licensing requirements for four vocations.  Having made public records request and having received the documents from the Louisiana Auctioneer Licensing Board (LALB), Burns now expands Brown’s specific complaints and the embarassment he has become to Gov. Edwards.  Burns also warns Edwards to expect more embarrassments as 2019 gets closer if he opts not to allow the LALB to sunset as scheduled in 2018.  The video feature follows:

Burns covers Brown’s extensive complaints and the historical lack of consumer protection of the LALB.
(Including beginning at the 21:30 mark, where they declined to raise the puny $10,000 bond coverage).

Document support or article links for support:

Crisp’s Advocate article wherein Burns praised Gov. Edwards in the comments section (only comment made).

Individual complaint files in their entireties:

Ernie Pickett IV     Jason Ables     William Becham      Transcan Motorsports Group

LALB covering up hundreds of thousands of losses entailing previous LALB chairman Tessa Steikamp and New Orleans Auction Galleries.

LAPA webpage outlining auctioneers with “issues” (including Sound Off Louisiana‘s Robert Burns for having reported LALB Executive Director Sandy Edmonds’ “blatant payroll fraud.”)

LALB Hearing for 83-year-old widow Betty Story on September 10, 2013.  LALB does NOTHING (zero, zilch, nada) to protect Ms. Story despite what you see depicted on that video.  If the LALB is not going to protect an 83-year-old widow, who are they going to protect?

November 3, 2012 video of Sound Off Louisiana founder Robert Burns declaring the LALB to be a “Mafia-like entity” and throwing his auction license directly into the camera and bidding the auction industry in Louisiana (with all its mass corruption) a fond farewell.

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