Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport): The Self-Righteous Saga Continues

*Please refer to all of my earlier Seabaugh-related posts, and the national media, for the history behind this email I just received.*  ~DBE

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From: "C.B. Forgotston" <cb@forgotston.com>

Subject: Rep. Alan Seabaugh

Date: April 24, 2013 7:01:47 PM CDT

To: seabaugha@legis.la.gov,aseabaugh@legis.la.gov

Picture of Arrogance


Today I contacted Rep. Alan Seabaugh regarding a vote he cast on the House Floor.  I disagreed with his vote and wanted to let him know.

Seabaugh called me ignorant because I didn't understand the bill.  I asked him to enlighten me.  Instead I got a lot of arrogant, condescending, rhetoric. 

Finally, Seabaugh told me not to email him again; he had wasted enough time on me.  

From my standpoint, the time was definitely wasted.  

In contacting Seabaugh I used his taxpayer-supplied email address and the taxpayer-funded server.  My taxes, I might add, paid for those services.

In the future, communications with Seabaugh will be very public just like this one.

If anyone knows Seabaugh please pass this message on to him. His taxpayer-funded email addresses are on the "To" line above.

Folks, when an elected official in Louisiana or anywhere refuses to allow a citizen to contact them, we have a major problem.

C.B.
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Rep. Alan Seabaugh: Shreveport's ALEC-loving, double-dipping, pro-bulling legislator

Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport)
Source:  Facebook

"If you are an ALEC member, your airfare, hotel, ALEC registration, baggage, travel to/from the airport to the hotel, and airport parking will be reimbursed through an ALEC scholarship up to $1900 per legislator.”

Another paragraph, again in boldface, instructed legislators thusly: “You need to SAVE and SUBMIT copies of all receipts and turn them in to my assistant, Patty Wisner, AFTER the trip.  Reimbursement usually takes 2-3 weeks to process AFTER the trip and AFTER you turn in the reimbursement form and receipts.”

The problem with that is that at least 16 Louisiana legislators filed expense reports with the House and Senate for reimbursement of more than $20,750 in expenses related to their attendance at last August’s annual meeting in New Orleans...according to records provided by the House and Senate."

"Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport)...claimed more than $2,000 in expenses that included a $475 registration fee for the same meeting.

Besides the $475 registration fee, Seabaugh also submitted vouchers for payment of $346 in mileage from Shreveport and $456 in per diem payments—a total of $1,277, leaving almost $800 in unaccounted for expenses, presumably for hotel accommodations at the New Orleans Marriott which were not itemized on his voucher that was stamp-dated Aug. 15, 2011.

(Arizona public sector chairman of ALEC, State Rep. Debbie) Lesko’s email specifically said that members’ registration fees and hotel accommodations would be paid by ALEC. Seabaugh submitted a $100 payment on June 13, 2011 for two years’ membership, according to his campaign finance records."

You voted for cuts to our public education system, but you profit from taxpayer dollars for your special-interest PAC trips?

Another smooth move, Mr. Seabaugh.

Read entire article here.