Friday, June 19, 2009
Cofer On Clausen's Hit List
Monroe-The rumor mill is repeatedly reporting that James Cofer's ($252,886/yr on-the-table President of the Local University) employment contract will not be renewed. This time they are coming from Dr. Sally Clausen's Regents Headquarters in Baton Rouge. Well placed sources say Cofer will be replaced on an interim basis by Clausen's long-time friend and the Vice President of Student Affairs, Wayne Brumfeld. Perhaps that explains why Cofer was nowhere near Piyushi Jindal's press conference on the V-Vehicle last Wednesday, June 17, 2009.
The Gamblers Never Sleep
Monroe-The Monroe Downtown Development group currently run by city employee Myra Gatling held a triple-secret meeting yesterday, June 18, 2009 at Wayne Williamson's Office, WilStaff. Revealed at the meeting was a revised plan by Wayne Williamson, devoted member of First Baptist Church of West Monroe, to bring a gambling boat to Monroe. This time it's the Isle of Capris from Shreveport. During the meeting Mr. Williamson, who is reportedly mending fences with his current wife, stated flatly that every elected official was in favor of his idea except State Senator Bob Kostelka. Williamson said also that he planned to have the legislation that exempted the Ouachita River from the list of navigable waterways in Louisiana and written by former Speaker of the House Jim Dimos declared unconstitutional. That would lower the flood gates so to speak for high stakes gambling in Monroe.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
V-Vehicle: Smoke and Mirrors So Far
East Ouachita Parish-Piyush Jindal showed up at the old Guide Plant today around 11:30 am to announce that the taxpayers of Louisiana and these United States would be paying $82, 000,000 real dollars to GNF Architechs and Gray Construction to remodel the plant and to build a new one beside it to manufacture an as of yet undiscribed concept car called the v-vehicle, in three years!
Friends this is the new economic investment model. The State of Louisiana and these United States of America builds a turnkey-ready company and hands it over to a private investment group for about 10 cents on the dollar.
Does this remind you at all of the Alaskan bridge to nowhere? The Louisiana bridge to nowhere? A pig in the poke is what we used to call it. Betting on the come is another phrase for it. Most recently build it and they will come covers it.
Shades of there’s a sucker born every minute. What is it granddad used to say, “If it sounds too good to be true; it is” The last person to offer turnkey businesses was EWE: the gambling boats and the nursing homes. He’s still in jail. So who is going to jail on this deal? It won’t be the concept peddlers from San Diego, that’s in California you all.
Friends this is the new economic investment model. The State of Louisiana and these United States of America builds a turnkey-ready company and hands it over to a private investment group for about 10 cents on the dollar.
Does this remind you at all of the Alaskan bridge to nowhere? The Louisiana bridge to nowhere? A pig in the poke is what we used to call it. Betting on the come is another phrase for it. Most recently build it and they will come covers it.
Shades of there’s a sucker born every minute. What is it granddad used to say, “If it sounds too good to be true; it is” The last person to offer turnkey businesses was EWE: the gambling boats and the nursing homes. He’s still in jail. So who is going to jail on this deal? It won’t be the concept peddlers from San Diego, that’s in California you all.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Walter Abbott Announces A New Lincoln Parish Political Blog
Long-time anti-gambling force in Louisiana, Walter Abbott, has announced the formation of a new political blog in Lincoln Parish Louisiana. He says he will cover city council meetings, police jury meetings, Sparta aquifer meetings, Louisiana Tech public relations bashes, and the like. He will be a healthy competitor for John Hays, Publisher of the Morning Paper. Good luck Walter!
Cofer Secretly Applies For Another Job Away From North Monroe
BREAKING NEWS-COFER SECRETLY APPLIES TO BE COMMISIONER OF EDUCATION IN MISSISSIPPI
Cofer has done it again, applied for yet another job in higher education, commissioner of education in Mississippi. He probably only told one person in north Monroe that he had applied, the chairman of the University Foundation whose step-son he has given a $100,000 plus salary while he is dismissing tenured faculty left and right. And guess what, he didn’t get the job. Cofer is now 0-3 in getting jobs away from north Monroe.
One little fact has leaked out about his application. Seems a retired Mississippi State University business professor showed up to talk with decision makers about Cofer getting the job and told them how Cofer had tried to use political influence to get his doctorate in business from Mississippi State. He didn’t get it though. He’s got and EdD from University of Arkansas Little Rock.
Oh, why did he tell the Chairmn of the University Foundation what he was up to, why so that chairman could go out and get him some more money from the Foundation account. And for what? Cofer promised when he got his current job he would increase enrollment to 10,000; it’s 8754 and ever falling; and he promised a 60% graduation rate. The American Enterprise Institute reports that his school has a graduation rate of 32%.
Cofer has done it again, applied for yet another job in higher education, commissioner of education in Mississippi. He probably only told one person in north Monroe that he had applied, the chairman of the University Foundation whose step-son he has given a $100,000 plus salary while he is dismissing tenured faculty left and right. And guess what, he didn’t get the job. Cofer is now 0-3 in getting jobs away from north Monroe.
One little fact has leaked out about his application. Seems a retired Mississippi State University business professor showed up to talk with decision makers about Cofer getting the job and told them how Cofer had tried to use political influence to get his doctorate in business from Mississippi State. He didn’t get it though. He’s got and EdD from University of Arkansas Little Rock.
Oh, why did he tell the Chairmn of the University Foundation what he was up to, why so that chairman could go out and get him some more money from the Foundation account. And for what? Cofer promised when he got his current job he would increase enrollment to 10,000; it’s 8754 and ever falling; and he promised a 60% graduation rate. The American Enterprise Institute reports that his school has a graduation rate of 32%.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
February 20, 2009 (Ran In www.thenewsstar.com February 22, 2009)
Dear Editor:
Presidential candidate Jindal has announced that he might not take the federal stimulus money available for Louisiana; yet at the same time Mr. Jindal announces that Louisiana is nearly $2,000,000,000 in debt. Clearly Mr. Jindal is not concerned about the people who elected him to office. Mr. Jindal is more concerned about attracting a perceived national voting base important only to someone running for president.
Mr. Jindal came into office with a $2.000.000.000 surplus. Where has all the money gone? Mr. Gingrich one of his presidential campaign managers states on national television that Mr. Jindal is doing a wonderful job; that in spite of the difficult economic times Mr. Jindal has created new jobs in Louisiana. But the only jobs Mr. Jindal has created are 4,500 state jobs. So much for capitalism.
First of all Mr. Jindal has never held a real job. He has lived off of taxpayer’s money from start to finish: first for Congressman McCrery, then for Governor Foster, then for Senator Breaux, then as a Congressman, and now as a Governor. Mr. Jindal has never received a real check and never paid any real income taxes. A word for someone like Mr. Jindal is opportunist
If you want to see your governor Louisiana, then you had better be in North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, or Florida. And you had better bring money!
Dear Editor:
Presidential candidate Jindal has announced that he might not take the federal stimulus money available for Louisiana; yet at the same time Mr. Jindal announces that Louisiana is nearly $2,000,000,000 in debt. Clearly Mr. Jindal is not concerned about the people who elected him to office. Mr. Jindal is more concerned about attracting a perceived national voting base important only to someone running for president.
Mr. Jindal came into office with a $2.000.000.000 surplus. Where has all the money gone? Mr. Gingrich one of his presidential campaign managers states on national television that Mr. Jindal is doing a wonderful job; that in spite of the difficult economic times Mr. Jindal has created new jobs in Louisiana. But the only jobs Mr. Jindal has created are 4,500 state jobs. So much for capitalism.
First of all Mr. Jindal has never held a real job. He has lived off of taxpayer’s money from start to finish: first for Congressman McCrery, then for Governor Foster, then for Senator Breaux, then as a Congressman, and now as a Governor. Mr. Jindal has never received a real check and never paid any real income taxes. A word for someone like Mr. Jindal is opportunist
If you want to see your governor Louisiana, then you had better be in North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, or Florida. And you had better bring money!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Dear Editor:
Well there he goes again; Governor Jindal flew off for two days to North Carolina. While Louisiana “burns” up in debt, Governor Jindal goes off a “fiddling” around for presidential campaign contributions in Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. What will it take to get our governor.to sit at our desk and work day in and day out to turn our economy around?
For example, it seems there is a company, NUCOR, in North Carolina that was considering building a steel manufacturing plant in Louisiana. It would seem logical to visit North Carolina to seal the deal and get NUCOR to come to Louisiana. But logic is not politic. Now it has been reported that NUCOR will probably go to Brazil instead.
A KNOE straw poll taken after the governor’s junket was reported by the AP showed that well over 60% of those voting thought Governor Jindal should not have made the trip. The last time polls were that bad was when Governor Jindal went AWOL on the legislative pay raises. Maybe Governor Jindal will stop all the gallivanting around for the same reason he stopped the pay raise, his election poll numbers are tanking.
Well there he goes again; Governor Jindal flew off for two days to North Carolina. While Louisiana “burns” up in debt, Governor Jindal goes off a “fiddling” around for presidential campaign contributions in Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. What will it take to get our governor.to sit at our desk and work day in and day out to turn our economy around?
For example, it seems there is a company, NUCOR, in North Carolina that was considering building a steel manufacturing plant in Louisiana. It would seem logical to visit North Carolina to seal the deal and get NUCOR to come to Louisiana. But logic is not politic. Now it has been reported that NUCOR will probably go to Brazil instead.
A KNOE straw poll taken after the governor’s junket was reported by the AP showed that well over 60% of those voting thought Governor Jindal should not have made the trip. The last time polls were that bad was when Governor Jindal went AWOL on the legislative pay raises. Maybe Governor Jindal will stop all the gallivanting around for the same reason he stopped the pay raise, his election poll numbers are tanking.
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