"ViperSpit" <liberalmaster@moveon.org> wrote in message
news:eebikl$13l$1@news.datemas.de...
With regards to Lousiana......
In the late 1990's, the state's school systems ranked dead last in the
nation in the number of computers per student (1 per 88), and Louisiana
has
the nation's second highest percentage of adults who never
finished high school. By the state's own measure, 47% of the public
schools
in New Orleans rank as "academically unacceptable."
These government failures are not merely a matter of incompetence.
Louisiana
and New Orleans have a long, well known reputation for corruption as
former
Congressman Billy Tauzin once put it, "Half of Louisiana is under water
and
the other half is under indictment."
That's putting it mildly. Adjusted for population size, the state ranks
third in the number of elected officials convicted of crimes (Mississippi
is
#1). Recent scandals include the conviction of 14 state judges and an FBI
raid on the business and personal files of a
Louisiana congressman.
In 1991, a notoriously corrupt Democrat named Edwin Edwards ran for
governor
against Republican David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards,
whose winning campaign included bumper stickers saying, "Elect the Crook,"
is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence for taking bribes from
casino
owners. Duke recently completed his own prison term for tax fraud.
The rot included the New Orleans Police Department, which in the 1990's
had
the dubious distinction of being the nation's most corrupt police force,
and
the least effective. (The city had the highest murder rate
in America.) More than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes
including murder, rape and robbery; two are currently on Death Row. & nb
sp;
And let us not forget, Mayor Nagin of New Orleans turned down a scrap
metal
firm's offer to the city of $100 each for the privilege of hauling away
the
abandoned automobiles now littering the city. This
would have paid money to the city. Mayor Nagin is now considering giving a
contract to another firm for $23,000,000 to get rid of the vehicles. This
plan will cost the city.
Ten billion dollars are about to pass into the sticky hands of politicians
in the #1 and #3 most corrupt states in America. Worried about looting?
Well, you ain't seen nothing yet!
New Orleans has a Democrat Mayor, a Democrat City Council and a Democrat
Chief of Police. Louisiana has a Democrat Governor, a Democrat Lt.
Governor,
a Democrat Attorney General. 24 of the 39 Louisiana State Senators are
Democrats, 67 of 105 Louisiana
State House Representatives are Democrats, there's a Democrat
Representative
in the House from New Orleans, and one of two U. S. Senators is a
Democrat.
I THINK THIS PRETTY MUCH EXPLAINS WHY
IT'S ALL GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT.
You are talking about dumb rednecks, not the Democratic Party.
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