| I wasn't going to drop these Blast from the Past articles that I found on Woody from his 1996 Senate race. Then I saw the absolutely despicable ads that are being put out there by Freedoms Watch falsely stating that Don is in favor of illegal aliens having an easier time getting health care; and the NRCC using Barack Obama in an ad designed to ramp up people's fears about a black man being President and Nancy Pelosi being described as a San Francisco Democrat, which is a code word for believing in gay rights. I am sick and tired of being divided by assholes like Freedoms Watch and the NRCC for political gain.
So, for the next few days, in the run-up to the election, we're going to take a look at who they want to elect - Louis "Woody" Jenkins. The articles are no longer online, but are from The Times-Picayune's coverage of the 1996 Senate race. I have saved the articles in .pdf format, and will include a link to them in each post.
The first article is from October 4, 1996, and it is entitled JENKINS OFTEN LATE WITH IRS PAYMENTS; 9 LIENS PLACED ON HIS TV STATION, and it was written by Bill Walsh of the Times Pic's Capital Bureau.
Back in 1996, Woody made abolishing the IRS a centerpiece of his Senate campaign. Well, we all know by now that Woody did that because he has been late paying taxes for Great Oaks Broadcasting, the TV company that he owns, 9 times. Not once. NINE. Let that percolate around your head for a minute. 9 times being late. NINE.
And it's not chump change ... the liens placed on Jenkins' company totaled $219,964. That's enough to buy a college education at an Ivy League school these days. Hell, you can pay the tuition for about 8 students at LSU on that. And that's for all four years.
Jenkins tried to explain it all away:
Jenkins said the delays are not unusual for a small business.
"This is a transaction-oriented business," Jenkins said. "Sometimes it's a feast-or-famine type of situation."
But the writer, in a piece of investigative journalism you rarely see from the BSM these days, wrote:
But figures indicate that liens filed by the IRS are relatively rare. Of the more than 1.8 million businesses and individuals who filed tax returns in Louisiana last year, liens were placed in slightly more than half of 1 percent of the cases>
Hmmm ... feast or famine type situations? Woody filed a joint return showing income of $723,549 in 1995. That's truly in the top 1% of wage earners, especially back in 1995. By the way, that $723, 549? That includes $172,200 in rent paid to Jenkins by broadcasting operations headquartered on the grounds of his home.
Perhaps he could have forsaken the rents, and just used that money to pay his taxes. That's what responsible people would do.
This should be Woody's slogan:
Woody Jenkins. It's all about me. |
