LA DOGE secret meeting about gov accountability violated public transparency laws. Told on themselves by posting a pic of secret meeting to FB 🤦‍♀️

This is all part of a very long and complicated story, but I am trying to keep track of it all here.

TLDR: LA DOGE accidentally revealed they held a secret meeting with a current employee (Tera LeBlanc) of a private government/FBI contracted company who was formerly a Louisiana Department of Health state employee/executive director of Medicaid

Since then, LA DOGE has partnered with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA), and accused LDH of misspending Medicaid funds over a 5 year period. It turns out LeBlanc was in charge of that program for 4 of the 5 years, before leaving LDH to work in her current role for Guidehouse Consulting group.

Since LeBlanc is no longer in the role, LDH appears to be blaming others for the misspent funds Leblanc was in charge of for 4/5 years. Hospitals participating in the program have mysteriously fired several doctors at the same time, in my own city and all across the state while LDH (which is currently run by Governor appointees) seems to be arguing Louisiana proves why Medicaid is unsustainable since no doctors will accept patients on Medicaid (maybe bc they were all fired at once??).

Sure would be nice to have some kind of a public record to know what was discussed in those meetings between Guidehouse and paid state officials held on public property, that weren't really meetings, and totally didn't violate the meeting transparency laws.

If they had been meetings, the taskforce would have been required by law to: advertise when and where it will meet, allow the public a chance to speak at meeting, and record meeting minutes that will become publicly available. They of course didn’t do any of that. No one involved in LA DOGE is facing any legal repercussions for some odd reason 🤷‍♀️

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA) would be the one to bring charges for violation of the meeting law, but they partnered with LA DOGE as questions about these meetings were starting to pop up and are now helping the governor with his own Robespierre-like reign of terror, except the cuts are all budget related instead of guillotine (at least for now).

That would be the same LLA that brought forth the accusations against LDH after the secret meetings that weren't really meetings, saying an audit found Medicaid fraud.

So, now the LLA only cares about enforcing transparency laws for other people.

I'm not a journalist, but for some reason I'm the only one who is trying to bring attention to the fact that [Leblanc was in charge of this program that is being accused of fraud by the LLA for 4 of the 5 years, before leaving LDH and joining her former LDH supervisor to begin working for Guidehouse Consulting.

I think journalists are being intimidated and/or information is being suppressed all over the state. There is some really insane shit happening in Louisiana right now.

We also just had the DOJ help our AG (who also just happens to be a pal of Gov Landry) lift an ongoing lawsuit that had to be issued in 1966 to enforce desegregation in a Louisiana public school!

The whole trying to pretend the civil rights act didn't happen at least got some attention, but everything else flooding the zone in Louisiana seems to be flying under the radar. Since the whole country is currently on fire, nobody seems to really have the time to notice or care, but it does seem like the Governor of Louisiana is allowing us to serve as a bit of a guinea pig for all of Trump's authoritarian policies before he unleashes it on a larger scale to the rest of the country.

Also the Heritage Foundation is currently paying to run local tv ads promoting Gov Landry's policies.

TLDR II: Even if nothing happens to them, they're destroying my home and my country. I'm not going to just shut up and be quiet about it. If they didn't care they wouldn't be trying so hard to keep information suppressed while paying so much money to try and spread their own disinformation.