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Rep. “Dee” Richard

Finally, at least one lege gets it!

Two committees of the LA Lege are meeting clandestinely on Thursday and Friday in Alexandria.  The purpose of the meeting is to decide who will represent us in the lege and on other governmental bodies after the 2010 Census.

From Tuesday’s Baton Rouge Business Report’s Daily Report, Jeremy Alford reports the following:

Rep. Jerome “Dee” Richard of Thibodaux, who has no party affiliation, has decided to boycott the gathering and is the only committee member to announce such intentions so far. “I’m not going to attend the meeting because it isn’t open to the public and the state is going to be paying per diems,” Richard says. “I don’t think that’s right.

Senator Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, has said he wasn’t attending the meetings, but apparently not because of any principle.

The EWE standard prevails

Governor Edwin W. Edwards set the current low standard for politicians in LA: If it is legal then it is okay to do it.

Despite all his talk about morality and transparency, the Rhodes Scholar-in-chief has shown no indication that he has any higher standards than EWE.

The Rhodes Scholar’s hand-picked Speaker of the House and chairs of the two committees that are meeting are the ones who decided to exclude the taxpayers and media despite the fact that the taxpayers are funding the leges attending the meeting.

To see if your lege is a principled person like Richard or just another of the “good old boys,” like mine, go here and here.

Do we really want unprincipled leges determining who will represent us in the future?

Kudos to Rep. Richard for taking stand on principle and for the people.

C.B.