1 00:00:03,136 --> 00:00:04,137 >>> THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM IS THE 2 00:00:04,137 --> 00:00:05,772 EIGHTH OFFERING OF THE McLEOD 3 00:00:05,772 --> 00:00:06,840 LECTURE SERIES. 4 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,708 SUPPORTED BY AN DOWMENT 5 00:00:08,708 --> 00:00:10,143 ESTABLISHED FROM McNEESE STATE 6 00:00:10,143 --> 00:00:11,845 UNIVERSITY, AND PART OF BANNERS, 7 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:13,847 THE McNEESE ARTS AND 8 00:00:13,847 --> 00:00:14,848 HUMANITIES SERIES. 9 00:00:14,848 --> 00:00:16,049 FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM IS 10 00:00:16,049 --> 00:00:19,185 PROVIDED IN PART BY BLUE CROSS 11 00:00:19,185 --> 00:00:20,820 AND BLUE SHIELD OF LOUISIANA, 12 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:23,490 SEEKING SOLUTIONS TOGETHER. 13 00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:25,558 AND BY JEFF DAVIS BANK, 14 00:00:25,558 --> 00:00:26,626 ADDITIONAL FUNDING IS PROVIDED 15 00:00:26,626 --> 00:00:28,395 BY THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 16 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:29,629 MCLEOD ENDOWMENT OF THE 17 00:00:29,629 --> 00:00:32,032 MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY 18 00:00:32,032 --> 00:00:32,432 FOUNDATION. 19 00:00:32,432 --> 00:00:33,733 AND THE FOUNDATION FOR 20 00:00:33,733 --> 00:00:36,503 EXCELLENCE IN LOUISIANA PUBLIC 21 00:00:36,503 --> 00:00:36,936 BROADCASTING. 22 00:00:36,936 --> 00:00:38,972 ALL PROUD SPONSORS OF THE ROLE 23 00:00:38,972 --> 00:00:41,041 OF LOUISIANA'S LIEUTENANT 24 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:41,408 GOVERNOR. 25 00:00:41,408 --> 00:00:47,614 PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. 26 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:48,948 HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE EIGHTH 27 00:00:48,948 --> 00:00:50,784 PROGRAM IN THE ANNUAL McLEOD 28 00:00:50,784 --> 00:00:51,818 LECTURE SERIES. 29 00:00:51,818 --> 00:00:53,186 IMBETH COURTNEY, YOUR HOST FOR 30 00:00:53,186 --> 00:00:53,887 THIS EVENT. 31 00:00:53,887 --> 00:00:55,088 THIS SERIES HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED 32 00:00:55,088 --> 00:00:56,589 IN MEMORY OF FORMER LEGISLATOR 33 00:00:56,589 --> 00:00:58,358 AND JUDGE BILL McLEOD. 34 00:00:58,358 --> 00:00:59,993 THE McLEOD ENDOWMENT WAS 35 00:00:59,993 --> 00:01:01,294 ESTABLISHED AT THE McNEESE 36 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:02,829 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, TO 37 00:01:02,829 --> 00:01:04,831 CREATE A SERIES ON LOUISIANA 38 00:01:04,831 --> 00:01:06,433 POLITICS AND THE SOUTHWEST 39 00:01:06,433 --> 00:01:08,201 LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE ARCHIVES. 40 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:09,502 TONIGHT, WE WILL FOCUS ON THE 41 00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:11,071 ROLE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, 42 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:12,338 AS WELL AS THE IMPACT OF THE 43 00:01:12,338 --> 00:01:14,107 OFFICE IN WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT 44 00:01:14,107 --> 00:01:15,108 HOLD FOR THE POSITION. 45 00:01:15,108 --> 00:01:16,609 BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR CONVERSATION 46 00:01:16,609 --> 00:01:19,112 WITH OUR GUESTS, LPB'S NEWS AND 47 00:01:19,112 --> 00:01:21,448 PUBLIC AFFAIRS PRODUCER SHAUNA 48 00:01:21,448 --> 00:01:22,415 SANFORD PREPARED THIS OVERVIEW 49 00:01:22,415 --> 00:01:24,050 OF THE ROLE OF THIS IMPORTANT 50 00:01:24,050 --> 00:01:26,052 OFFICE IN OUR STATE. 51 00:01:26,052 --> 00:01:27,353 >> YOU MAY NOT INSTANTLY 52 00:01:27,353 --> 00:01:28,955 RECOGNIZE THESE FACES, BUT THEY 53 00:01:28,955 --> 00:01:31,424 ARE SOME OF THE BEST WHO HAVE 54 00:01:31,424 --> 00:01:33,893 BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF 55 00:01:33,893 --> 00:01:35,195 LOUISIANA, SERVING IN THE SECOND 56 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:37,564 HIGHEST OFFICE AS LIEUTENANT 57 00:01:37,564 --> 00:01:37,931 GOVERNOR. 58 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:38,731 MOSTLY DEMOCRATS, THERE HAVE 59 00:01:38,731 --> 00:01:40,133 BEEN ONLY A HANDFUL OF 60 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:41,901 REPUBLICANS ELECTED, INCLUDING 61 00:01:41,901 --> 00:01:43,736 THE CURRENT LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 62 00:01:43,736 --> 00:01:44,537 JAY DARDENNE. 63 00:01:44,537 --> 00:01:45,939 >> THERE IS AN INTERESTING STORY 64 00:01:45,939 --> 00:01:48,541 THAT MAKES ITS ROUNDS AMONGST 65 00:01:48,541 --> 00:01:49,342 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 66 00:01:49,342 --> 00:01:50,944 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IS LIKE 67 00:01:50,944 --> 00:02:00,286 A SPARE TIRE. 68 00:02:00,286 --> 00:02:01,488 THEY OFF SEVERAL BOOKS ON 69 00:02:01,488 --> 00:02:02,789 POLITICAL HISTORY, SERVED AS THE 70 00:02:02,789 --> 00:02:04,757 PRESS SECRETARY FOR GOVERNOR 71 00:02:04,757 --> 00:02:05,492 KATHLEEN BABINEAUX BLANCO AND 72 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:07,026 TWO U.S. SENATORS, AND IS THE 73 00:02:07,026 --> 00:02:09,295 CHAIR OF THE LSU PLANSHIP SCHOOL 74 00:02:09,295 --> 00:02:10,396 OF COMMUNICATIONS. 75 00:02:10,396 --> 00:02:11,798 >> FOR THE LONGEST TIME, THE 76 00:02:11,798 --> 00:02:12,632 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, IN ADDITION 77 00:02:12,632 --> 00:02:14,434 TO BEING THE SECOND IN LINE TO, 78 00:02:14,434 --> 00:02:16,536 TO THE GOVERNORSHIP, WAS, WAS 79 00:02:16,536 --> 00:02:18,338 THE HEAD OF THE SENATE, SORT OF 80 00:02:18,338 --> 00:02:20,039 LIKE IT IS IN CONGRESS. 81 00:02:20,039 --> 00:02:22,108 >> BUT WHEN JIMMY FITS MORRIS, A 82 00:02:22,108 --> 00:02:23,243 RAILROAD EXECUTIVE WAS ELECTED 83 00:02:23,243 --> 00:02:25,278 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN 1972, HE 84 00:02:25,278 --> 00:02:28,648 TOOK ON A FEW MORE 85 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:29,482 RESPONSIBILITIES. 86 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:30,717 EDWIN EVANS WAS GOVERNOR AND HE 87 00:02:30,717 --> 00:02:33,620 DECIDED TO LET FITS MORRIS BE 88 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:34,787 THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR ECONOMIC 89 00:02:34,787 --> 00:02:35,188 DEVELOPMENT. 90 00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:36,689 >> THAT WAS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL, 91 00:02:36,689 --> 00:02:38,791 NOT EVEN STATUTORY AS I RECALL. 92 00:02:38,791 --> 00:02:39,993 IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING THAT, 93 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:42,262 THAT THE DECIDED TO GIVE THE 94 00:02:42,262 --> 00:02:43,129 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BUT IT WAS 95 00:02:43,129 --> 00:02:44,430 REALLY BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR, THE 96 00:02:44,430 --> 00:02:45,398 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR GOT ALONG, 97 00:02:45,398 --> 00:02:48,034 AND THE GOVERNOR, THOUGHT JIMMY 98 00:02:48,034 --> 00:02:49,502 WAS BETTER FOR THE JOB THAN HE 99 00:02:49,502 --> 00:02:51,204 WAS, OR JUST WASN'T AS 100 00:02:51,204 --> 00:02:57,911 INTERESTED IN DOING THAT, AND IT 101 00:02:57,911 --> 00:02:58,978 WORKED PRETTY WELL BUT ONLY 102 00:02:58,978 --> 00:03:01,080 BECAUSE THINK DECIDED TO WORK 103 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:01,648 TOGETHER. 104 00:03:01,648 --> 00:03:03,049 >> FITS MORRIS SERVED TWO TERMS 105 00:03:03,049 --> 00:03:04,450 UNDER HIM. 106 00:03:04,450 --> 00:03:05,752 >> WITH ALL RESPECT FOR GOVERNOR 107 00:03:05,752 --> 00:03:07,420 ELWARDS, HE GAVE ME A FREE HAND 108 00:03:07,420 --> 00:03:08,488 AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND GAVE 109 00:03:08,488 --> 00:03:09,689 ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THINGS 110 00:03:09,689 --> 00:03:13,259 IN THAT I PROBABLY WON HAVE BEEN 111 00:03:13,259 --> 00:03:14,527 ABLE TO DO WITHOUT THE FULL 112 00:03:14,527 --> 00:03:15,929 CONSENT OF THE GOVERNOR. 113 00:03:15,929 --> 00:03:18,464 ONE THING ANY PERSON RUNS FOR 114 00:03:18,464 --> 00:03:19,699 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR HAS TO 115 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:21,734 UNDERSTAND, HE HAS TO HAVE A 116 00:03:21,734 --> 00:03:22,702 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOVERNOR. 117 00:03:22,702 --> 00:03:24,604 A GOOD, BAT OR INDIFFERENT. 118 00:03:24,604 --> 00:03:27,140 >> HE STARTED THE JOB FROM 119 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:27,473 SCRATCH. 120 00:03:27,473 --> 00:03:29,175 GROUND ZERO, BUT HE PRIDED 121 00:03:29,175 --> 00:03:31,544 HIMSELF ON BEING A PRETTY GOOD 122 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:31,911 SALESMAN. 123 00:03:31,911 --> 00:03:32,879 >> AND I FELT THAT I COULD HELP 124 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:34,013 THE STATE TREMENDOUSLY BY 125 00:03:34,013 --> 00:03:36,216 TRAVELING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, 126 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:39,118 AND MEETING WITH, WITH COMPANIES 127 00:03:39,118 --> 00:03:40,320 THAT, THAT WERE DOWN IN 128 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,988 LOUISIANA, AND LETTING THEM KNOW 129 00:03:41,988 --> 00:03:43,957 THAT, THAT WE WERE GRATEFUL FOR 130 00:03:43,957 --> 00:03:45,024 THEIR BEING HERE. 131 00:03:45,024 --> 00:03:46,459 IT IS A RESULT OF THAT IF THEY 132 00:03:46,459 --> 00:03:49,295 EVER HAD ANY PROBLEM, I WOULD 133 00:03:49,295 --> 00:03:50,830 SAY CONTACT, DON'T WORRY ABOUT 134 00:03:50,830 --> 00:03:52,031 CALLING THE DEPARTMENT HEAD OR 135 00:03:52,031 --> 00:03:55,702 THE STREETS, CALL ME. 136 00:03:55,702 --> 00:03:57,237 >> THE PREMIUMS WERE IN THE 137 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:58,605 OFFICE AS HE SAW FIT. 138 00:03:58,605 --> 00:04:00,139 STATE CONSTITUTION WAS REVISED 139 00:04:00,139 --> 00:04:02,308 IN 1974, AND SO WAS THE JOB OF 140 00:04:02,308 --> 00:04:05,912 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 141 00:04:05,912 --> 00:04:07,380 >> IN MY FIRST FOUR YEARS AS 142 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:09,549 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, I WAS THE 143 00:04:09,549 --> 00:04:10,750 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT 144 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:12,085 OF THE SENATE, AND PRESIDENT OF 145 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:15,455 THE BOARD OF PARDONS, AND 146 00:04:15,455 --> 00:04:17,323 PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF 147 00:04:17,323 --> 00:04:19,626 COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. 148 00:04:19,626 --> 00:04:20,927 I HAD MANY JOBS WRAPPED INTO 149 00:04:20,927 --> 00:04:24,030 ONE, AND I STILL CARRIED SOME OF 150 00:04:24,030 --> 00:04:28,167 IT TO MY SECOND TERM. 151 00:04:28,167 --> 00:04:29,235 IT HAPPENED IN THE 152 00:04:29,235 --> 00:04:30,570 CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. 153 00:04:30,570 --> 00:04:32,272 THE GOVERNOR ALLOWED ME TO 154 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:33,406 APPOINT EVERY MEMBER OF THE, OF 155 00:04:33,406 --> 00:04:35,675 THE SENATE, EVERY COMMITTEE 156 00:04:35,675 --> 00:04:37,176 MEMBER, AND NEVER INTERFERED 157 00:04:37,176 --> 00:04:37,477 ONCE. 158 00:04:37,477 --> 00:04:39,412 HE ALLOWED PLEA IN MY SECOND 159 00:04:39,412 --> 00:04:41,014 TERM TO, TO APPOINT EVERY MEMBER 160 00:04:41,014 --> 00:04:43,016 OF THE BOARD OF COMMERCE AND 161 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:43,983 INDUSTRY, WHICH WAS REALLY 162 00:04:43,983 --> 00:04:44,984 UNHEARD OF. 163 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:47,086 BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR LIKES TO DO 164 00:04:47,086 --> 00:04:47,387 THAT. 165 00:04:47,387 --> 00:04:48,721 >> UNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTION, 166 00:04:48,721 --> 00:04:49,789 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NO 167 00:04:49,789 --> 00:04:51,190 LONGER SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF 168 00:04:51,190 --> 00:04:52,959 THE SENATE, COULD ONLY EXERCISE 169 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:55,128 POWERS DESIGNATED BY THE 170 00:04:55,128 --> 00:04:55,828 GOVERNOR, AND BECAME 171 00:04:55,828 --> 00:04:56,596 COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT 172 00:04:56,596 --> 00:04:59,098 OF CULTURE, RECREATION AND 173 00:04:59,098 --> 00:04:59,432 TOURISM. 174 00:04:59,432 --> 00:05:00,733 AS DARDENNE EXPLAINS, THAT'S 175 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:02,769 WHAT ATTRACTED HIM TO THE 176 00:05:02,769 --> 00:05:03,269 POSITION. 177 00:05:03,269 --> 00:05:04,871 >> THE ABILITY ON A DAILY BASIS 178 00:05:04,871 --> 00:05:06,506 TO GO OUT AND TALK ABOUT A PLACE 179 00:05:06,506 --> 00:05:08,174 I LOVE AND TO MAKE CERTAIN 180 00:05:08,174 --> 00:05:09,409 PEOPLE APPRECIATE ALL THE 181 00:05:09,409 --> 00:05:10,310 WONDERFUL THINGS THAT LOUISIANA 182 00:05:10,310 --> 00:05:11,778 HAS TO OFF AS WE TRY TO MARKET 183 00:05:11,778 --> 00:05:13,212 THE STATE IN A REAL MEANINGFUL 184 00:05:13,212 --> 00:05:15,415 AND PROGRESSIVE WAY. 185 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:16,482 >> FITS MORRIS IS AMONG THE 186 00:05:16,482 --> 00:05:17,550 LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS WHO 187 00:05:17,550 --> 00:05:19,519 CERTAINLY LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK 188 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:20,987 ON LOUISIANA HISTORY. 189 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:23,790 OTHERS INCLUDE PBS PENCHBACK, 190 00:05:23,790 --> 00:05:26,993 EARL K. LONG AND LUTHER FRASIER. 191 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:28,394 PENCHBACK, A REPUBLICAN WAS THE 192 00:05:28,394 --> 00:05:29,395 FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO HOLD 193 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:31,597 THE STATE'S SECOND HIGHEST 194 00:05:31,597 --> 00:05:31,931 OFFICE. 195 00:05:31,931 --> 00:05:34,100 IN 1868, HE WAS ELECTED TO THE 196 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:35,735 STATE SENATE WHERE HE BECAME 197 00:05:35,735 --> 00:05:37,136 SENATE PRESIDENT, AND THEN THE 198 00:05:37,136 --> 00:05:39,005 ACTING LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR WHEN 199 00:05:39,005 --> 00:05:39,706 OSCAR DUNN DIED. 200 00:05:39,706 --> 00:05:42,542 IN 1872, HE BECAME THE 24th 201 00:05:42,542 --> 00:05:45,478 GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA WHEN HENRY 202 00:05:45,478 --> 00:05:46,679 CLAY WAS IMPEACHED. 203 00:05:46,679 --> 00:05:48,981 HE SERVED FOR 35 DAYS. 204 00:05:48,981 --> 00:05:51,918 FROM DECEMBER 9, 1872, TO 205 00:05:51,918 --> 00:05:54,320 JANUARY 13, 1873. 206 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,290 KNOWN AS ONE OF THE STATE'S MOST 207 00:05:57,290 --> 00:05:58,591 FLAMBOYANT LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS, 208 00:05:58,591 --> 00:06:00,560 EARL KEMP LONG SERVED FROM 1936 209 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:01,861 TO 1939. 210 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:04,197 HE CALLED HIMSELF THE LAST OF 211 00:06:04,197 --> 00:06:05,798 THE RED HOT PAPAS. 212 00:06:05,798 --> 00:06:07,467 A LAWYER BY TRADE, LONG BECAME 213 00:06:07,467 --> 00:06:11,604 GOVERNOR IN 1939 WHEN RICHARD 214 00:06:11,604 --> 00:06:12,405 LESCH RESIGNED. 215 00:06:12,405 --> 00:06:14,340 HE WENT ON TO WIN TWO ELECTIONS 216 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:16,642 SERVING AS GOVERNOR FROM 1948 TO 217 00:06:16,642 --> 00:06:20,913 1952, AND AGAIN FROM 1956 TO 218 00:06:20,913 --> 00:06:21,781 1960. 219 00:06:21,781 --> 00:06:23,316 LUTHER E. FRASIER SERVED UNDER 220 00:06:23,316 --> 00:06:24,851 EARL LONG DURING HIS SECOND TERM 221 00:06:24,851 --> 00:06:26,452 IN OFFICE. 222 00:06:26,452 --> 00:06:27,820 A NATIVE HE STARTED OUT AS A 223 00:06:27,820 --> 00:06:28,788 HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, AND THEN 224 00:06:28,788 --> 00:06:30,323 WENT ON TO SERVE AS A DEMOCRATIC 225 00:06:30,323 --> 00:06:32,558 MEMBER OF THE STATE HOUSE OF 226 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:33,025 REPRESENTATIVES. 227 00:06:33,025 --> 00:06:34,160 HE BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT 228 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,929 OF McNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY IN 229 00:06:36,929 --> 00:06:37,296 1944. 230 00:06:37,296 --> 00:06:38,598 AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL HE 231 00:06:38,598 --> 00:06:40,166 RESIGNED TO BECOME LIEUTENANT 232 00:06:40,166 --> 00:06:43,102 GOVERNOR UNDER LONG. 233 00:06:43,102 --> 00:06:44,370 MELINDA SCHWEGMANN AND KATHLEEN 234 00:06:44,370 --> 00:06:45,104 BABINEAUX BLANCO HAVE THE 235 00:06:45,104 --> 00:06:45,938 DISTINCTION OF BEING THE ONLY 236 00:06:45,938 --> 00:06:48,307 WOULD WOMEN TO EVER SERVE IN THE 237 00:06:48,307 --> 00:06:48,641 OFFICE. 238 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:50,877 SCHWEGMANN WAS THE FIRST TO BE 239 00:06:50,877 --> 00:06:53,646 ELECTED AND SERVE FROM 1992 TO 240 00:06:53,646 --> 00:06:53,946 1996. 241 00:06:53,946 --> 00:06:55,181 >> I THINK THAT SHE SORT OF 242 00:06:55,181 --> 00:06:56,783 BUILT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S 243 00:06:56,783 --> 00:06:57,784 OFFICE AND PROFESSIONALIZED IT 244 00:06:57,784 --> 00:07:01,287 IN A WAY THAT MAY BE IT WASN'T 245 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:01,621 BEFORE. 246 00:07:01,621 --> 00:07:02,388 >> KATHLEEN BABINEAUX BLANCO 247 00:07:02,388 --> 00:07:04,557 FOLLOWED, SERVING FROM 1996 TO 248 00:07:04,557 --> 00:07:04,857 2004. 249 00:07:04,857 --> 00:07:07,627 SHE THEN WENT ON TO BECOME 250 00:07:07,627 --> 00:07:08,060 GOVERNOR. 251 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:08,895 >> THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF 252 00:07:08,895 --> 00:07:09,695 GOVERNORS WHO DID RUN FOR 253 00:07:09,695 --> 00:07:10,997 GOVERNOR BUT COULDN'T DO IT, AND 254 00:07:10,997 --> 00:07:13,166 SHE WAS THE FIRST SITTING 255 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:14,967 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN ANYBODY'S 256 00:07:14,967 --> 00:07:15,835 MEMORY TO BECOME GOVERNOR. 257 00:07:15,835 --> 00:07:17,236 >> THE OFFICE CAN CERTAINLY BE A 258 00:07:17,236 --> 00:07:18,771 SPRINGBOARD TO OTHER INFLUENTIAL 259 00:07:18,771 --> 00:07:19,872 POSITIONS, AND MANY HAVE USED IT 260 00:07:19,872 --> 00:07:21,641 AS JUST THAT. 261 00:07:21,641 --> 00:07:23,910 MITCHELL ANDREWS SERVED FROM 262 00:07:23,910 --> 00:07:25,445 2004 TO 2010 AND WAS ELECTED 263 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:27,213 MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS BEFORE HIS 264 00:07:27,213 --> 00:07:27,880 TERM EXPIRED. 265 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,081 BUT NOW THERE ARE QUESTIONS 266 00:07:29,081 --> 00:07:31,284 ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF THE 267 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:31,617 OFFICE. 268 00:07:31,617 --> 00:07:33,186 GOVERNOR JINDAL EVEN TRIED TO 269 00:07:33,186 --> 00:07:34,187 ABOLISH IT. 270 00:07:34,187 --> 00:07:35,288 DARDENNE SAYS THERE IS NO DOUBT 271 00:07:35,288 --> 00:07:38,057 THAT THIS OFFICE IS IMPORTANT. 272 00:07:38,057 --> 00:07:39,358 >> HAVING BEEN IN THIS ROLE NOW 273 00:07:39,358 --> 00:07:40,960 FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, I FEEL MORE 274 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,628 STRONGLY THAT THIS IS AN 275 00:07:42,628 --> 00:07:43,696 IMPORTANT POSITION FOR, FOR THE 276 00:07:43,696 --> 00:07:45,965 STATE TO HAVE, TO HAVE SOMEONE 277 00:07:45,965 --> 00:07:47,867 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE 278 00:07:47,867 --> 00:07:49,602 FOR PROMOTING LOUISIANA AND 279 00:07:49,602 --> 00:07:50,803 BEING ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW A 280 00:07:50,803 --> 00:07:53,272 SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY IS 281 00:07:53,272 --> 00:07:53,606 SPENT. 282 00:07:53,606 --> 00:07:55,308 >> SOME MAY ARGUE THAT GIVEN THE 283 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:56,609 BUDGET WOES ELIMINATING THE 284 00:07:56,609 --> 00:07:58,244 OFFICE WOULD MAKE SENSE. 285 00:07:58,244 --> 00:07:59,679 >> IF YOU ELIMINATED THAT OFFICE 286 00:07:59,679 --> 00:08:01,080 TODAY, YOU WOULDN'T COME CLOSE 287 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,315 TO BALANCING THE BUDGET. 288 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:06,819 IT WOULD BE A MINOR PART. 289 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:07,954 >> AND GIVEN THE SUCCESS OF SOME 290 00:08:07,954 --> 00:08:11,157 OF THE MOST RECENT OFFICE 291 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,124 HOLDERS, HE BELIEVES IT'S HERE 292 00:08:12,124 --> 00:08:13,693 TO STAY. 293 00:08:13,693 --> 00:08:14,694 >> JAY DARDENNE IS SOMEBODY WHO 294 00:08:14,694 --> 00:08:17,530 A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK COULD BE 295 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:17,897 GOVERNOR. 296 00:08:17,897 --> 00:08:18,731 MITCHELL ANDREW, RUNNING THE 297 00:08:18,731 --> 00:08:20,032 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS IN A 298 00:08:20,032 --> 00:08:21,300 COMPETENT WAY, KATHLEEN 299 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:22,068 BABINEAUX BLANCO BECOMING 300 00:08:22,068 --> 00:08:23,436 GOVERNOR FROM THAT OFFICE, AND I 301 00:08:23,436 --> 00:08:25,938 THINK IT HAS A CACHET THAT MAYBE 302 00:08:25,938 --> 00:08:28,741 IT DIDN'T HAVE EVEN 10, 15 YEAR 303 00:08:28,741 --> 00:08:32,078 AGO BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS OF 304 00:08:32,078 --> 00:08:33,279 THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THE 305 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:36,616 OFFICE RECENTLY WHO NOW HAVE IT. 306 00:08:36,616 --> 00:08:38,184 >> JOINING US WITH THEIR OWN 307 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:39,919 UNIQUE VIEWS AND FIRST HAND 308 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:41,354 EXPERIENCES ARE SEVERAL OF OUR 309 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:42,421 STATE'S FORMER LIEUTENANT 310 00:08:42,421 --> 00:08:43,155 GOVERNORS, INCLUDING ONE WHO 311 00:08:43,155 --> 00:08:45,491 WENT ON TO BECOME GOVERNOR. 312 00:08:45,491 --> 00:08:48,594 ROBERT BOBBY FREEMAN, THE 313 00:08:48,594 --> 00:08:50,396 IBERVILLE PARISH ATTORNEY WAS A 314 00:08:50,396 --> 00:08:51,397 DEMOCRATIC LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 315 00:08:51,397 --> 00:08:53,266 FROM 1980-1988. 316 00:08:53,266 --> 00:08:54,600 FREEMAN SERVED UNDER FIRST 317 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,601 REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR DAVID TREEN 318 00:08:55,601 --> 00:08:57,637 AND THEN TREEN'S SUCCESSOR 319 00:08:57,637 --> 00:08:59,305 DEMOCRAT EDWIN EDWARDS. 320 00:08:59,305 --> 00:09:00,840 HE WAS DEFEATED FOR A THIRD TERM 321 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,408 BY THE FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE 322 00:09:02,408 --> 00:09:03,342 PAUL HARDY 323 00:09:03,342 --> 00:09:04,744 EARLIER FREEMAN HAD BEEN A 324 00:09:04,744 --> 00:09:06,746 MEMBER OF THE LOUISIANA HOUSE OF 325 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:09,682 REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1968-1980. 326 00:09:09,682 --> 00:09:11,017 >>> PAUL HARDY, A DEMOCRAT 327 00:09:11,017 --> 00:09:12,385 TURNED REPUBLICAN WAS THE FIRST 328 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:14,153 REPUBLICAN SINCE RECONSTRUCTION 329 00:09:14,153 --> 00:09:15,388 TO HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO THE 330 00:09:15,388 --> 00:09:16,722 SECOND RANKING POST IN THE 331 00:09:16,722 --> 00:09:17,023 STATE. 332 00:09:17,023 --> 00:09:18,224 HARDY SERVED IN THAT POSITION 333 00:09:18,224 --> 00:09:20,960 FROM 1988-1992. 334 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,228 HARDY WAS DEFEATED FOR 335 00:09:22,228 --> 00:09:22,895 REELECTION AS LIEUTENANT 336 00:09:22,895 --> 00:09:25,197 GOVERNOR IN 1991 BY DEMOCRAT 337 00:09:25,197 --> 00:09:26,198 MELINDA SCHWEGMANN. 338 00:09:26,198 --> 00:09:28,401 EARLIER HE HAD BEEN ELECTED IN 339 00:09:28,401 --> 00:09:30,002 1972 AS THE DEMOCRATIC STATE 340 00:09:30,002 --> 00:09:32,204 SENATOR FROM IBERIA AND 341 00:09:32,204 --> 00:09:33,906 ST. MARTIN PARISHES, AND 241975 342 00:09:33,906 --> 00:09:35,741 WAS ELECTED AS A DEMOCRAT AS 343 00:09:35,741 --> 00:09:37,610 SECRETARY OF STATE OF LOUISIANA. 344 00:09:37,610 --> 00:09:38,444 >>> MELINDA SCHWEGMANN, THE 345 00:09:38,444 --> 00:09:39,612 FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD THE 346 00:09:39,612 --> 00:09:40,846 POSITION, WAS THE LIEUTENANT 347 00:09:40,846 --> 00:09:44,383 GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA FROM 348 00:09:44,383 --> 00:09:44,850 199-1996. 349 00:09:44,850 --> 00:09:46,752 IN 1997, SHE WON A SPECIAL 350 00:09:46,752 --> 00:09:47,887 ELECTION TO LOUISIANA STATE 351 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:49,388 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 352 00:09:49,388 --> 00:09:51,023 DISTRICT 98, FROM OR LIENS 353 00:09:51,023 --> 00:09:51,490 PARISH. 354 00:09:51,490 --> 00:09:52,725 SCHWEGMANN WAS ELECTED TO A FULL 355 00:09:52,725 --> 00:09:55,194 HOUSE TERM IN 1999 AND SERVED 356 00:09:55,194 --> 00:09:57,697 UNTIL 2003 WHEN SHE RELINQUISHED 357 00:09:57,697 --> 00:09:59,231 THE HOUSE SEAT, WHICH WAS 358 00:09:59,231 --> 00:10:01,834 DISMEMBERED BY REAPPORTIONMENT. 359 00:10:01,834 --> 00:10:03,936 FROM 1996 TO 2004, KATHLEEN 360 00:10:03,936 --> 00:10:05,871 BABINEAUX BLANCO SERVED TWO, 361 00:10:05,871 --> 00:10:07,673 FOUR-YEAR TERMS LIEUTENANT 362 00:10:07,673 --> 00:10:09,208 GOVERNOR AND FROM JANUARY 2004 363 00:10:09,208 --> 00:10:10,943 UNTIL JANUARY 2008, SERVED AS 364 00:10:10,943 --> 00:10:12,678 THE 54TH GOVERNOR OF THE STATE 365 00:10:12,678 --> 00:10:13,746 OF LOUISIANA. 366 00:10:13,746 --> 00:10:15,081 PRIOR TO HER ELECTION, AS 367 00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:16,048 GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT 368 00:10:16,048 --> 00:10:17,917 GOVERNOR, SHE SERVED A FOUR-YEAR 369 00:10:17,917 --> 00:10:19,251 TERM IN THE LOUISIANA 370 00:10:19,251 --> 00:10:20,086 LEGISLATURE AS STATE 371 00:10:20,086 --> 00:10:20,987 REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE 372 00:10:20,987 --> 00:10:22,521 LAFAYETTE AREA, AND A SIX-YEAR 373 00:10:22,521 --> 00:10:24,390 TERM AS PUBLIC SERVICE 374 00:10:24,390 --> 00:10:24,824 COMMISSIONER. 375 00:10:24,824 --> 00:10:25,725 WELL, WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU. 376 00:10:25,725 --> 00:10:26,959 THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. 377 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:27,827 >> THANK YOU. 378 00:10:27,827 --> 00:10:28,861 >> WE ARE DELIGHTED. 379 00:10:28,861 --> 00:10:31,797 WE'VE BEEN HAVING A GRAND TIME, 380 00:10:31,797 --> 00:10:33,165 RECOUNTING TALES, AND WE WANT TO 381 00:10:33,165 --> 00:10:35,134 SHARE SOME WITH OUR AUDIENCE, 382 00:10:35,134 --> 00:10:37,069 AND I GUESS GOVERNOR BLANCO, I 383 00:10:37,069 --> 00:10:38,838 HAVE TO TELL YOU WHEN JAY 384 00:10:38,838 --> 00:10:40,740 DARDENNE SAID, A SPARE TIRE KEPT 385 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:44,176 IN THE DARK ALL PUMPED UP, WHY 386 00:10:44,176 --> 00:10:47,146 DID YOU FIRST WANT TO BE, TO RUN 387 00:10:47,146 --> 00:10:48,214 FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR? 388 00:10:48,214 --> 00:10:50,182 >> WELL, I JUST THOUGHT THAT IT 389 00:10:50,182 --> 00:10:51,584 WAS TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL THERE, 390 00:10:51,584 --> 00:10:54,854 JUST TO, TO GET INTO LOUISIANA, 391 00:10:54,854 --> 00:10:57,523 INTO THE HEART OF LOUISIANA, AND 392 00:10:57,523 --> 00:10:58,624 WORK WITH COMMUNITIES AND MAKE 393 00:10:58,624 --> 00:10:59,558 THEM MORE THAN THEY EVER KNEW 394 00:10:59,558 --> 00:11:02,328 YOU THAT THEY COULD BE. 395 00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:04,096 THE IDEA EXCITED ME, AND I 396 00:11:04,096 --> 00:11:05,731 REALLY JUST WANTED TO BE 397 00:11:05,731 --> 00:11:06,932 HANDS-ON, AND, AND WORK 398 00:11:06,932 --> 00:11:09,035 THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 399 00:11:09,035 --> 00:11:11,070 LOUISIANA HAS A HABIT OF 400 00:11:11,070 --> 00:11:12,805 CRITICIZING ITSELF SEVERELY. 401 00:11:12,805 --> 00:11:15,274 AND DEMEANING ITSELF, AND I 402 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:16,075 WANTED TO STOP THAT. 403 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:17,877 I WANTED LOUISIANA TO BE PROUD 404 00:11:17,877 --> 00:11:18,744 OF ITSELF. 405 00:11:18,744 --> 00:11:21,981 AND SO, THAT THE PERFECT 406 00:11:21,981 --> 00:11:23,549 VEHICLE, I THOUGHT, I HAD 407 00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:25,284 WATCHED MELINDA'S WORK, PAUL'S 408 00:11:25,284 --> 00:11:26,819 WORK, AND BOBBY'S WORK AS 409 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:27,820 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, AND I 410 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:29,722 THOUGHT THAT, THAT EACH ONE 411 00:11:29,722 --> 00:11:31,223 BUILT SOMETHING NEW AND SPECIAL 412 00:11:31,223 --> 00:11:32,958 AS WE WENT THROUGH THOSE YEARS, 413 00:11:32,958 --> 00:11:34,727 AND I WANTED TO, TO PICK IT UP 414 00:11:34,727 --> 00:11:36,128 FROM WHERE THEY LEFT OFF AND 415 00:11:36,128 --> 00:11:39,965 JUST KEEP IT MOVING AND BRING 416 00:11:39,965 --> 00:11:41,200 THAT PRIDE THAT I THOUGHT 417 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,702 LOUISIANA NEEDED. 418 00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:44,103 >> YOU WEREN'T THINKING AT THAT 419 00:11:44,103 --> 00:11:45,971 TIME, I WANT TO BE GOVERNOR? 420 00:11:45,971 --> 00:11:47,807 >> WELL, I DIDN'T SEE IT AS A 421 00:11:47,807 --> 00:11:48,808 DIRECT ROUTE. 422 00:11:48,808 --> 00:11:50,009 WE HAVE HEARD TONIGHT THAT IT 423 00:11:50,009 --> 00:11:51,811 WAS VERY CHALLENGING, NOT MANY 424 00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:54,513 LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS HAD EVER 425 00:11:54,513 --> 00:11:56,048 ACTUALLY BECOME GOVERNOR. 426 00:11:56,048 --> 00:11:57,983 ALTHOUGH, I HAD RUN IN 1991, FOR 427 00:11:57,983 --> 00:12:02,254 A SHORT TIME, FOR GOVERNOR, I 428 00:12:02,254 --> 00:12:04,590 DIDN'T REALLY KNOW OR THINK THAT 429 00:12:04,590 --> 00:12:05,991 REALLY IT WAS GOING TO BE THAT 430 00:12:05,991 --> 00:12:06,258 WAY. 431 00:12:06,258 --> 00:12:08,160 BUT, I JUST THOUGHT THAT, THAT, 432 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,695 LIKE EVERY JOB THAT I HAD EVER 433 00:12:09,695 --> 00:12:11,864 HAD, THAT IF YOU DO IT REALLY 434 00:12:11,864 --> 00:12:13,332 WELL, AND YOU DO IT WITH ALL OF 435 00:12:13,332 --> 00:12:16,335 YOUR HEART, THAT, THAT PEOPLE 436 00:12:16,335 --> 00:12:17,369 WOULD RECOGNIZE THAT, AND IF 437 00:12:17,369 --> 00:12:19,638 IT'S MEANT TO BE, YOU WILL MOVE 438 00:12:19,638 --> 00:12:22,708 ALONG, BUT, BUT, AS I WORK 439 00:12:22,708 --> 00:12:26,378 THROUGH MY SECOND TERM, THEN I 440 00:12:26,378 --> 00:12:27,246 BEGIN TO FEEL THAT THERE MIGHT 441 00:12:27,246 --> 00:12:29,081 BE MORE OF A POSSIBILITY OF 442 00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:30,349 BEING GOVERNOR. 443 00:12:30,349 --> 00:12:31,884 >> WELL, WE WERE CHATTING, YOU 444 00:12:31,884 --> 00:12:33,152 ARE SAYING THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY 445 00:12:33,152 --> 00:12:35,321 ONE OF A FEW THAT DIDN'T REALLY 446 00:12:35,321 --> 00:12:37,623 RUN AGAINST, FOR GOVERNOR, BOBBY 447 00:12:37,623 --> 00:12:37,957 FREEMAN. 448 00:12:37,957 --> 00:12:39,258 DID YOU JUST ENJOY BEING 449 00:12:39,258 --> 00:12:39,892 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR? 450 00:12:39,892 --> 00:12:41,393 >> WELL, I LIKED THE JOB. 451 00:12:41,393 --> 00:12:43,629 I HAD NEVER -- YOU KNOW, WHEN I 452 00:12:43,629 --> 00:12:45,598 RAN FOR ANYTHING, I WANTED TO 453 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:46,899 MAKE SURE THAT I HAD A REAL GOOD 454 00:12:46,899 --> 00:12:48,300 CHANCE OF WINNING. 455 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:49,769 AND I NEVER THOUGHT THAT THE 456 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:51,237 CHANCE WAS THERE AT THE TIME. 457 00:12:51,237 --> 00:12:53,072 YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE, AT THE 458 00:12:53,072 --> 00:12:53,405 ISSUES. 459 00:12:53,405 --> 00:12:55,074 YOU LOOK AT THE, AT THE 460 00:12:55,074 --> 00:12:57,276 PHILOSOPHY OF THE STATE AT THAT 461 00:12:57,276 --> 00:12:58,244 TIME, AND I DIDN'T THINK THAT IT 462 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:00,045 WAS THE RIGHT TIME TO DO THAT, 463 00:13:00,045 --> 00:13:02,548 SO, THAT'S WHY I NEVER RUN FOR 464 00:13:02,548 --> 00:13:02,848 THAT. 465 00:13:02,848 --> 00:13:04,216 I WAS PLEASED WITH WHAT I WAS 466 00:13:04,216 --> 00:13:06,285 ABLE TO ACHIEVE AS LIEUTENANT 467 00:13:06,285 --> 00:13:08,988 GOVERNOR BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN 468 00:13:08,988 --> 00:13:10,289 THE, THE CONSTITUTIONAL ONLY 469 00:13:10,289 --> 00:13:11,257 SAYS, ONE THING ABOUT THE 470 00:13:11,257 --> 00:13:12,024 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, THAT YOU 471 00:13:12,024 --> 00:13:15,461 ARE GOING TO, TO, YOU ARE GOING 472 00:13:15,461 --> 00:13:16,328 TO TAKE OVER IF SOMETHING 473 00:13:16,328 --> 00:13:18,063 HAPPENS AS GOVERNOR, REALLY. 474 00:13:18,063 --> 00:13:19,465 AND NOTHING ELSE. 475 00:13:19,465 --> 00:13:20,800 AND SO THE BIG THING THAT I 476 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,302 WANTED TO DO IS, IS THE, THE 477 00:13:23,302 --> 00:13:25,971 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SOMETHING 478 00:13:25,971 --> 00:13:27,239 TO REALLY USE FOR THE STATE OF 479 00:13:27,239 --> 00:13:28,274 LOUISIANA, AND THAT'S WHEN, WHEN 480 00:13:28,274 --> 00:13:29,675 I WENT TO THE GOVERNOR AND TOLD 481 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:31,110 HIM THAT I WANTED TO BRING 482 00:13:31,110 --> 00:13:33,479 LEGISLATION TO BRING THE, THE 483 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:36,549 OFFICE OF TOURISM, CULTURE AND 484 00:13:36,549 --> 00:13:37,983 TOURISM AND FILMING UNDER 485 00:13:37,983 --> 00:13:39,218 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SO THAT THEY 486 00:13:39,218 --> 00:13:42,988 HAD A STATEWIDE OFFICIAL WHO IS 487 00:13:42,988 --> 00:13:44,523 REALLY SPEAKING ON THEIR BEHALF 488 00:13:44,523 --> 00:13:46,158 BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A BIG 489 00:13:46,158 --> 00:13:48,594 INDUSTRY IN LOUISIANA, AND EVER 490 00:13:48,594 --> 00:13:50,696 SINCE, IT'S BEEN A REAL BIG -- 491 00:13:50,696 --> 00:13:51,764 EACH OF THESE LIEUTENANT 492 00:13:51,764 --> 00:13:53,499 GOVERNORS HAS DONE A GREAT THING 493 00:13:53,499 --> 00:13:55,835 WITH, AND HAVE PUSHED IT 494 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:56,168 FORWARD. 495 00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:57,136 >> SOMETIMES, WHEN YOU DON'T RUN 496 00:13:57,136 --> 00:13:59,004 ON A TICKET. 497 00:13:59,004 --> 00:14:01,173 SO, YOU HAD GOVERNOR TREEN WAS A 498 00:14:01,173 --> 00:14:02,041 REPUBLICAN, AND YOU WERE, YOU 499 00:14:02,041 --> 00:14:04,009 WERE THE LEADING DEMOCRATIC 500 00:14:04,009 --> 00:14:04,376 OFFICIAL. 501 00:14:04,376 --> 00:14:05,811 AND HE DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO 502 00:14:05,811 --> 00:14:07,046 GIVE YOU TOO MUCH TO DO, RIGHT? 503 00:14:07,046 --> 00:14:10,316 >> HE DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE ME 504 00:14:10,316 --> 00:14:11,016 ANYTHING. 505 00:14:11,016 --> 00:14:12,585 >> HE DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE ME AN 506 00:14:12,585 --> 00:14:12,918 OFFICE. 507 00:14:12,918 --> 00:14:16,856 AT ONE TIME, YOU KNOW -- I WENT 508 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:18,991 TO THE LEGISLATURE, AND I SAID, 509 00:14:18,991 --> 00:14:20,526 I ASKED THE GOVERNOR TO GIVE ME 510 00:14:20,526 --> 00:14:21,727 SOME ADDITIONAL MONEY, SO I 511 00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:23,162 COULD, I COULD DO SOMETHING, AND 512 00:14:23,162 --> 00:14:25,664 HE SAID HOW MUCH, AND I SAID 513 00:14:25,664 --> 00:14:26,999 50,000, AND I SAID GOVERNOR, YOU 514 00:14:26,999 --> 00:14:29,168 ARE INCREASING YOUR BUDGET BY 515 00:14:29,168 --> 00:14:30,569 500,000, WHY DON'T YOU GIVE ME 516 00:14:30,569 --> 00:14:31,503 50, AND HE SAID NO. 517 00:14:31,503 --> 00:14:32,805 I SAID OK, SO I WENT TO THE 518 00:14:32,805 --> 00:14:33,772 LEGISLATURE AND ASKED THEM TO 519 00:14:33,772 --> 00:14:35,608 GIVE ME 50 MORE, AND HE WENT TO 520 00:14:35,608 --> 00:14:36,709 THE LEGISLATURE AND SAID, DON'T 521 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:37,343 GIVE TO TO HIM. 522 00:14:37,343 --> 00:14:38,677 AND THE LEGISLATURE AGREED WITH 523 00:14:38,677 --> 00:14:40,512 ME, AND GAVE ME THE MONEY. 524 00:14:40,512 --> 00:14:41,714 SO, HE SAYS, EITHER YOU ARE 525 00:14:41,714 --> 00:14:43,616 GOING TO GIVE IT BACK TO ME, OR 526 00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:46,986 YOU ARE GOING TO REFUSE IT, OR 527 00:14:46,986 --> 00:14:49,989 I'M GOING, TO TAKE THE BUDGET 528 00:14:49,989 --> 00:14:51,824 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE HAD TO 529 00:14:51,824 --> 00:14:53,425 DO, AND I SAID YOU HAVE THE PIN, 530 00:14:53,425 --> 00:14:54,793 AND YOU ARE THE GOVERNOR, YOU DO 531 00:14:54,793 --> 00:14:55,961 WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE YOU OUGHT TO 532 00:14:55,961 --> 00:14:59,598 DO, AND SURE ENOUGH, HE DID VETO 533 00:14:59,598 --> 00:14:59,865 IT. 534 00:14:59,865 --> 00:15:01,667 RUINED MY WHOLE BUDGET, BUT I 535 00:15:01,667 --> 00:15:03,369 GOT IT BACK, AND THAT WAS THE 536 00:15:03,369 --> 00:15:04,236 END OF THAT. 537 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:06,038 AND HE AND I BECAME GOOD 538 00:15:06,038 --> 00:15:07,473 FRIENDS, AND IN FACT, AFTER HE 539 00:15:07,473 --> 00:15:10,509 GOT OUT OF OFFICE, THE FBI CAME 540 00:15:10,509 --> 00:15:11,710 TO ME AND SAID, I WANT TO ASK 541 00:15:11,710 --> 00:15:13,078 YOU SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT HIM, 542 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:15,881 AND I SAID, OH, MY GOD, THIS IS 543 00:15:15,881 --> 00:15:17,616 ONE OF THE MOST HONEST MEN YOU 544 00:15:17,616 --> 00:15:19,351 ARE GOING TO FIND, AND THEY 545 00:15:19,351 --> 00:15:20,286 SAID, WELL, I CAN'T TELL YOU 546 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:22,721 WHY, AND I KNEW WHY, HE WAS, 547 00:15:22,721 --> 00:15:24,189 THEY WERE CONSIDERING HIM FOR A 548 00:15:24,189 --> 00:15:28,327 FEDERAL JUDGESHIP. 549 00:15:28,327 --> 00:15:29,261 SO THEY SAID WHAT DO YOU THINK 550 00:15:29,261 --> 00:15:29,895 ABOUT HIM? 551 00:15:29,895 --> 00:15:32,498 AND I SAID, HE WOULD MAKE A 552 00:15:32,498 --> 00:15:33,465 GREAT BOY SCOUT. 553 00:15:33,465 --> 00:15:35,434 HE IS THE MOST HONEST, DECENT 554 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:37,870 GUY YOU ARE GOING TO FIND. 555 00:15:37,870 --> 00:15:40,439 WE DIDN'T AGREE POLITICALLY, BUT 556 00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:41,874 AS FAR AS BEING A MAN THAT COULD 557 00:15:41,874 --> 00:15:45,377 BE A GREAT FEDERAL JUDGE, HE 558 00:15:45,377 --> 00:15:49,315 WOULD SIT, HE WOULD FIT THE 559 00:15:49,315 --> 00:15:49,982 POSITION PERFECTLY. 560 00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:51,417 SO WE GOT ALONG ON THE OUTSIDE 561 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:54,119 OF POLITICS. 562 00:15:54,119 --> 00:15:59,124 BUT, HE REALLY, HE, HE DID WHAT 563 00:15:59,124 --> 00:16:02,394 HE COULD TO GET BOBBY OUT OF HIS 564 00:16:02,394 --> 00:16:03,228 HAIR. 565 00:16:03,228 --> 00:16:04,163 BUT BOBBY AND I HAVE BEEN 566 00:16:04,163 --> 00:16:04,863 FRIENDS. 567 00:16:04,863 --> 00:16:05,864 >>> WE ALWAYS WERE FRIENDS, AND 568 00:16:05,864 --> 00:16:06,832 A LOT OF PEOPLE, WHEN WE RAN 569 00:16:06,832 --> 00:16:08,567 AGAINST EACH OTHER, SAID PAUL, 570 00:16:08,567 --> 00:16:09,735 WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AGAINST 571 00:16:09,735 --> 00:16:10,035 BOBBY? 572 00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:11,470 IT'S ALL, ALL THE SAME TEAM, AND 573 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:14,239 I SAID, WE ARE TALKING POLITICS. 574 00:16:14,239 --> 00:16:16,141 I LOVE TO USE THIS PHRASE. 575 00:16:16,141 --> 00:16:17,443 WE TALKING POLITICS, WE NOT 576 00:16:17,443 --> 00:16:18,744 TALKING PREFERENCE HERE. 577 00:16:18,744 --> 00:16:20,412 I THINK THAT BOBBY IS GOING TO 578 00:16:20,412 --> 00:16:22,147 HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT TIME 579 00:16:22,147 --> 00:16:23,482 WINNING BECAUSE OF THE SCENARIO 580 00:16:23,482 --> 00:16:25,184 AND THE SITUATION AND THE 581 00:16:25,184 --> 00:16:28,721 CANDIDATES WHO ARE RUNNING FOR 582 00:16:28,721 --> 00:16:29,955 GOVERNOR AND ALSO WHO ARE GOING 583 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:31,590 TO BE RUNNING FOR LIEUTENANT 584 00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:31,957 GOVERNOR. 585 00:16:31,957 --> 00:16:33,492 AND IN OTHER WORDS, I WAS SAYING 586 00:16:33,492 --> 00:16:35,260 THAT, THAT, THAT I THOUGHT THAT 587 00:16:35,260 --> 00:16:37,896 EDWIN WAS GOING TO GET BEAT, 588 00:16:37,896 --> 00:16:41,600 AND, AND FRANKLY, IF EDWIN 589 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,802 EDWARDS HAD RUN IN THE RUN-OFF, 590 00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:46,872 MADE THE RUN-OFF ELECTION, HE 591 00:16:46,872 --> 00:16:49,174 PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN BEAT. 592 00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:52,111 BUT SO WOULD I. 593 00:16:52,111 --> 00:16:54,580 BECAUSE BOBBY'S FORCES, EDWIN 594 00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:55,748 WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ENOUGH PEOPLE 595 00:16:55,748 --> 00:16:58,884 TO VOTE WHO DIDN'T NECESSARILY 596 00:16:58,884 --> 00:17:04,289 LIKE EDWIN BECAUSE OF THE EMPIRE 597 00:17:04,289 --> 00:17:05,891 FACTOR AT THE TIME, BUT, IT 598 00:17:05,891 --> 00:17:08,727 WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MANY VOTES 599 00:17:08,727 --> 00:17:10,596 MORE THAN BOBBY WOULD HAVE 600 00:17:10,596 --> 00:17:11,463 BENEFITED FROM. 601 00:17:11,463 --> 00:17:13,098 I WOULD HAVE BEAT BOBBY FREEMAN 602 00:17:13,098 --> 00:17:14,900 BY 22, 000 VOTES, AND TO ME, 603 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,136 THAT WAS A MAJOR VICTORY, AND WE 604 00:17:17,136 --> 00:17:18,604 GO BACK TO OUR OWENSR FRIENDS, 605 00:17:18,604 --> 00:17:19,405 ESPECIALLY IN THE BATON ROUGE 606 00:17:19,405 --> 00:17:20,672 AREA, I TOLD YOU, AREN'T WE 607 00:17:20,672 --> 00:17:22,074 LUCKY WE HAVE A FRIEND IN THE 608 00:17:22,074 --> 00:17:23,642 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S OFFICE? 609 00:17:23,642 --> 00:17:24,043 [LAUGHTER] 610 00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:25,644 >> WELL, THIS IS GREAT, YOU 611 00:17:25,644 --> 00:17:25,978 KNOW. 612 00:17:25,978 --> 00:17:26,745 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS 613 00:17:26,745 --> 00:17:28,847 LOOKING AT WHEN I WAS REVIEWING 614 00:17:28,847 --> 00:17:31,383 SOME MATERIAL, I HAD FORGOTTEN 615 00:17:31,383 --> 00:17:32,785 AND MELINDA, WE WERE CHATTING 616 00:17:32,785 --> 00:17:34,586 AHEAD OF TIME, THAT YOU WERE A 617 00:17:34,586 --> 00:17:36,422 TEACHER PRIOR TO GETTING INTO 618 00:17:36,422 --> 00:17:38,857 POLITICS, SO, WHY DID YOU DECIDE 619 00:17:38,857 --> 00:17:40,592 BECAUSE YOU REALLY CAME OUT OF, 620 00:17:40,592 --> 00:17:44,930 YOU KNOW, NOWHERE WHEN YOU RAN 621 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:45,731 FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 622 00:17:45,731 --> 00:17:46,932 >> I HAD SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN 623 00:17:46,932 --> 00:17:49,334 BATON ROUGE, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE 624 00:17:49,334 --> 00:17:51,737 KNOW THIS AS I WAS SO INVOLVED 625 00:17:51,737 --> 00:17:54,706 WITH THE NON PROFIT SECTOR. 626 00:17:54,706 --> 00:17:55,774 AND THE ARTS. 627 00:17:55,774 --> 00:17:57,209 OUR CHILDREN'S ISSUES. 628 00:17:57,209 --> 00:17:59,611 FAMILY ISSUES. 629 00:17:59,611 --> 00:18:01,246 WOMEN, THE MENTALLY AND 630 00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:02,881 PHYSICALLY DISABLED, AND I WOULD 631 00:18:02,881 --> 00:18:04,416 GO TO BATON ROUGE YEAR AFTER 632 00:18:04,416 --> 00:18:07,486 YEAR, AND JUST GET MAD AT WHAT I 633 00:18:07,486 --> 00:18:09,121 SAW IN THE LEGISLATURE, AND, AND 634 00:18:09,121 --> 00:18:11,657 EVERYBODY CAN APPRECIATE THAT. 635 00:18:11,657 --> 00:18:12,491 AND I REMEMBER COMING HOME 636 00:18:12,491 --> 00:18:13,826 SAYING, YOU KNOW, ONE DAY, I'M 637 00:18:13,826 --> 00:18:16,728 GOING TO HAVE TO RUN FOR 638 00:18:16,728 --> 00:18:19,098 SOMETHING BECAUSE I THINK SOME 639 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:20,365 ATTENTION NEEDS TO GO HERE, AND 640 00:18:20,365 --> 00:18:22,701 WHAT THEY ARE DOING, AND I THINK 641 00:18:22,701 --> 00:18:24,736 I OFTEN DO THAT, EVEN BETTER. 642 00:18:24,736 --> 00:18:28,807 AND I SAW THE OFFICE AS A WAY TO 643 00:18:28,807 --> 00:18:31,677 BRING SOME OF THOSE ISSUES TO 644 00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:33,645 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE, TO THE 645 00:18:33,645 --> 00:18:35,848 FOREFRONT, THAT, PERHAPS, BY 646 00:18:35,848 --> 00:18:37,583 USING THE POWER OF THE OFFICE OF 647 00:18:37,583 --> 00:18:39,451 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, I KNEW 648 00:18:39,451 --> 00:18:40,986 TOURISM WAS IMPORTANT, AND OF 649 00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:42,921 COURSE, I LOVED TRAVELING AROUND 650 00:18:42,921 --> 00:18:43,789 THE STATE. 651 00:18:43,789 --> 00:18:45,424 BUT, WHEN I WAS RUNNING AGAINST 652 00:18:45,424 --> 00:18:46,625 PAUL, I SAID I CAN'T TOUCH HIM 653 00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:48,494 ON TOURISM BECAUSE HE KNOWS 654 00:18:48,494 --> 00:18:50,129 ABOUT TOURISM IN LOUISIANA. 655 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:51,563 BUT, I WANTED TO ADDRESS THE 656 00:18:51,563 --> 00:18:53,332 ISSUES THAT I KNEW THAT THE 657 00:18:53,332 --> 00:18:55,200 FAMILIES WERE INTERESTED IN, 658 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,703 AND, AND THAT BEING SPECIFICALLY 659 00:18:57,703 --> 00:19:00,939 AS YOU KNOW, I DEVELOPED A FORCE 660 00:19:00,939 --> 00:19:03,041 FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND 661 00:19:03,041 --> 00:19:04,676 ELDERLY ISSUES, AND I WANTED TO 662 00:19:04,676 --> 00:19:06,345 USE THE POWER OF THE OFFICE. 663 00:19:06,345 --> 00:19:08,747 THAT, THAT WAS STILL THERE, TO 664 00:19:08,747 --> 00:19:10,048 ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. 665 00:19:10,048 --> 00:19:12,317 SO, THAT'S WHAT I, I HOPE TO DO, 666 00:19:12,317 --> 00:19:14,119 AND I'M REAL PROUD TO SAY THAT 667 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:15,187 WE, I FEEL WE'RE ABLE TO DO 668 00:19:15,187 --> 00:19:15,487 THAT. 669 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:17,156 WE BROUGHT THE, THE LOUISIANA 670 00:19:17,156 --> 00:19:19,091 SERVE AND DELTA SERVICE COURTS 671 00:19:19,091 --> 00:19:21,693 TO THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S 672 00:19:21,693 --> 00:19:23,061 OFFICE, AND STARTED A COMMUNITY 673 00:19:23,061 --> 00:19:24,129 SERVICE PROGRAM IN OUR STATE. 674 00:19:24,129 --> 00:19:25,564 THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, SO I HAD 675 00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:27,733 FUN DOING THAT, AS WELL AS THE 676 00:19:27,733 --> 00:19:29,868 REAL FUN PART GOING AROUND THE 677 00:19:29,868 --> 00:19:32,671 STATE AND MEETING EVERY TOURISM 678 00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:34,640 OFFICIAL IN THE STATE, AND 679 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,074 PROMOTING WHAT WE ALL ARE SO 680 00:19:36,074 --> 00:19:37,576 PROUD OF IN OUR STATE. 681 00:19:37,576 --> 00:19:39,711 MEETING THE PEOPLE AND OUR, OUR 682 00:19:39,711 --> 00:19:40,879 WONDERFUL STATE. 683 00:19:40,879 --> 00:19:41,780 ONE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS IS 684 00:19:41,780 --> 00:19:42,948 NOT ONLY TRAVELING AROUND THE 685 00:19:42,948 --> 00:19:45,017 STATE, BUT THE LIEUTENANT 686 00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:46,818 GOVERNOR REPRESENTS THE STATE OF 687 00:19:46,818 --> 00:19:47,886 LOUISIANA TO INTERNATIONAL 688 00:19:47,886 --> 00:19:48,754 DIPLOMATS AND EVERYTHING, TOO, 689 00:19:48,754 --> 00:19:49,855 AND I WOULD, ONE OF THE THINGS 690 00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:52,257 THAT I KNOW THAT YOU ENCOUNTERED 691 00:19:52,257 --> 00:19:54,693 IS, IS SOMEBODY VISITING, A 692 00:19:54,693 --> 00:19:55,894 COUNCIL GENERAL OR SOMEBODY FROM 693 00:19:55,894 --> 00:19:57,829 FRANCE WANTS TO MEET WITH AN 694 00:19:57,829 --> 00:19:59,364 OFFICIAL, AND THE LIEUTENANT 695 00:19:59,364 --> 00:20:00,566 GOVERNOR MANY TIMES DOES THAT 696 00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:01,900 ROLE, RIGHT? 697 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:03,101 >> QUITE HONESTLY, I AM SURE 698 00:20:03,101 --> 00:20:04,903 THAT WE ALL HAD IT HAPPEN WHERE 699 00:20:04,903 --> 00:20:07,139 THERE WERE OFFICIALS THAT CAME, 700 00:20:07,139 --> 00:20:08,740 AND WANTED TO MEET WITH THE 701 00:20:08,740 --> 00:20:11,076 GOVERNOR, AND PERHAPS, THE 702 00:20:11,076 --> 00:20:13,779 GOVERNOR COULD NOT, AND THEY 703 00:20:13,779 --> 00:20:15,814 WERE VERY SATISFY, I HOPE, WHEN 704 00:20:15,814 --> 00:20:16,782 THEY WERE TOLD THEY WERE GOING 705 00:20:16,782 --> 00:20:17,849 TO MEET WITH THE LIEUTENANT 706 00:20:17,849 --> 00:20:18,784 GOVERNOR, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT 707 00:20:18,784 --> 00:20:20,385 THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN AS HAPPY IF 708 00:20:20,385 --> 00:20:21,687 THEY HAD BEEN TOLD WELL, YOU 709 00:20:21,687 --> 00:20:23,088 WILL MEET WITH THE PRESIDENT OF 710 00:20:23,088 --> 00:20:24,523 THE SENATE OR SOMEONE ELSE. 711 00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:26,959 I THINK THAT YOU NEED TO, TO, 712 00:20:26,959 --> 00:20:28,827 UM, SHOW THAT WE ARE PUTTING YOU 713 00:20:28,827 --> 00:20:30,529 ON A LEVEL HERE, AND THIS IS 714 00:20:30,529 --> 00:20:32,064 THE, THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO. 715 00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:33,932 SO, I THOUGHT IT WAS QUITE A 716 00:20:33,932 --> 00:20:35,467 ANON, AND I THINK THAT ALL OF US 717 00:20:35,467 --> 00:20:38,570 AGREE THAT THE OFFICE IS VERY 718 00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:38,971 IMPORTANT. 719 00:20:38,971 --> 00:20:40,973 >> AS MELINDA SAID, THERE IS A 720 00:20:40,973 --> 00:20:42,307 LOT OF TOURISM INVOLVED. 721 00:20:42,307 --> 00:20:43,709 GUESS WHAT, TOURISM IN THE MINDS 722 00:20:43,709 --> 00:20:46,578 OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF 723 00:20:46,578 --> 00:20:49,481 LOUISIANA, THEY DON'T VOTE. 724 00:20:49,481 --> 00:20:51,650 WHICH MEANS THAT, THAT THE 725 00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:52,551 POLITICIAN, WHY YOU GO ABOUT 726 00:20:52,551 --> 00:20:56,888 THESE PEOPLE, THEY DON'T VOTE. 727 00:20:56,888 --> 00:20:59,424 AT THE SAME TIME, THEY DON'T 728 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:02,661 REALIZE THE, THE ECONOMIC IMPACT 729 00:21:02,661 --> 00:21:05,864 OF THE TOURISM, FOR EXAMPLE, WE 730 00:21:05,864 --> 00:21:08,734 WERE ABLE TO PASS TAX INSTALLED 731 00:21:08,734 --> 00:21:11,136 NOD IN 1989. 732 00:21:11,136 --> 00:21:13,038 WE WERE VERY, VERY INSTRUMENTAL. 733 00:21:13,038 --> 00:21:13,839 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I HAD TO GO 734 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:16,041 TO THE HOUSE BECAUSE, BECAUSE I 735 00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:16,942 DON'T REMEMBER KATHLEEN, WERE 736 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:20,279 YOU IN THE HOUSE AT THAT TIME? 737 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:20,779 1989? 738 00:21:20,779 --> 00:21:21,813 >> I HAD JUST GONE TO THE PUBLIC 739 00:21:21,813 --> 00:21:23,048 SERVICE COMMISSION. 740 00:21:23,048 --> 00:21:24,583 >> GUESS WHAT CAUCUS WAS AGAINST 741 00:21:24,583 --> 00:21:27,252 ME TRYING TO PASS THE TAX 742 00:21:27,252 --> 00:21:27,686 RESHOPPING? 743 00:21:27,686 --> 00:21:28,620 AND OF COURSE, THE GOVERNOR 744 00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:30,622 DIDN'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED, BUT 745 00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:32,190 HE SAID I WILL VETO IT IF YOU 746 00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:33,925 PASS IT BECAUSE BASICALLY, TAX 747 00:21:33,925 --> 00:21:35,527 RESHOPPING IS VERY SIMPLE. 748 00:21:35,527 --> 00:21:36,828 IT TELLS THE FOREIGN VISITORS 749 00:21:36,828 --> 00:21:38,597 WHEN YOU COME TO LOUISIANA, AND 750 00:21:38,597 --> 00:21:40,866 YOU BUY SOMETHING, YOU BUY SOME 751 00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:41,700 MERCHANDISE, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE 752 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:43,735 YOU THE TAX, THE TAXI BACK WHEN 753 00:21:43,735 --> 00:21:44,903 YOU GET TO THE AIRPORT. 754 00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:46,672 AND BY DOING THAT, WE FIND OUT 755 00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:47,673 WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM AND 756 00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:50,642 HOW MUCH THEY ARE SPENDING AND 757 00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:52,177 THE IMPACT AS OF THE LATEST 758 00:21:52,177 --> 00:21:56,081 STUDY ON THAT, WAS, WAS A $45 759 00:21:56,081 --> 00:21:59,051 MILLION ECONOMIC IMPACT BACK IN 760 00:21:59,051 --> 00:21:59,351 2007. 761 00:21:59,351 --> 00:22:00,986 THEY ARE NOW BACK TO, TO 762 00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:02,988 PREKATRINA NUMBERS, WHERE WE DO 763 00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:06,158 BETTER WITH THAT SITUATION. 764 00:22:06,158 --> 00:22:07,893 BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, THE 765 00:22:07,893 --> 00:22:09,394 CONSTITUTION IN 1974 TOOK AWAY 766 00:22:09,394 --> 00:22:11,396 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FROM HIS 767 00:22:11,396 --> 00:22:13,031 POSITION AS PRESIDING OVER THE 768 00:22:13,031 --> 00:22:13,365 SENATE. 769 00:22:13,365 --> 00:22:15,567 WHICH I THINK WAS A MAJOR 770 00:22:15,567 --> 00:22:16,401 MISTAKE. 771 00:22:16,401 --> 00:22:17,869 BECAUSE, BECAUSE FITS MORRIS WAS 772 00:22:17,869 --> 00:22:20,605 THE BENEFICIARY OF THAT KIND OF 773 00:22:20,605 --> 00:22:21,973 AUTHORITY, AND AS LIEUTENANT 774 00:22:21,973 --> 00:22:23,108 GOVERNOR, WHEN BOBBY CAME IN, IT 775 00:22:23,108 --> 00:22:24,843 WAS GONE. 776 00:22:24,843 --> 00:22:26,912 SO, WE HAD TO DEPEND ALMOST 777 00:22:26,912 --> 00:22:28,547 ENTIRELY ON WHAT THE GOVERNOR 778 00:22:28,547 --> 00:22:30,215 WOULD GIVE US IN ORDER TO 779 00:22:30,215 --> 00:22:31,616 PERFORM WHATEVER SERVICES AND 780 00:22:31,616 --> 00:22:33,151 DUTIES WE WERE SUPPOSED TO 781 00:22:33,151 --> 00:22:34,920 PERFORM, AND IT WAS US, UP TO US 782 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,422 TO GO AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 783 00:22:37,422 --> 00:22:38,857 NEVER FORGET, AND LIEUTENANT 784 00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:40,025 GOVERNOR, SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE 785 00:22:40,025 --> 00:22:42,027 IN THE MINDS OF THE FOREIGNERS, 786 00:22:42,027 --> 00:22:43,662 THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK TO THE 787 00:22:43,662 --> 00:22:44,029 SECRETARY. 788 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:45,097 THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK TO -- 789 00:22:45,097 --> 00:22:52,204 THEY WANT TO TALK TO THE 790 00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:53,972 [INAUDIBLE] OR THE GOVERNOR IN 791 00:22:53,972 --> 00:22:55,574 THE TITLE. 792 00:22:55,574 --> 00:22:58,076 I WAS IN PARISH, AND, AND WE 793 00:22:58,076 --> 00:23:01,079 WENT TO THIS LITTLE PUB, AND WE 794 00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:03,115 WERE WITH A LARGE DELEGATION 795 00:23:03,115 --> 00:23:06,485 FROM LOUISIANA, AND INTRODUCED 796 00:23:06,485 --> 00:23:09,888 ME AS LA GOVERNOR, YOU KNOW, THE 797 00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:16,328 GOVERNOR OF NEW ORLEANS. 798 00:23:16,328 --> 00:23:17,596 SO, THE DELEGATION SAYS PAUL, 799 00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:20,065 YOU NEED TO GO AND CORRECT THEM. 800 00:23:20,065 --> 00:23:21,933 GO AND TELL THEN YOU ARE THE 801 00:23:21,933 --> 00:23:22,534 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF 802 00:23:22,534 --> 00:23:24,569 LOUISIANA, AND I SAID WHAT? 803 00:23:24,569 --> 00:23:27,439 THESE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHERE 804 00:23:27,439 --> 00:23:29,508 LOUISIANA IS. 805 00:23:29,508 --> 00:23:31,710 THEY ALL KNOW NEW ORLEANS. 806 00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:33,645 AND GETTING BACK FRANKLY TO THE 807 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:34,880 POINT YOU ASKED EARLIER, ONE OF 808 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,415 THE THINGS THAT REALLY, REALLY 809 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:38,350 MADE ME WANT TO GET INVOLVED 810 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:41,186 WITH THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S 811 00:23:41,186 --> 00:23:42,053 OFFICE, AT THE TIME, AND BOBBY 812 00:23:42,053 --> 00:23:43,722 AND BEFORE BOBBY, BUT ESPECIALLY 813 00:23:43,722 --> 00:23:45,657 BOBBY, HAD STARTED OFF THE MOVIE 814 00:23:45,657 --> 00:23:46,758 INDUSTRY, AND REALLY HUSTLING 815 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:50,595 THE MOVIE INDUSTRY. 816 00:23:50,595 --> 00:23:54,966 AND IN 1985, OR 1987. 817 00:23:54,966 --> 00:23:58,470 >> FOR OUR AUDIENCE, THE CAJUNS, 818 00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:00,872 A MOVIE FILM, A FEATURE FILM. 819 00:24:00,872 --> 00:24:01,273 >> YES. 820 00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:02,974 SO I GOT REALLY INVOLVED, AND I 821 00:24:02,974 --> 00:24:04,242 DIDN'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT GOT 822 00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:06,044 VERY INVOLVED IN THE MOVIE. 823 00:24:06,044 --> 00:24:07,579 BUT I REALLY GOT INVOLVED, AND I 824 00:24:07,579 --> 00:24:11,283 SAW THE, THE OBVIOUS BENEFIT 825 00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:12,217 THAT WE COULD REAP FROM THE 826 00:24:12,217 --> 00:24:13,585 MOVIE INDUSTRY. 827 00:24:13,585 --> 00:24:15,887 AND, AND WHEN, WHEN I WAS 828 00:24:15,887 --> 00:24:17,489 ELECTED, WE WERE FORTUNATE TO 829 00:24:17,489 --> 00:24:18,723 GET STEEL MAKING KNOLL I CAN'T 830 00:24:18,723 --> 00:24:22,194 SAY BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF THE 831 00:24:22,194 --> 00:24:22,894 TREMENDOUS COOPERATION FROM 832 00:24:22,894 --> 00:24:23,728 PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA, AND IT WAS 833 00:24:23,728 --> 00:24:25,597 A GREAT, GREAT HIT, AND I REALLY 834 00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:27,699 THINK IT DID A LOT TO GET MORE 835 00:24:27,699 --> 00:24:29,668 MOVIES TO NOW START TO LOOK AT 836 00:24:29,668 --> 00:24:30,035 LOUISIANA. 837 00:24:30,035 --> 00:24:32,370 >> BUT YOU KNOW, GOVERNOR, AND 838 00:24:32,370 --> 00:24:33,905 ANYBODY HERE, YOU KNOW, THEY 839 00:24:33,905 --> 00:24:36,074 HAVE TAKEN THE MUSIC, AND THE 840 00:24:36,074 --> 00:24:37,542 MOVIE INDUSTRY PART OF THE, OF 841 00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:38,577 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S OFFICE 842 00:24:38,577 --> 00:24:40,779 AND MOVED IF OVER TO ECONOMIC 843 00:24:40,779 --> 00:24:43,515 DEVELOPMENT, AND THE GOVERNORS. 844 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:45,183 >> THE BIG BATTLE WAS THE 845 00:24:45,183 --> 00:24:46,485 LEGISLATORS, AND I SAT ON THE 846 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:47,686 COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, AS 847 00:24:47,686 --> 00:24:49,988 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, AND I 848 00:24:49,988 --> 00:24:51,823 REMEMBER THE HOUSE MEMBER SAYING 849 00:24:51,823 --> 00:24:53,492 WELL, THIS IS, THIS IS TOURISM, 850 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:54,693 THIS IS NOT ECONOMIC 851 00:24:54,693 --> 00:24:55,093 DEVELOPMENT. 852 00:24:55,093 --> 00:24:58,063 AND I WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN 853 00:24:58,063 --> 00:25:00,398 WILL, WILL EVERYBODY GET THIS? 854 00:25:00,398 --> 00:25:03,535 THAT, THAT MOVIES, TOURISM, ALL 855 00:25:03,535 --> 00:25:05,437 OF THESE, THAT'S ECONOMIC 856 00:25:05,437 --> 00:25:05,837 DEVELOPMENT. 857 00:25:05,837 --> 00:25:07,305 AND I PUNCHED HIM AND SAID, HAVE 858 00:25:07,305 --> 00:25:09,040 YOU EVER BEEN TO DISNEY WORLD? 859 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,342 DO YOU CALL THAT TOURISM OR 860 00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:11,643 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? 861 00:25:11,643 --> 00:25:12,978 SO, THAT WAS A BATTLE THAT WE 862 00:25:12,978 --> 00:25:15,080 ALL HAD, I THINK, AND, UM, AND 863 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,549 THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, THE MOVIE 864 00:25:17,549 --> 00:25:19,217 INDUSTRY, MOVING IT BACK AND 865 00:25:19,217 --> 00:25:21,386 FORTH, IT REALLY DIDN'T MATTER 866 00:25:21,386 --> 00:25:23,655 TO ME AS LONG AS EVERYBODY GOT 867 00:25:23,655 --> 00:25:26,324 IT, THAT THIS IS ALL ECONOMIC 868 00:25:26,324 --> 00:25:28,493 DEVELOPMENT, BUT IT'S A VERY 869 00:25:28,493 --> 00:25:30,028 IMPORTANT, UNIQUE AS SPECK OF IT 870 00:25:30,028 --> 00:25:32,531 THAT NEEDS THAT, THAT PERSONAL 871 00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:34,499 ATTENTION, THE PEOPLE ACROSS OUR 872 00:25:34,499 --> 00:25:37,669 STATE THAT SELL OUR STATE TO 873 00:25:37,669 --> 00:25:39,404 OTHERS, AND WORKING WITH THOSE 874 00:25:39,404 --> 00:25:40,539 TOURIST COMMISSIONS WAS THE 875 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,140 GREATEST JOY IN THE WORLD. 876 00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:43,508 >> RIGHT, AND JOIN IN? 877 00:25:43,508 --> 00:25:46,211 >> I WAS GOING, PAUL MENTIONED 878 00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:47,178 ABOUT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 879 00:25:47,178 --> 00:25:50,048 BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE, OF THE 880 00:25:50,048 --> 00:25:52,250 SENATE AS PRESIDING OFFICER, AND 881 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:57,389 I HAVE TO TELL YOU, IN 1972, 882 00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:58,890 WHEN EDWARDS DECIDED TO 883 00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:00,425 REORGANIZE ALL OF THE 884 00:26:00,425 --> 00:26:01,226 GOVERNMENT, I SAT ON THE 885 00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:04,663 COMMITTEE TO, TO, TO REORGANIZE 886 00:26:04,663 --> 00:26:08,300 THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. 887 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:09,501 SO, I DID A LOT OF RESEARCH, AND 888 00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:12,103 I SAW IN SEVERAL OTHER STATES 889 00:26:12,103 --> 00:26:13,238 WHERE THEY HAD TAKEN LIEUTENANT 890 00:26:13,238 --> 00:26:15,273 GOVERNOR OUT OF THE SENATE, AND 891 00:26:15,273 --> 00:26:16,808 SO I SAID WAIT, THAT'S, THAT'S 892 00:26:16,808 --> 00:26:17,842 NOT A BAD IDEA. 893 00:26:17,842 --> 00:26:18,944 NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD RUN 894 00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:20,679 FOR IT. 895 00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:21,780 SO I WENT TO THE COMMISSION, AND 896 00:26:21,780 --> 00:26:23,415 I SOLD IT TO THEM. 897 00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:26,484 AND THEY BOUGHT IT, AND AFTER 898 00:26:26,484 --> 00:26:27,652 THAT, THE PEOPLE VOTED ON IT, 899 00:26:27,652 --> 00:26:33,425 AND OF COURSE, APPROVED IT, AND 900 00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:34,559 THE THING ABOUT IT, I THOUGHT IT 901 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:35,794 WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO 902 00:26:35,794 --> 00:26:37,495 BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY TIME 903 00:26:37,495 --> 00:26:42,100 WHERE, WHERE, A, AN EXECUTIVE 904 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:43,602 OFFICER ACTUALLY CAST A, A 905 00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:45,370 LEGISLATIVE VOTE IN CASE OF A 906 00:26:45,370 --> 00:26:47,906 TIE, SO, I SAID, LEGISLATIVE, 907 00:26:47,906 --> 00:26:51,009 THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S -- 908 00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:52,177 LEGISLATIVE OFFICE SHOULD BE IN 909 00:26:52,177 --> 00:26:53,478 CHARGE AND LEC THEIR OWN, AND 910 00:26:53,478 --> 00:26:54,112 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 911 00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:55,780 I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD RUN 912 00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:57,749 FOR IT AFTER THAT AND TAKE IT 913 00:26:57,749 --> 00:26:59,517 OPEN, STILL, NO MATTER WHO, WHO 914 00:26:59,517 --> 00:27:01,753 THEY ARE, I'M DIFFERENT THAN 915 00:27:01,753 --> 00:27:02,854 PAUL, I BELIEVED THAT'S THE 916 00:27:02,854 --> 00:27:04,222 RIGHT THING TO DO TO LET THEM 917 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:06,257 ELECT THEIR OWN OFFICE. 918 00:27:06,257 --> 00:27:08,460 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK, GOVERNOR? 919 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:09,794 >> WELL, I WATCHED ALL OF THAT 920 00:27:09,794 --> 00:27:10,895 WITH A LOT OF INTEREST. 921 00:27:10,895 --> 00:27:13,898 I WAS IN THE LEGISLATURE WHEN 922 00:27:13,898 --> 00:27:15,300 EDWIN CAME BACK, AND YOU WERE, 923 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,302 YOU WERE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ONE 924 00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:18,937 MORE TIME. 925 00:27:18,937 --> 00:27:21,272 AND, AND I SAW WHAT BUDDY DID TO 926 00:27:21,272 --> 00:27:25,243 YOU, PAUL, AND I LEARN A GOOD 927 00:27:25,243 --> 00:27:25,577 LESSON. 928 00:27:25,577 --> 00:27:28,313 I GOT ALONG WITH MIKE FOSTER. 929 00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:28,680 [LAUGHTER] 930 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,115 >> I MADE IT MY BUSINESS TO GET 931 00:27:30,115 --> 00:27:33,852 ALONG WITH MIKE FOSTER. 932 00:27:33,852 --> 00:27:39,024 >> WHO COULDN'T GET ALONG -- 933 00:27:39,024 --> 00:27:42,027 >> WELL, WE HAD GOODWILL FRIENDS 934 00:27:42,027 --> 00:27:42,994 BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED TO THE 935 00:27:42,994 --> 00:27:46,398 SENATE, AND WE CONTINUED THAT 936 00:27:46,398 --> 00:27:47,966 RELATIONSHIP, BUT IT IS A TRICKY 937 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:51,770 BALANCE, AND, AND, AND I 938 00:27:51,770 --> 00:27:52,971 CONSIDER MYSELF FORTUNE. 939 00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:57,242 MIKE ALSO HAD STAFF PEOPLE WHO, 940 00:27:57,242 --> 00:27:59,978 WHO AGREED WITH ALL OF THE FOCUS 941 00:27:59,978 --> 00:28:02,380 THAT WE WERE, WE WERE, THAT WE 942 00:28:02,380 --> 00:28:06,084 BROUGHT TO THE TABLE. 943 00:28:06,084 --> 00:28:08,286 WE NOW HAVE A VERY FIRST CLASS 944 00:28:08,286 --> 00:28:10,722 STATE PARK SYSTEM THAT CAN 945 00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:12,123 COMPARE -- WELL, IT'S BETTER 946 00:28:12,123 --> 00:28:13,425 THAN MANY, MANY STATES BECAUSE 947 00:28:13,425 --> 00:28:17,562 IT'S REALLY FIRST CLASS, AND 948 00:28:17,562 --> 00:28:18,697 GOVERNOR FOSTER'S PEOPLE 949 00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:19,597 SUPPORTED THAT, SO THEY HELPED 950 00:28:19,597 --> 00:28:22,667 US TO MOVE THAT THROUGH THE 951 00:28:22,667 --> 00:28:23,034 CHANNELS. 952 00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:24,669 EVERYTHING THAT, THAT YOU DO IN 953 00:28:24,669 --> 00:28:27,539 CULTURE, RECREATION, AND TOURISM 954 00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:29,507 IS, IS FOR THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE 955 00:28:29,507 --> 00:28:31,910 OF DRIVING AN ECONOMY, AND SO 956 00:28:31,910 --> 00:28:34,446 HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS, THE WHOLE 957 00:28:34,446 --> 00:28:36,147 STATE ENGAGE IN THAT? 958 00:28:36,147 --> 00:28:38,083 THAT WAS THE REAL CHALLENGE, AND 959 00:28:38,083 --> 00:28:40,785 WE HAD A LOT OF SMALL 960 00:28:40,785 --> 00:28:41,886 COMMUNITIES THAT WERE DYING ON 961 00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:42,387 THE VINE. 962 00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:44,689 THERE IS A NATIONAL PROGRAM 963 00:28:44,689 --> 00:28:45,990 CALLED THE MAIN STREET PROGRAM 964 00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:48,760 THAT MELINDA'S PEOPLE HAD WORKED 965 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,195 IN, AND WHEN I LOOKED AT THE 966 00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:53,364 POWER OF THE PROGRAM OF HELPING 967 00:28:53,364 --> 00:28:55,467 SMALL COMMUNITIES BY GIVING THEM 968 00:28:55,467 --> 00:28:57,068 FACADE GRANTS TO, DRESS UP THE 969 00:28:57,068 --> 00:28:58,503 DOWNTOWN, AND TO FRESHEN IT UP 970 00:28:58,503 --> 00:29:00,238 AND TO TRAIN THEM TO HELP GET 971 00:29:00,238 --> 00:29:01,906 NEW BUSINESS BACK IN. 972 00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:04,809 THE ADVENT OF THE, OF THE BIG 973 00:29:04,809 --> 00:29:07,579 BOX STORES ON THE OUTSKIRTS JUST 974 00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:10,081 DRIED UP THE ECONOMY OF THE, OF 975 00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:11,616 THE SMALL TOWNS. 976 00:29:11,616 --> 00:29:12,484 NOBODY WANTED TO GO INTO THE 977 00:29:12,484 --> 00:29:13,885 SMALL TOWN. 978 00:29:13,885 --> 00:29:15,987 IT WAS NOTHING TO DO OR SEE, YOU 979 00:29:15,987 --> 00:29:17,422 KNOW, YOU COULDN'T SHOP THERE 980 00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:20,258 EVEN, BUT, THE POWER PROGRAM 981 00:29:20,258 --> 00:29:22,427 HAS, HAS REALLY JUST DONE 982 00:29:22,427 --> 00:29:24,629 MAGNITUDE THINGS, IN SMALL TOWNS 983 00:29:24,629 --> 00:29:25,396 LIKE COLUMBIA. 984 00:29:25,396 --> 00:29:27,132 THAT'S SUCH A CHARMING PLACE, 985 00:29:27,132 --> 00:29:30,001 BUT IT WAS DYING ON THE VINE. 986 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:32,937 ABBYVILLE, FRANKLIN. 987 00:29:32,937 --> 00:29:33,438 >> JENNINGS. 988 00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:35,774 AND, AND ALL OF NORTH LOUISIANA, 989 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,442 ALL OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE 990 00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:39,511 SOUTH, ABOUTR BUT WE JUST PUSHED 991 00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:40,378 THAT REALLY HARD. 992 00:29:40,378 --> 00:29:42,480 WE PUT MORE, MORE MONEY INTO IT, 993 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,215 AND WE BROUGHT AS MANY 994 00:29:44,215 --> 00:29:50,121 COMMUNITIES AS WE COULD SO WE 995 00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:51,422 STRENGTHED EVERYTHING. 996 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:52,390 WE LOOKED AT THE ASSETS AND 997 00:29:52,390 --> 00:29:54,292 SAID, WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN 998 00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:54,692 INTERNALLY? 999 00:29:54,692 --> 00:29:56,694 THEN WE BROUGHT ALL OF THAT 1000 00:29:56,694 --> 00:29:57,428 EXTERNALLY, YOU KNOW. 1001 00:29:57,428 --> 00:29:59,097 WE STARTED MARKETING IT HEAVILY 1002 00:29:59,097 --> 00:30:00,398 AND WE DID A LOT OF 1003 00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:01,599 INTERNATIONAL STUFF, AND ONE OF 1004 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:04,903 THE BIG THINGS THAT WE DID WAS 1005 00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:06,838 WE SPONSORED A LOUISIANA STATE 1006 00:30:06,838 --> 00:30:10,375 AT THE MONTPELIER JAZZ FEST IN 1007 00:30:10,375 --> 00:30:12,377 CANADA, AND FOR, FOR THREE 1008 00:30:12,377 --> 00:30:13,645 YEARS, AND AT THE END OF THAT 1009 00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:17,882 THIRD YEAR, WE HAD THE HIGHEST, 1010 00:30:17,882 --> 00:30:19,551 ACCORDING TO CANADA GOVERNMENT 1011 00:30:19,551 --> 00:30:23,188 STATISTICS, WE HAD THE HIGHEST 1012 00:30:23,188 --> 00:30:24,556 NUMBER OF CANADA VISITORS THAN 1013 00:30:24,556 --> 00:30:25,657 ANY STATE IN THE NATION, AND I 1014 00:30:25,657 --> 00:30:27,425 THINK IT WAS IN THE 1960s, IN 1015 00:30:27,425 --> 00:30:30,595 THE 60%, LIKE 65%, WE HAD MORE 1016 00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:32,130 VISITORS HERE, AND IT WAS THE 1017 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:34,065 RESULT OF THE DIRECT MARKETING. 1018 00:30:34,065 --> 00:30:36,601 WE HAD TWO BIG EVENTS DURING MY 1019 00:30:36,601 --> 00:30:40,438 AGO-YEAR TERM, AND ONE WAS THE 1020 00:30:40,438 --> 00:30:43,074 YEAR OF FRANCO [INAUDIBLE], 1021 00:30:43,074 --> 00:30:45,376 COUPLED WITH [INAUDIBLE] 1022 00:30:45,376 --> 00:30:47,478 IT ORIGINAL NATED IN CANADA 1023 00:30:47,478 --> 00:30:48,546 REUNITING THE FRENCH PEOPLE, AND 1024 00:30:48,546 --> 00:30:51,049 WE HAD FAMILY REUNIONS, REAL 1025 00:30:51,049 --> 00:30:52,483 FORMAL, BIG FAMILY REUNIONS ALL 1026 00:30:52,483 --> 00:30:54,185 OVER THE SOUTH LOUISIANA. 1027 00:30:54,185 --> 00:30:57,922 BUT THE FRANCO PIECE OF IT TIED 1028 00:30:57,922 --> 00:30:59,557 THE WHOLE STATE, AND ALLOWED 1029 00:30:59,557 --> 00:31:01,292 PEOPLE IN EVERY REGION OF 1030 00:31:01,292 --> 00:31:05,496 LOUISIANA TO LOOK AT OUR FRENCH 1031 00:31:05,496 --> 00:31:06,898 HERITAGE AND CELEBRATE THE 300 1032 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:07,198 YEARS. 1033 00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:08,566 >> WE WERE CHATTING AND I 1034 00:31:08,566 --> 00:31:09,601 REMEMBER WE DID EVANGELINE, THE 1035 00:31:09,601 --> 00:31:10,668 MUSICAL INSURING THEY HAVE SHORT 1036 00:31:10,668 --> 00:31:12,036 AT THE STRAND THEATER, AND THEY 1037 00:31:12,036 --> 00:31:16,674 ALL FELT VERY MUCH A PART OF THE 1038 00:31:16,674 --> 00:31:16,975 SHOW. 1039 00:31:16,975 --> 00:31:18,176 BUT THE WHOLE FOCUS WAS TO MAKE 1040 00:31:18,176 --> 00:31:20,278 SURE THE WHOLE STATE FELT IT, 1041 00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:23,414 AND THE MUSICAL WAS FILMED BY 1042 00:31:23,414 --> 00:31:26,251 LPB, AND FILMED IN SHREVEPORT 1043 00:31:26,251 --> 00:31:29,220 BUT WRITTEN BY A BATON ROUGE 1044 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:30,455 COMPOSER, WHO WAS WRITING IT FOR 1045 00:31:30,455 --> 00:31:30,955 A SCHOOL. 1046 00:31:30,955 --> 00:31:33,057 >> IT IS A FABULOUS PIECE. 1047 00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:35,226 SO, YOU KNOW, WE GOT THESE 1048 00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:36,527 CULTURAL ASSETS THAT WE WERE 1049 00:31:36,527 --> 00:31:38,196 DEVELOPING ALL ALONG THE WAY, 1050 00:31:38,196 --> 00:31:39,731 AND BRINGING TO THE FOREFRONT, 1051 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:42,333 AND THAT IS HOW, HOW THE 1052 00:31:42,333 --> 00:31:43,301 DEPARTMENT MATURED. 1053 00:31:43,301 --> 00:31:46,271 IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET THIS 1054 00:31:46,271 --> 00:31:48,740 DEPARTMENT TO GEL AS A 1055 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:49,140 DEPARTMENT. 1056 00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:51,276 AND, YOU KNOW, SO EACH PERIOD, 1057 00:31:51,276 --> 00:31:53,811 EACH TIME THESE LIEUTENANT 1058 00:31:53,811 --> 00:31:55,480 GOVERNORS WORKED AT IT, IT GOT A 1059 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,083 LITTLE CLOSER AND A LITTLE 1060 00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:00,251 CLOSER, AND THEN I HAVE THAT 1061 00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:02,387 EIGHT-YEAR PERIOD, AND WE REALLY 1062 00:32:02,387 --> 00:32:03,254 MADE IT HUM. 1063 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:04,622 I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, BASED ON 1064 00:32:04,622 --> 00:32:06,190 THE FOUNDATION THAT I HAD TO 1065 00:32:06,190 --> 00:32:08,693 WORK WITH, IT JUST CAME TO GO, 1066 00:32:08,693 --> 00:32:12,030 AND WE ENDED UP SPURRING THE 1067 00:32:12,030 --> 00:32:14,098 ECONOMY. 1068 00:32:14,098 --> 00:32:16,467 TOURISM WAS A $9 BILLION PIECE 1069 00:32:16,467 --> 00:32:17,769 OF THIS ECONOMY, BY THE TIME I 1070 00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:19,871 ENDED OFFICE, AND THEN WE ALSO 1071 00:32:19,871 --> 00:32:22,006 DEALT WITH 9/11, DURING THAT 1072 00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:24,309 PERIOD, WHERE TOURISM SHUT DOWN, 1073 00:32:24,309 --> 00:32:25,677 ALL THE AIRLINES SHUT DOWN, AND 1074 00:32:25,677 --> 00:32:26,945 WE HAD TO COME BACK, AND WE HAD 1075 00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,379 TO CREATE SALES. 1076 00:32:28,379 --> 00:32:30,481 THE HOTELS, YOU KNOW, CUT THEIR 1077 00:32:30,481 --> 00:32:32,750 RATES, AND WE HAD SPECIAL 1078 00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:34,185 PROMOTIONS FOR DRIVING VISITORS, 1079 00:32:34,185 --> 00:32:35,153 AND WE DID A LOT OF THINGS HERE, 1080 00:32:35,153 --> 00:32:37,355 YOU KNOW, WE HAD SOME CHALLENGES 1081 00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:42,593 TO MEET, BUT, IT WAS A VERY 1082 00:32:42,593 --> 00:32:43,895 EXCITING PERIOD OF TIME FOR ME, 1083 00:32:43,895 --> 00:32:44,762 PERSONALLY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE 1084 00:32:44,762 --> 00:32:46,431 THAT WORKED WITH ME, I HAD A 1085 00:32:46,431 --> 00:32:49,000 TERRIFIC STAFF. 1086 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,368 AND, AND ALL THE STATE EMPLOYEES 1087 00:32:50,368 --> 00:32:53,004 IN OUR DEPARTMENT WERE ALWAYS SO 1088 00:32:53,004 --> 00:32:54,872 HAPPY, AND BRAGGING THAT, THAT 1089 00:32:54,872 --> 00:32:55,974 STATE EMPLOYEES AND ALL THE, IN 1090 00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,208 ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, WERE 1091 00:32:57,208 --> 00:33:00,178 TRYING TO WORK FOR US. 1092 00:33:00,178 --> 00:33:01,312 TRYING TO GET IN WITH THAT. 1093 00:33:01,312 --> 00:33:02,814 >> BUT THEY WORKED HARD. 1094 00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:04,048 I WOULD TELL YOU THAT NOBODY 1095 00:33:04,048 --> 00:33:05,650 COULD TAKE A SLOW STEP WHEN WE 1096 00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:06,417 WERE THERE. 1097 00:33:06,417 --> 00:33:07,552 >> ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE 1098 00:33:07,552 --> 00:33:10,154 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IS 1099 00:33:10,154 --> 00:33:11,589 THAT EVERYONE CALLS THE GOVERNOR 1100 00:33:11,589 --> 00:33:12,890 TO MAKE AN APPEARANCE, TO GIVE 1101 00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:14,993 OUT AN AWARD OR MAKE A SPEECH OR 1102 00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:16,294 SOMETHING, AND WHEN THEY CAN'T 1103 00:33:16,294 --> 00:33:18,363 GET HIM OR HE CAN'T GO, THE 1104 00:33:18,363 --> 00:33:19,697 FIRST, NEXT CALL IS LIEUTENANT 1105 00:33:19,697 --> 00:33:20,865 GOVERNOR. 1106 00:33:20,865 --> 00:33:22,667 SO, I KNOW DURING MY TERM, AND 1107 00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:23,968 I'M SURE DURING ALL THEIR TERMS, 1108 00:33:23,968 --> 00:33:27,038 THAT, THAT ALMOST EVERY SIDE, AT 1109 00:33:27,038 --> 00:33:28,973 LEAST THREE SATURDAYS OUT OF THE 1110 00:33:28,973 --> 00:33:30,608 MONTH I WAS ON THE ROAD, AND ON 1111 00:33:30,608 --> 00:33:34,879 SUNDAY, AT LEAST TWICE I WAS AT 1112 00:33:34,879 --> 00:33:36,080 FAIRS FOR SOMETHING GOING ON, 1113 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,949 THAT I HAD, SO I WAS AWAY FROM 1114 00:33:37,949 --> 00:33:39,283 THE FAMILY, AT LIEUTENANT 1115 00:33:39,283 --> 00:33:40,651 GOVERNOR YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE 1116 00:33:40,651 --> 00:33:41,786 FAMILY MORE THAN THE GOVERNOR IS 1117 00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:42,653 BECAUSE YOU ARE ALWAYS ON THE 1118 00:33:42,653 --> 00:33:45,857 ROAD TAKING CARE OF THESE THINGS 1119 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:47,225 AND YOU REALLY ARE THE 1120 00:33:47,225 --> 00:33:48,026 SUBSTANTIVE GOVERNOR IS WHAT 1121 00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:48,860 HAPPENS TO YOU. 1122 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:51,963 ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE ALL 1123 00:33:51,963 --> 00:33:53,931 HAD, AND IT STARTED BEFORE ME, 1124 00:33:53,931 --> 00:33:57,902 BUT IT REALLY WAS, WAS A BIG 1125 00:33:57,902 --> 00:34:01,105 BATTLE WITH THE LEGISLATORS, IT 1126 00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:02,573 WAS LIKE THE REST OF THE STATE 1127 00:34:02,573 --> 00:34:05,076 VERSUS NEW ORLEANS. 1128 00:34:05,076 --> 00:34:05,543 >> YEP. 1129 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:08,780 >> NEW ORLEANS IS DOING THIS -- 1130 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:10,982 MY STRONGEST EFFORT WITH THE 1131 00:34:10,982 --> 00:34:13,051 TOURISM EXPERTS, WAS TO CONVINCE 1132 00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,352 THEM THAT, THAT WE WERE TRYING 1133 00:34:14,352 --> 00:34:18,222 TO BE, TO BE AS GENERIC AS WE 1134 00:34:18,222 --> 00:34:20,091 COULD IN THE PROGRAM, SO THAT 1135 00:34:20,091 --> 00:34:21,259 EVERYONE WOULD BENEFIT, AND I 1136 00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:23,694 WOULD TELL THEM, THINK ABOUT 1137 00:34:23,694 --> 00:34:23,995 THIS. 1138 00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:26,431 IF SOMEBODY COMES TO LOUISIANA, 1139 00:34:26,431 --> 00:34:28,599 THEY ARE GOING TO GO TO NEW 1140 00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:28,933 ORLEANS. 1141 00:34:28,933 --> 00:34:30,568 THEY ARE GOING TO GO TO NEW 1142 00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:32,537 ORLEANS, HOWEVER, IF SOMEBODY 1143 00:34:32,537 --> 00:34:34,605 COMES TO NEW ORLEANS, WE MIGHT 1144 00:34:34,605 --> 00:34:37,375 GET THEM TO COME TO THE REST OF 1145 00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:37,742 LOUISIANA. 1146 00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:40,511 AND CAJUN WAS NOT TOO HOT THEN, 1147 00:34:40,511 --> 00:34:43,448 IT WASN'T TOO COOL, EITHER, TO 1148 00:34:43,448 --> 00:34:44,348 BE CAJUN. 1149 00:34:44,348 --> 00:34:46,851 >> IT'S COOL NOW. 1150 00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:47,251 >> YES. 1151 00:34:47,251 --> 00:34:48,453 >> IT'S CAJUN NOW. 1152 00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:49,687 NEW ORLEANS IS CAJUN. 1153 00:34:49,687 --> 00:34:51,889 BATON ROUGE IS CAJUN. 1154 00:34:51,889 --> 00:34:53,791 >> SHREVEPORT IS. 1155 00:34:53,791 --> 00:34:56,994 >> SHREVEPORT IS HAVING A MARDI 1156 00:34:56,994 --> 00:34:58,029 GRAS. 1157 00:34:58,029 --> 00:34:58,396 [LAUGHTER] 1158 00:34:58,396 --> 00:34:59,530 >> AND LIKE SHE MENTIONED, IT'S 1159 00:34:59,530 --> 00:35:03,000 NOT JUST ONE OF US THAT DID IT. 1160 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,769 IT WAS, IT WAS -- WHEN BOBBY 1161 00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:08,506 FIRST STARTED WITH THE MOVIE 1162 00:35:08,506 --> 00:35:10,608 INDUSTRY, IT WAS IN THE INFANCY 1163 00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:10,942 STAGES. 1164 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:12,110 WE WERE ABLE TO PUMP IT UP MORE, 1165 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:16,481 AND WE GOT PAUL AND WE LET THEM, 1166 00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:19,717 LED THEM TO LOS ANGELES, TO 1167 00:35:19,717 --> 00:35:20,985 HOLLYWOOD, AND THEY COOKED FOR 1168 00:35:20,985 --> 00:35:23,187 THEM AND LOVED IT AND THEN YOU 1169 00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:25,389 HAVE THE CREDIT ON THE MOE 1170 00:35:25,389 --> 00:35:27,125 STEPS, AND ALL STUFF THAT'S 1171 00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:28,693 WORKING ITSELF INTO WHERE IT IS 1172 00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:28,993 TODAY. 1173 00:35:28,993 --> 00:35:30,361 >> WHEN WE PASSED THE 1174 00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:31,496 LEGISLATION THEY HAD NEVER TAKEN 1175 00:35:31,496 --> 00:35:32,797 A TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD. 1176 00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:34,298 NEVER HAD PROMOTED IT. 1177 00:35:34,298 --> 00:35:37,802 AND, AND WE PUT TOGETHER THAT 1178 00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:40,138 THERE AND BROUGHT THE GROUP -- 1179 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:43,074 >> THEY CAME TO YOUR PARTY. 1180 00:35:43,074 --> 00:35:43,508 >> YEAH. 1181 00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:45,943 >> AND WE PUT TOGETHER A BIG 1182 00:35:45,943 --> 00:35:47,578 MARDI GRAS PARTY, AND FOOD AND 1183 00:35:47,578 --> 00:35:48,479 EVERYTHING, AND BROUGHT IT OVER 1184 00:35:48,479 --> 00:35:51,282 THERE, AND THE NEXT YEAR, THEY 1185 00:35:51,282 --> 00:35:52,583 STARTED COMING TO US, AND WE HAD 1186 00:35:52,583 --> 00:35:54,785 THE FIRST GO, TO FIRST GO TO 1187 00:35:54,785 --> 00:35:55,086 THEM. 1188 00:35:55,086 --> 00:35:56,888 NEVER HAD MADE A TRIP OVER THERE 1189 00:35:56,888 --> 00:35:58,623 TRYING TO GET THE FILM INDUSTRY 1190 00:35:58,623 --> 00:36:00,024 TO BE INTERESTED IN LOUISIANA. 1191 00:36:00,024 --> 00:36:01,626 AND NOW, WE ARE BIG. 1192 00:36:01,626 --> 00:36:03,528 >> WHAT DID YOU ALL THINK WHEN, 1193 00:36:03,528 --> 00:36:07,465 WHEN THE B.P. OIL SPILL CAME, 1194 00:36:07,465 --> 00:36:09,433 AND THEN PEOPLE WERE WORRIED NOT 1195 00:36:09,433 --> 00:36:10,535 ONLY ABOUT THE LIVELIHOOD AND 1196 00:36:10,535 --> 00:36:11,969 THE LOSS OF LIFE ON THE RIG AND 1197 00:36:11,969 --> 00:36:13,070 EVERYTHING, BUT THE IDEA OF 1198 00:36:13,070 --> 00:36:15,540 PEOPLE NOT BUYING SEAFOOD OR, 1199 00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:18,743 OR, YOU KNOW, THE DAMAGE, AGAIN, 1200 00:36:18,743 --> 00:36:19,977 TO LOUISIANA. 1201 00:36:19,977 --> 00:36:21,679 IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS A 1202 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:22,813 CONTINUOUS PROBLEM, DID YOU 1203 00:36:22,813 --> 00:36:23,114 REACT? 1204 00:36:23,114 --> 00:36:24,649 YOU ALWAYS REBECCA TO THINGS. 1205 00:36:24,649 --> 00:36:28,352 DO YOU THINK WHAT WOULD I DO? 1206 00:36:28,352 --> 00:36:29,086 >> MY HEART SANK. 1207 00:36:29,086 --> 00:36:31,455 I WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT IT 1208 00:36:31,455 --> 00:36:33,758 FROM THE DAY IT STARTED AND KNEW 1209 00:36:33,758 --> 00:36:35,259 THAT IT, THAT IT WOULD TAKE A 1210 00:36:35,259 --> 00:36:37,361 LONG TIME TO GET PAST IT. 1211 00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:39,430 AND THE MEDIA DIDN'T HELP US. 1212 00:36:39,430 --> 00:36:41,365 PEOPLE IN NEW ORLEANS, 1213 00:36:41,365 --> 00:36:42,433 ESPECIALLY, THE TOURISM EFFORTS 1214 00:36:42,433 --> 00:36:45,503 IN YOU NEW ORLEANS HAD TO COMBAT 1215 00:36:45,503 --> 00:36:46,837 RUMORS THAT YOU CAN'T GO TO NEW 1216 00:36:46,837 --> 00:36:47,738 ORLEANS BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO 1217 00:36:47,738 --> 00:36:49,607 GET SICK FROM THE SMELL OF THE 1218 00:36:49,607 --> 00:36:50,107 OIL. 1219 00:36:50,107 --> 00:36:51,209 BECAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW, A LOT OF 1220 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:53,511 PEOPLE THINK THAT NEW LYNX SITS 1221 00:36:53,511 --> 00:36:57,348 RIGHT ON THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND 1222 00:36:57,348 --> 00:37:00,084 SO THE MEDIA, IN A WAY, BILKED 1223 00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:02,853 UP RUMORS THAT WEREN'T SO, AND 1224 00:37:02,853 --> 00:37:05,323 IT WAS A TREMENDOUS CHALLENGE 1225 00:37:05,323 --> 00:37:06,891 JUST ACROSS, ACROSS THE BOARD, 1226 00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,292 NOT TO MENTION THE SEAFOOD AND 1227 00:37:08,292 --> 00:37:08,693 RESTAURANTS. 1228 00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:09,527 I THINK THAT THE CHALLENGE IS 1229 00:37:09,527 --> 00:37:10,027 STILL THERE. 1230 00:37:10,027 --> 00:37:12,096 I THINK THAT WE STILL ARE 1231 00:37:12,096 --> 00:37:13,664 FIGHTING THAT IN SOME WAY 1232 00:37:13,664 --> 00:37:15,032 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE STILL AFRAID 1233 00:37:15,032 --> 00:37:16,500 TO COME DOWN AND EAT THE SEAFOOD 1234 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,169 SO WE HAVE A GOOD, A LOT OF WORK 1235 00:37:18,169 --> 00:37:19,770 TO DO. 1236 00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:21,939 >> NOW, SINCE YOU ARE OUR RONNY 1237 00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:23,174 AND YOU ARE LENIENT HERE, THIS 1238 00:37:23,174 --> 00:37:24,775 IS -- EVERYONE DOES SAY, NEW 1239 00:37:24,775 --> 00:37:25,910 ORLEANS, AND THE REST OF THE 1240 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:26,811 STATE. 1241 00:37:26,811 --> 00:37:27,245 >> RIGHT. 1242 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:32,617 >> NEW ORLEANS. 1243 00:37:32,617 --> 00:37:33,985 >> YOU THINK IT'S HARD TO FEEL 1244 00:37:33,985 --> 00:37:36,053 LIKE A TOTAL STATE AND ATTRACT 1245 00:37:36,053 --> 00:37:36,687 TOURISTS AND ALL. 1246 00:37:36,687 --> 00:37:38,389 DID YOU DEAL WITH THAT SAME 1247 00:37:38,389 --> 00:37:38,789 ISSUE? 1248 00:37:38,789 --> 00:37:40,157 >> OH, YEAH, FOR ME IT WAS MORE 1249 00:37:40,157 --> 00:37:45,997 OF A CHALLENGE TO MAKE SURE THAT 1250 00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:47,765 EVERYBODY KNEW I UNDERSTOOD THE 1251 00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:49,734 IMPORTANCE OF THE MAIN STREET 1252 00:37:49,734 --> 00:37:51,569 PROGRAMS AND SMALL-TOWN TOURISM 1253 00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:52,703 BECAUSE QUITE HONESTLY, ONCE 1254 00:37:52,703 --> 00:37:55,640 THEY COME AND THEY GO TO THOSE 1255 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,308 TOWNS, ACROSS OUR STATE, THEY 1256 00:37:57,308 --> 00:37:57,808 ARE SOLD. 1257 00:37:57,808 --> 00:38:09,186 I HAD PEOPLE TELL ME, URVE IS SO 1258 00:38:09,186 --> 00:38:12,056 NICE, SO WE KNEW ONCE WE WE COUD 1259 00:38:12,056 --> 00:38:13,357 GET THEM THEY WOULD COME BACK 1260 00:38:13,357 --> 00:38:14,425 BUT IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO MAKE 1261 00:38:14,425 --> 00:38:15,660 SURE THAT EVERYBODY APPRECIATED 1262 00:38:15,660 --> 00:38:18,362 THAT I APPRECIATED WHAT THEY 1263 00:38:18,362 --> 00:38:18,963 WERE DOING. 1264 00:38:18,963 --> 00:38:19,864 >> SO YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A 1265 00:38:19,864 --> 00:38:21,132 VISITOR COME IN, AND YOU ARE A 1266 00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:21,766 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 1267 00:38:21,766 --> 00:38:23,701 AND WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THEM? 1268 00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:24,702 >> WHAT WILL YOU DO? 1269 00:38:24,702 --> 00:38:26,704 >> I WOULD FIRST ASK WHAT HAVE 1270 00:38:26,704 --> 00:38:27,905 THEY HEARD ABOUT LOUISIANA, AND 1271 00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:31,208 WHAT DO THEY WANT TO SEE. 1272 00:38:31,208 --> 00:38:32,076 BECAUSE THEY MIGHT WANT TO SEE 1273 00:38:32,076 --> 00:38:34,245 SOMETHING THAT, THAT I DON'T 1274 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:38,983 BELIEVE THAT I WANT TO SHOW THEM 1275 00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:40,051 OR THEY WANT TO SEE SOMETHING 1276 00:38:40,051 --> 00:38:40,351 ELSE. 1277 00:38:40,351 --> 00:38:41,719 THEY MIGHT WANT TO SEE THE 1278 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,053 CAPITOL. 1279 00:38:42,053 --> 00:38:45,423 THEY MIGHT WANT TO GO TO, TO THE 1280 00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:46,590 CAJUN AREAS, SO YOU WOULD ASK 1281 00:38:46,590 --> 00:38:52,663 THEM WHAT THEY WANT FIRST, AND 1282 00:38:52,663 --> 00:38:53,898 THEN ENCOURAGE THEM TO SEE ALL 1283 00:38:53,898 --> 00:38:54,832 OF LOUISIANA. 1284 00:38:54,832 --> 00:38:57,301 >> WHEN THE MOVIE "THE BIG EASY" 1285 00:38:57,301 --> 00:39:01,939 CAME OUT, HE HAD A COMBINATION 1286 00:39:01,939 --> 00:39:04,108 OF NEW ORLEANS AND CAGE YOU KNOW 1287 00:39:04,108 --> 00:39:04,442 ACCENT. 1288 00:39:04,442 --> 00:39:10,648 IT WAS SO BAD, LIKE, AND ALL OF 1289 00:39:10,648 --> 00:39:12,183 US WHO KNOW WE ARE A RICH STATE 1290 00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:15,386 WITH MANY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 1291 00:39:15,386 --> 00:39:16,387 >> YEAH SUCH YOU MUST THINK 1292 00:39:16,387 --> 00:39:20,891 ABOUT IT FROM A MEDIA STANDPOINT 1293 00:39:20,891 --> 00:39:22,693 FIRST OF ALL, THE BIG PROBLEM 1294 00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:26,664 THAT I SEE THAT WE HAVE IN NEW 1295 00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:27,431 ORLEANS WHERE WE KNOW THAT 1296 00:39:27,431 --> 00:39:28,065 EVERYBODY IS COMING. 1297 00:39:28,065 --> 00:39:29,266 THEY ARE COMING TO NEW ORLEANS. 1298 00:39:29,266 --> 00:39:31,902 THE BIG PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS, 1299 00:39:31,902 --> 00:39:33,904 IS A CROWD PROBLEM IN NEW 1300 00:39:33,904 --> 00:39:34,238 ORLEANS. 1301 00:39:34,238 --> 00:39:35,706 AND I DON'T SEE IT, I DON'T SAY 1302 00:39:35,706 --> 00:39:36,540 IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT 1303 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:38,042 WE HAVE A CRIME PROBLEM IN THE 1304 00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:40,344 BIG CITIES, BUT THAT'S UNITED 1305 00:39:40,344 --> 00:39:41,278 STATES-WISE. 1306 00:39:41,278 --> 00:39:42,613 BUT, YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT 1307 00:39:42,613 --> 00:39:44,882 EVERYBODY IS FIGHTING FOR THAT 1308 00:39:44,882 --> 00:39:46,016 DOLLAR, IS ATLANTA IS SAYING, 1309 00:39:46,016 --> 00:39:47,218 YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO NEW 1310 00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:48,953 ORLEANS, THEY HAVE A CRIME 1311 00:39:48,953 --> 00:39:49,320 PROBLEM. 1312 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,788 NEW YORK IS SAYING, YOU DON'T 1313 00:39:50,788 --> 00:39:51,922 WANT TO GO TO NEW ORLEANS, 1314 00:39:51,922 --> 00:39:53,858 TUCSON, ARIZONA, I MEAN, ALL 1315 00:39:53,858 --> 00:39:57,395 THESE PLACES THAT, THAT THEY ARE 1316 00:39:57,395 --> 00:39:59,430 ARGUING THEIR CASE AS TO WHY YOU 1317 00:39:59,430 --> 00:40:01,999 OUGHT TO GO THERE RATHER THAN TO 1318 00:40:01,999 --> 00:40:02,500 NEW ORLEANS. 1319 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:04,869 LET'S TALK ABOUT SWAMP PEOPLE. 1320 00:40:04,869 --> 00:40:06,737 [LAUGHTER] 1321 00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:07,104 >> OK. 1322 00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:08,372 SHOOT THEM, SHOOT THEM. 1323 00:40:08,372 --> 00:40:10,040 YOU KNOW THE EXPRESSION. 1324 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,109 THEY DID A POLL ON THAT. 1325 00:40:12,109 --> 00:40:14,345 >> I ONLY WATCH PUBLIC 1326 00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:14,779 TELEVISION. 1327 00:40:14,779 --> 00:40:16,113 >> GUESS WHAT THEY SAID, AND 50% 1328 00:40:16,113 --> 00:40:16,947 OF THE PEOPLE RESPONDED SAID 1329 00:40:16,947 --> 00:40:19,250 THAT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS NOT 1330 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:21,118 GOOD FOR THE IMAGE OF LOUISIANA 1331 00:40:21,118 --> 00:40:23,487 BECAUSE OF THE CAJUN SITUATION. 1332 00:40:23,487 --> 00:40:25,389 AND 50% SAID THEY THOUGHT IT WAS 1333 00:40:25,389 --> 00:40:26,257 OK. 1334 00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:28,192 BUT, WHAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE? 1335 00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:30,394 THEY ARE REDOING THE SHOW. 1336 00:40:30,394 --> 00:40:37,968 THEY ARE UPPING THE SHOW. 1337 00:40:37,968 --> 00:40:38,769 AND YOU THINK THEY WOULD BE 1338 00:40:38,769 --> 00:40:39,870 DOING THAT IF THEY WOULDN'T BE 1339 00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:40,571 MAKING MONEY? 1340 00:40:40,571 --> 00:40:44,542 THE PEOPLE COMING TO LOUISIANA, 1341 00:40:44,542 --> 00:40:47,311 THEY ARE GOING ON A SLANT TOUR. 1342 00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:49,213 WE HAVE SWAMPS? 1343 00:40:49,213 --> 00:40:50,080 WE AUGUST TO BE EMBARRASSED THAT 1344 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,882 WE HAVE HAL GATOR HUNTING? 1345 00:40:51,882 --> 00:40:53,150 WE AUGUST TO BE PROUD THAT WE 1346 00:40:53,150 --> 00:40:54,985 ARE SO UNIQUE THAT, THAT 1347 00:40:54,985 --> 00:40:57,054 EVERYBODY WANTS TO COME BECAUSE 1348 00:40:57,054 --> 00:40:58,556 THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE IN THE 1349 00:40:58,556 --> 00:41:00,357 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR IN 1350 00:41:00,357 --> 00:41:01,892 THE WORLD WHERE YOU CAN HAVE 1351 00:41:01,892 --> 00:41:04,762 SUCH A VARIETY OF, OF 1352 00:41:04,762 --> 00:41:06,330 SITUATIONS, AND EXPERIENCES THAT 1353 00:41:06,330 --> 00:41:08,165 YOU HAVE IN LOUISIANA. 1354 00:41:08,165 --> 00:41:11,635 NOT TO MENTION, THE FOOD. 1355 00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:13,637 EVERYBODY IS COMING FOR THE 1356 00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:14,138 FOOD. 1357 00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:16,006 THAT'S A GIVE ME, SO, THAT'S MY 1358 00:41:16,006 --> 00:41:18,776 POINT ABOUT SOME PEOPLE GET 1359 00:41:18,776 --> 00:41:20,044 UPWARDS AND GUESS WHAT, NOBODY 1360 00:41:20,044 --> 00:41:23,080 IS MORE CAGE YOU KNOW THAN ME. 1361 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:23,581 NOBODY. 1362 00:41:23,581 --> 00:41:26,650 CATHLEEN IS CLOSE, BUT NOBODY. 1363 00:41:26,650 --> 00:41:27,051 [LAUGHTER] 1364 00:41:27,051 --> 00:41:27,485 >> AND -- 1365 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:30,387 >> I CAN TALK LIKE YOU. 1366 00:41:30,387 --> 00:41:30,888 >> YES. 1367 00:41:30,888 --> 00:41:33,090 >> SO, WHEN YOU SAY OR THINK 1368 00:41:33,090 --> 00:41:34,592 ABOUT IT, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 1369 00:41:34,592 --> 00:41:36,627 IT, IT'S AN ADVANTAGE THAT WE 1370 00:41:36,627 --> 00:41:36,927 HAVE. 1371 00:41:36,927 --> 00:41:38,128 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE. 1372 00:41:38,128 --> 00:41:39,763 THAT'S OUR CULTURE, THAT'S WHAT 1373 00:41:39,763 --> 00:41:41,298 MAKES US -- THAT'S WHY EVERYBODY 1374 00:41:41,298 --> 00:41:42,900 WANTS TO COME TO SEE US. 1375 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:43,901 >> SO THAT WAS BACK TO MY 1376 00:41:43,901 --> 00:41:45,436 QUESTION, DOES THE LIEUTENANT 1377 00:41:45,436 --> 00:41:46,871 GOVERNOR, THE KEEPER OF THE 1378 00:41:46,871 --> 00:41:47,771 CULTURE OF LOUISIANA? 1379 00:41:47,771 --> 00:41:48,239 DO YOU THINK? 1380 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:49,707 I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT, AND I 1381 00:41:49,707 --> 00:41:52,343 THINK IF YOU ABOLISH THE OFFICE 1382 00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:53,310 OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND YOU 1383 00:41:53,310 --> 00:41:54,879 PUT CULTURE, RECREATION, AND 1384 00:41:54,879 --> 00:41:56,480 TOURISM, JUST MAKE IT ANOTHER 1385 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,915 DEPARTMENT THAT BELONGS TO THE 1386 00:41:57,915 --> 00:41:59,250 GOVERNOR, IT'S GOING TO LOSE 1387 00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:01,418 SOME OF ITS CACHET. 1388 00:42:01,418 --> 00:42:05,122 I BELIEVE THAT. 1389 00:42:05,122 --> 00:42:06,690 AND I THINK YOU NEED THE TITLE. 1390 00:42:06,690 --> 00:42:08,526 YOU DO NEED IT WHEN YOU ARE 1391 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:09,460 MEETING WITH DIGNITARIES FROM 1392 00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:12,162 AROUND THE WORLD. 1393 00:42:12,162 --> 00:42:13,097 WHEN THEY ARE COMING HERE, WHEN 1394 00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:16,300 YOU ARE GOING OUT INTO THE 1395 00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:16,800 WORLD. 1396 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:17,902 AND YOU KNOW YOU TO HAVE TO GO 1397 00:42:17,902 --> 00:42:20,004 OUT IN THE WORLD TO INTRODUCE 1398 00:42:20,004 --> 00:42:21,639 YOUR STATE TO PEOPLE WHO, WHO, 1399 00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:23,173 PERHAPS, HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT 1400 00:42:23,173 --> 00:42:25,009 OR NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT, AND 1401 00:42:25,009 --> 00:42:27,678 OUT OF SIGHT IS OUT OF MIND IN 1402 00:42:27,678 --> 00:42:28,879 MARKETING YOUR STATE. 1403 00:42:28,879 --> 00:42:31,048 IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A PERSON 1404 00:42:31,048 --> 00:42:36,320 WHO IS, IS WILLING AND ABLE TO 1405 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,255 REPRESENT LOUISIANA IN ITS MOST 1406 00:42:38,255 --> 00:42:38,956 POSITIVE VALUES. 1407 00:42:38,956 --> 00:42:39,223 KAY 1408 00:42:39,223 --> 00:42:40,124 >> AND DAY OUT. 1409 00:42:40,124 --> 00:42:41,358 AND I THINK THAT THAT'S THE 1410 00:42:41,358 --> 00:42:43,227 GREAT THING, AND YES, YOU CAN 1411 00:42:43,227 --> 00:42:45,963 CALL IT THE CULTURAL KEEPER. 1412 00:42:45,963 --> 00:42:48,232 >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S A 1413 00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:49,133 LITTLE CONTROVERSY, AND I DON'T 1414 00:42:49,133 --> 00:42:52,169 KNOW WHETHER IT WILL PLAY OUT IS 1415 00:42:52,169 --> 00:42:53,070 THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE ARE, 1416 00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:54,471 SOME OF THE MUSEUMS ARE UNDER 1417 00:42:54,471 --> 00:42:56,340 THE GOVERNOR AND SOME OF THEM 1418 00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:57,408 ARE UNDER THE SCAIRT'S OFFICE. 1419 00:42:57,408 --> 00:42:58,943 >> LET'S SEE HOW JAY DARDENNE 1420 00:42:58,943 --> 00:42:59,410 HANDLES THAT. 1421 00:42:59,410 --> 00:42:59,777 [LAUGHTER] 1422 00:42:59,777 --> 00:43:01,779 >> THAT'S BECAUSE THE 1423 00:43:01,779 --> 00:43:02,246 LEGISLATURE -- 1424 00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:04,415 >> OH, I REMEMBER THAT. 1425 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:05,983 >> YIELDED TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES 1426 00:43:05,983 --> 00:43:07,785 WANTING TO GET -- WELL, THEY 1427 00:43:07,785 --> 00:43:08,686 COULDN'T AFFORD TO KEEP THE 1428 00:43:08,686 --> 00:43:10,220 MUSEUM GOING SO THEY WANTED -- 1429 00:43:10,220 --> 00:43:11,288 THEY, THEY THOUGHT THE STATE 1430 00:43:11,288 --> 00:43:13,123 COULD DO IT BETTER, SO IT 1431 00:43:13,123 --> 00:43:14,491 BECOMES PART OF THE STATE. 1432 00:43:14,491 --> 00:43:15,459 >> AND AS YOU SAY, IT'S ALL 1433 00:43:15,459 --> 00:43:15,993 ABOUT MONEY. 1434 00:43:15,993 --> 00:43:18,262 >> IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY, AND, 1435 00:43:18,262 --> 00:43:20,264 AND ALSO, THE LIEUTENANT 1436 00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:21,465 GOVERNOR'S MUSEUMS WERE 1437 00:43:21,465 --> 00:43:23,334 ACCREDITED MUSEUMS, NATIONALLY 1438 00:43:23,334 --> 00:43:25,102 ACCREDITED MUSEUMS, AND IT'S 1439 00:43:25,102 --> 00:43:27,304 VERY HARD TO SPEND ENOUGH MONEY 1440 00:43:27,304 --> 00:43:29,239 TO GET SOME OF THE SMALLER 1441 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,208 MUSEUMS IN, AND IN A, IN THE 1442 00:43:31,208 --> 00:43:32,309 TOUGH BUDGET TIMES, WE ALWAYS 1443 00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:34,945 SEEM TO PICK ON PARKS, AND I 1444 00:43:34,945 --> 00:43:38,182 REMEMBER EDWARDS' THIRD THEY 1445 00:43:38,182 --> 00:43:38,983 REMEMBER THEY WERE GOING TO 1446 00:43:38,983 --> 00:43:41,385 LIMIT FUNDING FOR PARKS, 1447 00:43:41,385 --> 00:43:44,989 MUSEUMS, PUBLIC BROADCASTING, 1448 00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:46,323 WAS THE ONLY THING PEOPLE CARED 1449 00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:46,624 ABOUT. 1450 00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:47,491 >> WE HAD THAT BATTLE. 1451 00:43:47,491 --> 00:43:49,493 YOU REMEMBER THAT WE GOT PEOPLE 1452 00:43:49,493 --> 00:43:51,028 ONBOARD ACROSS THE STATE, THE 1453 00:43:51,028 --> 00:43:52,429 LEGISLATORS WALKED DOWN THE HALL 1454 00:43:52,429 --> 00:43:54,598 AND SAY, DON'T TALK TO ME. 1455 00:43:54,598 --> 00:43:55,733 >>> THOSE PEOPLE CALL ME, I AM 1456 00:43:55,733 --> 00:43:57,334 GOING TO VOTE FOR IT, BECAUSE WE 1457 00:43:57,334 --> 00:43:59,536 BROUGHT THE PUBLIC ONBOARD, AND 1458 00:43:59,536 --> 00:44:02,873 THAT'S, WHAT WHAT DID IT. 1459 00:44:02,873 --> 00:44:05,442 BUT, BACK TO THIS ELIMINATION 1460 00:44:05,442 --> 00:44:05,809 QUESTION. 1461 00:44:05,809 --> 00:44:07,177 MOST STATES, MORE THAN 40, I 1462 00:44:07,177 --> 00:44:08,979 BELIEVE, STILL HAVE LIEUTENANT 1463 00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:10,581 GOVERNORS, AND IN MANY STATES, 1464 00:44:10,581 --> 00:44:13,017 THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE NEARLY 1465 00:44:13,017 --> 00:44:15,085 THE, THE DUTIES THEY SERVE AS 1466 00:44:15,085 --> 00:44:16,086 PRESIDENT IN THE SENATE, AND 1467 00:44:16,086 --> 00:44:16,787 THAT'S ABOUT IT. 1468 00:44:16,787 --> 00:44:19,189 AND SO, I THINK THAT IT'S 1469 00:44:19,189 --> 00:44:21,058 REALLY, REALLY ALMOST RIDICULOUS 1470 00:44:21,058 --> 00:44:22,393 THAT WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME 1471 00:44:22,393 --> 00:44:24,795 DEBATING THIS BECAUSE, 1472 00:44:24,795 --> 00:44:26,664 OBVIOUSLY, WE FEEL IN LOUISIANA, 1473 00:44:26,664 --> 00:44:29,166 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR HAS SOME 1474 00:44:29,166 --> 00:44:33,070 VERY IMPORTANT DUTIES, AND I 1475 00:44:33,070 --> 00:44:34,872 DON'T KNOW WHY THERE IS A 1476 00:44:34,872 --> 00:44:35,773 QUESTION ABOUT IT, AND AS YOU 1477 00:44:35,773 --> 00:44:38,475 HEARD THEM SAY, MONEYWISE YOU 1478 00:44:38,475 --> 00:44:40,344 ARE NOT GOING TO, TO SAVE 1479 00:44:40,344 --> 00:44:40,711 ANYTHING. 1480 00:44:40,711 --> 00:44:41,111 SO -- 1481 00:44:41,111 --> 00:44:46,450 >> WELL, THEY RAN A POLL, AND 1482 00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:47,985 ASKED THE PEOPLE, DO YOU THINK 1483 00:44:47,985 --> 00:44:48,852 WE OUGHT TO ABOLISH THE 1484 00:44:48,852 --> 00:44:51,689 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S OFFICE? 1485 00:44:51,689 --> 00:44:54,758 AND OVER 70% OF THE RESPONDENTS 1486 00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:56,193 SAID YES. 1487 00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:00,297 SO, I SAID, THAT'S REALLY, LET'S 1488 00:45:00,297 --> 00:45:01,632 RUN A POLL, DO YOU THINK THAT WE 1489 00:45:01,632 --> 00:45:04,068 AUGUST TO ABOLISH THE SECRETARY 1490 00:45:04,068 --> 00:45:05,402 OF STATE? 1491 00:45:05,402 --> 00:45:06,570 THE ATTORNEY GENERAL? 1492 00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:13,177 THE TREASURER. 1493 00:45:13,177 --> 00:45:14,578 AND THEN WE WILL ABOLISH 1494 00:45:14,578 --> 00:45:14,978 EVERYTHING. 1495 00:45:14,978 --> 00:45:17,214 THEYTHEY WERE SO UPSET WITH 1496 00:45:17,214 --> 00:45:23,554 GOVERNMENT, BUT WHEN YOU TALK 1497 00:45:23,554 --> 00:45:24,588 ABOUT THE WHOLE STATE CAPITOL 1498 00:45:24,588 --> 00:45:25,622 THEY WANTED TO GET THE STATE 1499 00:45:25,622 --> 00:45:27,891 CAPITOL IN BATON ROUGE, THERE 1500 00:45:27,891 --> 00:45:28,559 WAS A CATHOLIC. 1501 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:31,161 THE PROBLEM WAS SOME OF THE 1502 00:45:31,161 --> 00:45:32,162 ITEMS THAT THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED 1503 00:45:32,162 --> 00:45:34,431 IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S 1504 00:45:34,431 --> 00:45:36,567 OFFICE, THEY HAVE THE WEDDING 1505 00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:37,434 RECEPTIONS, THEY CAN HAVE THE 1506 00:45:37,434 --> 00:45:38,268 PROM PARTIES. 1507 00:45:38,268 --> 00:45:41,138 BUT, THE REST OF THE STATE, IN 1508 00:45:41,138 --> 00:45:42,673 THESE MAJOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS 1509 00:45:42,673 --> 00:45:43,774 THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, YOU 1510 00:45:43,774 --> 00:45:46,176 CAN'T DO ALL OF THAT STUFF. 1511 00:45:46,176 --> 00:45:47,611 IT'S AGAINST THE POLICY OF THE 1512 00:45:47,611 --> 00:45:48,712 RULES. 1513 00:45:48,712 --> 00:45:50,748 SO, WE COULDN'T DO IT, SO, MY 1514 00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:55,285 GOOD FRIEND, I SAID PAUL, WHAT 1515 00:45:55,285 --> 00:45:56,153 DO YOU WANT TO DO? 1516 00:45:56,153 --> 00:45:58,322 AND I SAID, LET THEM HAVE THIS. 1517 00:45:58,322 --> 00:46:00,324 IT WAS DEAD AS A DOORKNOB. 1518 00:46:00,324 --> 00:46:02,126 WE COULD HAVE KILLED THIS WITH 1519 00:46:02,126 --> 00:46:03,794 NO EFFORT WHATEVER, BUT GUESS 1520 00:46:03,794 --> 00:46:04,862 WHAT, IT IS AWESOME. 1521 00:46:04,862 --> 00:46:06,530 THE WHOLE STATE CAPITOL IS 1522 00:46:06,530 --> 00:46:06,864 AWESOME. 1523 00:46:06,864 --> 00:46:08,132 AND I GIVE THEM ALL THE CREDIT 1524 00:46:08,132 --> 00:46:10,134 FOR IT, HAVING SAID THAT, I 1525 00:46:10,134 --> 00:46:12,770 THINK THAT, THAT AUGUST TO BE 1526 00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,171 THE LIEUTENANT GORCHL'S 1527 00:46:14,171 --> 00:46:15,472 JURISDICTIONS, AND I THINK THAT, 1528 00:46:15,472 --> 00:46:17,875 THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE 1529 00:46:17,875 --> 00:46:20,978 OUGHT TO HAVE CORPORATIONS AND 1530 00:46:20,978 --> 00:46:21,612 ELECTIONS. 1531 00:46:21,612 --> 00:46:23,514 ELECTIONS, ARE YOU KIDDING? 1532 00:46:23,514 --> 00:46:24,515 THEY HAVE GOTTEN US CRAZY WITH 1533 00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:26,517 ALL THE ELECTIONS THAT WE ARE 1534 00:46:26,517 --> 00:46:27,384 HAVING, AND THEY ARE THE 1535 00:46:27,384 --> 00:46:29,586 RESPONSIBILITY OF HAVING THE 1536 00:46:29,586 --> 00:46:30,788 ELECTIONS, GOD BLESS YOU. 1537 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,823 WELL, KATRINA AND, AND THEY HAVE 1538 00:46:32,823 --> 00:46:34,625 TO GO TO NEW ORLEANS? 1539 00:46:34,625 --> 00:46:36,293 THEY COULDN'T GET COMMISSIONER,S 1540 00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:37,528 IN NEW ORLEANS TO HAVE AN 1541 00:46:37,528 --> 00:46:38,162 ELECTION. 1542 00:46:38,162 --> 00:46:39,396 THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT THE 1543 00:46:39,396 --> 00:46:40,564 ELECTIONS ARE. 1544 00:46:40,564 --> 00:46:42,065 AND THAT'S WHY I THINK, FRANKLY, 1545 00:46:42,065 --> 00:46:43,600 THEY ARE NOT GOING TO ABOLISH 1546 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:44,935 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S 1547 00:46:44,935 --> 00:46:47,337 OFFICE, BUT IF THEY WANT TO, 1548 00:46:47,337 --> 00:46:48,972 LIKE I TOLD THEM. 1549 00:46:48,972 --> 00:46:50,174 AFTER THEY LEFT AND THEY WANTED 1550 00:46:50,174 --> 00:46:51,909 TO ABOLISH IT, BECAUSE I WAS THE 1551 00:46:51,909 --> 00:46:53,010 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND 1552 00:46:53,010 --> 00:46:53,944 REPUBLICAN, GETTING BACK AT WHAT 1553 00:46:53,944 --> 00:46:55,779 THEY HAD TRIED TO DO TO BOBBY, 1554 00:46:55,779 --> 00:46:57,381 AND I SAID FOX, WHY DON'T WE 1555 00:46:57,381 --> 00:46:58,816 JUST CONSOLIDATE THE OFFICES, 1556 00:46:58,816 --> 00:47:01,084 AND HE SAID, ARE YOU CRAZY? 1557 00:47:01,084 --> 00:47:02,085 I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. 1558 00:47:02,085 --> 00:47:03,587 HE DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE UP ANY 1559 00:47:03,587 --> 00:47:05,355 TURF WHATEVER, BUT HAVING SAID 1560 00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:07,558 THAT, HAVING SAID THAT, I REALLY 1561 00:47:07,558 --> 00:47:09,960 FEEL LIKE THE SECRETARY OF 1562 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,929 STATE, CORPORATIONS AND THE 1563 00:47:11,929 --> 00:47:14,364 ELECTIONS, THAT'S A FULL, FULL 1564 00:47:14,364 --> 00:47:15,098 PLATE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY 1565 00:47:15,098 --> 00:47:16,767 HAVE DONE AWAY WITH THE 1566 00:47:16,767 --> 00:47:17,668 COMMISSIONER ELECTIONS AND NOW 1567 00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:18,836 THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS SPNL 1568 00:47:18,836 --> 00:47:20,571 FOR ALL THE ELECTIONS, AND I 1569 00:47:20,571 --> 00:47:22,206 THINK EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE 1570 00:47:22,206 --> 00:47:24,041 HISTORIC SITUATION IN OUR STATE 1571 00:47:24,041 --> 00:47:26,944 THAT DRAWS IN OUR TOURISTS, 1572 00:47:26,944 --> 00:47:28,779 OUGHT TO BE IN ONE JURISDICTIONS 1573 00:47:28,779 --> 00:47:30,347 AND OUGHT TO BE UNDER THE PERSON 1574 00:47:30,347 --> 00:47:31,715 WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE 1575 00:47:31,715 --> 00:47:33,617 RESPONSIBLE, THE LIEUTENANT 1576 00:47:33,617 --> 00:47:34,685 GOVERNOR. 1577 00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:36,153 >> DO ANY OF YOU THINK THAT 1578 00:47:36,153 --> 00:47:38,355 THERE SHOULD BE A TICKET THAT, 1579 00:47:38,355 --> 00:47:39,623 THERE SHOULD BE -- 1580 00:47:39,623 --> 00:47:40,090 BE -- NO? 1581 00:47:40,090 --> 00:47:41,158 >> I THINK THAT WE ARE GOOD THE 1582 00:47:41,158 --> 00:47:41,792 WAY WE ARE. 1583 00:47:41,792 --> 00:47:45,062 >> IT'S HARD TO DO THAT WITH, 1584 00:47:45,062 --> 00:47:46,864 WITHOUT THE PARTY PRIMARIES. 1585 00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:47,297 >> RIGHT. 1586 00:47:47,297 --> 00:47:49,766 >> IT'S VERY HARD TO, AND ONE OF 1587 00:47:49,766 --> 00:47:50,868 THE PROBLEMS THAT THE LIEUTENANT 1588 00:47:50,868 --> 00:47:53,704 GOVERNORS HAVE HAD IS THAT WE 1589 00:47:53,704 --> 00:47:54,838 ARE INDEPENDENTLY ELECTED. 1590 00:47:54,838 --> 00:47:55,739 THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY 1591 00:47:55,739 --> 00:47:58,842 WE HAVE PROBLEMS, BECAUSE, UM, 1592 00:47:58,842 --> 00:48:00,811 WE ORGANIZE OUR OWN CAMPAIGNS, 1593 00:48:00,811 --> 00:48:05,649 AND WE RUN AT LARGE, AND WE ARE 1594 00:48:05,649 --> 00:48:07,484 ELECTED JUST LIKE THE GOVERNOR 1595 00:48:07,484 --> 00:48:09,453 IT, AND EVEN OTHER STATE OFFICER 1596 00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:12,522 SO WE ARE INDEPENDENT, WHICH 1597 00:48:12,522 --> 00:48:14,491 THEN CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS. 1598 00:48:14,491 --> 00:48:16,426 WHEN YOU LOOK BACK ON YOUR TIME 1599 00:48:16,426 --> 00:48:18,662 AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, IS THERE 1600 00:48:18,662 --> 00:48:21,064 ONE UNIT THAT STANDS OUT? 1601 00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:28,906 >> ONE PARTICULAR MEETING, THE 1602 00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:30,040 INTERIM EMERGENCY BOARD, 1603 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,843 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SERVES ON 1604 00:48:32,843 --> 00:48:34,711 THAT, AND I GOT TO A MEETING 1605 00:48:34,711 --> 00:48:36,580 RIGHT ONTIME, AND FOR SOME 1606 00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:38,115 REASON I KNEW THAT, THAT THERE 1607 00:48:38,115 --> 00:48:41,485 HAD BEEN A PREMEETING BEFORE THE 1608 00:48:41,485 --> 00:48:42,786 TIME OF THE REGULAR MEETING 1609 00:48:42,786 --> 00:48:44,554 BECAUSE ALL OF THE GUYS ON THE 1610 00:48:44,554 --> 00:48:47,724 COMMITTEE WERE RIGHT ON THE SAME 1611 00:48:47,724 --> 00:48:49,593 PAGE, AND IT WAS VERY, VERY, 1612 00:48:49,593 --> 00:48:50,794 OBVIOUS TO ME THAT THEY HAD HAD 1613 00:48:50,794 --> 00:48:51,929 A MEETING BEFORE I GOT THERE 1614 00:48:51,929 --> 00:48:53,196 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT I WAS 1615 00:48:53,196 --> 00:48:54,831 GOING TO OBJECT TO WHATEVER THEY 1616 00:48:54,831 --> 00:48:57,000 WANTED TO DO. 1617 00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,569 AND I SAW IT IMMEDIATELY, AND 1618 00:48:59,569 --> 00:49:03,640 CALLED FOR A LITTLE RECESS. 1619 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,475 AND I WALKED BACK THERE WITH THE 1620 00:49:05,475 --> 00:49:07,010 LEADERS ON THE COMMITTEE, AND I 1621 00:49:07,010 --> 00:49:13,250 SAID, LOOK OUT THE DOOR, SEE ALL 1622 00:49:13,250 --> 00:49:14,651 THE NEWSPAPER MEN, AND THE TV 1623 00:49:14,651 --> 00:49:14,985 PEOPLE? 1624 00:49:14,985 --> 00:49:17,854 I SAID, IF YOU ALL DO WHAT YOU 1625 00:49:17,854 --> 00:49:18,722 ARE TALKING ABOUT DOING, THEY 1626 00:49:18,722 --> 00:49:20,157 ARE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT. 1627 00:49:20,157 --> 00:49:21,658 THEY WILL, I SAID, I AM NOT 1628 00:49:21,658 --> 00:49:23,160 GOING TO SIT HERE AND JUST TAKE 1629 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:24,728 IT, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE 1630 00:49:24,728 --> 00:49:26,596 SITUATIONS WHERE, WHERE THEY 1631 00:49:26,596 --> 00:49:27,798 FIGURED OH, WELL, THE LADY WON'T 1632 00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:29,066 SAY ANYTHING. 1633 00:49:29,066 --> 00:49:32,369 WE'LL GO RIGHT AHEAD AND DO IT. 1634 00:49:32,369 --> 00:49:33,670 AND WE WENT BACK IN THERE, AND 1635 00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:36,273 THE MOOD HAD CHANGED, AND, AND I 1636 00:49:36,273 --> 00:49:38,041 WALKED OUT OF THAT ROOM, AND I 1637 00:49:38,041 --> 00:49:41,211 SAW, UM, ANOTHER OF OUR FEMALE 1638 00:49:41,211 --> 00:49:42,145 LEGISLATORS OUT IN THE HALL, AND 1639 00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:44,414 I TOLD HER ABOUT IT, AND I SAID, 1640 00:49:44,414 --> 00:49:45,983 DID YOU EVER HAVE A DAY LIKE 1641 00:49:45,983 --> 00:49:46,283 THAT? 1642 00:49:46,283 --> 00:49:48,518 BUT IT WAS SUCH A GOOD FEELING 1643 00:49:48,518 --> 00:49:49,653 BECAUSE, BECAUSE I FELT LIKE 1644 00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:51,288 HEY, I'M, I MADE A DIFFERENCE. 1645 00:49:51,288 --> 00:49:51,955 THAT DAY. 1646 00:49:51,955 --> 00:49:55,892 JUST ON THAT ONE LITTLE ISSUE 1647 00:49:55,892 --> 00:49:56,960 BECAUSE I WAS NOT GOING TO JUST 1648 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,628 SIT THERE AND LET THE POLITICS 1649 00:49:58,628 --> 00:50:02,132 AS USUAL GO ON. 1650 00:50:02,132 --> 00:50:02,532 >> OK. 1651 00:50:02,532 --> 00:50:03,500 >> THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT I 1652 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:04,968 CAN REMEMBER THAT REALLY, REALLY 1653 00:50:04,968 --> 00:50:06,837 MADE ME HAPPY. 1654 00:50:06,837 --> 00:50:09,473 WHEN I WAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 1655 00:50:09,473 --> 00:50:11,875 AND THE FIRST THING THAT I WAS 1656 00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:14,711 VERY, VERY PLEASED ABOUT WAS, 1657 00:50:14,711 --> 00:50:16,279 WAS STEEL MAKING KNOLL I CAN'T 1658 00:50:16,279 --> 00:50:17,314 SAY, WHEN YOU WERE ABLE TO 1659 00:50:17,314 --> 00:50:18,849 CAPTURE THAT MOVIE, AND IT WAS 1660 00:50:18,849 --> 00:50:21,785 SUCH A TREMENDOUS, SUCH GOOD 1661 00:50:21,785 --> 00:50:23,387 PRESS, NATIONALLY, AND IT WAS 1662 00:50:23,387 --> 00:50:25,856 JUST AWESOME. 1663 00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,624 ONE THING, WAS WESTERN ABLE TO 1664 00:50:27,624 --> 00:50:28,692 PASS IT BECAUSE I KNOW THE 1665 00:50:28,692 --> 00:50:29,793 POWERS WHO WERE IN AT THE TIME, 1666 00:50:29,793 --> 00:50:32,295 NEVER THOUGHT THAT WE COULD. 1667 00:50:32,295 --> 00:50:33,864 AND THE THIRD THING IS, THAT I 1668 00:50:33,864 --> 00:50:35,465 REMEMBER THAT, THAT I REALLY HAD 1669 00:50:35,465 --> 00:50:36,900 GOOSE BUMPS, WE WERE IN NEW 1670 00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:39,970 ORLEANS FOR A TOURISM SUMMIT, AS 1671 00:50:39,970 --> 00:50:41,605 THEY STILL DO NOW AS WE HAD 1672 00:50:41,605 --> 00:50:44,541 BEFORE, ALL OF US HAD. 1673 00:50:44,541 --> 00:50:46,910 AND THE MAYOR AT THE TIME, SPOKE 1674 00:50:46,910 --> 00:50:49,613 TO THE GROUP, AND SAID TO THE 1675 00:50:49,613 --> 00:50:51,481 ENTIRE GROUP, I CAN HONESTLY 1676 00:50:51,481 --> 00:50:54,384 TELL YOU THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME 1677 00:50:54,384 --> 00:50:57,687 SINCE I'VE BEEN MAYOR OF NEW 1678 00:50:57,687 --> 00:50:58,889 ORLEANS, I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE 1679 00:50:58,889 --> 00:51:01,091 THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE 1680 00:51:01,091 --> 00:51:03,026 REST OF THE STATE APPRECIATES 1681 00:51:03,026 --> 00:51:06,430 NEW ORLEANS, AND IT'S NOT TIME 1682 00:51:06,430 --> 00:51:07,531 TO TAME ADVANTAGE OF NEW 1683 00:51:07,531 --> 00:51:08,632 ORLEANS, AND THEY GAVE HIM A 1684 00:51:08,632 --> 00:51:10,600 STANDING OVATION, AND WE WERE 1685 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:11,301 VERY PLEASED ABOUT IT. 1686 00:51:11,301 --> 00:51:13,470 I REMEMBER THAT, IT WAS A GREAT 1687 00:51:13,470 --> 00:51:13,804 FEELING. 1688 00:51:13,804 --> 00:51:15,305 I GUESS ONE THAT REALLY, REALLY 1689 00:51:15,305 --> 00:51:17,040 STANDS OUT IN MY MIND IS WHEN I 1690 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,343 HAD NO MONEY TO, TO, I HAD NO 1691 00:51:20,343 --> 00:51:22,179 OFFICE BECAUSE THEY HAD TAKEN 1692 00:51:22,179 --> 00:51:26,550 OFF, SO I WENT TO, TO THE 1693 00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:27,284 MINNEAPOLIS BOARD, WHICH IS 1694 00:51:27,284 --> 00:51:29,119 CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNOR. 1695 00:51:29,119 --> 00:51:32,589 MOST OF THE VOTE, AND I WENT TO 1696 00:51:32,589 --> 00:51:34,758 THEM AND TOLD THEM THAT I HAD 1697 00:51:34,758 --> 00:51:36,626 FILED A SUIT, BUT YOU I COULDN'T 1698 00:51:36,626 --> 00:51:38,695 WAIT UNTIL, IN THE THE SUIT WAS, 1699 00:51:38,695 --> 00:51:40,664 WAS BEING ADHERED, NEEDED MONEY 1700 00:51:40,664 --> 00:51:44,101 TO RUN THE OFFICE. 1701 00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:45,502 >> YOU HAD TO FILE SUIT TO GET 1702 00:51:45,502 --> 00:51:46,870 MONEY TO RUN FOR OFFICE? 1703 00:51:46,870 --> 00:51:48,105 >> WHAT GOVERNOR TREEN DID WAS 1704 00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:50,107 TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE 1705 00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:50,640 UNCONSTITUTIONALLY. 1706 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:51,174 >> I GOT YOU. 1707 00:51:51,174 --> 00:51:52,275 >> BECAUSE WHEN YOU DON'T FUND 1708 00:51:52,275 --> 00:51:54,244 IT, YOU ABOLISH IT, AND YOU 1709 00:51:54,244 --> 00:51:56,179 CAN'T DOTE, SO I FILED SUIT ON 1710 00:51:56,179 --> 00:51:57,481 THAT VOTE WHILE WE WERE WAITING 1711 00:51:57,481 --> 00:52:00,450 FOR THE SUIT, I WENT TO, TO THE 1712 00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:03,453 INTERIM BOARD, AND HE WENT TO 1713 00:52:03,453 --> 00:52:05,689 THEM AND TOLD THEM, DON'T GIVE 1714 00:52:05,689 --> 00:52:09,159 HIM MONEY SO I MADE MY PLEA TO 1715 00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:11,561 THEM, AND THE BOARD SOATD FOR ME 1716 00:52:11,561 --> 00:52:14,131 TO GIVE ME MY MONEY SO FROM THAT 1717 00:52:14,131 --> 00:52:15,465 MOMENT ON, THE LIEUTENANT 1718 00:52:15,465 --> 00:52:17,968 GOVERNOR SAYS, CAME BACK, SO 1719 00:52:17,968 --> 00:52:20,370 THAT REALLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE, 1720 00:52:20,370 --> 00:52:21,238 AND I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO ANY 1721 00:52:21,238 --> 00:52:24,107 FURTHER TO COURT. 1722 00:52:24,107 --> 00:52:25,976 BUT IT MADE ME FEEL GOOD BECAUSE 1723 00:52:25,976 --> 00:52:29,045 THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE 1724 00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:30,747 KNEW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO, AND IT 1725 00:52:30,747 --> 00:52:32,182 WASN'T PERSONAL TO THEM. 1726 00:52:32,182 --> 00:52:35,252 IT WASN'T BOBBY FREEMAN VERSUS 1727 00:52:35,252 --> 00:52:37,220 DAVE TREEN OR VICE VERSA. 1728 00:52:37,220 --> 00:52:39,890 IT WAS WHAT SHOULD WE DO FOR THE 1729 00:52:39,890 --> 00:52:40,223 OFFICE. 1730 00:52:40,223 --> 00:52:41,158 >> WE HAVE GIVEN YOU LOTS OF 1731 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:41,458 TIME. 1732 00:52:41,458 --> 00:52:42,759 YOU HAVE LOTS OF THINGS TO THINK 1733 00:52:42,759 --> 00:52:44,561 ABOUT, BUT AS LIEUTENANT 1734 00:52:44,561 --> 00:52:45,462 GOVERNOR, IS THERE SOMETHING -- 1735 00:52:45,462 --> 00:52:47,497 >> I THINK PROBABLY THE MOST 1736 00:52:47,497 --> 00:52:51,768 MEMORABLE DAY WAS 9/11, 2001. 1737 00:52:51,768 --> 00:52:53,937 MIKE FOSTER WAS AT A GOVERNOR'S 1738 00:52:53,937 --> 00:52:57,974 CONFERENCE IN KENTUCKY, AND THE 1739 00:52:57,974 --> 00:52:59,176 AIRLINES WERE SHUT DOWN. 1740 00:52:59,176 --> 00:53:00,944 NOBODY COULD FLY FOR, FOR ABOUT 1741 00:53:00,944 --> 00:53:03,113 A WEEK OR MORE. 1742 00:53:03,113 --> 00:53:06,616 ED TO DRIVE BACK, AND IT WAS A 1743 00:53:06,616 --> 00:53:08,485 LONG DRIVE, AND IN THE MEANTIME, 1744 00:53:08,485 --> 00:53:12,088 THERE WAS SUCH A, A, A TENSION 1745 00:53:12,088 --> 00:53:16,459 IN THE AIR. 1746 00:53:16,459 --> 00:53:18,728 AND I WAS THE ACTING GOVERNOR AT 1747 00:53:18,728 --> 00:53:19,296 THAT POINT IN TIME. 1748 00:53:19,296 --> 00:53:20,330 I REMEMBER GOING ON THE AIR TO 1749 00:53:20,330 --> 00:53:22,065 TELL THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA 1750 00:53:22,065 --> 00:53:24,201 THAT, THAT WE WERE NOT IN 1751 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:24,568 DANGER. 1752 00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:27,637 THAT THEY COULD, THEY COULD 1753 00:53:27,637 --> 00:53:29,406 BREATHE EASILY, BREATHE EASY 1754 00:53:29,406 --> 00:53:32,042 BECAUSE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT, 1755 00:53:32,042 --> 00:53:33,410 THAT EVERYBODY THOUGHT THE 1756 00:53:33,410 --> 00:53:35,545 COUNTRY WAS UNDER ATTACK, AND 1757 00:53:35,545 --> 00:53:39,149 THAT EVERYBODY WAS IN DANGER. 1758 00:53:39,149 --> 00:53:40,984 AND I WAS IN LAFAYETTE AT THE 1759 00:53:40,984 --> 00:53:44,487 TIME, AND I BEGAN TO THINK AND 1760 00:53:44,487 --> 00:53:47,958 WONDER IF THESE FOLKS WERE SO 1761 00:53:47,958 --> 00:53:52,896 CLEVER, TO DROP A BOMB IN THE 1762 00:53:52,896 --> 00:53:54,097 PLANES IN NEW YORK CITY, WHICH 1763 00:53:54,097 --> 00:53:56,199 ACTED LIKE BOMBS, TO DO THE SAME 1764 00:53:56,199 --> 00:53:57,767 THING IN, AT THE PENTAGON IN 1765 00:53:57,767 --> 00:53:58,969 WASHINGTON, AND I THINK THAT, 1766 00:53:58,969 --> 00:53:59,836 THAT THEY WERE AIMING FOR THE 1767 00:53:59,836 --> 00:54:01,204 WHITE HOUSE, AND I WAS WONDERING 1768 00:54:01,204 --> 00:54:02,772 IF THEY WERE SO CLEVER THAT THEY 1769 00:54:02,772 --> 00:54:04,341 HAD TARGETED EVERY STATE CAPITOL 1770 00:54:04,341 --> 00:54:08,278 IN THE COUNTRY. 1771 00:54:08,278 --> 00:54:10,680 BUT, I WENT ON THE AIR, AND TOLD 1772 00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,682 THE STATE, THE PEOPLE OF 1773 00:54:12,682 --> 00:54:14,451 LOUISIANA, THAT WE WERE SAFE, 1774 00:54:14,451 --> 00:54:16,219 AND YOU KNOW, THAT THERE WAS NO 1775 00:54:16,219 --> 00:54:21,458 EVIDENCE, THAT THAT IT WAS 1776 00:54:21,458 --> 00:54:23,193 MOVING LIKE THAT, AND I JUST 1777 00:54:23,193 --> 00:54:25,128 REMEMBER HOW MOVING THAT WAS. 1778 00:54:25,128 --> 00:54:28,798 IT WAS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE NEEDED 1779 00:54:28,798 --> 00:54:29,199 REASSURANCE. 1780 00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:32,702 WE HAD A LOT OF OTHER VICTORIES. 1781 00:54:32,702 --> 00:54:34,804 IT WAS A POINT OF PRIDE WHEN WE 1782 00:54:34,804 --> 00:54:36,406 WORKED ON A PROJECT THAT I, 1783 00:54:36,406 --> 00:54:37,874 ACTUALLY, STARTED WHEN I WAS THE 1784 00:54:37,874 --> 00:54:40,010 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER, AND 1785 00:54:40,010 --> 00:54:42,779 THAT WAS TO BEGIN TO, TO PUT THE 1786 00:54:42,779 --> 00:54:45,715 LIBRARIES ACROSS LOUISIANA ON 1787 00:54:45,715 --> 00:54:48,251 THE INTERNET, AND WHEN I WAS THE 1788 00:54:48,251 --> 00:54:50,053 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, I 1789 00:54:50,053 --> 00:54:51,955 LITERALLY CREATED THE FIRST 1790 00:54:51,955 --> 00:54:55,258 E-RATE BEFORE THE FEDERAL 1791 00:54:55,258 --> 00:54:56,860 E-RATE, AND TO ALLOW PUBLIC 1792 00:54:56,860 --> 00:55:00,530 LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS TO HAVE 1793 00:55:00,530 --> 00:55:02,465 CHEAPER PRICES TO PUT THE MAIN 1794 00:55:02,465 --> 00:55:03,066 LINES IN. 1795 00:55:03,066 --> 00:55:05,769 IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE AT THAT 1796 00:55:05,769 --> 00:55:08,371 TIME, NO ONE COULD DO IT, SO THE 1797 00:55:08,371 --> 00:55:10,140 FIRST COMPUTERS WENT IN TO DO 1798 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:11,241 THE RUNNING OF THE SCHOOLS AND 1799 00:55:11,241 --> 00:55:11,975 THE LIBRARIES. 1800 00:55:11,975 --> 00:55:13,610 BUT WHEN I BECAME LIEUTENANT 1801 00:55:13,610 --> 00:55:16,579 GOVERNOR, BY THE WAY, MELINDA 1802 00:55:16,579 --> 00:55:17,614 AND BILL GATES FOUNDATION HELPED 1803 00:55:17,614 --> 00:55:18,982 US IN BOTH THOSE INSTANCES. 1804 00:55:18,982 --> 00:55:21,184 THE FIRST WAS WHEN MELINDA WAS 1805 00:55:21,184 --> 00:55:22,585 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 1806 00:55:22,585 --> 00:55:24,154 WHEN TOM CAME TO ME AS PUBLIC 1807 00:55:24,154 --> 00:55:26,656 SERVICE COMMISSIONER, AND I WAS 1808 00:55:26,656 --> 00:55:27,957 CHAIRMAN, WE ALL -- 1809 00:55:27,957 --> 00:55:28,992 >> YOU ALL WORKED TOGETHER. 1810 00:55:28,992 --> 00:55:30,060 >> AND YOUR HUSBAND, JOHN, 1811 00:55:30,060 --> 00:55:30,894 HELPED US WITH THAT. 1812 00:55:30,894 --> 00:55:32,962 AND THE NEXT TIME WAS WHEN I WAS 1813 00:55:32,962 --> 00:55:35,065 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WE GOT 1814 00:55:35,065 --> 00:55:37,600 ANOTHER GRANT FROM THE GATES' 1815 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,270 FOUNDATION, AND WE WERE ABLE TO 1816 00:55:40,270 --> 00:55:41,538 INTERKECK EVERY PUBLIC LIBRARY 1817 00:55:41,538 --> 00:55:43,239 IN LOUISIANA, INCLUDING THE 1818 00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,710 TINIEST LIBRARIES. 1819 00:55:46,710 --> 00:55:49,179 THERE IS ALL THAT DOCUMENTATION 1820 00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:53,083 IN HIS LIBRARY IN HIS HOME IN 1821 00:55:53,083 --> 00:55:53,550 SEATTLE. 1822 00:55:53,550 --> 00:55:55,552 AND IT'S A BIG POINT OF PRIDE 1823 00:55:55,552 --> 00:55:55,952 WITH HIM. 1824 00:55:55,952 --> 00:55:57,053 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT 1825 00:55:57,053 --> 00:56:01,658 THERE AS GOVERNOR, AND SO YOU DO 1826 00:56:01,658 --> 00:56:02,726 THESE BIG THINGS AND YOU FEEL 1827 00:56:02,726 --> 00:56:03,626 REALLY GOOD BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU 1828 00:56:03,626 --> 00:56:05,495 ARE HELPING GENERATIONS. 1829 00:56:05,495 --> 00:56:07,130 >> THAT'S A WONDERFUL THING, AND 1830 00:56:07,130 --> 00:56:08,365 I THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT 1831 00:56:08,365 --> 00:56:10,166 MEMORY, AND THANK YOU, PAUL 1832 00:56:10,166 --> 00:56:12,102 HARDY, FOR BEING WITH US AND 1833 00:56:12,102 --> 00:56:12,902 KATHLEEN BABINEAUX BLANCO, THANK 1834 00:56:12,902 --> 00:56:14,437 YOU VERY MUCH, MELINDA 1835 00:56:14,437 --> 00:56:15,305 SCHWEGMANN, BOBBY FREEMAN, IT 1836 00:56:15,305 --> 00:56:17,273 HAS BEEN A PLEASURE AND HAS GONE 1837 00:56:17,273 --> 00:56:17,974 TOO QUICKLY. 1838 00:56:17,974 --> 00:56:19,476 I HAVE MANY MEMORIES MYSELF 1839 00:56:19,476 --> 00:56:20,910 BECAUSE I WAS COVERING ALL OF 1840 00:56:20,910 --> 00:56:21,211 YOU. 1841 00:56:21,211 --> 00:56:22,746 I'M LOOKING BACK AND THINKING 1842 00:56:22,746 --> 00:56:24,414 ABOUT WHAT, WHAT REALLY, WHAT 1843 00:56:24,414 --> 00:56:25,949 WONDERFUL TIMES WE HAVE ALL HAD, 1844 00:56:25,949 --> 00:56:27,784 AND REALLY, MEANINGFUL TIMES, 1845 00:56:27,784 --> 00:56:29,119 AND IT HAS BEEN A VERY 1846 00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:29,953 MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION AS PART 1847 00:56:29,953 --> 00:56:30,954 OF THE McLEOD SERIES. 1848 00:56:30,954 --> 00:56:32,288 THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF IT, 1849 00:56:32,288 --> 00:56:35,091 AND WE THANK THE McLEOD FAMILY 1850 00:56:35,091 --> 00:56:37,093 AND McNEESE UNIVERSITY FOR 1851 00:56:37,093 --> 00:56:38,828 HELPING US BE PART OF YOUR 1852 00:56:38,828 --> 00:56:40,196 EVENING, AND THANK YOU OUT THERE 1853 00:56:40,196 --> 00:56:40,897 IN THE AUDIENCE. 1854 00:56:40,897 --> 00:56:42,766 WE APPRECIATE YOU WATCHING 1855 00:56:42,766 --> 00:56:43,867 LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING. 1856 00:56:43,867 --> 00:56:44,901 I'M BETH COURTNEY AND GOOD 1857 00:56:44,901 --> 00:56:46,269 EVENING. 1858 00:56:46,269 --> 00:56:51,174 [APPLAUSE] 1859 00:56:51,241 --> 00:57:38,988 FOR COPY OF THIS PROGRAM CALL 1860 00:57:38,988 --> 00:57:44,627 1-800-973-7246 OR GO ONLINE TO 1861 00:57:44,627 --> 00:57:46,930 WWW.WWW.LPB.ORG.