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First, it was an inspection team from the Louisiana Department of Hospitals and its report containing a laundry list of SHORTCOMINGS, then there were the reports of non-functioning air conditioning at North Louisiana Medical Center (NLMC), which forced that necessary surgeries be delayed or transferred to other facilities.

Separate from that report, there were numerous stories of myriad financial difficulties of Allegiance Health Care, the owner of NLMC and several other facilities scattered across the state, mostly in north Louisiana—little things like neglecting to submit payroll taxes to the federal government as required by law.

More recently, there is a second wrongful death LAWSUIT filed against the hospital and both suits make basically the same claim that the deaths occurred because of inadequate, or non-operative, telemetry monitoring—one of the deficiencies cited in LDH’s recent 84-page report which was a result of the inspection team’s visit.

Allegiance CEO Rock Bordelon fired off an email to LouisianaVoice on June 21 in response to our initial story about Bordelon and Allegiance in which he made vague references to legal action for what he termed “defamation” of him and his company even though most of what we wrote came directly from the public record.

Of course, any litigation he might choose to pursue would open his business interests up to examination under discovery.

And while his financial empire, so far as it applies to medical care, appears to be teetering, he manages to find time for other interests, namely a reality game hunting show called ON THE ROAD WITH ROCK & AARON, aka On the Road Outdoors. Bordelon is the ONLY OFFICER of the corporation, according to Louisiana Secretary of State records. Aaron Lewis, a sometimes-front-man for a rock band is apparently his sidekick and hunting companion.

Rock Bordelon

The perfect metaphor for Nero fiddling as Rome burns

He also has corporate filings with the state for a pizza company, a racing company, real estate interests, a wedding event center, an electric sign company, a hotshot transport company and what appears to be an ammunitions company–in addition to the medical care and pharmaceutical entities among some 200 corporate listings in his name.

As the problems of NLMC continue to mount, his Facebook postings of his most recent hunt for velvet elk in Colorado would seem to be the perfect metaphor for Nero fiddling as Rome burns.

Even as the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control continues to search for a new parish library director after its exercise in ineptitude in FIRING THE PREVIOUS DIRECTOR as per the wishes of Michael Lunsford and his CITIZENS FOR A NEW LOUISIANA, Lunsford’s influence continues to infest the local political scene with his toxic influence.

The parish council voted to remove the entire library board back in January 2025 by setting “a new table, put a new table cloth, put new silverware, put new people around the table with the same directions and … see if we can get things done on a more professional level,” in the words of parish council member Ricky Goff, whatever that was supposed to mean.

Some parish council members, notably Erwin Sandefur, Dean Coates, Ryan Chavers and Joe Erdy, OBJECTED to removing the entire board. Sandefur and Erdy, in particular, wanted the parish council to reappoint their two members, Larry Davis and Summer Smith, both of whom were ultimately rejected in the sweeping coup, er… housecleaning.

Fast forward to 2026 and the congressional reapportionment mulligan exercised by the Louisiana Legislature and U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields was squeezed out of the 6^th District, throwing the contest for a successor into disarray.

Into the breach stepped former Livingston Parish Library Board member Davis, a rarity in Livingston Parish in that he is a Black Republican who is also a minister and who is now preaching the Gospel of Deity of Cheeto Jesus Trump, the Alpha Molester in Chief.

His WEB PAGE touting his candidacy checks off all the prerequisites of any campaign in a red state—Economic Growth, Border Security, Public Safety, Parental Rights, Energy Independence, Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutional Freedoms and Military Strength—as if Repugnantcans held a monopoly on such issues.

As long as the economy and fiscal responsibility are on Davis’s mind, this might be a good time to remind him and all Repugnantcans that under the Decomposing Jack O’Lantern’s second term, the national debt has increased by $3.1 trillion (with a “T”) and inflation is eroding middle America’s standard of living quicker than you can say sexual predator.

So, what makes the candidacy of Larry Davis so interesting?

As always, follow the money. The list of contributors to his fledgling campaign is interesting, to say the least.

Take William Mills of Lafayette, for example. Mills has thus far kicked in a single $3500 contribution to the Davis campaign.

Who is William Mills, you ask?

Well, besides being a 2025 recipient of something called the Horatio Alger Award, he’s one of the biggest supporters and a BOARD MEMBER of Lunsford’s Citizens for a New Louisiana, the organization that’s behind the statewide push to censor public libraries and hold them to Lunsford’s arbitrary standards of puritanical doctrine.

Other individuals who are been front and center in the attack on the First Amendment include the campaigns of Rep. Kellee Hennessee Dickerson (R-Denham Springs), Sen. Valerie Hodges (R-Denham Springs), $1,000 each.

For a list of all his donors, go HERE.

A trial date of next Feb. 22 has been set for a wrongful termination case in which an employee of nearly 30 years was fired by the Louisiana Workers Compensation Corp. (LWCC) for offenses the majority of state civil service workers and supervisors alike have violated on a regular basis.

A federal judge earlier denied a motion for summary judgment (dismissal) filed by the LWCC after two obscure, little-used regulations were invoked as a means to fire the longtime employee.

Judge John W. deGravelles denied LWCC’s motion in a 25-page ruling, saying LWCC’s citing violation of the regulations “was not the real reason” for the termination of Laura Sherman, who had worked for the agency since 1993, “but rather a discriminatory animus was.”

Sherman was found employing a state computer to perform duties related to rental property she owned and was found to be in violation of regulations prohibiting private use of state computers and of failing to properly notify and obtain approval for outside employment.

Those rules are, at best, selectively enforced throughout state government as state employees routinely use computers for personal emails and for online shopping (including supervisors this writer is personally aware of, including one who booked a cruise on a state computer while on the clock).

Moreover, many state employees derive income from outside sources that would not be considered “employment,” per se, such as rental property, selling beauty products and even performing school fundraising activities without ever giving written notification or seeking permission to do so.

In Sherman’s case, she maintains the work she was doing on her rental property was being done during her lunch hour and that she was not on the clock at the time.

LWCC vice presidents Angela McGhee, Kyle Rickards and Jamie Bourg attest that they conducted an investigation and determined that Sherman was actively working on her rental properties without permission to engage in outside work, as required by LWCC’s Outside Employment Policy.

There is, indeed, such a policy throughout state government but it is rarely enforced. Employees routinely derive outside income from investments such as rental property, for which supervisors would be hard-pressed to qualify as “outside employment,” since many supervisors themselves own rental property and receive income from outside sources.

The only time the regulation is enforced is when there is no other reason to terminate an employee. Employees who sell beauty and health products, for example, often do so while actually on duty in offices where they work.

The incident in question occurred on June 8, 2022. Both sides in the dispute offered evidence pertaining to the two policies. LWCC submitted in evidence language of the Outside Employment and Unethical Behavior Policies as well as testimony about their meaning.

Conversely, Sherman submitted a number of declarations from former employees of LWCC that touched on how those policies were generally understood, applied and enforced in practice, whether they applied to investment property, whether LWCC had knowledge of her activities with the investment property, what employees were allowed to do during break (such as lunch breaks) and whether any other employee had ever been terminated for violating either policy.

“In resolving the motion (for summary judgment), the court may not undertake to evaluate the credibility of the witnesses, weigh the evidence or resolve factual disputes,” deGravelles wrote. “So long as the evidence in the record is such that a reasonable jury drawing all inferences in favor of the nonmoving party (Sherman) could arrive at a verdict in that party’s favor, the court must deny the motion.”

The five-day trial has been set for Feb. 22-26, 2027.

Sherman is represented by Baton Rouge attorney J. Arthur Smith III.

This is going to be interesting to watch.

Just when you thought Pervert Hoover, aka Diaper Don, aka Cheeto Jesus, had finally abandoned his obsession with Greenland, the joke of a president is back to plotting control of the Danish territory and he’s employing the diplomatic prowess of Louisiana’s equally absurd governor to accomplish his goal.

What Jeff Landry apparently does not realize is that in true Trumpian tradition, he is setting up someone else to take the fall of the efforts crater. He did it with Mike Pence, he did it with Pam Bondi, he did it with Kristi Noem and he’s currently doing it with J.D. Vance and the negotiations with Iran.

The Baton Rouge Advocate today featured a story that Landry had put forth five recommendations on how the U.S. should approach its relationship with Greenland.

This coming from a guy who is likely to be a one-termer in his home state and who in May SWOOPED UNINVITED into the capital city of Nuuk and ended up getting all pissy with the media while at the same time dissing the country as a whole.

“Let me tell you what I’ve found, he told reporters. “Greenland was not on the map until Donald Trump put it on the map. In other words, the United States…before Donald Trump has basically ignored this place.”

Not exactly out of the Dale Carnegie playbook. But Gov. Squeaky Toy wasn’t finished.

In a role reversal, he asked the media, “When’s the last time that any high-level diplomats came to Greenland, whether it’s from Europe or not, before Donald Trump?” We can only assume that was a rhetorical question.

No matter. Like any capable lawyer (which he purports to be) knows, you don’t ask a question to which you don’t already know the answer. Well…most lawyers, anyway. Turns out, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry did, in fact, visit Greenland—by invitation, at that—in 2016.

When asked why he popped in uninvited, Squeaky Toy sniffed, “If you showed up in Louisiana, I’m not gonna throw you out because you weren’t invited” (except for out-of-staters who submit public records request; Landry attempted to pass a law allowing state officials to refuse such requests from non-Louisiana citizens).

Diplomat Landry FOLLOWED THAT UP with a couple of revealing utterances that sounded eerily as if they were coming from Darth TaxeVader his own self. Jabberoski Jeff, in a podcast, said TACO Don “has not forgotten” about the objective to take over the Danish territory. Trump, he said, told him the U.S. could “bring them right into the fold with “some little things.”

Thos “little things,” Landry said, included sending more military personnel and opening up more trade. “’We need to get Greenland,’” Landry quoted old Smelly Britches as saying. “…[T]hat place is unbelievably important to us,” Landry said. “I mean, it’s a great place, so we’re gonna get it.”

“So we’re gonna get it.” That should raise the hackles of the Danes and Greenlanders. “We’re gonna get it.” Let that sink in.

With that smooth approach, Landry suggested to Boss Tweet, according to The Advocate, that Don Corleporn;

• Establish direct shipping routes between the two countries;
• Assume a larger U.S. diplomatic presence in Greenland;
• Augment the U.S. military presence there and to approve Denmark’s participation in the U.S. Department of Defense’s (or would that be the Department of War?) state partnership program which ties the National Guard in various states in with military forces in participating countries;
• Establish a joint investment fund between the U.S. and Greenland, and
• Expand diplomacy exchanges between the two countries.

It’s the third and fourth recommendations that trouble me—and it should you.

A stepped-up military presence could mean only one thing to Greenlanders: the existence of an ever-looming threat of a unilateral declaration of martial law and a perpetual military threat.

As for a joint investment between the U.S. and Greenland, does anyone anywhere at any time know of any investment “opportunity” involving Donald J. Trump that did not directly benefit Trump—to the detriment of “investors”?