Tramel likely to get green light from ethics board
Tony Tramel, Lafayette Consolidated Government’s director of traffic and transportation, is set to get clearance from the state Board of Ethics to serve as a compensated expert in an expropriation case in New Iberia. Tramel had requested an advisory opinion from the board because his service would be on behalf of the state Department of Transportation and Development and Tramel is responsible for administering two contracts between LCG and DOE in his capacity as transportation director.
In an undated draft letter posted on the Ethics Administration Web site which, barring a reversal in its decision, will be sent to Tramel following the board’s Nov. 20 meeting, board member Aneatra P. Boykin writes, “The Board instructed me to inform you, that the Code of Governmental Ethics would not prohibit your service as an expert in an expropriation case in the City of New lberia.”
Also at the Nov. 20 Board of Ethics meeting, board members will consider a recommendation that an ethic charge against former state Senate District 24 candidate Patricia Cravins be dismissed. Cravins was accused of failing to file a personal financial disclosure form within 10 days of qualifying for the April 4, 2009 election. She has since filed the form.
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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