In an article published yesterday on upcoming legislative report cards due out in the next month, The Advocate mentions its own analysis of which state legislators were Gov. Jindal’s most consistent backers. The paper says it looked at votes on 15 bills crucial to the governor related to balancing the budget and determining which of his office’s records should be made public (the story does not list the votes). The article notes that Jindal was able to rely on steady support from a majority of legislators, and that his two most ardent supporters appear to be a pair of Lafayette legislators:
The Advocate’s tally of votes in support of the governor suggests Jindal was able to get much of the legislation in the form he wanted by relying on 40 Republican House members, nine Democrats and one no-party representative for critical votes
Two Lafayette representatives, state Reps. Page Cortez, a Republican, and Joel Robideaux, who has no party affiliation, of Lafayette, voted with the governor 93 percent of the time on the controversial votes picked by The Advocate. Baton Rouge Reps. Avon Honey, a Democrat and chairman of the House Labor committee; Michael Jackson, who has no party affiliation; and Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, supported Jindal the least, casting only 13 percent of their votes for his positions.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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