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One Mystery Lafayette Opponent Drops Case
Without ever appearing in court or speaking a word
(old news - 08:49AM Thursday Aug 03 2006)
tags: legal · Fiber · municipal
As we recently noted, two Lafayette locals have been suing to derail the voter approved fiber triple play project the city is trying to build. The locals have never appeared in court, have no history of speaking out against such issues, nor have they made public statements about the project - leading local officials to speculate they are acting as fronts for local incumbents to prevent additional PR damage. According to the Daily Advertiser, one of the two plaintiffs have dropped their suit - two weeks after the local paper ran a story questioning their motivation.

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Brianv5
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August 3rd, @09:11AM

Hunt them down and flog them!

Don't stop there, send in Geraldo!
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shoan

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Re: Hunt them down and flog them!

send in Dr Phil and have them discuss thier feelings and stuffs about this.

cableties
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Re: Hunt them down and flog them!

Send in one of the BBR members! You know which one. The guy with changing avatars that are tacky.

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Re: Hunt them down and flog them!


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said by cableties See Profile :

Send in one of the BBR members! You know which one. The guy with changing avatars that are tacky.
HAY! There is nothing with my avatar!
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said by Brianv5 See Profile :

Don't stop there, send in Geraldo!
I wouldn't to that to the remaining person - yet.

People down there should find out where this mystery woman lives and picket her house. It's apparently going to take more than a little publicity to make her withdraw or explain herself.

It's possible television news pictures of people protesting outside her house might do it.
forrestin
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I say give her a call. The number can be found on Google by searching the first and last name.
moonpuppy

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Read the article guys......

...it's Thursday and the last person has to come to court and explain themselves today.

Anyone local care to watch the news for this?

Jason Levine
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Re: Read the article guys......

According to this article ( »www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.···340/1002 ), the court time is set for 9:30 AM. I believe that means that the last person has about 40 minutes to appear in court. Should be interesting if they come forward or disappear as well.

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said by moonpuppy See Profile :

...it's Thursday and the last person has to come to court and explain themselves today.

Anyone local care to watch the news for this?
No, they don't. Only the lawyer has to show up. Nothing in the news item mentions that the complainant has to appear.

This statement in the news story:
quote:
The Third Circuit Court of Appeal on Thursday is set to hear Naquin’s appeal
doesn't mean she will need to appear.
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Re: Read the article guys......

said by TK Junk Mail See Profile :

doesn't mean she will need to appear.
That's fine but wait until depositions are called for.

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Probably getting paid.

Probably a couple of locals who have no idea what the whole debate is even about that the incumbents have approached and said "We'll pay you $XXX if we can file on your behalf to stop this project."

Maybe one of them finally figured out what the real deal was--or other locals figured out who they were and convinced them the money wasn't worth what they were doing?
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Re: Probably getting paid.

said by fireflier See Profile :

Probably a couple of locals who have no idea what the whole debate is even about that the incumbents have approached and said "We'll pay you $XXX if we can file on your behalf to stop this project."

Maybe one of them finally figured out what the real deal was--or other locals figured out who they were and convinced them the money wasn't worth what they were doing?
OR, they found out how much public scrutiny they would be under.
MGD
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said by fireflier See Profile :

Probably a couple of locals who have no idea what the whole debate is even about that the incumbents have approached and said "We'll pay you $XXX if we can file on your behalf to stop this project."

Maybe one of them finally figured out what the real deal was--or other locals figured out who they were and convinced them the money wasn't worth what they were doing?
Pawns seems to be the operative word here. The Daily Advertiser did publish some digging info: »www.acadiananow.com/apps/pbcs.dl···347/1002 and a search does show Naquin at the Chastant address with a DOB of 1944 »www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.p···_style=1

MGD
bamabrad

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As I saw in an earlier post...

Has anyone checked the cemetery for these names? ( an old political trick)

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August 3rd, @12:57PM

Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

said by bamabrad See Profile :

Has anyone checked the cemetery for these names? ( an old political trick)
Yeah, good old death certificates will most likely list these people. Can any locals get to the city hall to check?

said by Brianv5 See Profile :

Don't stop there, send in Geraldo!
LMAO

danclan

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or the phone book....
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Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

A real quick search on 411.com found this. Remember, it is a white pages lookup, not anything sinister.

Eugene & Elizabeth Naquin
317 Chastant Blvd
Lafayette, LA 70508
(337) 264-9369

A google search on the phone number shows. This:

Elizabeth Naquin, (337) 264-9369, 317 Chastant Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70508

Could it be....?

DaneJasper
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Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

Did you phone her and ask her who she works for?

My guess is that she's a former telco employee - a union member. »www.cwa-union.org/ They often stage call-ins where union members are all asked to call their representative as members of the public to push issues, and I would expect they'd dig into the same group to find plaintifs for a case like this. They claim over 700,000 members, so when they start calling, it really can look like the "general public" has a particular opinion.

-Dane

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Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

said by DaneJasper See Profile :

Did you phone her and ask her who she works for?

My guess is that she's a former telco employee - a union member. »www.cwa-union.org/ They often stage call-ins where union members are all asked to call their representative as members of the public to push issues, and I would expect they'd dig into the same group to find plaintifs for a case like this. They claim over 700,000 members, so when they start calling, it really can look like the "general public" has a particular opinion.

-Dane
Are you suggesting a retired Telco employee or a union member would be on the side of their employer? What kind of evil spell did the Telco cast to make employees and retires do their bidding?

RARPSL

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Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

said by batterup See Profile :

said by DaneJasper See Profile :

Are you suggesting a retired Telco employee or a union member would be on the side of their employer? What kind of evil spell did the Telco cast to make employees and retires do their bidding?
Simple - If they do not front for the company, their pension/pay-check payments get screwed up.

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Has anybody called them yet?

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Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

For that matter, has anyone found out what happened in court today?

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Re: As I saw in an earlier post...

said by jtudor See Profile :

For that matter, has anyone found out what happened in court today?
The lawyers got paid.

Fiber for LA

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Third Circuit Court of Appeal judges John Saunders, Billy Ezell and Michael Sullivan heard arguments today in an appeal filed by Elizabeth Naquin of Lafayette. She challenged the revised ordinance authorizing the bonds for the LUS plan to offer fiber-optic TV, Internet and phone service to consumers.

District Judge Ed Rubin ruled in the city-parish government’s favor. Naquin appealed to the 3rd Circuit. Her attorney, Stan Baudin, argued this morning in Lake Charles that the ordinance violates the Local Government Fair Competition Act because it isn’t strict enough in requiring the LUS communication division from using revenue from other divisions
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