A day before he was elected to Congress, Ralph Abraham appeared on the Jim Engster Show to discuss his six-figure promise to charity.
Abraham’s answers severely undermine every explanation his campaign now offers as an excuse.
Recently, a conservative judge didn’t buy Jeff Landry’s defense that state public records laws only apply to state residents. However, the judge awarded the plaintiff nothing except legal fees.
The Bayou Brief attended the court hearing and then obtained a trove of documents that tell the full story.
The congressman from Louisiana’s Fifth District, who is now running for governor, has yet to offer any cogent explanation for breaking his pledge to donate his salary to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and the Veterans Independence Fund or evidence of any donations he ever made.
Instead, he dismissed the reporting as fake news, while his campaign team scrambles for an explanation.
Rep. Ralph Abraham, now running for governor, vowed to donate every dime he made in Congress to two nonprofits.
His office claims he stopped donating after his first term, and quietly, his campaign scrubbed the pledge from his website.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott
I studied nonprofit law in law school and have spent the past dozen years researching and writing about campaign finance law.
I have never encountered a more brazen example of what should be precisely prohibited than what the Larvadain family nonprofit organization is apparently doing.
Two Louisiana political advisors seemed destined for an office in the West Wing, until a scandal sank Gary Hart’s campaign.
In Baton Rouge native Stormy Daniels’ tell-all memoir “Full Disclosure,” Louisiana looms large.
The two Louisiana Republican Senators decided to take the embattled nominee at his word, which means they weren’t listening to a thing said by his female accuser.
More than you’ve ever wanted to know about the manufactured scandal over a gubernatorial appointment to the Red River Waterway Commission.
