Villere Congratulates Blanco for NOT Contacting Sugar Bowl

(Baton Rouge) - Roger Villere Jr., Chairman of the Republican Party of Louisiana, today formally issued a statement of appreciation to Governor Kathleen Blanco for not contacting the Sugar Bowl to secure an invitation for the LSU Tigers.

"On behalf of LSU fans everywhere, I want to extend my thanks to Governor Kathleen Blanco for not contacting the Sugar Bowl," Villere said. "According to newspaper reports, the Governor contacted the Rose and Orange Bowls to secure an invitation for LSU and we obviously won't be playing in either of those contests," Villere said.

"I fear what might have happened had she called someone in New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl Committee," he said. "A few more calls by Blanco and the Tigers may have been headed out of the BCS entirely," Villere said.

Villere suggested that the Governor might adopt slightly different priorities, "The Governor should consider spending more time on the LRA instead of trying to help with LSU's bowl game. She has already botched the Road Home Program, please leave LSU football alone."

 

Amen! I told you guys she would screw it up. :hihi:

 

Glad he called her out on it! :thumb: Bush is picking up the tab for his meal tonight. :hihi:

 

OK, and now dems go...

"Oh, that is so not PC! You should never insult the leader of the state!"

 

No, I'm a democrat but I sure as hell didn't vote for that dumb@ss. I voted and campaigned vigorously for Jindal, it's a shame that there are people in this state that will let a person's ethnic background sway their vote. But, I'm not getting into all of this again...:hihi:

 

Nice, she would make a nice addition to the Dem ticket along with the Clinton broad.

 

Dem or Rep...doing what she did was just wrong. She is a STUPID politician who is apparently fairly unconcerned about the state of the state.:dis:

 

cojones? come on guys, you're grasping at threads.

what if she would've only lobbied the sugar instead of the rose? what would you have been saying then?

and don't try to make this some bullsh-t republicrat argument because it's not. it's just some douchebag florist from metarie talking crap about whatever he can find.

besides, isn't this board supposed to talk about lsu sports?

 

That's a lame and meaningless political line and anyone with a brain knows it.

I'm no fan of Blanco, but this is just stupid and unworthy of print.

Why would the Rose Bowl break a 60 year tradition when they didn't have to? They got what they wanted: USC and Michigan. They didn't "screw" LSU.

The Sugar Bowl picked LSU BEFORE the Orange Bowl.

Those two phone calls probably took up 10 minutes of Blanco's time.

Who cares? Oh, desperate hack politicians do. Sorry.