WizardSleeve

Lots of smoke here. Why is this not being thoroughly investigated? What victims need obgyn treatment? Why won’t DOJ address this specifically this is horrible stuff and deserves to be specifically called fact or give the world the correct context if it’s not.

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CHEDBALLZ

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EXCELLENT content and delivery.

Nailed the big points well. :cheers:

Also call your state rep and senator and give them this perspective too. Tell them we need their focus on this issue at the Capitol.

That’s amazing if true. Like an episode of Stranger Things.

Honestly though none of us should be completely shocked to find that the US actually has some kind of secret technology for use in situations like this. I think about what the people like us in 1945 would have thought if we heard the US was developing a nuclear bomb that could incinerate a city in one blast. Would have sounded far fetched.

All true. But on average higher IQ people self-govern more effectively. Low IQ people make poor decisions with short sighted reasoning. On average the people that abandon the shopping cart are lower IQ because impulse control tracks proportionately with IQ.

We will abort our civilization both by continuing to import low IQ people from their own failed civilizations and incentivizing the population growth of low IQ populations currently here.

What we have is a high trust society. And it only works if it is filled with individuals that act in good faith because they are intelligent enough to see the long term consequences of their actions. Low IQ people fulfill their immediate impulses, like stealing, and are necessarily also low trust people. .

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Who made this decision? Politicians? WLF? A commission? Someone needs to be accountable to answer the question as to “why”?

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The decision is made by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. It is a board of 7 appointed commissioners.

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If it’s the commission, then who appointed them? Are they getting paid or is the politician that appointed them getting paid?

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They are all appointed by a governor. Some were appointed by JBE and some by Jeff Landry. The current makeup of the LWF Commission is 4-3 in favor of commercial interests, due to the appointees from Landry.

Landry’s campaign benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the menhaden industry. There might be some other under-the-table benefits going on, but there was a ton of money publicly contributed by these menhaden companies and owners to Jeff Landry and they are now getting the benefits of cherry picked commissioners friendly to them.

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That’s where my breakdown in understanding is. If the people of Louisiana (the sportsman at least) are so against this, and have gobs of evidence against it, then why would the boundary get changed? Who can answer that question for the people?

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An excellent question. The 3 commissioners friendly to conservation and recreational interests voted against the buffer change. The 4 who voted in favor of decreasing the buffer are all aligned with commercial interests. Two own alligator farms. One owned a shrimp dock. Jimmy Martin was a commercial fisherman and was appointed by Landry early this year. Chairman Sagrera was also appointed by Landry this year and is one of the alligator farmers. This changed the commission to be favorable to the menhaden reduction industry.

I was in the Nov 6 hearing and it was very heated and obvious how each of them would vote. The 4 commercial friendly guys were confrontational to the commenters who were against the pogy boats. Jimmy Martin, in an bizarre off topic question, asked the owner of Puglia’s sporting goods if he sold barbless hooks, because if he didnt sell barbless hooks he was somehow doing more harm to the ecosystem than the pogy boats. It was the most wildly ignorant statement and I was embarrassed as a Louisiana resident that these guys are making such important decisions. One of the commissioners who owns alligator farms was on his phone the entire time, not really listening to the people who got up to speak and comment. The guy who owned the shrimp dock was the deciding vote and he voted with the pogy boats because the shrimp industry is aligned with the pogy boats. They kill a lot of bycatch also and view any threat to the pogy reduction industry as a future threat to them.

There is definitely a strange alliance and solidarity between the pogy reduction industry and all other commercial fishing and shrimping mom and pop businesses. It’s ironic because there would be more fish available for our commercial fishermen if it weren’t for the pogy boats and the real kicker is the reduction product fish meal and oil is almost exclusively used in aquaculture overseas, including shrimp and salmon that are sold back into our market to compete against our own domestic commercial shrimpers and fishermen. Omega themselves own one of the largest shrimp farms in Central America. They harvest our pogies to feed their farms.

One speaker got to the podium and brought up that the 2 commissioners owning alligator farms would be an obvious conflict of interest since the main cost in farming alligators is the feed… made from menhaden. So the cost of their feed would go up if the harvest of menhaden was reduced. It’s highly unethical and an ethics complaint has been filed, to my knowledge.



TLDR: Jeff Landry was elected from pogy industry money - he appointed commissioners friendly to the industry - they vote in their best interests, not in the interests of the people of Louisiana.


I will add that the menhaden people and their lobbyists are very friendly with Jeff Landry and this kind of stuff only happens with the governor on board. 100% he was aware of this buffer change. Many people reached out to him to try to stop it, telling him it would be a political issue for him later, but he ignored and essentially responded that these menhaden companies would lose jobs if we didn’t accommodate them. Or at least thats what Ive heard from more than one person who has spoken to him about it.

If you dont like what’s happening with the pogy boats, it’s ultimately all on Jeff Landry.

Hell yeah 7 is perfect for hopedale. Much of hopedale to Delacroix can be fished in fall and winter without any open water runs, all interior marsh safe and low intensity boat rides for kids. Find drains and points or pockets with tide falling and good clean water, put a shrimp under a cork up near the cut or bank and hold on!

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supposed to limit it to 1 miles and then the new gov got elected

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Yep thats what that $780k of known public contributions bought. Likely a lot more in unknown contributions like invites to Francois Kuttel's yacht in the Mediterranean or $15 million vacation house in Aspen. They bought a governor friendly to the industry.

Here's a YouTube of the show from this morning if you missed it.

YouTube Don Dubuc WWL 870 Menhaden Segement

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I was really impressed by Don. He had clearly read up on everything and was ready to go.

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Agreed. He did a great job. Came across as very reasonable too.

Don's show comes out as a podcast every week, I listen to it sometimes on apple podcasts. If I see it when it comes out I'll post here.

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