Jacob Warren, Chairman of the Louisiana Auctioneer Licensing Board
Today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature entails the candor and tenacity of Louisiana State Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport) in calling Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards a “bald face liar” on the Floor of the House of Representatives on March 2, 2018. In today’s feature, founder Robert Burns demonstrates that the same holds true of one of Edwards’ appointees, Louisiana Auction Board Chairman Jacob Warren.
Though Burns keeps his opening statements very brief in the video below because litigation against the Louisiana Auctioneer Licensing Board (LALB) by both Burns and Rev. Freddie Lee Phillips, Louisiana’s first and only African American auctioneer in its history, is extremely likely, the remainder of the video, combined with the documents highlighted beneath the video, authoritatively demonstrate the fact that Warren’s letter of April 25, 2018, which he signed, contains very obvious “bald face lies” (see the highlighted email beneath the letter for substantiation of that fact):
Video of Seabaugh’s House Floor statement on Edwards and excerpts from three (3) LALB meetings.
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Today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature entails our issuance of the second edition of the Republican Wall of Shame (RWS), which is comprised of 20 Republicans (and three independents) who voted in favor of Rep. Jerome Zeringue (R-Houma)’s HB-687, labeled as a “licensing fee restructuring,” by Zeringue for hunting and fishing licenses but which, as evidenced in the following 8-minute video highlight of House Floor debate yesterday, Rep. Blake Miguez (R-Erath) struggled to get Zeringue to admit is a “fee increase.”:
RWS: Edition 2. Highlights of House Floor Debate on HB-687.
We at Sound Off Louisiana have been contacted by several individuals with close ties to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. What we have been told is that it is an agency which has historically had “little or no accountability,” and that, consequently, employee abuses, “have been rampant to include personal use of Department assets, sales of those assets by individuals who kept the proceeds themselves,” and much more! Of course, some of these happenings have been cited by Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera.
We were also informed that Louisiana Inspector General Stephen Street conducted an “extensive investigation into impropriates” at the Department; however, we were also informed that Gov. John Bel Edwards HIMSELF insisted that Street’s investigation cease! That prompted one individual with extensive knowledge of the Department’s historical operations to state that, in his firm opinion, “Stephen Street should be charged with obstruction of justice.” Of course, as we at Sound Off Louisiana have extensively exposed in past features, Street is nothing more than a historically-financially-struggling lackey of any sitting governor who has no difficulty whatsoever finding ways to “close the OIG investigative files” on rampant governmental abuses by state agencies while aggressively pursuing whistleblowers upon receiving the command to do so by a sitting governor.
Against the backdrop of all that’s relayed above, we now provide our subscribers (at members’ requests) with Sound Off Louisiana’s Second Republican Wall of Shame (as well as one entry on the corresponding Democratic “Wall of Praise”):
(Redindicates Representative is term-limited and cannot run for re-election in 2019).
Rep. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles, District 36, Phone: (337) 475-3016[email protected]
Rep. Tony Bacala, R-Prairieville, District 59, Phone: (225) 677-8020 [email protected]
Rep. Larry Bagley, R-Stonewall, District 7, Phone: (318) 925-9588 [email protected]
Rep. Taylor Barras (House Speaker), R-New Iberia, District 48, Phone: (337) 373-4051 [email protected]
Rep. Terry Brown, I-Colfax, District 22 Phone: (855) 261-6566[email protected]
Rep. Steve Carter, R-Baton Rouge, District 68, Phone: (225) 362-5305 [email protected]
Rep. Joseph Stagni, R-Kenner, District 92, Phone: (504) 465-3479 [email protected]
Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, SPONSOR OF BILL, District 52,
Phone: (985) 876-8823 [email protected]
Sound Off Louisiana’s SECOND Corresponding DEMOCRATIC WALL OF PRAISE):
Rep. Gary Carter, D-New Orleans, District 102, Phone: (504) 361-6600 [email protected]
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Terrence Lockett, Auctioneer Board appointee of Gov. John Bel Edwards, who was appointed three days before Edwards removed Rev. Freddie Lee Phillips, Louisiana’s first and only African American auctioneer, from that same board.
Because Rev. Phillips is the only African American auctioneer in Louisiana’s history, for obvious reasons, Gov. Edwards was concerned about the negative perception that may arise in the African American community from his action of removing (without ANY cause WHATSOEVER) Phillips.
In order to mitigate any such negative perception, Edwards opted to appoint an African American to one of the two “consumer” member positions on the LALB, which is comprised of five auctioneer positions and two “consumer” positions. Accordingly, he announced Terrence Lockett’s appointment only three days prior to informing Rev. Phillips that he had removed him from the LALB.
In the following video, Sound Off Louisaina founder Robert Burns examines Lockett’s background and his problematic actions, which apparently Gov. “Honor Code” deemed irrelevant in naming Lockett to the LALB:
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