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Barack Obama for President
Whether it's the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century.
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SW Louisiana Democrats
South West Louisiana Democrats Home! Hosted by the Calcasieu Parish Democrats this is your democratic home for everyone from Southwest Louisiana! News, Links, Blogs and contact information.
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Daily King Fish
A community-based blog, with guest bloggers, posting stories on local and state politics.
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www.LARoots.net
www.LaRoots.net began as KerryRoots.com and is a privately-owned Louisiana database project to nurture a grassroots network which can spark support for liberal candidates and progressive ideas. This network grows by people inviting friends to join. Identifying like-minded voters in this neighbor-to-neighbor way energizes those who may not usually be politically active.
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Durel Contempt of Court Hearing Delayed 6/18/2011
The Advocate reports that a contempt of court hearing for City-Parish President Joey Durel that had been scheduled to take place next week has been pushed back while he asks the state Supreme Court to halt the case.
Fifteenth Judicial District Judge Ed Rubin had set the hearing at the request of three former Lafayette Housing Authority board members, who argue Durel improperly removed them from the board a second time after Rubin had reinstated them.
City-parish attorneys have been fighting to keep the contempt hearing from happening.
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Daily Advertiser Editorializes on ASO Politicizing of July 4th Concert 6/18/2011
The Daily Advertiser editorialized in the Saturday, June 18, 2011, edition about the controversy that the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has created for itself through the politicizing of its July 4th free public concert.
The editorial gets much of this issue correct, but misses the significant fact that having LCG elected officials on stage this year would politicize the event more overtly than did Joey Durel's endorsement of David Vitter last year.
How can that be? Because, by ASO's own admission, they could not offer this event as a free event without LCG's support, either financially or in-kind. By offering their stage to LCG officials it takes on a quid pro quo arrangement, whereby the officials are rewarded for their commitment of taxpayer dollars to the support of this event by giving them a few minutes in front of the large crowd that traditionally gathers for the event.
Lester Gauthier made clear in his letter that the best solution is for the ASO to forego the injection of politics into its concert. The ASO seems unwilling or unable to do so.
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ASO/Vitter/Durel/Lafayette DPEC story goes national 6/16/2011
The Rachel Maddow Show picked up on the simmering and now year-long controversy involving the expenditure of Lafayette taxpayer dollars to allow Joey Durel to endorse then-Senate candidate for re-election David Vitter from the stage of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra's Fourth of July concert in 2010. The staff of the Maddow Show apparently stumbled across the headline in Thursday's edition of The Daily Advertiser and used it to demonstrate the double standard in national politics when it comes to the behavior of elected officials and their ability to stay in office. Vitter was caught in a prostitution scandal and not only stayed in office, but no national Republican ever called for him to resign. Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress on Wednesday for activity that was not illegal, but because the scandal had become "a distraction."
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Acadiana Symphony reserves right to inject politics into publicly funded event 6/16/2011
The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra has insisted that it has the right to inject electioneering into its annual Fourth of July Concert which is held at Parc Internationale with sponsorship provided by Lafayette taxpayers through Lafayette Consolidated Government. The ASO renewed the controversy on Wednesday with a press release in which they claimed to have received what their executive director called "harrassing" letters from the Lafayette Parish Democratic Executive Committee. They also completely mischaracterize events surrounding 2010's concert where Senate candidate David Vitter invited himself to speak and was endorsed from the concert stage by Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel in apparent violation of the state Constitution and the state Election Code.
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