In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'd like to post a rather horrifying document, an email chain, that occurred exactly one year ago today between two frightful creatures. It's not the kind of document that will startle you or make you piss your pants....it's the kind that will turn your stomach and make you upchuck.
Thanks to a public records request filed by an AZ reader and commenter, I've been going through a chain of former City Attorney Michael Sherman's emails regarding matters on Wisner. Sherman served as the appointee for Mayor Landrieu to the Advisory Committee.
From the get-go, Sherman's primary target was former Wisner Trust Advisory Committee Treasurer/Secretary, Cathy Norman. His intimidation tactics have been well documented here on AZ, even in video. Numerous folks who attended the Advisory Committee meetings attested that Sherman "terrorized" Norman to the point where she simply couldn't take it any more and was forced to resign.
I've even heard tell of an incident where Norman was called into the Mayor's office under the auspices of a one on one meeting with him (Mayor Landrieu) only to be hot-boxed by a room full of lawyers, some of them PSC/JV attorneys.
A petty act of intimidation by petty men.
How petty are these men? Well, I'm going to let you decide that after you read this email chain where Sherman gleefully announces to the JV inner circle that Norman finally resigned, broken by their tactics.
Even more than Calvin Fayard's obvious schadenfreude over Norman's departure, the part that made me laugh and barf at the same time was Sherman proclaiming that he "speaks the truth". What a rare moment for him indeed...I imagine it did feel good for him to speak the truth.
I believe there was a concerted effort on the part of the Mayor to oust the people from the Advisory Committee he didn't like and replace them with his own cronies. I've also suggested that LSU and Tulane colluded with the Mayor's wishes by removing their appointees in order to replace them with folks who would follow the Mayor's wishes, Ron Gardner and Anthony Lorino.
Once these cronies were appointed, they immediately followed Sherman's lead to fire the Wisner Trust's counsel on the BP lawsuit, Waltzer and Wiygul, and replace them with the JV attorneys you see listed in the email thread above.
It's pretty vulgar stuff.
I don't expect anything to come of this exposure but if nothing else I want the public to know the truth. I want them to know what kind of people are roaming the halls of City Hall and pulling the strings of City government.
For the people that actually care to know, that want to know, I think it's important to air this nastiness out.
Happy Halloween.
Thanks to a public records request filed by an AZ reader and commenter, I've been going through a chain of former City Attorney Michael Sherman's emails regarding matters on Wisner. Sherman served as the appointee for Mayor Landrieu to the Advisory Committee.
From the get-go, Sherman's primary target was former Wisner Trust Advisory Committee Treasurer/Secretary, Cathy Norman. His intimidation tactics have been well documented here on AZ, even in video. Numerous folks who attended the Advisory Committee meetings attested that Sherman "terrorized" Norman to the point where she simply couldn't take it any more and was forced to resign.
I've even heard tell of an incident where Norman was called into the Mayor's office under the auspices of a one on one meeting with him (Mayor Landrieu) only to be hot-boxed by a room full of lawyers, some of them PSC/JV attorneys.
A petty act of intimidation by petty men.
How petty are these men? Well, I'm going to let you decide that after you read this email chain where Sherman gleefully announces to the JV inner circle that Norman finally resigned, broken by their tactics.
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Even more than Calvin Fayard's obvious schadenfreude over Norman's departure, the part that made me laugh and barf at the same time was Sherman proclaiming that he "speaks the truth". What a rare moment for him indeed...I imagine it did feel good for him to speak the truth.
I believe there was a concerted effort on the part of the Mayor to oust the people from the Advisory Committee he didn't like and replace them with his own cronies. I've also suggested that LSU and Tulane colluded with the Mayor's wishes by removing their appointees in order to replace them with folks who would follow the Mayor's wishes, Ron Gardner and Anthony Lorino.
Once these cronies were appointed, they immediately followed Sherman's lead to fire the Wisner Trust's counsel on the BP lawsuit, Waltzer and Wiygul, and replace them with the JV attorneys you see listed in the email thread above.
It's pretty vulgar stuff.
I don't expect anything to come of this exposure but if nothing else I want the public to know the truth. I want them to know what kind of people are roaming the halls of City Hall and pulling the strings of City government.
For the people that actually care to know, that want to know, I think it's important to air this nastiness out.
Happy Halloween.
