October fundraiser lagging behind. Please help.
October fundraiser lagging behind. Please help.
October 17, 2022 by tomaswell
Folks, LouisianaVoice’s October fundraiser is a little more than halfway through and I’ve tried not to be too big a pest this time, choosing instead to leave the real grifting up to the professionals – people like Donald Trump and certain televangelists who seem to be fundraising 24/7/365. Just today, I have received 24 solicitation from Trump – and it’s only 3:15 p.m.
But I have to be honest. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been beating the drum daily for your generosity to kick in, but whatever the reason, it’s been down this month. Check out the story right below this one (and the one above it) to see what we’re trying to do here.
No one else is going to bat for these students at the Louisiana School for the Deaf and the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired. Perhaps it’s because LSD serves fewer than 100 students. But so what? They deserve a quality education just as your kids do. And the administration at LSD is encouraging them not to use sign language, but to speak instead. It kinda reminds you of how they tried to assiminate Native Americans into the Ango Saxon culture and to abandon their own native languages.
But back to my shameless panhandling. We need your help to do what we do. I’ve got a trip to north Louisiana coming up on another story and gas isn’t 30 cents a gallon like it was when I got my first reporting job more than half-a-century ago. So please click on the magic yellow DONATE button in the column to the upper right of this post and give what you can. Or mail a check to Capital News Service, P.O. Box 922, Denham Springs, Louisiana 70727.
And as ol’ Tennessee Ernie Ford used to say, “Bless your pea-pickin’ heart.”