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LSU Executive Known For Outrageous Double-Dipping Orchestrated Agreement With ‘Double Bill’ Cassidy
Less than two years after he guided and advised recently-elected Congressman Bill Cassidy on how to continue collecting a salary and benefits from LSU-HSC, Vice Chancellor Ronnie Smith retired. He’d spent 27 of his 37 years as a state employee watching over LSU-HSC’s budget and finances. But, despite his decades of service, no one threw Ronnie a retirement party, because Ronnie wasn’t actually retiring; Ronnie was cashing in and then coming right back to his $210,000 a year job. He was retired from LSU-HSC for a grand total of two weeks, and during those two weeks, he was able to…
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Lie In Our Graves
Yesterday night, in what very well may be the final debate of his long and colorful career in Louisiana politics, former Governor Edwin Edwards, now running for Congress, came out swinging, accusing his Republican opponent, Garret Graves, of doling out millions of dollars in contracts to family members, when Graves was the Chair of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. “If I had taken all of the money through all of the years,” Edwards said, “it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of money my opponent and his father have taken from the state.” It was…
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‘Double Bill’ Cassidy’s Direct Supervisor at LSU Stopped Supervising Him in 2009
Questions about the nature and the extent of Congressman Bill Cassidy’s unusual work relationship with Louisiana State University took centerstage in yesterday’s first and only debate in the run-off election for United States Senate. Since the story broke last week on The American Zombie and then here on CenLamar, the Cassidy campaign has struggled to formulate a coherent response. Earlier this year, way back in July, Cassidy had claimed to an energy trade publication and on his federal income disclosure forms that his work at LSU only covered his “medical expenses.” We now know that Cassidy had actually been approved…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
