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UPDATED HB 889 house kills karen carter peterson's cigarette and tobacco tax

louisiana healthier families act
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karen carter peterson's increase convenience store smash-n-grab robberies, clerk murdering and black marketeering enhancement act of 2009
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HB 889 nutty karen carter peterson resurrects her cigarette tax bill

louisiana healthier families act
click here to download seven page .pdf

fresh off from the defeat of her HB 75, this jaguar driving, none taking no for an answer, high-yellow sista, has reworked and reintroduced her cigarette tax bill going from four pages to seven.

apparently, the problem with peterson's HB 75 was that she didnt properly share with her criminal friends the tax money to be generated. HB 889 addresses this.

americans for tax reform knows how to call a rino a liar

on saturday 06 june 2009 the so called louisiana republican party central committee passed a resolution "opposing all increases in taxes and fees including the cigarette tax."

previously, karen carter peterson a new orleans area democrat had her house bill no. 75 which called for among other things a one dollar per pack increase in the cigarette tax. that bill died in committee.

not to be out done, rep. peterson reintroduced her cigarette tax as house bill no. 889 this time calling for among other things only for a fifty cents per pack tax increase.

both bills are called the "louisiana healthier families act" or as we prefer to call them " karen carter peterson's increase convenience store smash-n-grab robberies, clerk murdering and black marketeering enhancement act of 2009."

anyway, on 08 june 2009, two days after the aforementioned rscc resolution, HB 889 came before the house committee on ways and means where it passed this time by a vote of 8 - 7.

two of the eight favorable votes were cast by republicans - rep. stephen carter and rep. frank hoffmann. if these two so called republicans would have obeyed the resolution (not to mention the republican party platform as well as everything that republicans are supposed to stand for) or if the republican committee chairman hunter greene would have bothered to have voted and voted no, then HB 889 would have stalled in committee.

not long after the committee vote americans for tax reform released the below statement where they actually name names. atr further reveals that rep. carter's word is worth squat because he actually signed a "taxpayer protection pledge" which by this vote he promptly broke.

we guess rep. frank hoffmann is an honest liar cause atr makes no mention of his signing the pledge.

click here to download one page .pdf [262 kb]

contrast atr's statement to what bayou buzz is trying to represent as gop chairman roger villere's "stern response."

"On Saturday, the Republican State Central Committee passed overwhelming a resolution in opposition to tax and fee increases. Today, members of the House Ways & Means Committee, whether explicitly or implicitly allowed Speaker Pro-Tem Karen Carter Peterson’s tax increase to go to the floor. I’m disappointed by today’s vote, but I’m hopeful that Republicans and conservative Democrats will stand up for taxpayers and reject this regressive tax that will hurt Louisiana small businesses." ~ source

chairman villere's incompetence knows no bounds. he doesnt give the bill number, he doesnt name names. he doesnt take the committee chairman to task for not voting. from reading his statement you wouldnt even realize that any republicans played key roles in the bills favorable passage. wtf?

why is an out of state group issuing far superior statements on the workings of the louisiana republican party than the republican party itself?

when are louisiana republicans going to wake up and realize that roger villere is working a plan to destroy the party? when are news outlets like bayou buzz as well as the states conservative talking heads going to stop covering for villere's incompetence and start speaking out?

HB 75 nutty karen carter peterson's cigarette tax fails to pass committee

HB 889 house ways and means committee reports nutty karen carter peterson's cigarette tax bill favorably

grow your own tobacco and tell karen carter peterson; the fda and tax and spenders to go to hell

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photo courtesy back forty tobacco

doofy rino hollis downs is a clown

on thursday, 28 april 2009, the house committee on ways and means met to consider two bills. the first bill that they considered was state representative hollis downs' HB 456, a bill that would require that the tax on gasoline, diesel fuels, and special fuels to be adjusted annually in accordance with the bureau of labor statistics consumer price index.

incredibly, it seems that everyone has already forgotten last years SB 672 the massive legislative pay raise fraud bill, which, likewise, tied the "legislators" pay raise to the consumer price index. see house floor amendments: amendments proposed by representative tucker to reengrossed senate bill no. 672 by senator duplessis.

this meant that the legislators would likely receive an automatic yearly pay raise of an unknown amount without any further debate or public input. out of sight, out of mind.

furthermore, since the cpi represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population like food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication and other goods and services for example tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services and funeral expenses.

also included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls. in addition, the cpi includes taxes (such as sales and excise taxes) that are directly associated with the prices of specific goods and services. see cpi faq what goods and services does the cpi cover?

do you understand what a mistake it is in allowing the legislature to tie taxes, etc to the consumer price index? because the legislature either outright or working in concert with their criminal friends in city and parish government and congress can manipulate the consumer price index!

think of karen carter peterson's HB 75 dollar a pack cigarette tax.you might be a nonsmoker thinking that the tax wouldnt affect you but it does. every tax and fee affects everyone else.

any sane, rational person should be able to understand that if the legislators were willing to tie something as important to them as a pay raise to the consumer price index, then its not a good idea to tie a tax on all the people to the same thing.

in case you're wondering, yes, hollis downs voted for SB 672. see SB 672 house final passage vote of 13 june 2008.

anyway, we watched the committee meeting on the live stream and saw hollis downs make his ignorant statement criticizing the governor (you cant believe one word that comes out of the governor or his staff's mouth but in this instance he appears to oppose HB 456 and rightfully so) where he called on the governor and his team "to be leaders, and not just philosophers."

how dare this asshole, hollis downs, who claims to be a member of that party which stands for lower taxes, etc., etc., (you know the drill) and who brings this sham of a bill before the legislature criticize the governor for opposing it.

whats more, where is the republican party leadership at? where is roger "daffodil" villere with his scathing press releases at? why isnt he taking to task hollis downs for his very unrepublican bill?

and not only hollis downs there is also rino eddie lambert's HB 254 and rino's kevin pearson a jim tucker's HB 687. this is just two out of many bills that come to mind that an honest, respectful, authentic gop party boss (which roger villere is not) would be raising hell over.

villere instead of doing his job is off harrassing rep. karen carter peterson with a massive public records request. [click here for one page .pdf 18 kb]

roger villere is the sorriest excuse for a gop party boss ever. what he needs to be doing is getting a grip on his own party and calling out all the rino's that so infest it. but years have went by and he does nothing.

are louisiana republicans ever going to get a clue and realize that roger villere is working a plan to destroy the louisiana republican party? will they ever run his ass off and not only villere -- but the rest of the criminals who are killing the la gop? it sure doesnt look like it from here.

if you're a republican, grow a backbone. have some integrity for a change. speak out against these rino legislators and demand the removal of all these incompetent, corrupt criminals from the leadership. or turn out the light on your way out -- cos the republican party is going down -- the sooner the better -- simple as that.

HB 456 was voluntarily deferred that means that it can come back up again. so you better get on the phone and call your representative and tell him or her to vote no to HB 456 as well as HB 254 and HB 687.

dont bother emailing them because many of them just delete their emails unread.

sb672 louisianaians fighting back posting pictures of legislators cars online latest: karen carter-peterson

louisianaians continue to fight back to show the hypocrisy of the louisiana state legislature in voting themselves a 200% +++ pay raise.

maybe, just maybe louisianaians are finally waking up to the realization that the louisiana legislature is nothing more than a massive organized crime gang. they take away the peoples rights and freedoms and replace them with taxes and fees and create crimes out of thin air whilst at the same time rewarding themselves with lucrative inside deals one, just one, example being the reservoir scam and then arbitrarily award themselves massive pay raises for a job well done against the people and then have the unmitigated gall to call anyone opposed to their scams 'extremists.' well enough!

meanwhile, here are some photos of house speaker pro tempore karen carter peterson's jaguar xj8:

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the swine in the state capitol might have the flu!

near the end of day 32 of the 2009 regular louisiana legislative session, state representative and speaker pro tempore, karen carter peterson used a personal privilege to complain about an incident that happened to her earlier in the day when she was over in the house judiciary committee meeting where she was carrying the water for senator mike walsworth and his SB 279 incidentally a bill on emergency preparedness.

rep. peterson woz freakin cuz seated next to her was louisiana department of social services secretary, kristy nichols, who was just coffin an weezin something awful. it was a veritable "outbreak" of coffin. it was so bad, that sec'y nichols blurted out famous last words: "i dont have the swine flu."

oops not so fast .... come to find out (later in the day when the test results finally came back, although sec'y levine let it slip that they had known since that morning) sec'y nichols (and four others in dss) did (or does) have the swine flu!


this led minutes later to a suspension of the house rules to allow department of health and hospitals sec'y alan levine and doctor jimmy guidry, the state health officer of louisiana, to come on the house floor and answer some questions.

irma muse dixon qualifies to run for vacant state senate seat

source: our campaigns
this data is a couple of years old

source: louisiana sec'y of state candidate database inquiry

buddy holly and the day the music died 50 years ago today

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cnn reminds us that today is the 50th anniversary of the iowa plane crash that claimed the lives of three of rock and roll's most promising performers, buddy holly, ritchie valens and j.p. richardson - "the big bopper." the pilot, roger peterson, also died.

www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm

HB 687 louisiana rethugs war on poor children dental care fails to pass house...for now

UPDATE: HB 687 to be reconsidered week of 26 may 2009

video added 7:32 am cdt wednesday 20 may 2009
video direct link

UPDATE: see times-picayune: bill targeting dental clinics comes up short in house

house final passage roll call vote #332

advocate photograph that rep. karen carter peterson
was talking about during house floor debate - article
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its amazing to us that former rapides parish school board member herbert dixon voted for HB 687 and against poor children. as usual ball, la. rethug chris hazel could be counted on to vote exactly the opposite of what his party says that they stand for. hazel is a total joke and a fraud republican wise.

rep. billy chandler voted no and we thank him for that. rep. chris roy, jr. was absent.

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more later - including the house committee videos for HB 687

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please see access dental louisiana @ www.accessdentalla.com the website of lafayette dentist gregory j. folse for more information.
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HB 687 louisiana rethugs war on poor children's in school dentistry to be reconsidered week of 26 may 2009

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picture of louisiana state senator ann duplessis mercedes benz

UPDATE: from the sunday 06 july 2008 baton rouge morning advocate:

Duplessis: Photos of her car misleading

State Sen. Ann Duplessis said the legislative pay raise issue was skewed by those who do not believe elected officials are credible.

As an example, she pointed to the photo of her Mercedes that popped up on the Internet before the governor vetoed the pay raise.

Duplessis, D-New Orleans, said the car is part of her compensation package as a banker.

“It’s a 10-year-old, broken down vehicle,” she said. ~ source

heres a photograph (courtesy of brian mcnabb and the louisiana action council) of louisiana state senator ann duplessis' car. the license plate reads "senate district 2" senator duplessis is the author of sb672 the bill which will give louisiana legislators a 300% ++ pay raise.

considering that senator duplessis represents the impoverished lower ninth ward of new orleans and seeing that the value of her ride is worth more money than many of her constituents will see in five or ten years or more, senator duplessis seems to be doing quite well for herself on the current legislative salary or maybe shes a coupon clipper or something. or maybe, someone needs to investigate her and find out where she got the money to be tooling around in a mercedes benz.

source: autotrader.com

dishonest hit piece on helena moreno: fail

sooo both of these candidates likely suck.

they're the only ones on the runoff ballot too.. helena moreno was in a car wreck on 14 october 2002. she t-boned a car that ran through a stop. there was a fatality. whether the investigation then was a cover-up who knows but it doesnt seem likely.

ms. moreno was a repeater for a new orleans television station. she quit that ... and eventually ran against wm. jefferson. now she finished second primary to move into the runoff for dist #93 state representative to replace the big liberal tax and spender karen carter peterson; who was foolishly elevated by special election to the state senate after the resignation of cheryl gray evans.

ms. moreno's opponent in the runoff is james perry. mr. perry recently ran for mayor of orleans and at first his campaign tactics shook up the "elite" so badly that they had to bring in mitch landrieu. mayor landrieu at the time was the lieutenant governor.

in the fall there will be a statewide special election to fill the lt. governor vacancy. we had hoped that they would abolish the office at least until the regular election.

bananas foster a/k/a foster l. campbell, public service commissioner, recently has said there is a 50% chance of his running. we would strongly consider voting for him if there are no third party candidates to choose from.

the flamboyantly liberal rino jay dardenne certainly doesnt deserve it.

regarding rehashing ms. moreno's accident, orleans media makes it pretty clear that mr. perry and his operatives that fell far short with their reach.

so mr. perry, apparently and this part needs to be checked who filed an la. r.s. 44:1 et seq public records request to the new orleans police department traffic fatality unit.

perry operatives emailed it around to various orleans media outlets and this is the part that we dont like -- according to the lens, who apparently, filed their own public records request which runs to seventy-three pages and compared them:

mr. perry's so called "summary." they found it left out some 15 pages of the official record.

piyush scam's sinister puppeteer rolfe mccollister: 'former ethics board showed no class'

now we know where piyush "bobby" jindal scam got his "ethics board resigned due to new financial disclosure law," talking points. ~ link

air force to 'reconsider' its cyber command scam

word came out earlier this week that the united states air force has 'suspended plans to establish its much hyped cyber command program.' this cyber command was to be established at barksdale airforce base at shreveport, louisiana.

it never made any sense to locate cyber command at barksdale in the first place, as the obvious choice for its location should have always been within united states northern command [usnorthcom] at peterson air force base colorado springs, colorado.

more than likely whats happened is that the government has decided to run this massive domestic and international internet monitoring and spy program through one of its spook agencies instead of through the active duty military.

the government is probably afraid that after the military, a lot of whom still take their oath to the constitution seriously, finally catch on to what it's really up to -- will spill the beans.

a 'cyber command' has always been just another governmental scam. for instance, everyday we receive scores, if not hundreds of 419 as well as phishing emails as well as the regular run of the mill spam. this has been going on unabated for years. in fact its worse now than its ever been.

mayor of new orleans primary returns

mayor of orleans final

http://staticresults.sos.louisiana.gov/262010_36.html
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lege committees to hold 'secret' meeting about reapportionment

c.b. forgotston sent this out a few minutes ago:

According to a story in today's Baton Rouge paper ( story here) some of our leges are planning to hold a two-day, secret meeting (where all expenses paid by us taxpayers) to discuss how to reapportion the districts by which they represent us.

The Clerk of the House says the clandestine meeting is legal. If so, it is only due to a "loophole" written by the leges in the Open Meetings Law.

The meeting was called by Rep. Rick Gallot, D-Ruston, who only recently escaped prosecution for violating the ethics law via a loophole he help insert into the law.

The meeting may be legal, but it is not right way to do the people's business.

Why isn’t it open?

This meeting is a part of the decision-making, process for reapportionment. What part of reapportionment is not the people's business?

[Speaker of the House Jim] Tucker said it is necessary to have the meeting behind closed doors so they (legislators) can have open discussions which could be otherwise inhibited.

In other words, the leges cannot be honest with the people they represent.

Do the right thing

The right thing to do is for all the leges invited to attend this meeting (which includes my representative) to refuse to attend unless the meeting is opened to the public and the media.

C.B.

UPDATE: forgotston has now posted this to his blog here

sb672 baton rouge rino erich ponti leads charge for massive legislative pay raises in state house

UPDATE: sb672 scheduled to be heard and voted on by the house on friday 13 june 2008

www.thedeadpelican.com
shown rep. erich ponti and sen. ann duplessis