re: Gold Standard of Ethics--$1000 fine for $49000 bribe

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Ever noticed how so many local politicians and state senators or their spouses are also real estate "agents". You arent supposed to directly profit. Just take a cut of the action.

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A state Rep from Grant Parish held up the four laning of Hwy 167 through Dry Prong for several years, insisting the route go through a piece of property he owned. He finally got what he wanted, and got around a $million for property that would have been worth about $50k on the open market.

Meanwhile, the Baptist Church in Dry Prong-of which the Rep was a member and deacon-had been assured the road would take another direction, and built a new building based on it. When the plans changed, they lost the space they were counting on for a parking lot. So he not only screwed the taxpayers, he screwed his own church.

I won't bother to post his name, but he was a Rep from 2007-2011, if you're really interested in looking him up.