The Lafayette City-Parish Council has begun accepting applications for the recently created charter commission that will be tasked with reviewing and recommending changes or repeal of the Lafayette Home Rule Charter.
Nine appointments will be made to the commission: seven by the CPC, four of whom must be residents of the city of Lafayette and the other three residents of unincorporated Lafayette Parish; two commission member appointed by the CPC must be members of a minority race — one from the group of city residents and one from the group of non-city residents. City-Parish President Joey Durel will make the other two appointments to the commission — one city resident and one resident from unincorporated Lafayette Parish.
Applicants must submit résumés to council Clerk Norma Dugas, who says she has already fielded inquiries from interested residents. “I’ve had more so questions than sending in the résumés, but I think now that this notice is going out we’ll start getting some,” Dugas says. Résumés will be accepted until noon, Tuesday, May 18.
District 7 Councilman Don Bertrand told The Independent recently that he has already had several of his constituents approach him about serving on the commission, which is on a voluntary, unpaid basis.
According to LCG, elected officials, employees of consolidated government or persons with a contractual relationship with LCG are barred from serving on the commission. Members, however, will not be required to submit financial disclosure forms required of elected officials and most people who serve on official boards in Louisiana. “Our city attorney seems to believe that that will not apply to this commission,” Dugas adds.
Résumés can me mailed to Dugas at P.O. Box 4017-C, Lafayette, LA, 70502. For further information, call 291-8810.
JUNE 19 Former Saint Steve Gleason, who is paralyzed by ALS, released a statement Tuesday in response to the Atlanta radio station's skit making fun of him and the disease, this Picayune post reports. What did he say? He said he'd accepted the apology of the DJs who did it, notes that at least the incident has got people talking about ALS, and asks anyone who is burning to take action about it to do so -- by helping him fight ALS.
JUNE 19 Blogger Ian McGibboney takes a look at the Gleason incident in this post. He makes a good argument about the difference between having free speech and being free from consequences for your speech (which none of us is). He also admits that many of us got upset before we listened to the skit -- but lets us know that the reality is far worse than we can imagine. It was the incredibly bad judgment, even more than the actual speech, that probably got those DJs fired, he opines.
JUNE 19 Washington Post blogger Aaron Blake writes about Sen. Guillory's switch to the GOP in this post. He writes what most political watchers in Louisiana know: Guillory was a Republican before he decided to run for the senate seat in a mostly-D St. Landry district, and has switched back now that he plans to run for Lt. Gov. in a mostly-R state. But how come Blake missed Guillory's appearance on a TLC pageant show? Now that is a video we'd like to see. (Again).
JUNE 19 Here's another Washington Post blog post about a Louisiana politician, and it's just plain scathing. Ezra Klein says Jindal's Politico post was "insulting" to the intelligence of voters, and adds that Jindal is personifying the "stupid" he's railed against, by being an "elite" who convinces GOP activists of "things that aren't true." Me-ow.
JUNE 19 Here's Gov. Jindal's post in Politico, in which he asks the GOP to get over losing to Obama (again) and stop "the bedwetting." (Uh, what?) He gives his Republican buddies what is probably a nerd's idea of a coach's motivational talk, which starts with a list of accomplishments that they can't seem to exploit and ending with an absurd description of liberals that sounds like a character treatment for a Fox "News" movie scripted by Gordon Liddy. Sure, he's preaching to the choir, but even the choir's not this gullible.
JUNE 19 Lamar Parmentel read Gov. Jindal's post on Politico, but thinks it was so dumb it probably was published in the wrong paper. This post by Lamar on the Daily Kingfish opines that possibly Jindal's post was destined for the Onion -- because the governor couldn't possibly be serious here. If you listen closely, you can hear the staff of the Kingfish giggling.
JUNE 19 Blogger Robert Mann posts from Turkey, a country he has visited several times in the past few years. Mann gives an interesting overview of the current political and societal climate of the country, which -- if you're living under a rock and don't know -- is experiencing protests and turmoil these days. Mann promises to post as much as he can during his trip, which should be fascinating reading.
JUNE 19 Blogger CB Forgotston says the legislature is keeping the vicious cycle going with its funding of new buildings for the community college/technical college system. Universities across the state need maintenance and improvement on existing buildings, and the solution is to build new buildings at other schools? By the time the bonds are paid off, those buildings will be falling down, too, CB says.
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