US Senator John Kennedy is calling on Governor John Bel Edwards to step down due to his handling of the state’s fiscal cliff. The governor supports a half penny sales tax that would fully fund government, while some House Republicans favor a third penny sales tax that would require 126 million in cuts. Kennedy says Edwards was negligent to reject the House Republican’s offer.
Edwards’ Spokesperson Richard Carbo says “Sen. Kennedy’s absurdity knows no limits.”
Unless the Legislature approves additional revenue, TOPS will suffer a 30 percent reduction. Taylor Foundation Executive Director Dr. James Caillier says if we fail to sure up TOPS, the state will bleed its best talents.
Presidential confidant Rudy Guiliani will be in Lafayette to raise money for US Congressman Clay Higgins primary opponent. Becca Dill has the story.
A third man has been arrested in the death of a St. Martinville teenager whose body was found on a St. Landry Parish levee over the weekend. 62-year-old Donald Boutte of Breaux Bridge, and grandfather of one of two men who were previously arrested in connection to the death, was charged with Obstruction of Justice and Accessory After the Fact to Second Degree Murder.