Need or Greed?
FACTS:
Young parents and grand parents can continue sitting and standing in a waiting room ( Health Unit) in Lafourche parish. The law requires parents to have their young children inoculated. Is there a need for additional Health care personnel? Would additional health care personnel cut down on the amount of time a parent or grand parent have to wait (hours) while obeying the law? Could the so-called health unit surplus be put to better use by helping our people who are trying to obey the law and care for their children? If public officials can spend two hours speaking on the radio, they may consider spending two hours at the health unit.
We can be proud of our elected officials in Lafourche Parish; Now that the surplus will be used to acquire a luxury office building for the DA, the law breakers (speeding tickets, DWI, etc.) will be spending time in a luxury waiting room while waiting to see the DA. The people of Lafourche parish do not have a right to complain. The people trusted Charlotte Randolph when she had the Lafourche Parish Council place the health unit surplus issue on the ballot. You voted for it, you got it. Need or greed?
The people had a choice. The people voted for this Parish President, Council, Sheriff and DA. The people do not have a choice of who sits on the South Lafourche Levee District. Remember that the health unit tax passed because it was for our children and senior citizens. Now, just after major flood events in our surrounding area, the South Lafourche Levee District will be asking the citizens of the 10th ward to vote on an additional 1 penny sales tax. Members of the South Lafourche Levee District are already saying that if the additional tax cause a surplus, they will repeal the tax. But there are wiser people than them that are saying, “once their hands are in your pockets, they will remain there”. Need or greed?
OPINIONS:
In my opinion, the actions of public employees and elected officials who are guilty of cover-ups, malfeasance, unarthorized spending of public funds, public money and equipment for private use/gain, breaking the public trust, ethics violations, etc., should be removed from public office or employment immediately. Whose responsibility is it to prove guilt? It is alleged that this DA may not indict public officials because they did not intend to violate the law. Is this another way of saying that they didn’t intend on being caught? The Lafourche Parish Council (citizens and tax-payers of Lafourche) received an invoice for $5.2 million. It was over 10 months before the incident was brought to light? Allegedly, there were at least seven people who knew about and took part in an alleged cover up by keeping this information from the public and governing authority. In my opinion, the alleged seven had an obligation to report the alleged expenditure to the governing authority, immediately. Who knew about the alleged cover up of the alleged placement of $5.2 million worth of flood protection devices in Lafourche Parish? Should there be an investigation? If so, should Charlotte Randolph, Brent Callais, Phillip Gouaux, Ray Cheramie, Cullen Curole, Shannon Chiasson and the director of emergency management be included ? It will be interesting to see , if they attempt to cover up the alleged cover up.
