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LOCAL NEWS
Mayor Mayson Foster of Hammond, had decided to try and crowbar more money out of the citizens using the franchise contract negotiations with Entergy Louisiana. He is proposing that Cleco come in, mainly because Cleco pays 4% franchise fee over Entergy’s 2%. Which they pass right on to the customers. So, for the customer Entergy is cheaper right off the bat and certainly handles the restoration after a storm MUCH better than Cleco does.

Typical politician, sticking it to the citizens for their agenda. As a matter of fact, the Mayor has the authority to up the rate 2% and get that money anyway. But, that would be transparent that HE is the one taxing the citizens. The city council majority is against this and the Mayor is not even keeping them in the loop anymore. The 2 councilmen who are not firmly against it are Kathy Monteciono and Tony Licciardi.

Kathy has an agenda of her own (a children’s museum) which she either doesn’t realize on doesn’t care that Entergy has several hundred employee’s temporarily located in Hammond, and is ramping up to add more employees on a permanent basis.

All of this is going on during a time when this Fortune 500 Company is trying to decide which direction they are heading and what their presence in Louisiana needs to be. It sure would be another black eye for our state to have politicians bleed citizens again.

I urge you to call these people and tell them not to doom us with higher rates.
Mayor Foster 985-542-3400
Tony Licciardi 985-345-6260
Kathy Monteciono 985-429-0211

Also, call these Councilmen and thank them for their resolve to stand against the Mayors diabolical plans.
Curtis Wilson 985-345-6504
Willie Grant Jackson 985-345-5564
Nicky Muscarello 985-542-4142

Now on with the show…

NATIONAL NEWS
Let's noodle this illegal immigration thing through for a minute. Why are these gate-crashers coming to America? Well, because nobody's stopping them, of course, but why do they want to be here? Hint: It's not to worship God as they chose, nor is it to have the right to free speech. It's economics. They come here because they have little hope of improving their lives where they live. History shows that free enterprise and capitalism do more to lift people out of despair and poverty than any other economic system. In spite of the best efforts of the socialist left in this country, free enterprise still pretty much powers our growing economy. Our low unemployment rate is the envy of the rest of the world.

Some 36,000 students...most of which probably wanted nothing more than to have the day off...skipped class and marched through downtown Los Angeles yesterday. Their cause? According to the mainstream media, they were protesting an immigration bill in Congress. How many of those 36,000 students do you suppose have read the immigration bill that has them so upset? Not many, I would guess.

Here's a nice little story of eminent domain for you. The mayor of a very rich small town on Long Island wants to steal a private golf club through eminent domain. The goal here is to make this private golf club his small town's "public" golf course.

Can you believe something like this could happen in America? Well, it could! Another freakin mayor with a greedy agenda. Politicians are goofy.