Senator, I'd suck a dog's nose dry before I'd lend you a chicklet.

November 5, 2001 9:22 AM

Senator, I'd suck a dog's nose dry before I'd lend you a chicklet. Comic commentary on Lousiana politics. And you thought your own local government was bad... Suspect Device
posted by nickonomicon (4 comments total)

It's funny because it's true! Good to see that the days of Earl Long addressing the Legislature while sipping unlicensed spirits from a Grape Nehi bottle while they debate removing him from office for allegedly being mentally disturbed...haven't completely passed on.
posted by gimonca at 10:55 AM on November 5, 2001

As a Louisiana native, I have to say that there's nothing funnier than Louisiana politics. I worked for my uncle in the Senate one summer and I learned more about "the real world" and "banana republic politics" than I ever would have imagined.

One of my favorite stories: there used to be a law that said that after midnight on the last day of session, no more laws could be passed. The law was amended (very subtely) to say that laws couldn't be passed after the main Senate clock reached midnight. Now, on the last day of the session, they unplug the clock five minutes before midnight and debate until sometimes two or three in the morning. True story.
posted by ColdChef at 11:00 AM on November 5, 2001

Connecticut has become the Louisana of the North. Two big city mayors (Bridgeport, Waterbury) have been indicted and three of the four statewide candidate the GOP ran in the 1998 elections (Treasurer, Comptroller and Secretary of State) are facing jail time for corruption and racketeering.
posted by flip at 11:08 AM on November 5, 2001

three of the four statewide candidate[s] in the 1998 elections (Treasurer, Comptroller and Secretary of State) are facing jail time for corruption and racketeering.

hey, that sounds like Oklahoma, only we don't send them to jail. we send them to Congress.
posted by tolkhan at 6:40 AM on November 6, 2001