New Republican PAC seeks GOP majority in Legislature

[Joanne98]

BATON ROUGE, La. -- With term-limits kicking in for many Louisiana lawmakers, some big-money Republicans see a chance to increase their party's presence in the Legislature.


They organized a new political action this year to raise money for the 2007 legislative elections.

The Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority is headed by New Orleans developer Joseph Canizaro. It already has more than $600,000 in the bank, with a goal of raising $2.5 million by the time candidates qualify for the fall elections.

Term limits are fueling much of the activity to make GOP inroads aimed at political control, said the committee's executive director, John Diez Jr.

The committee will be active in 27 to 30 Louisiana House districts and five to seven Senate districts in the fall elections, Diez said.

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5858084

I guess since they successfully kept the poor black people from returning to their homes, the Greedy Old Perverts have decided the time is right for a fascist takeover of Louisana. They've even put a "developer" in charge of the committee. Can you say CASINOS!

[acmejack]

1. Two contributors have already hit the $100,000 maximum...

"According to campaign finance records, two contributors have already hit the $100,000 maximum allowed during an election cycle: C-Logistics LLC of Galliano and Bob Perry of Houston."

How did I know Bob Perry would be meddling in Louisianna Politics ,too?

[Joanne98]

5. Bob Perry is the nations largest political donor....

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Houston homebuilder Bob Perry is nation's biggest political donor
12/6/2006 12:22 PM
By: Associated Press

Houston homebuilder Bob Perry was the largest political donor in Texas and the nation in the recent election cycle.

That's the finding of a nonprofit group that tracks campaign donations. Texans for Public Justice supports imposing restrictions on campaign financing. It said Perry spent $6.7 million on statewide and legislative campaigns. It also says he spent $9.3 million on national candidates and committees seeking to elect Republicans to Congress.

The spending produced mixed results. Perry's money backed more losers than winners in state legislative races and nationwide, but the group of Texas statewide candidates he supported won.

According to the study, Republicans got 92 percent of the money Perry contributed directly to candidates in Texas elections this year.
http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=176087

[BlueCollar]

2. I wodered what Delay would be doing

after resigning from congress...I smell a rat..

[KingFlorez]

3. I don't think they can pull it off

There are parts of the state outside of New Orleans that will elect Democrats to the legislature.

[Roland99]

4. TRMPAC 2.0?

[KamaAina]

6. Did you notice that Miss., not La., got most of the FEMA housing money?

even though La. had many thousands more homes destroyed.

http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1166856511244330.xml?NSBR&coll=1

BATON ROUGE -- Echoing comments from Louisiana's congressional delegation, Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco expressed outrage Friday over the state's $74.5 million share of a $388 million pilot housing program for storm-ravaged states, and she called it a parting shot from a Republican Congress with a pattern of favoring GOP-dominated Mississippi....

"We got shorted one more time, got cheated out of opportunities one more time," Blanco said on the steps of the Governor's Mansion after completing a call with Louisiana's members of Congress.

"It's a cruel Republican agenda that punishes Louisiana," Blanco said. "I find it detestable to find so many hard-working families left out in the cold by rotten party politics."...

Blanco said she plans to ask Congress in January, after Democrats take control, for another $1.2 billion, an amount she said would make Louisiana's total alternative housing grant proportional to Mississippi's.

Say it, Kathleen!

Looks like the repukes view La. as ripe for the taking, with Gov. Blanco widely viewed as vulnerable, and will do whatever it takes not to allow all those Dems to come home, not to mention making Blanco and local Dems look good. :grr: :banghead:

They've even put a "developer" in charge of the committee.

Canizaro is far more sinister than a mere "developer"; he is also a Bush** Pioneer. :puke: