Below are my refutations of some of Republican talking points I have encountered with respect to Royal Alexander, Republican candidate for state Attorney General of Louisiana.  Elections for state office in Louisiana will be held this October and November.  Royal Alexander was once Chief of Staff of Rodney Alexander, the turncoat Democrat who is now the Republican representative of LA-05, or northeastern Louisiana, in the US House.  As a result of an egregious gerrymander, my home is now in Rodney Alexander's district.

I missed the debate held by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.  Information on the debate can be located at this website.  According to NALEO, the debate was held on 30 June at 2pm EST.

Everyone can acknowledge how toxic the threads on the Democratic primary candidates have become.  Many, including myself, are a part of the problem, and I attribute this to the passion with which we all approach the primaries.  But sometimes comments become inappropriate, and our desire to see our candidate elected sometimes compromises our ability to refrain from typing words we later regret.

All of us have read story after story after story about the 16 indictments leveled against Democrat Bill Jefferson, Representative of LA-02, a district encompassing parts of Jefferson Parish and the majority of Orleans Parish.  The controversy surrounding Bill Jefferson's alleged misdeeds are not limited to the Orleans Parish Democrat, however; a certain Republican named Billy Tauzin, Jr., former Republican representative of LA-03, a southeastern Louisiana district now represented by Democrat Charlie Melancon, is also embroiled in the scandal.  

Original at Daily Kingfish, a progressive Louisiana blog

After missing a House Committee on Homeland Security oversight hearing on FEMA this week, Jindal, trying to deflect negative media attention for failing to attend an oversight hearing of a committee on which he sits that is directly related to the recovery of the state he represents, is now calling for an oversight hearing on formaldehyde levels on FEMA trailors.  According to the Herald Tribune, Jindal is "astonished" by the concentration of formaldehyde fumes in these trailors.  Was not the oversight hearing held this week by the House Committee on Homeland Security the time and the place to ask FEMA questions about their investigation on formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailors?  Did not FEMA release their report on formaldehyde levels in their trailors earlier this month?  And were we not aware of these problems for at least a year?  Does Jindal assume we are stupid?

Here is a taste of what we Louisianans are cooking over at Daily Kingfish, a community blog where the progressive and Democratic Louisiana communities discuss Louisiana politics.

This is a relatively easy analogy to unpack: Landrieu engages in oversight, while Jindal is derelict in his duties as Congressman of LA-01.

During a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee oversight hearing on 10 May 2007, Mary Landrieu asked Condoleezza Rice why the US Government only accepted a fraction of $854 million of foreign aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  To quote Landrieu: "[the] people I represent were not able to take advantage of this aid[,] because there are obviously some major problems in how we receive aid [when people are in] their most desperate need [of help]."