Alternative New Media for the Gulf South
While today’s Peretti opinion poll indicates 3 of 4 people think Garlandfill “Payola” Robinette is a for rent by the hour to the highest bidder, last week Oyster aka Mark Moseley penned a column for the Lens that added an extra dimension and set of possibilities to the whole “Friend of Freedie Heebe” lobbying group. For those of you that have not read Mark’s column on Garland Robinette, Fred Heebe and payola I highly recommend it.
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I’m shaking the tree folks because it appears next week at a local courthouse near you, a new band called Freaky Freddie and the Heebe Jeebies will be debuting their first song the Fifth Amendment Blues. As soon as I get more info I’ll pass it along.
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And no folks, I do not think it was a coincidence the Gambit took a shot at me back in July. That said it also comes as no surprise that Gambitman Clancy Dubos does what he can to come to Garlandfill’s defense with a tug at the ol’ heartstrings as he takes a nostalgic trip down Eau de Landfill Lane on Garlandfill’s behalf. The rationalizations and twisted logic is sickening.
Maybe, just maybe Clancy, Garlandfill should have gone to the bank and avoided the situation altogether. Ethics is not a hard concept to grasp.
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Boy o’ boy the FCC sure made an impression back in 2007 with that limp noodle last time Entercom was caught doing the payola thing. (Hattip: Rufflefeatherskin on Yahoo ETM) Kiss my ass you sold out f*ckers!
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Come on everyone sing, sing sing…….
There’s no controlling the unrolling of your fate, my friend,
Who knows what’s written in the magic book.
The lobbyist list, which was seized in the raid, is marked as being revised in March 2007, indicating that other versions of it existed. Heebe’s attorney, Billy Gibbens, wouldn’t comment Wednesday.
Jindal’s chief of staff, Timmy Teepell, said he knew nothing about being on the list and that the FBI hadn’t contacted him. He also said he has no financial relationship with Heebe or River Birch. He did say that he considers Heebe “a friend” through his involvement in Jindal’s various political campaigns. Continue reading “Nope we’re definitely not in Kansas anymore Toto. Rich Rainey at the T-P reveals full list of Heebe’s “Lobbists”.”
There is a stereotype that people here down in the deep south are illiterate racist dumbasses that is sadly reinforced by the charlatans from the area we elect to higher office such as Texas Gov Rick Perry. Appearances are often deceiving though as there is actually plenty of homespun wisdom that belies the stereotype such as that found on ‘Gate guest post on Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner. The people here know they are electing crooks to office, at least the minority that are engaged politically. It is accompanied by a sense of helplessness that nothing will change the system so you pick the pol that pays the most attention to your pecuniary needs knowing it means making a bargain with the devil. IMHO this is also what turns off the majority of the voters – you know the ones that stay home every election day.
I mention all this because the fallout from Paul Rioux’s blockbuster story on Robinette taking payola from Fred Heebe could not be ignored on the backside of the long labor day weekend and judging from the comments left in the paper and the sentiments expressed in the blogosphere the locals know Garland is still trying to blow smoke up our collective ass. Watching this scandal play out on the Tee Vee news was fun last night. My expectations were low to begin with and frankly they were not exceeded with one exception as the majority of the coverage was along the lines of what appeared on Gambit’s website in a bland journalistic recitation of Garland’s prepared remarks that really lent no insight to the continued bullshit coming from Team Garlandfill. The exception was Kim Holden’s report for Fox 8 which had that bland recitation part but also contained the insights of a real estate specialized lawyer in Marx Sterbcow. For those that like connecting dots Marx is the son of Arthur Sterbcow. Arthur of course made the news last year when he was canned from Latter & Blum after he assisted the T-P in exposing some problems in property tax assessments in Jefferson Parish crossing Lawrence Chehardy (and Dutchie Connick) in the process. The Sterbcows know their real estate and Holden was smart to get reaction from Marx because Garlandfill’s story has problems as I predicted when I said he was better off not saying anything (because once you get on the slippery slope of lies and buillshit there is only one place for the crap to flow). Here is a snippet:
According to Robinette’s attorney, the loan from Heebe was backed by a vacant lot Robinette’s wife, Nancy Rhett, owns in Tchefuncte Club Estates in Covington.
FOX 8 searched St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court records and did not find any legal documentation to show the property was used as collateral.
Local real estate attorney Marx Sterbcow says it is highly unusual, given the amount of money involved. Continue reading “Garlandfill you can bullshit some of the people some of the time but here at Slabbed we’re immune from your cheap wordsmithing tricks.”
Right now the broader markets are down around 2% while the parent company for WWL 870 is down over 8.5%. Folks one thing sold out whores like Robinette and those that employ such ethicless scudda beans understand is the benjamins which is why I’ll be posting over on the Yahoo Entercom Investor Board so that would be investors know exactly what kind of company they are buying.
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Hopefully this information will advance the quest for the truth in the Garland Robinette portion of the widening scandal in Jefferson Parish. I remembered it wasn’t just Robinette and Heebe but included other names that should be very familiar to Slabbed lifers like Dominick Fazzio. So without further adieu.
The grand jury subpoena listed Jim Ward, Nancy Rhett, Fred Heebe, Jennifer Sneed, Dominick Fazzio and Garland Robinette. The properties are 7 Riverdale, 4 Honeysuckle and 22 Catalpa in Covington and 6017 Patton in New Orleans are/were owned by Robinette/Rhett. 5423 Camp in New Orleans was also listed.
I am digging for another tip in my email folders on this and will update in comments.
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Well folks I guess it is fair to say the drought of 2011 is over. So while we wait the skies to clear lets open betting on whether or not Mr Robinette gets back on the air to explain being a media whore.
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Legendary wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin has a couple of great taglines both of which are easily transferable to Slabbed. For example Slabbed 3:16 means we just cyber whipped your ass and DTA means Don’t Trust Anyone. When it comes to dealing with the media in greater New Orleans I’ve found that last bit of advice particularly salient, especially when it comes to the TeeVee news in NOLA and the big three media outlets, Channels 4, 6 & 8 and the web sites affiliated with them. But alas this post isn’t about the plants, puppets and tools such as Eric Paulsen or WWL-TV “pundit”/Gambitman Clancy Dubos though the refresher helps set up this post. This post is all about radio pundit Garland Robinette, a Grover Norquist parrot that got wayyyyyy too much post Katrina media face time IMHO. In particular Slabbed broke Robinette’s involvement in the landfill portion last December though we did not mention him by name. But eventually I did name his name in the same post that tagged Gambitman in March that is worth revisiting in part:
And this brings us to Channel 4 editorialists and Gambit man Clancy Dubos, who I think has revealed himself as a Fred Heebe waterboy when he checked in with this missive on how River Birch has a new PR firm that is somehow kicking ass. (I swear you can’t make this stuff up). The truth here is that River Birch has pretty much gotten its ass kicked in the PR arena despite throwing big money out on full-page ads, hired gun economists and the like. After reading Clancy’s story I was left with the impression Loren Scott was a PR shill instead of an economist but we already figured that out for ourselves. I can’t wait until Scott’s work product is produced by River Birch as I suspect we’ll have a copy for everyone to examine here on Slabbed once it becomes part of the court record. A deposition of Loren Scott is likely also in order and maybe we’ll all find out how much money Scott’s wife at Blue Cross made underwriting insurance for Tim Whitmer to sell River Birch.
Finally, I also now wonder who else Team River Birch was paying as consultants, especially other members of the local media whose land dealings with Team Heebe have been the subject of federal subpoena.
All I know is with all the events that are unfolding……
There’s no controlling the unrolling of your fate, my friend,
Who knows what’s written in the magic book.
I can not lie I knew something big was coming this week as I sensed a disturbance in the force. This morning Paul Rioux over at the Times Picayune solves the mystery for us in a story that shows exactly how Heebe was pulling the strings of his media puppet Garland Robinette. It is a must read folks. Here is a snippet as we welcome back our old Slabbed fav Dane Ciolino: Continue reading “Heebe’s whores: The Garland Robinette connection to the Jefferson Parish Political Corruption Scandal revealed.”