Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
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BEAM: IS JINDAL RUNNING? IS THE POPE CATHOLIC?
SEP 8 Columnist Jim Beam is writing about Bobby Jindal's (to date unannounced) presidential campaign in this post. The Governor continues to be disingenuously coy about whether he will run, but the fact is everything he says and does is aimed at getting in the White House, Beam says, and that hasn't served Louisiana very well.
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SEP 8 This hilarious post on Rob Maness' Facebook page pokes a little fun at Bill Cassidy, who is running attack ads these days in which he implies he's one of us. Apparently, that doesn't include Saints or LSU fans, because he's unfamiliar with the proper expressions - as was evidenced by his recent attempts to join in by proclaiming "Who Day" and "Go Tigers."
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ADVOCATE STORY ON DIOCESE DOCUMENTS
SEP 8 The Advocate lets us in on the content of those mysterious documents in this post. You know, the documents that gathered dust in a Texas courthouse until they were found by Minnesotajournalists. The documents that reveal the arguments between the Lafayette Diocese and its insurance company back when the victims of pedophile priests sued, and the diocese was looking for hush money.
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DKES LIVING DOWN TO REPUTATION
SEP 8 The Delta Kappa Epsilon frat at LSU has a long history of being infantile, moronic and offensive, and the current class is doing the best it can to keep up that "noble" tradition. This post on the LSU Reveille shows the chapter is trying to top last year's Kent State banner with a new one mocking Michael Sam. (Note to frat boys: Big talk from the school that beat a team nobody ever heard of.)
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FAMILY FORUM A TAX SHELTER FOR LOBBYIST
SEP 8 Blogger Lamar White Jr. makes a pretty convincing argument here that the Family Forum is not a charity, but instead a tax shelter for the state's most powerful lobbyist. He gives us some comments straight from Gene Mills' mouth, which certainly make him sound like a lobbyist. It's not puffery, Lamar adds, because Mills really does control the legislature.
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MANN'S PRIMER ON POLITICAL ADVERTISING HISTORY
SEP 8 Here's an interesting post from blogger Bob Mann about the history of political television advertising in America. He starts with the so-called Daisy Girl spot and takes us through the years.
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FLEMING OPERATING PAYDAY LOAN?
SEP 8 This is a weird one from Tom Aswell. Last week he posted about John Fleming's campaign finance reports, as well as the businesses he owns. The info came from the Secretary of State's corporations database. Even so, Aswell writes, Fleming's staff claims part of the story was wrong - and produces a pretty weird explanation.
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SCHNEIDER ON LPSS, VTS AND CCSS
SEP 8 Education blogger Mercedes Schneider is writing about the Lafayette Parish School System in this post. At issue for her is a promotional video the system made for Visual Thinking Strategies, and it's correlation (or lack thereof?) to Common Core.