My friend Chuck, for unknown reasons, received a year-end solicitation from our senior Senator, Mary Landrieu. Landrieu gets a lot of mileage in increasingly Red Louisiana out of her reputation as one of the moderate (?) Democrats in the Senate. Here, she seriously undermines that image by supporting one of the Left Coast’s finest. Dear Cecil [sic], In politics and in life, it’s important to | Read More »
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) held a townhall meeting in what should be the friendly locale of blue-collar Reserve, LA on Thursday afternoon. She was non-committal on HR 3200, expressing her preference for the Wyden-Bennett bill that has been introduced but will go nowhere under the current leadership. Based on the following quote, it seems that even the sympathetic Times-Picayune had a hard time ignoring the | Read More »
Energy state Democrats, especially those that try to keep some hint of “moderate” cred, know upon which side their bread is buttered. On energy matters, their vote often follows their state’s economic and employment interest, as opposed to the party line. Mary Landrieu is the lone Democratic senator in a state whose entire House delegation, including Dem Charlie Melancon, voted against the Waxman-Markey bill. Most | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick. Last Saturday it was a judge in St. Bernard Parish. This week it’s a Gretna City Councilman. (Gretna is the parish seat of Jefferson, suburban New Orleans.) That’s not really news. The really interesting story here is that U.S. Attorney Jim Letten is the guy going after these clowns. Letten is a Republican and an eight-year Bush appointee who has | Read More »
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