GOD DAMN, I’m sick of seeing this shit! Louisiana must rank right up there with third world countries when it comes to corruption of elected officials.
A couple months ago, former Governor Edwin Edwards was convicted of almost three dozen counts of racketeering. He’d been indicted several times in the past, but this was his first conviction.
Today, I open the paper and see another wonderful story. Here’s a snippet :
“Jim Brown, who made a political comeback as a self-styled white-hat who could clean up insurance corruption, has become the third consecutive Lousiana insurance commisioner convicted of federal charges.”
The article also features a picture of Brown (who looks like scum-sucking child molester, if you ask me) alongside his wife and a somber-looking 16-year-old son. Imagine how screwed up that kid is. His moral compass must be fully demagnetized by now. Fucking sad.
Edwin Edwards, who must spend more time in court than he does at home, was also a defendant in the case, but was acquitted of all 43 charges levied against him. I seriously doubt that either of these men will ever see the inside of a jail cell before they die, and I think that’s fucking sad. What incentive does that give prospective politicians not to succumb to corruption? Jack squat.
People around here wonder why the roads are filled with potholes and why the public parks suck. They wonder how we can live in a city of 130,000 people in one of the most sticky, humind climates in the country and not even have a single public swimming pool. Then they turn around and keep electing these cretins based on who has the slickest commercials or who can come up with the best one-liners. It also doesn’t help that the elections commissioner was indicted last year, and won re-election despite the indictment.
But back to this Edwards character, since he seems to be the slimiest of these evil fucks. You should hear this guy speak. It would make you sick to your stomach. Even though federal prosecuters provided hundreds of hours of audio tape featuring Edwards implicating himself, and even though they’ve proved he spent more money than he ever could have possibly made legally, this fucker still whines about how he’s an innocent victim of some sort of federal conspiracy against him. He paid to have a half-page ad printed in every newspaper in LA, which ran several times! In the ad he went on and on about how he was the greatest governor that the state of Louisiana ever had and how he still believed in the people and blah, blah, blah, blah.
After his conviction, he said something about his 30-something-year-old wife (he’s 70) being the luckiest woman in the world for having the priveledge of being married to him. WHAT KIND OF AN OBNOXIOUS, EGOTISTICAL FUCK SAYS SOMETHING LIKE THAT???
If you’ll excuse me, I think I’m going to go vomit … 