re: Rank the most corrupt Louisiana Elected/Appointed Officials in your opinion

The broom and Murphy Paul duo are basically like villains in a comic book.

In other places (like Chicago for instance), the corruption is usually masked by a semi-functional government that occasionally gets things done.

Not so in New Orleans. Or Louisiana in general.

Clay Higgins

There is no way to determine this. The amount of corruption that happens at a local level would probably surprise people.

There are 102 elected mayors in Louisiana. The state is ranked 5 in mayors per capita just to give you an idea of what we are looking at.

There are 64 parishes so that's 64 elected sheriffs.

With 102 elected mayors the amount of elected chief of police should be around that number.

I don't know how many parishes have parish presidents and how many just has a council that runs the parish.

I'll use my parish as an example.

Iberville Parish has a parish president. There are 13 elected parish councilmen. An assessor who is elected, a clerk of court who is elected, and of course the sheriff who is elected.

There are 6 municipalities:
Plaquemine
St Gabriel
White Castle
Maringouin
Grosse Tete
Rosedale

So that's 6 mayors. I think each one has a chief of police and I think each one has a council with several councilmen who are elected.

There are 9 elected school board members.


There are 8 elected justice of the peace. I think its 6 elected constables

That's at least 46 elected positions in 1 parish (but like Plaquemine has its own judge, I don't know if the other municipalities have a judge. So I am going to use this to guess the number of elected officials each parish has and on average lets say 40. That's 2560 local elections.

The elected officials who are probably the "most corrupt" are the ones who are not in any type of spotlight.

The New Roads mayor, at random, will go to a bar (no particular one) downtown. He has a top cop of the NRPD he uses for his own body guard. He somehow gets the city council to approve more funds to the police office so that he can pay this one policeman overtime to drive him to Baton Rouge, New Orleans, etc.

Councils are supposed to keep mayors in check, but most of them run for the position for the insurance. If you are a business owner, if you are elected in a council position, that's like getting what? $700-$800 a month raise since you don't have to buy your insurance. You get about $1600 a month with insurance so they are not worried about going against the grain.

If they vote in favor of the mayor, the mayor will do what he can to help get those he know will vote in his favor on issues he needs their approval on, get elected.

I know I am going down this long path, but my point is, if investigators came into the state (and not just Louisiana) and started to investigate into every elected position, the amount of corruption that would be revealed would probably be mind blowing.

The names you listed are just people who are in the public eye more than all the others.

I remember reading that book about the New Iberia murders that all seemed to be tied together, but they could never prove anything, the amount of corruption in their police department was pretty nuts. And that was just the little bit that was uncovered related to this story. So I would say the #1 most corrupt Louisiana elected officials are those from smaller cities, towns and villages. They are on one's radar.

They’re all out to personally enrich themselves by scoring political points, selling contracts, getting kickbacks and not actually solving any problems (so the cycle is perpetual). These people would be totally lost/broke if they had to get an actual job in private industry.

Surprised everyone seems to have overlooked Cleo Fields and his brown paper bag of cash from EWE.

Bob Odom

A couple of y’all have called out Bill Cassidy. I get that you don’t like his votes on Trump’s impeachment but what do you have on him regarding corruption?

Not sure how you don't have Jeff Landry and Clay Higgins on this list.

Among “Republicans” Alario is the worst