The King commands it Monday, Dec 5 2011 

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Louis XIV

The “Roads Scholar’s” flack responds in the Sunday Advocate ( See article here.) to whether Kevin Davis meets the legal requirements ( See question here.) for appointment as head the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

The response was that Davis is qualified because Team Jindal has concluded that he is. That is the exactly the type of response one would expect to get from the governor of Louisiana.

Our state’s namesake, Louis XIV, King of France, once famously said: “It is legal because I wish it.”

C.B.

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Does appointment meet the legal requirements? Friday, Dec 2 2011 

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Is he qualified?

St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis was just appointed as the new head of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (”GOHSEP”).

Davis said: “…[H]is experience in dealing with Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill and the recent fish kill in the Pearl River makes him ‘a good fit’ for his new job….” Times Picayune, December 1, 2011.

Those experiences over the last 6 years might be a “good fit”, but the law requires more.

LA R.S. 29:725(C)(2) states: The director shall have had at least ten years of emergency management experience or equivalent experience in emergency operations.

One might also think that the person holding this position would need some military experience to handle the Homeland Security part of the job, but that’s not required.

Details have never been important to the “Roads Scholar” when it comes to making political appointments. Also, this political appointment carries a huge amount of patronage as all the employees of GOHSEP are also political appointees and not part of Civil Service.

C.B.

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LA Dems just playing possum Thursday, Dec 1 2011 

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State Democratic Party’s Plan

The latest on the Louisiana Democratic Party’s failures has to be the funniest spin yet.

The Dems’ explain their failure in the 2011 elections to field a single credible candidate for statewide office  in Mark Ballard’s column in the Baton Rouge paper.

The Dem party isn’t dead, it’s just playing dead. That’s a plan?

The opossum merely survives by playing dead. His isn’t a plan to takeover the animal kingdom.

The Dems have executed their “plan” extremely well. If not dead, they certainly appear politically irrelevant.

Maybe if the Dems had waited until Easter to roll out their “plan” it might be more believable.

Thanks for the political humor!

C.B.

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