Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

Or just criminally stupid/oblivious to what goes on around him?

Otherwise known as the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Holden was inaugurated in January 2005.

First of all: what?  What on God’s green earth is a Mayor-President when it’s at home?  How is one title or the other not enough?  I know that we’re talking about Louisiana here (it does admittedly take an awfully long time to shake off the lingering effects of being under French dominion), but still – the title’s a little too close to Eternal Sun God-King for my liking.

Does Barry know that someone else has a double-barreled title and he doesn’t?

“Kip” is in the news (well, LA local news, at least) because his sister, Evelyn J. Holden, has pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy in aid of racketeering, in an ongoing federal probe of bribery in the local criminal justice system.  She faces up to five years in prison, which is lacking by a factor of ten, in my estimation.

What most interests me, however, is what the linked-to article above studiously (and very boringly) ignores.  Possibly out of fear of a lawsuit, a concern that I’ve circumvented by putting a question mark in the title.

See, Kip, I’m not calling you a criminal?  I’m just pondering the likelihood of you not knowing that your sister, who also works in the public sector, was committing felonies.  Were there no hints?  No warning signs of any kind?

Nonetheless, I bet that she’s a really good, kind person, as always seems to be the case with these poor, misunderstood kleptocrats.

In which case, I’m sure that she’ll have no problem making lots of new friends in the slammer.