Inside Politics: Now Fayard Said She Wants To Run For PSC Or Congress
Inside Politics: Now Fayard Said She Wants To Run For PSC Or Congress – Baton Rouge Advocate
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This post was written by MacAoidh on Sunday, October 9, 2011, 10:24. MacAoidh has written 8079 posts on this blog.
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This is a reprise of another post I did:
“Fayard …… [d]enied that an investigation into her campaign finances caused her not to run for secretary of state in the Oct. 22 primary. ‘The ethics investigation had zero influence on my decision not to run,’ she said.” That statement is difficult for me to believe after reading the suit record at the 19th JDC (Docket No. 603,810).
Does she honestly think her constitutional challenge to Louisiana’s campaign finance laws will vindicate her? Is there some Consent Opinion in the works? Was she thinking that all those campaign contributions to Buddy Caldwell in 2008 by Calvin and his group hoping to keep their Katrina Litigation contracts would help her position?
If the investigation had zero influence on her decision, I wonder why her lawyers filed so many voluminous pleadings trying to enjoin the issuance of already secret subpoenaes to her, her sister, her brother, her mom, her dad, her dad’s new wife, her cousin, etc.? (BTW Calvin, isn’t your youngest son old enough to start making his own campaign contributions? He must be 8 or 9 by now.)
She specifically represented to a court of law that “the filing of charges for alleged violations of the CFDA will cause serious, immediate and irreparable harm to Caroline’s ability to be elected as Secretary of State”. Now she says the investigation had “zero influence” in her decision not to run? Was that just some puffery in the pleadings?
Her preliminary injunction memorandum says that none of those being investigated for the alleged campaign finance violations are employees or officials of the State or its political subdivisions subject to the provisions of the Ethics Code. I’m not a lawyer, but I have to question that statement to the court. Her brother, Trey Fayard, is one of those being investigated for his contributions to DEMOPAC. Trey Fayard has been appointed to the Louisiana Board for Private Investigator Examiners for at least 2 years. He is identified on their website as a Hearing Officer and Personnel Chairman and, according to minutes of very recent meetings, he has been present and voting on official business.
Is he an employee or official of the state or its political subdividions subject to the Ethics Code? Maybe not. There are no less than 5 attorneys in the Fayard family who have received subpoenas for their testimony and records, including Trey Fayard. They should know.
Zero influence? Yeah.