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4/16/00 - Kevin Delcambre collected 57% of the vote for Grand Isle Town Council Seat D. He beat Leoda Bladsacker, a democrat. Delcambre is an Independent.

5/10/00 - The St. John the Baptist Parish Council asked Parish President Nickie Monica to fire the chairwoman of the board that oversees the parish's four public housing complexes. A letter from HUD asked for it, supposedly.

6/9/00 - Richard DeLong is resigning from the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board after nine years. Apparently DeLong is having health problems. A probable special election will be Nov. 7th.

7/14/00 - An effort to recall Plaquemines Parish Benny Rouselle failed after the required number of signatures was never obtained. 5,556 were needed.

7/28/00 - A Monroe city prosecutor resigned after being investigated for missing office files, missing drunken driving files, and voter irregularities. It seems Mr. J. Rodney Pierre also quit after a legislative audit revealed that $10,000 was never deposited into a diversion program's bank account.

8/5/00 - A former district attorney for the Ouachita and Morehouse parishes has been sentenced to 33 months for lying in court when he said he had burned nearly $500,000 of money he took from the law firm Johnson & Placke, of which he was a partner.

8/16/00 - St. John the Baptist Parish's government administrators and council members have tinkered with employee salaries that may be unfair and susceptible to political manipulation. One pay plan and one book of regulations have been rejected already.

8/16/00 - Judge Kirk Granier gave three St. Charles robbers long sentences for armed robbery. Christopher Sanborn was given 75 years. Bryan Loper got 70 years and Ronnie White got 49.5 years in prison. Loper and White robbed a bank and threatened four bank employees with guns. Sanborn terrorized fast-food employees in a restaurant during an armed robbery.

8/19/00 - Appeal Judge Michael Kirby of Plaquemines Parish won re-election after no one qualified for his position at the close of the day yesterday. 

8/19/00 - In St. John the Baptist Parish, the following races and candidates were recorded at yesterday's qualifying: In the 8th School Board District, Charles Duhon, Michael Magiore, Randall Triche and Russ Wise qualified. For Justice of the Peace in the 4th District, Dean DeFrancesch, William Favor, Cathy L. Wade and Donald Williams qualified. For Constable in the2nd District, Albert Burl, Brent Duhon, Sr., Walter Madere, Norman Volion and Tom Weber put their papers in.

8/19/00 - In the Mandeville City Council, At-Large seat race, Edward Lyons and Jay Maggio, a Republican, qualified.  For Justice of the Peace in Ward 2, Richard Atkins, Tim Garlick, Diane Grantham King, Veronica Lentz, Samuel Lee and Christine Jenkins Sharp qualified.

10/8/00 - Russ Wise and Michael "Coach" Maggiore will meet in a runoff in early November for a seat on the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board.

10/8/00 - Bill Favor and Donald Williams will face each other in an early November runoff for the Justice of the Peace, 4th District, in St. John the Baptist Parish. In the Constable, 2nd District race, Albert Burl III and Charles "Beno" Duhon, Sr. will meet also.

10/31/00 - The Times Picayune endorsed the following candidates in various St. John the Baptist races: Russ Wise for the 8th District School Board race, Brent "Beno" Duhon, Sr. for 2nd District constable and William Favor for Justice of the Peace in the 4th District race.

11/8/00 - Albert Burl III beat Brent Duhon, 56 to 44% for the 2nd District Constable Seat. Russ Wise, an Independent, beat Michael Maggiore (D), 51 to 49%. In the JP seat, 4th District - Bill Favor beat Donald Williams 53% to 47. Both were Democrats. The voters also approved Purpose B which authorized $27 million for jail construction and facilities improvement.  The tally was 69% to 31 in favor of enactment.

11/18/00 - The mayor of Monroe, Melvin Rambin announced, yesterday, that he has liver cancer. His top city administrators will handle city affairs while he undergoes treatment for an undetermined period. We wish him good luck.

11/19/00 - James E. Steward, a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal judge out of Shreveport, was arrested by New Orleans police for hitting his 14-year-old daughter several times in the chest. Police were told the blows were intentional as confirmed by the victim and her mother. Hmmmm. 

11/22/00 - Clinton "Rock" Perrilloux, a former St. John the Baptist councilman was arrested and booked for DWI and careless driving this past Saturday. His blood-alcohol level was .094 - below the legal mandate. Looks like a plea bargain case. Careless driving...drop the DWI, since it's below the accepted level for intoxication. State police say he was still DUI. But, DUI is not DWI. DUI is driving under the influence....If you're just done eating Oreos...are you DUIO? Just what is DUI, anyway? Anyway, Perrilloux got himself in a predicament.

12/2/00 - Although state tourism hardly qualifies for this page, it is possible that some of these individuals may seek elective office later. Anyway, state tourism officials, it seems, have accepted several complimentary passes to play golf on courses all over the place. It seems they, supposedly, need to check out as many as 25 golf courses to see whether their plans are feasible. At $35 to $95 a pop, that's a significant ta-ta. Now, whether this is necessary is beyond reason. Do they really need to spend all this money to see whether a golf course is justified? 

3/4/01 - Judge Dan Johnson of the 19th Judicial district (Baton Rouge) was ticketed for drunken driving after he wrecked his truck trying to cut across an interstate median. Judge Johnson also got summonses for not maintaining control of a vehicle, no license. This was apparently his first DWI.

1/5/02 - The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board is seeking a federal court's certification that it has complied iwth all terms of a 1991 desegration order. Unitary status, if granted, would reduce the amount of federal scrutiny of the system and could mean no more busing.

1/8/02 - A few Quachita Parish officials and residents are concerned about a possible conflict of interest. It seems that six police jurors are also city employees. They say morally it's wrong even if the state says it's okay to be both.

7/23/02 - Former U.S. Senate candidate Woody Jenkins was fined for illegally concealing his 1996 campaign purchase of a phone bank. The Republican Party of Louisiana was also fined for an issue relating to Jenkins' campaign.

3/12/03 - Saying he's innocent, Anthony St. Philip, has been given a citation for marijuana possession while watching a Mardi Gras parade. He's been ordered to appear in court, April 10. St. Philip is an elected member of the Plaquemines Parish School Board.

8/29/03 - Two high-ranking Westwego employees, indicted for theft and racketeering, resigned yesterday but remain on the payroll. Mayor Billiot is keeping them on as operators at Westwego's water plant. The mayor says he doesn't have anyone to do the work. Baloney?

2/11/04 - St. John the Baptist Parish Councilman Richard Wolfe may plead innocent soon from his charges of felony theft and failing to file state tax returns in an upcoming court date. Four counts of felony theft and four counts of intentionally failing to file a state income tax return in 2000 through 2003. Stay tuned...

3/12/04 - Donaldsonville mayor has been suspended after being convicted of malfeasance in office by an Ascension Parish jury. He's black. The jury was all white. He claims rascism. But, was it? Sounds familiar? Well, we'll see...

7/22/04 - Patrick Sanders of the St. John the Baptist School Board changed his mind on a previous school board vote. Seems that Mr. Sanders flip-flopped when it came to having the board pay for out-of-town conferences and conventions. The vote took these freebees away. Mr. Sanders apparently missed the fun and out-of-town adventures away from the scrutiny of his constituents. But something else, it seems, surfaced with this fiasco. You can't change your previous vote selection if it can change the outcome of the decision! And, Mr. Sanders' flip-flop did. And, because of this, Mr. Sanders needs to go! Have any of these conventions been in Las Vegas?

8/04 - The state Board of Ethics is suing former Baker Mayor Leroy Davis and his wife, Elaine, for mishandling campaign funds. The ethics complaint claims that Leroy Davis loaned Elaine Davis almost $2,000 for a 1993 school board election. No bank or other financial institution was named as required by law. It also showed that Davis filed a campaign finance report stating that this loan was being repaid, although it was never listed as a loan. Hmmm!

11/4/04 - In Plaquemines, voters turned down all three proposals. The parish seat will not be moved. No half-cent sales tax hike for a new courthouse. No tax increase for maintaining a courthouse and government complex.However, voters gave a tax exemption for exploration and development of minerals outside Louisiana.

5/21/05 - In Ville Platte, an Evangeline Parish police juror has been ordered homebound after being arrested a second time this month. Marc Guillory was accused the second time of defrauding the Police Jury in a payroll scam. He is facing 17 counts of payroll fraud as well as other charges.

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