Who To Vote For

You are, no doubt, considering which man will be right for the Louisiana Supreme Court District 4. On the one hand, we have Judge Marcus Clark, a man who was a former Ouachita Parish Sheriff Detective and a state prosecutor, election to the 4th Judicial District Court, and reelected twice, and Judge Clark serves on the Louisiana Supreme Court Unified Rules Committee. Then, of course, we have Mr. Jimmy Faircloth, Jr., who is the immediate past executive counsel for Governor Bobby Jindal. Let’s look at the accomplishments of Mr. Faircloth, who has absolutely no experience as a judge and wants to start out as one of the top justices on the Supreme Court of this state. 1.

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Faircloth, who has had federal judgship ambitions in the past, quit Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s team as his executive counsel half-way through his term to run for the Louisiana Supreme Court. This state’s newspapers, political watchdog groups and the people who have bee following it, found that Jimmy Faircloth almost single handedly destroyed this state’s ethics laws, and more particularly as it dealt with nepotism, raising the burden of proof in ethical cases to resemble a crime even though our ethics laws are not criminal in nature, and lowering from 2 years to 1 year withing which the ethics board must bring charges after a complaint if filed against a public servant or a politician. Mr. Faircloth was the governor’s top legal advisor when the governor fired two state employees for disagreeing with him. Jimmy spearheaded Louisiana being ranked last in the nation for transparency within the governor’s office.

Then we have Mr. Faircloth’s activities before he went to work for the governor. 5.

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He fought several years and spent several tens of thousands of the City of Pineville, Louisiana’s money to keep Public Records out of the hands of the public, who just won that lawsuit. Faircloth was the attorney for a group of Korean War Veterans, whose head appears in one of his ads. But what Faircloth leaves out is that a possible illegal raffle was held with them and Louisiana National Guard Camp

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Beauregard and thereafter several members of the group were reprimanded for speaking out against that possible illegal raffle. Federal Postal regulations were also involved in this. Jimmy also personally suggested that the Coushatta Indian tribe of Louisiana invest millions of dollars with a formally bankrupt Israeli firm that his own brother also worked for. Jimmy was sued by the Provost firm out of Texas for unethically soliciting the Coushatta Indian tribe’s legal representation from them. Mr. Faircloth also sued the Wal-Mart store in Jena, Louisiana for a personal injury claim, despite his being aligned with anti-personal injury trial lawyers in the Jindal administration and his disavowal of them. Jimmy also sued Yamaha for manufacturing a Sea-Do jet ski without ot having a breaking system. The court rejected the plaintiff’s arguments and found that the jet ski was apparent to all that it couldn’t be braked with the throttle open.

Jimmy Faircloth’s appointment by Gov. Jindal was also highly criticized by former Louisiana Gov. Blanco for his involvement with gambling, and Gov. Jindal himself found that Jimmy, who despite having a full time job with him, made Faircloth stop representing all other clients and said that Jimmy could not serve two masters at once. The only thing Jimmy has to counter Judge Clark with are some cases he was sanction, for 30 days, for not taking care of in time back in 2002. In fact, when the Louisiana Supreme Court openly ruled in Judge Clark’s case, it said that Judge Clark “demonstrated improvement since October of 2002 in deciding cases timely and in reporting cases taken under advisement to the Judicial Administrator”.