[StBernard] Senator Boasso Pulls a Lynn Dean

[Westley Annis]

John,

This makes me wonder about some of the other state Senators.  In particular Craig Romero.

He wants to unseat Charlie Melancon in the U.S. House, but if he can't help curb pork at the state level, how can we believe he will ever do so at the Federal level.

Westley

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Bravo for Senator Boasso.  I was proud to be Walter's campaign manager and even prouder to see him stand up and fight against a budget bill he knows is full of wasteful spending.  Yes, Lynn Dean did it as well and I agreed with him, too.

I mean nothing person by this, but still I always thought it to be a bit cheesy some of the ads Diana Dysart ran against Dean - which indirectly addressed Dean's votes against the state's budget.  Her ads were of a theme that Lynn Dean voted against improving health care, against improving education, yatta yatta yatta - all these points made reflected the "good"
things in the state budget - even though Dysart knew the reason Mr. Dean voted against the budget bill wasn't because he was against everything that was good in the budget, but rather he was against all the pork spending.
After all, God forbid someone rock the boat in Baton Rouge and point out pork spending in the budget....maybe Louisiana is in the shape it's in because everyone in Baton Rouge has "go with the flow" disease.

Personally, I've never quite understood this "retardism" most legislators appear to suffer from in that "if there's just a few good things in the budge bill, then you must accept everything else that's bad."  That's just plain nuts!  If a majority of the legislators thought like Walter and Mr.
Dean and the budget bill got shot down, does this mean the world as we know it and our beloved state comes to abrupt end????  No, the legislators simply go back to the drawing board and decide which "bad parts" of the budget bill are going to be removed."  So, maybe, just maybe, voting against the budget bill is good "common sense" step in trying to limit wasteful spending in our state.  However, I find it a dangerous undertaking to mention the words "common sense" and "state government" in the same sentence.

John Scurich