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Monday's blogs from the bog.

Monday's blogs from the bog:

• Controversy continues in Port Allen

  MAR 31 Sure, a recall election pushed Deedy Slaughter out of the mayor's office in Port Allen, but it ain't over till it's over. Now that she's running for mayor again, there are complaints about voter fraud, and at least one suspect vote is tied to her campaign, the Advocate reports here. But according to Deedy, there's some voter suppression and bullying going on.

• GOP: the koch bros don't have nuttin to do with nuttin

  MAR 31 This post on the Washington Examiner reports that a national GOP committee is throwing hissy fits about the ads linking the Koch brothers to Senate candidate Bill Cassidy. So maybe the Koch brothers want their influence to remain secret? Good luck with that one, fellas.

• Senator buys company stock weeks before selection

  MAR 31 A state senator, chair of the senate's education committee, bought stock in a techbook company just weeks before it was selected to provide Common Core techbooks for Louisiana, blogger Tom Aswell reports in this post. The senator, Conrad Appel, is a major supporter of education "reform" in Louisiana.

• LC board stands with Aguillard against Convention

  MAR 31 The controversy at Louisiana College continues to bubble, the Town Talk reports here. Last week, the paper reported that sources confirmed the state director of the Baptist Convention had demanded the resignation of embattled LC President Joe Aguillard. Now the college's board has gone on record against that (alleged) action, accusing the director of abuse of power.

• religion's strange relationship with government

  MAR 31 The religious right likes to preach against big government (and pretend persecution) but at the same time, it looks to government to force its religious beliefs upon everyone else, blogger Bob Mann writes in this post. It's a strange relationship, with the right's PR campaign identifying big brother as the bad guy, while at the same time using him to control the rest of us.

• For the love of God - quit asking

  MAR 31 When one reads yet another post like this one on the Picayune, which reports yet another coy statement from Bobby Jindal in which he pretends that he's not desperately invested in being President, one becomes a little annoyed. Are we really required to ask this question over and over? If he hasn't been running for President all this time, then why hasn't he been here running Louisiana? Hey -- maybe that's a better question!

• NPR: Louisiana getting special attention in ACA push

  MAR 31 Today's the day -- the deadline for signing up for health insurance. This story on NPR lets us in on the special attention Louisiana received in the final push to get people on board. Why the special attention? Oh, come on! You know why...

• Another one for Bobby's refrigerator

  MAR 31 Mark Moseley thinks Bobby Jindal can be President. (And he assures us he's 'not on drugs.') Moseley lays out his argument as to why Jindal could be president in this post in the Lens, and it is an interesting argument. But it ignores some of the main issues in play, including Bobby's failure to become even slightly relevant in GOP polling. And that response to the State of the Union? They got that on tape, you know. You can still watch it on  YouTube.