Ain't seen nothing yet

 Jeff Landry is going to be the most hilarious Governor we've had in a long time. 

The close relationship between Attorney General Jeff Landry and his top political ally Shane Guidry recently added a new layer: Landry took a spot on the board of Guidry’s oil services firm, Harvey Gulf.

Landry reported making between $50,000 and $100,000 in 2020 as an “independent board member” for Harvey Gulf, LLC, in his annual personal financial disclosure, filed this month with the Louisiana Board of Ethics. The company does not appear on Landry's disclosures for previous years.

The newly-disclosed business relationship is one of several close ties between the attorney general and Guidry, who is among Landry’s top political donors and a close friend. It’s also unusual: while other statewide elected officials serve on nonprofit boards and have private business interests, none reported serving on the board of a private firm while in office, according to recent personal financial disclosures.

It technically doesn't matter if the Attorney General is on his payroll or if it's the other way around. Maybe it's a little bit of both.

Guidry's role with the Attorney General's office is listed in state records as "special agent/investigator," and he said he remains working as an adviser for Landry’s office. State records list his salary as $12,000 annually as a part-time employee for the past four years.

A spokesman for Landry’s office said Guidry has been on “unpaid leave” as a special agent since 2017 but declined to answer questions about the adviser role or other job titles. Guidry has also used the title “special assistant” to Landry.

Figures like Guidry are always looking for the dumbest possible character to install in the public offices.  Recall that Guidry's fellow industrial titan "kingmaker" Lane Grigsby very nearly purchased the Governorship for Eddie Rispone in 2019. Rispone really only played the buffoon on TV, though.  Landry is a good bit more pure. Which makes him more useful for all sorts of rackets. 

He also reported big increases in income from UST Environmental Services and Evergreen Contractors, two labor staffing firms of which he claims full ownership.

Landry claimed less than $5,000 in income from each of those firms in 2018 and 2019, then reported at least $200,000 from each of them last year.

Ben Landry, the attorney general’s brother who oversees those businesses, did not return messages seeking comment this week on the big bump in income for the attorney general.

Landry formed Evergreen in 2011 during his first year in Congress. It was among three Landry-related firms that applied at the same time in 2017 to import Mexican welders and pipe fitters to the U.S. under the H2-B temporary worker visa program.

Anyway, all of this makes Jeff an ideal candidate to become the next Governor. And since we've all but given up expecting anything except the stupidest of all outcomes, he's likely to be the favorite.  So, get ready to be entertained.