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Volume 119 · No. 65

Cassidy, Landrieu face off in final debate

BY savanah dickinson sdickinson@lsureveille.com Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La. and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. battled head-to-head last night in the final debate before the U.S. Senate runoff election this Saturday, Dec. 6. WAFB-TV hosted the debate in its studio, airing it live across Louisiana, where Cassidy and Landrieu repeatedly exchanged blows regarding Landrieu’s chartered flights and Cassidy’s timesheets at LSU Health Sciences Center. Landrieu opened the debate by presenting her charter flight records, expecting Cassidy to bring his timesheets though moderator John Snell said props were not allowed in the debate Landrieu used the issue as ammunition throughout the night. Landrieu defended the controversy surrounding the Senate funds used to cover her chartered flights, calling it a “bookkeeping error.” She quickly threw the heat to Cassidy by mentioning his six years working for the LSU Health Sciences Center. She said Cassidy failed to sign many of his timesheets and is suspicious of the origin of the few signatures present on the timesheets. “Cassidy has padded his own payroll for the last six years,” Landrieu said. Cassidy denied these claims, saying he signed his timesheets and blamed the suspicious signatures on his handwriting as a doctor. Landrieu, however, said Cassidy owes the tax players an explanation. She said he is the only representative in Congress with a “sweetheart deal” like this one with LSU Heath Sciences Center. Nonetheless, he said he would like to continue working for LSUHSC even if elected. Landrieu said she does not expect Cassidy to win the election, but if he does, she foresees him being subpoenaed and investigated for his timesheets. Following the debate, Landrieu spoke to press. She referenced four University students arrested

see debate, page 4

Toby Rodriguez aims to modernize the boucherie tradition BY gerald ducote • gducote@lsureveille.com

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Toby Rodriguez and members of Lache Pas butcher a pig Sunday at La Boucherie Merci at Vermilionville in Lafayette, La.

radition comes into play when discussing all forms of action in everyday life. It dictates both the “correct” way to do something and whether something should be done at all. In Louisiana, old traditions are shifted to make way for new ones. Toby Rodriguez’s business is one example of a Louisiana tradition merging with today’s fixation on freshness and health. Rodriguez aims to keep a Louisiana tradition alive and well. The boucherie, French for “butchery,” is a longstanding social event or a party filled with food and drink where the central experience is the slaughtering of a live pig, which is then butchered and prepared in a variety of dishes for patrons. Rodriguez demonstrated the art of the boucherie Sunday at Vermilionville in Lafayette for the second annual Le Boucherie Merci, a nod to the traditional boucheries in which hogs are butchered. Butchering an entire pig is no small task. The work it takes to process the animal as well as cook it causes typical boucheries to last

see boucherie, page 4

#HandsUp WalkOut Students and professors gathered in the Quad yesterday to protest the lack of indictment of Darren Wilson for the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown. Read the full story on page 4. Javier Fernández / The Daily Reveille


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