Comments for Cleaning House at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 85 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-27476 Great Article - Serge Delia Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:46:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10118 beheard, Chris, thief, or whatever you choose to call yourself, I believe that you are the thief, Chris Williams because of your "tells." Every writer has a kind of style. A fingerprint, if you will. In your last post, you are very volatile and frustrated. You now use the term clown to describe those who "do the right thing." Much like your use of the term "buffoon," which I also called you on. You are Chris Williams. Either that or you took his course at UL and were given(note I did not say earn)an A in bigoted, biased, racist projection rants for that is what baby boy thief Chris Williams does when he can't have his way. So all indicators point to you as the thief, Chris Williams. - The Problem Is Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:51 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10094 In response Obamasvacation, that was written like a true Lafayette Redneck racist and socialist. Not all in public housing are thiefs, most of the thieves reside in River Ranch. Sorry buddy, but it is 2010. And guess what? You just hate the fact that a BLACK man is running this country, and it just goes to show that YOU and your opinion really doesn't matter. He was elected without the help of you are OUR racist state. Good day David Duke! - beheard Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:52:02 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10092 Theproblemis, it would help if theIND had a function to re- arrange your post so they can make some sense Man, you really dislike Chris don't you? Your last name HAS to be Hardy, Fusilier, Stosahak, Durel, Stanley, or just Clown. If Chris is guilty, then the term "thief" fits, but your boy Ricky has some titles he lives up to daily. Where do I start, incompetent, ignorant,controlled, foolish, and uninformed to name a few. Sounds alot like "theproblemis", Rickey it is you isn't it? Or "birds of a feather flock together." LOL - beheard Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:45:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10081 beheard, your inane rant along side that of Chris Williams, there is clearly an almost identical style. Rather, a like lack of style and class that is quite telling. I still say that you are the thief, Chris Williams. If you are not, then "birds of a feather..." - The Problem Is Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:58:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10070 ConcernedLHAemployee, it is obvious your are jealous and just a person seeking revenge. To post something like that on this board is tasteless. Walter that has NO PLACE on this forum. Mam, if you dont like your working conditions, resign. It is obvious you are one of many people at the LHA, that is not taking care of business. By any chance is your last name Hardy,Fusilier,Glaude? Are maybe you work secretly on the Durel plantation? - beheard Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:47:16 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10053 I agree with Uppalled Concerned Citizen with the following exception. If that man is fooling around on his wife with someone he hires in his employ and you think that that is a contributing factor to the corruption, then you are obligated to take that information to the investigators. Confronting that mans wife about that is sleezey. - LAF NATIVE RESIDING IN CA Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:40:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10052 To Concerned Employee (LHA): You are no better than the people you are accusing in your comment. If you are a truely a concerned employee, why do you try to spread dirt to fix your problem. You are disgusting. If you really have any decency and if you care about his loyal wife (as you called her) why don't you go to her and tell her or even go to him and talk to him about your concerns instead of posting personal dirt. Be decent and stop spreading dirt to try to get revenge. You have just placed yourself in the middle of, and become part of the scum you are saying is wrong. No wonder you cant get your problem solved. You don't know how to be decent. Dont post trash like this and to try to publically humiliate the wife. Go to her in person. Tell her what you can prove. She would probably think better of that approach. But it is obvious that you are a lousy person and mess-maker who is disgustingly bitter. - Uppalled Concerned Citizen Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:01:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10048 Well sir, I guess I owe an apology to you, your staff and particularly the folks that I mention in my critique. I stand corrected. Yes every time you mention Vitter please mention his whore mongoring, after all, this guy will be voting on womens issues. Now back to my obsession with representative Mr. Hardy. Have you look to see if he paid his taxes? - LAF NATIVE RESIDING IN CA Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:56:41 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10046 LAF NATIVE, At the risk of this comment thread veering off wildly: How you deduced that The Independent or any of its staff members support David Vitter based on last week's blog on a Republican primary poll is beyond me. At the top right of our home page you can click on "search." Do so, please, and type the word "Vitter" into the search field. Scores of stories come up, many of them critical of the junior senator from Louisiana, and many of them making reference to his "serious sin." Everyone knows about his hooker hook-ups. It's old, old news. Must we flog that dead horse EVERY time we mention his name? Please return to your Rickey Hardy obsession, and step lively! - Walter Pierce Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:34:05 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10044 MS. TURK, MR. PIERCE, AND MR. STUBBS, You invite people to join in on the comment section of your articles yet you post the readers comment when ever you damm well please. For example, I am posting this review of your newspaper, but there is no telling when you will make it public. That is the way my high school newspaper use to operate. Second, You do not cover state politics. Whats that all about. If any reader would like to engage me on State politics, please meet me at TIMES PICAYUNE, and DAILY ADVITISER. SEARCH FOR VITTER, that damm clown!! - LAF NATIVE RESIDING IN CA Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:29:16 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10042 First of all, quit quoting Lennin. Having said that, I agree with most of what you say. Please keep it to 500 words or less. On another matter, The Independent has not one article on David Vitter the whore picker upper. - LAF NATIVE RESIDING IN CA Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:06:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10041 What an incredible and on point description of Buddy Webb by Editorial Debasement Dotcom! This male, Webb, is the epitome of coward and sneak. To run as he did and to then put forth shallow excuses for his cowardice did naught but to comfirm said cowardice. Instead of remaining to help right the wrong, as a man of integrity would do, he jumped ship quicker than a rat and then threw rocks to help sink the ship faster. Webb leaves a trail of slime behind him when he walks. - The Problem Is Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:05:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10036 Ragincajun,I am in agreement with your LONG post, I think people fail to realize everyone has or had something to gain, or a hidden agenda in this whole ordeal. With that being said, alot of HOKY POKY is sure to be revealed, I just hope the pot stirrers and people who are at fault are ready to dance to the music. And Mr. Hardy better enjoy the rest of his time in office, because he will not be able to beat a dead person in this next election. But there is always Joey's yard that needs cutting. - beheard Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:36:58 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10034 We knew it would come to this one day!!!! All the scandals, back handed stealing and the special favors. So many people getting paid to do a job that they are not even doing. Especially when they are on the clock but are not at the job. Getting paid to go shop instead of helping out the people in need.. I wonder where all that $47K plus for the St. Antoing Gardens went? Mr. Guillory constantly made differences with a chosen few. The LHA staff knows who they are. The truth about the differences made is that there is an employee who is getting away with murder, (Ms. Singleton). Getting paid to treat customers and fellow co-workers like trash and getting away with it and being totally disrespectful. If another employee other than her would be disrespectful to other, you would get in trouble. How can an employee who is on the clock get go shopping and get in car wrecks on company time? I dont understand. Where as with her, she gets rewarded with raises!!!! We all know why certain females (Ms. Singleton) get certain treatment. We are unable to say anything about it, because we were afraid of losing our jobs. Its not fair when you have dedicated people who are willing to work and do what is right and get paid for the work that is done, opposing for others getting paid to perform special duties out side of work if you know what I mean and threaten to expose Mr. Guillory to his loyal wife. Im glad that this is coming to pass and now all Mr. Guillory's mistresses can be exposed for what they are and how they treat people and have to give back all the luxuaries that was done under the table. Please someone help us to get rid of the all the corruption from top to bottom. We, the dedicated employees does have family and bills to take care of and want to stay employed!!!! - Concerned Employee (LHA) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:30:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10030 EDITORIAL DEBASEMENT BRAVO,BRAVO,BRAVO BYE THE WAY MS TURK I HOPE THERE WRONG ABOUT YOU FUTURE ARTICLES WILL TELL. - neutral party Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:29:37 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10028 Editorial Debasement Dotcom "Lafayette community, look at the type of agenda-driven, politically-motivated, power-craved leaders we have serving this community." As Lenin once asked, "what is to be done". Seriously, who wants the job? LHA, city=parish government, even college professor. Who wants the job? I was surprised to hear that UL was only paying Williams $40K per year-a PhD, full time professor (supposedly), and he only makes $40K? He HAS to have a second and third job. How about city-parish councilmen? Takes up alot of time, alot of unpopular votes, no matter what you vote half of Lafayette won't like it, it's a bad situation, and there's very little pay. Why would anyone do it? Only reason I can see to do these jobs is the wrong ones--influence with government, political pull, maybe a career in politics, person just likes to argue, person is a control freak. If the worst among us do these jobs for the wrong reasons, then we have to figure out how to ensure that individuals are protected from the dictates of our politicians. We have to limit the reach of government, and limit the amount of money it has control over. Or, we could raise the salaries of these positions so that the most successful and intelligent among us would compete for these jobs. What can we do to - ragin_cajun Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:49:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10026 part 3 of 3 Buddy Webb: You would rather resign to remove yourself from the problem! How self-sacrificing is that? Then you proceed to clear and squeaky-clean your name by discrediting the other board members to Mr. Durel. That does not make you noble and virtuous; that makes you an insolent coward. That “me first, I’m not staying around to clean up the mess” type of behavior is exactly what we need in our community leaders (not!). What self-righteousness! You also said in the news article that your “suspicion alert radar” signaled you when Mr. Guillory, LHA’s director, “requested the board look into hiring a new auditor.” Really? On what evidence can you prove this? The truth is stranger than fiction, right? If your tenure on the board were probed, I wonder if the findings would show some improprieties. If everyone told the truth, then there would be no need to run, or hide, or resign, and the whole story would be told. But these days who wants truth? Webb can’t be trusted. He says one thing to some and then says another to others. He will smile in your face, and run behind your back to “ax” you. Somebody tell me: what is the truth? Do we even know anymore? Shouldn’t the truth be the same all the time? Everybody wants to play the blame game. Go ahead and point the finger, but look! There are three fingers pointing back at you. Anyone and everyone who is totally blameless cast the first accusation. Walter Guillory: Fifteen years of service to this community’s housing authority. Thirteen, according to the math, of which I assume had good reviews. According to the news article, he came in and fixed a troubled housing authority and was reported to have done so. What has happened these last two years? Oh, you tried to manage two housing authorities at the same time (Lafayette and Opelousas). Who authorized that? (the board?) Was that a prudent decision? NO! Who can juggle two separate missions simultaneously? But the past two years’ audits raise much concern about your capacity to oversee both at the same time. Truth be told, the chips fell and they landed right on your headship. Your mild mannerism and “lack of a critical eye” has misled you into believing that Chris Williams was decent enough to be hired for this DHAP, though you were not alone in that assessment of him. His deceit and self-serving character has put you in a very precarious position. As well, trusting your deputy director, Carmouche, to handle the recordkeeping and manage responsibilities of the DHAP led to your oversight. Oh yes, surely you would say that directors have to trust the employees working under them to do their jobs correctly, but you know the old saying, “when the cat’s away, the mice will play”? However, in the same voice, if a manager cannot count on his staff to get their jobs done correctly, why have staffs? While your excuses may be plausible, they are weak in reasoning. I applaud Mr. Guillory’s work over the previous years, which should not go unnoticed or unaccounted. It appears that these past two years working for two housing authorities has taken a toll on his ability to carefully and effectively manage both, and has brought his management style into question. He has done a lot of good works for a lot of people in this community (including Rep. Ricky Hardy), and has helped a lot of poor people get into new homes. Right now, though, it seems that no matter how much good you do for people in the community for whatever extent of time, it all gets forgotten when you make a mistake in judgment. I wish Mr. Guillory well, and hope this works out for him. After all, he actually has helped the community for a long time (I can’t say the same for our District 44 Rep. Ricky Hardy). Chris Williams: a Political Fat Cat at its finest. What a disgrace to all who considered him an upstanding friend. He has chosen his own profit and gain over the lives of others. Selfish and self-serving. Everyone is being scrutinized and milled because of his incredulous actions on many organizations. It gets more and more incredible each day. I am speechless, disgusted, and horrified that behind those eyes are malevolent drives and devious behaviors. How did we let this man sit on our city council to represent us for so long? What a smooth operator. Why don’t you say something Williams, to redeem yourself or at least to explain your actions? Quit hiding behind your lawyer like a small cowardly child. Lafayette community, look at the type of agenda-driven, politically-motivated, power-craved leaders we have serving this community. Who can lead with the will of the people at his heart and with the desire for progress and goodwill toward each other, instead of disdain and disparagement toward the destruction of his fellow man? “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies, and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.” (Prov. 6:16-19) Sincerely watching through the years. - Editorial Debasement Dotcom Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:31:48 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10025 part 2 of 3 Joey Durel: Mr. Durel, did you rush to judge based on hearsay? Where is your integrity and upstanding character? Did you even give the dismissed members of the board a chance to speak on their own behalf. NO! You didn’t! How shameful and lacking in your good judgment. You moved on the hearsay word of two board members (Buddy Webb and Donald Fuselier) against the seven member board (2 to 5). Mr. Durel, what is this about? It certainly can’t be about righteous decisions and judgment, since you didn’t give the five members a chance to speak. I know: he who has the power can do mighty and powerful acts without justification, right? What made those two so credible? As it appears, this cutthroat lynching was done in secret, without the other board members’ knowledge and/or opportunity to agree with them so that they might corroborate or refute the hearsay that “they had no intention of taking further action to address the problem at LHA”, according to the newspaper article. Oh, but in another article, you said that it was because they (Webb and Fuselier) ran to tell you first. Well, which is it? And what does the phrase “a different sort of a board” mean? In your political station, you may have the power, but you don’t have the POWER. Did you consult that “Power” for a clear and precise conscience before rushing to judgment? I believe that if you had, you would have quietly listened and spoken to all board members regardless of who ran to you first. Did you call them all together to hear them all at once? Or did you only listen to the two that sprinted to you to report? On that sprint, you decided that these two were the most credible because they spoke first. This is not always the case. How demoralizing is this action toward fairness and justice in this society’s growing pleasure toward rapid deterioration of the humane value system? Mr. Durel, do you have a longstanding secret outrage toward Chris Williams, also? I just wonder. I know a lot of people (political and otherwise) have negative regards toward him. I myself would limit my association with him simply because of his public history and his controversial political career and reputation. Perhaps his name stimulates your dislike too? As for the portrayal of Mr. Guillory, that man has worked in his capacity as Executive Director for that housing authority for fifteen years. Just in the past two years, his leadership has waned. Of the fifteen years, he has thirteen years of good service and directorship. How can you sum up fifteen years as a failure based on only two years of audit findings? Yes, it is a hint that things are changing (perhaps the two heavily-loaded, politically high stress jobs that he held simultaneously contributed to that) and needs to be looked into more closely. I am asserting that he probably realized that things were changing at the LHA when he decided to stop working at the Opelousas Housing Authority so that he could get back to better managing the one agency. Are these audit problems irreparable? I don’t think so, Mr. Durel. Are these audit findings so explosive that there is no other solution than to destroy the man’s reputation as an upstanding, open-handed person, portraying his work over the span of fifteen years as less-than-competent and derelict? Didn’t this man (Guillory) come in and fix this same agency that was on HUD’s “troubled agencies” list several years ago? If he fixed it once, can he not fix it again? Is that your assessment? I can also recall from years ago, that you, yourself, had high praises for the man’s work. Was that a lie, Mr. Durel? What is your REAL motive for wanting Mr. Guillory out of that position? Is it the money? It seems to me that he (Guillory) can’t even recall his past good works to speak for him because the “politics of power” and the “power of politics” have clouded the sensibility of the influential political giants of this city. No one is always absolutely perfect in all their decisions. Not even you, Joey Durel. Mr. Durel, I am disappointed that Lafayette’s parish president is biased and easily swayed on an imbalanced scale of justice. Donald Fuselier: I suppose it is not out of character for a former city prosecutor to use the tactics such as those used in this chronicle. Disappointingly as it is, the “scale of justice has lost its balance,” and the trained presenters of justice have chosen to use influence and the need for control as its weights. Is there an agenda here? All for “law and order” not “flaw and slaughter” please arise and speak!!! Does anyone have any integrity these days? Integrity redefined has come to mean distorted, manipulated, stage-managed, indifferent, and thwarted to list a few. Why did you not consult with the other board members about taking this information to Durel? In the article “Self-Serving”, you stated that “It happened under my watch, but we didn’t know about it until the audit came in”. Doesn’t that make you as culpable as the other board members? Did you find out before the others, at the same time as the others, or after the others? Was “your watch” different from “their watch”? O, proclaimed steward of justice, has thou a gleam in thine eye toward bigger and better glory? So far, you have accomplished that, since you are the only one that has been retained on the seven member board of commissioners (with Buddy Webb resigning) based solely on uncorroborated verbiage. Is it justifiable? Is it pure? Are you a double-minded/fork-tongued man? What exactly did you tell Mr. Durel that would secure your stay on the board, and “drop-kick” all five of the others off the board without questions? Surely it can’t be that you “just reported first”. Somebody help me see the motive! Also, in the article “Self-Serving”, you stated that: “In late 2007,Chris Williams went to the LHA to say he didn’t have work and needed a job.” You (Fuselier)“thought Williams was a good fit for the Disaster Housing Assistance Program because of his background and skills set. I didn’t know he was earning that kind of money (on the DHAP). I thought he was earning $10 or $11 an hour. And we did not know the man was at UL. The Board did not know. Walter (Guillory) did not know. I’d heard he was teaching a class. I didn’t know he was full-time. It was a well-kept secret.” (The Independent News Weekly). It seems to me that you, just like all the others, thought that Chris Williams was okay. Are you saying that the unreasonable amount of money he earned is what concerns you, Mr. Fuselier? Again, I know the money Williams finally earned (or should we say “strategically stole”) is an exorbitant amount, but I am confused as to whether it should be the money (which is important also), or the fact that he willingly (perhaps with malice aforethought) lied and deceived everyone, wittingly premeditating while using others without any visible or verbal signs of remorse. Chris Williams has caused many to come under scrutiny and critical fire for his atrocious and egregious actions. I say, “Let the Truth, Justice, and Fairness reign over the sadness, corruption, and discord that rains on this community”. - Editorial Debasement Dotcom Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:29:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6808-cleaning-house#comment-10024 Part 1 of 3 I have been following this report about the LHA, and I have read all the information in newspaper articles and listened to TV news reports. Here is what I have personally gathered based on all of the players involved: First, Mrs. Leslie Turk: I think Mrs. Turk has lowered her integrity by deciding to dramatize the situation instead of reporting all the FACTS and only the facts (no hearsay) as truthfully and non-sensationalized and/or hyped as possible in order to avoid inciting public outrage. After all, public outrage gains traction, and causes a move for swift action “because we (the public) are watching”, right? The truth, plain and simple, Mrs. Turk, is that exceptionally good reporting would leave you with a good conscience, knowing that you did not deliberately entice and encourage negative public perception, and allowing you to rest assured that you have produced reports that you can answer for without blame or shame when the time comes. Do you know when that is, Mrs. Turk? At that time, you will not be able to “strike a deal” as you might put it. BUT WAIT! There is more. I am not submitting the notion that there are not a lot of serious problems with the LHA agency that must be addressed. NO! Absolutely not. Rather, I understand that people love drama, they feed on it, and they enjoy watching other people’s demise and fall. Check out all the unbelievably ridiculous “Reality Shows” on television these days. Society has become a festering cesspool for exploitation and demoralization of itself and the human race at any cost. But you say this is not the case here. Yes it is! It’s what the people want. Search yourself and you will find that everyone who is enjoying these elaborately well-written,“diabolically public stimulating, and shake-down swayed” news articles does not possess the qualities that should be decent in all humanity. Turk, perhaps you should have become a short story/fiction/murder mystery writer. When I read your articles, I found myself fascinated, breath taken, engulfed, consumed, enthralled, enraged, and bewildered by your style of reporting. Your articles read more like a murder mystery than straight forward, newsworthy reporting. You have certainly catapulted yourself to the level of “Acclaimed” already by your choice of dramatic semantics and your self-indulgent reach for fame with these articles. Enjoy it, Mrs. Turk, because seasons come and seasons go and if you are not justly (fairly and impartially) doing incredible reporting, you may have to recompense (libel) and atone for it in other areas of your life at a later date. In my observation and opinion, Mrs. Leslie Turk should be renamed: Mrs. Prosecutor/Persecutor (for your choice of persuasive, picturesque and colorful words), Judge(for your opinioned statements and misstatements), and Jury (for your sensational reporting tactics that has brought about public conviction). KUDOS or REBUKE? Ricky Hardy: You have to be honest, Ricky Hardy can certainly grab attention and he can certainly stir up trouble. This vengeance-stimulated warfare between you and Chris Williams is going to lead you to your demise. You know what they say: "whoever digs a pit may fall into it". In the words of the character Mrs. Celie from the movie The Color Purple: “everything you done to me, is already done to you.” In time, you will have to come to terms with your aim, your heart, and your soul-sought reason to pour explosive fuel on this personal, long-standing vendetta of yours. Is it really that satisfying to you to finally get your hand on the linchpin that will finally bring down the corruption of Chris Williams? If you look at this closely, there are a lot of corrupt hearts judging, pushing the envelope, pulling the strings, and tapping the deck in this situation. Do you sit at home and gloat, planning behind the scenes, as your heart leaps with total adulterated sensory gratification that you have cornered your political rival? What is wrong with this picture Mr. Hardy? It is never good (never good, never good) to ever want to see someone else hurt. You have sewn a wind, but you will reap a whirlwind!!!! OOOOOh yes, mark me as the first to say that Williams has done an egregious wrong. I too believe he should be justly held accountable for his deception of so many people, and so many employers. I just find it incredible that people find relief in grief (other people’s grief, that is). By the way, what is your affiliation with the LHA? How did you get involved with this? You say that it is on behalf of your constituents. Really? It’s possible. Or is it because this was this the opportunity of a lifetime for you and you had to be in on it? Bitter revenge is sooooo sweet, but only if you can taste it yourself, right? Hardy, you won the election! You beat your opponent! Why is it that you are still campaigning and the election is over? I must tell you, Mr. Hardy, squelch the “hate” flames. It is enough that you are consumed by the flames. Don’t burn yourself. What about us, your constituents? Has this boosted our confidence in you and your ability to get things done that will improve our lives, and build-up our community in district 44? I wonder. Because your motives were impure, your actions are detestable and abasing. This is a lack of integrity at its finest display. It’s not good for you. Move on to your real purpose for being elected and live a happy, serene, and upstanding life. Godspeed to your future good works! - Editorial Debasement Dotcom Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:27:17 +0100