Cajun Conservatism
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Former Senatorial candidate from Louisiana, Rob Maness, has announced an event in Shreveport that will include Rafael Cruz, father of Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Proceeds from the event are to support Maness' PAC, GatorPac.
Read more: Col. Rob Maness (ret.) & Rev. Rafael Cruz!
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Today, U.S. Senator David Vitter's campaign will announce that he has raised more than $5.2 million for his campaign to be Louisiana’s Governor. Vitter raised more than $1.1 million this quarter and has $4.2 million cash on hand for his campaign to replace the outgoing Bobby Jindal.
Additionally, the Fund for Louisiana’s Future, a political action committee supporting Vitter, announced today that it raised more than $680,000 from January 1st to April 17th of this year. FFLF has raised more than $4.6 million to date. Two-thirds of the $4.6 million has been raised by in-state contributions.
With these two separate accounts / organizations, a total of $9.8 million has been raised.
Courtesy of the Shreveport Times
For a man that has served nearly 30 years for a crime that he didn't commit, Glenn Ford sounds awfully at peace and shows no signs of anger that most would have. He was wrongfully convicted, sent to Louisiana's death row for a murder in that happened in 1984 and was recently released from Angola. His story of leaving prison, battling terminal cancer and the State of Louisiana who refuses to compensate him for his time incarcerated and meeting the prosecutor who placed him in prison is both inspiring and saddening.
Read more: Exonerated Death Row Inmate Meets the Former Prosecutor Who Put Him There
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Today marks the 5th anniversary of one of the biggest natural disaster in US history, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that was caused by an explosion on the Transocean drilling rig working for BP. For the family members of those that were killed on that day, it is another reminder of a year that has passed since the loss of their loved ones. Here is a piece on those that were taken too soon.
Read more: Remembering the victims, 5 years after the Deepwater Horizon Disaster and BP oil spill
The key thing that I get out of the following news article is the lack of the state in cracking down on corrupt politicians in Louisiana. This should be a key reminder of the good old boy network that is still in place in our state.
Read more: Louisiana ranked as 8th most corrupt state
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In what seems to be a trend as of late, Louisiana Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell, is again named in another legal proceeding. This time, Caldwell is being accused of using his office for political gain for a friend in a political campaign against Saint Bernard Parish President Earl Peralta.
Read more: Lawyer: Peralta target of new grand jury in East Baton Rouge
Courtesy of the New Orleans Advocate
Imagine if you will that Moon Griffon, the Voice of Louisiana, comes out and claims that the head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, had the most conservative vote last year on the budget bill. Would you think the sky was falling or the end times were upon us? Well, Moon did just that on his daily program this week.
Letting common sense fly out of the door, the Executive Director of the ACLU and ACLU Foundation of Louisiana, Marjorie R. Esman has equated the religious objections that are outlined in HB 707 to a husband being allowed to beat his wife.
Read more: Letter: Don’t pass religious freedom bill
The language of the actual bill can be found at this web page.
It appears that our own Louisiana son, Tim McGraw, has stepped into a veritable buzz-saw with him appearing at what many in the gun-rights circles have called a "gun control fundraiser." Twitter was abuzz with 2nd Amendment supporters decrying McGraw taking part in a fundraiser for a Sandy Hook group, which was formed after the shooting that took place there back in 2012.
Read more: Tim McGraw criticized by gun rights advocates over Sandy Hook concert
