Right-Wing Revenge Plot Against Democratic Senator is Actually Full of Good Ideas

Posted by | August 1, 2014 12:38 | Filed under: Contributors Eric Trommater Opinion Politics Top Stories


“All politics is local,” a phrase attributed to former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil, has come back into play in Louisiana this week. The endorsement of incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu in her reelection bid by the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association has brought out the typical charges of corruption and cronyism (Landrieu is on the Senate Appropriations and Homeland Security committees) and corruption from the state’s ever-growing population of RWNJ’s.

One man’s plan for revenge against the Sheriffs’ Association, for daring to endorse someone who isn’t a Republican, is actually filled with some very good ideas that, if implemented in all localities, may do more to enhance progressive values than a super-majority in both houses of Congress on the national level ever could.

Unlike most of Louisiana’s political offices at present, the Sheriffs’ Association is largely still overwhelmingly in Democratic hands: 39 Democrats, 18 Republicans and seven independents. Sheriffs in Louisiana have a lot of political power in most of the state’s municipalities. They control a very large portion of government funds especially in the more rural parts of the state.

Littered among the several articles on the joys of privatization and the “proofs” that liberalism is a form of mental illness on his daily blog The Hay Ride, Scott McKay has an article entitled “Is It Time To Rethink This Law-and-Order Conservatism Stuff?” Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association Endorses Mary Landrieu.” In it he brooches a plan to break the sheriffs of their power and also avenge the lost endorsement for Rep. Bill Cassidy.

…there are lots of things which are relatively popular with the public and represent very defensible public policy that the sheriffs really won’t like.

One example: local term limits, which was brought up and debated in the legislature this year, but killed by the LSA and the Louisiana Municipal Association. . . .

Another: decriminalization of marijuana, which the sheriffs blew away this year. There is evidence the public would definitely support decriminalization. . . .the sheriffs hate that like poison; marijuana arrests make for lots of revenue to local law enforcement.

And another: prison reform. The sheriffs make a killing off housing prisoners, but Louisiana’s prison population is so unbelievably high that our state resembles a Soviet gulag. Virtually everybody knows this can’t continue, and prison reform in Louisiana is inevitable. Perhaps it’s time for the Louisiana GOP, or legislative leaders within it, to put that reform on the front burner.

Whatever his motives they are all good ideas.

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By: Eric Trommater

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10 responses to Right-Wing Revenge Plot Against Democratic Senator is Actually Full of Good Ideas

  1. Suzanne McFly August 1st, 2014 at 16:34

    Oh no, the horror, legalization of weed and the end of housing thousands for holding a dime bag in our for profit prison industry, oh what shall we do?

    • tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 21:32

      Toke up, obviously!

      • Eric Trommater August 1st, 2014 at 21:43

        I’ve always said the future belongs to the party that embraced both decriminalization of pot and reforming our prison system. Step up Democrats! We need to own these issues.

  2. Suzanne McFly August 1st, 2014 at 16:34

    Oh no, the horror, legalization of weed and the end of housing thousands for holding a dime bag in our for profit prison industry, oh what shall we do?

    • tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 21:32

      Toke up, obviously!

      • Eric Trommater August 1st, 2014 at 21:43

        I’ve always said the future belongs to the party that embraced both decriminalization of pot and reforming our prison system. Step up Democrats! We need to own these issues.

  3. tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 21:33

    So, I expect the Sovereign Citizen movement is behind this, too? BTW, that’s some hat goin’ on there, Eric.

    • Eric Trommater August 1st, 2014 at 21:42

      I’m glad you like it. As far as Sovereign Citizen’s opinions on anything I’m afraid they aren’t big on answering polls so we will have to wait for their next over pass protest or paramilitary standoff to find out.

  4. tiredoftea August 1st, 2014 at 21:33

    So, I expect the Sovereign Citizen movement is behind this, too? BTW, that’s some hat goin’ on there, Eric.

    • Eric Trommater August 1st, 2014 at 21:42

      I’m glad you like it. As far as Sovereign Citizen’s opinions on anything I’m afraid they aren’t big on answering polls so we will have to wait for their next over pass protest or paramilitary standoff to find out.

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