Public Service: Privilege or Perk

A Caddo fire chief regularly using the district’s credit card to make personal purchases; a New Orleans City Council person strong arming the state police to get out of a speeding ticket while traveling 100 m.p.h. down the interstate, and a Louisiana State Senator sending the state police to take football tickets from Shreveport to New Orleans- clear examples of city, parish, and state officials in Louisiana abusing the trust that is placed in them. Why do we continue tolerate such actions from leaders in Louisiana? Are our leaders above the same rules the rest of us must live by? What other indiscretions committed by our purported leaders are just overlooked? Our leaders are expected to serve city, parish, and state government without the expectation of special privilege in return. If this expectation is to great, maybe our leaders should not be allowed to serve.