RECENT ARTICLES
Karen Carter Peterson quietly engineers power play to oust gambling board chairman
You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.In March 2019, state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson was forced to acknowledge publicly that she was a gambling addict after she violated a state gambling board rule that she not enter Louisiana’s casinos.On Monday, in an extraordinary power play, Peterson ousted the highly regarded chairman of the gambling board, Ronnie Jones, during a private session of the Louisiana Senate where senators could exercise a little-known authority to veto appointees of Gov. John Bel Edwards and other statewide elected officials to dozens...…You are the owner of this article.You have permission to edit this article.In March 2019, state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson was forced to acknowledge publicly that she was a gambling addict after she violated a state gambling board rule that she not enter Louisiana’s casinos.On Monday, in an extraordinary power play, Peterson ousted the highly regarded chairman of the gambling board, Ronnie Jones, during a private session of the Louisiana Senate where senators could exercise a little-known authority to veto appointees of Gov. John Bel Edwards and other statewide elected officials to dozens...WW…
- Total 1 items
- 1