Louisiana Lt Gov Mitch Landrieu Shifts Field In New Orleans Mayor Election
Bayou Buzz - 2 hours 27 minutes agoMitch Landrieu is now a candidate for the Mayor of New Orleans.
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Mitch Landrieu is now a candidate for the Mayor of New Orleans.
By: Nate Monroe Democrats might face a historically unfriendly environment for future elections in Louisiana, one of a handful of states to trend more Republican in 2008, but the beleaguered party can still claim at least one advantage — football. The LSU foo...
In the past two weeks, we have heard more about the “ Louisiana Purchase ” than we had since 1803. Now that the health care debate comes up again this week in the US Senate, Senator Landrieu will of course be at the center of that discourse.
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A state judge has denied a request to throw out the results of a disputed election involving the Louisiana Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association. That ruling came after a day-long hearing, Monday at Orleans Civil Court. An attorney for the LHBPA told the Judge Herbert Cade, the allegations of improper voting lack convincing support and evidence and if there were illegitimate ballots ...
Senate health bill lets states opt out
NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association was created to distribute the winning purses at the state's four racetracks. It also provides benefits such as pension funds and insurance to more than 6000 workers in the racing industry. Orleans Clerk of Court Arthur Morrell is a horse owner and a 15-year member of the LHBPA board, serving until March of last year ...
One would think that Louisiana ’s reputation for influence peddling could get no worse. Then came the Senate vote on Health Care. How humiliating! Louisiana suffers from the perception that its politicians are “up for sale”.
Who did the buying and the bidding on the most recent Harry Reid-Mary Landrieu-Senate Health Care so called, “ Louisiana Purchase ”? In fact, after the controversy one procedural vote has generated, I am hereby calling the entire ordeal the “Louisiana Health Care Turkey ” in honor of Thanksgiving.
Is Mary Landrieu Louisiana ’s $300 million woman? In exchange for her cloture vote on Saturday to move the healthcare bill forward, Landrieu secured that money for the state’s Medicaid program. According to Landrieu, the state needed the “fix” and “she was not going to be defensive about it.”
Does conservative Governor Bobby Jindal favor the $300 million in Federal money that could be heading his state's way, thanks to Senator Mary Landrieu's successful efforts to secure the cash in the health care bill? His office won't say.