WHO ELSE DID THEY PAY?
COUNCIL SHOULD VOTE TO REPEAL THEIR CONSENT
The people of New Orleans East have worked hard to stop the building of a new gas plant in the East.Most folks feel the same way. We want nonpolluting, renewable energy.
Entergy will be raising our bills to pay for the plant. But the City Council including Mayor Cantrell voted for the plant anyway; only outgoing Councilwoman Susan Guidry voted no. The Lens has exposed that the orange shirts that you saw all over TV were paid actors hired to be a crowd in favor of the plant at the City Council hearing. In a practice called astroturfing, corporations hire companies that provide this service. Even as members of the East community — Black, white and Vietnamese — spoke and poured their hearts out, the vote still went to Entergy. Entergy doesn’t think we the people should have an opinion or offer it on the radio. After WBOK, the city’s Black radio station, had a discussion with plant opponents, Entergy cancelled a check they had written to the station. But Thomas Oliver of WBOK made it clear that the station is not for sale.
We think it goes deeper than that. We want to know all of contributions Entergy has made to any politicians, directly or through family and friends or super-Pac pals. Now that this horrific scam and suppression of working people’s voices has been exposed, the City Council should immediately repeal their vote. For more information go to No Gas Plant on Facebook.