[StBernard] St. Bernard Parish council ends contract with official parish journal

[Westley Annis]

McInnis' is referencing what he said months ago when this first came up.  In
regards to the actions taken last Tuesday, the Council proceeded on current
state law, and under that law it was acknowledged prior to last Tuesday's
meeting that the Parish Post newspaper still does not qualify to bid for the
contract.  Only publications outside of St. Bernard that have been in
business for at least five years can bid.  So the Council's decision last
Tuesday was in no way to help the Parish Post since they already knew that
publication cannot qualify.

Also, Mr. McInnis' original comment was in error.  He presumed such a bill
by Garofalo would be an ethics conflict, when in fact it has since been
learned that would not have been the case since the Parish Post was already
an existing tenant of his and not a potential tenant contingent on receiving
the contract.  Also it has since been learned in an article that the Parish
Post moved out of Garofalo's building months ago to a larger facility due
their growth in business.


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Well I know enough that when McInnis asks a state legislator who has ties to
the publisher to put in a particular bill the Post publisher  would benefit
from, it stinks on ice.

"During that period, McInnis had asked state Rep. Ray Garofalo, R-Meraux, to
introduce a bill that would have allowed the parish to hire a newspaper that
has only been in operation for about six months as its official journal."

Granted, Garafolo did not go through with it:

"After a Times-Picayune story revealed that the St. Bernard Post rented
office space from Garofalo, McInnis said that "due to ethics conflicts,"
Garofalo would drop the bill."

But this looked and sounded totally asinine

""Then I'm going to subpoena some people, and they will have to say whether
that's correct under oath," McInnis said."

I'm done with it, whether I show how little I know or whatever.