Lies And Deceit Hover Over Whitehorn's Statement Following LA Supreme Court Denial
Louis R. Avallone: So, there's certainly a lot to unpack here now that the Supreme Court of Louisiana has refused to hear Henry Whitehorn's appeal.And upheld the new election that was ordered by the Caddo Parish District Court in the sheriff's race. But I think we've got to start with the absurd statement made by Mr. Whitehorn before any of this will make sense.
I mean, when you—
Stephen Parr:- This was his Facebook post.
Louis R. Avallone:- Oh my goodness gracious. I mean, when you—
Stephen Parr:- - Yeah.
Louis R. Avallone:- When you remove all of—
Stephen Parr:- - There's so many things in that Facebook post, by the way, that are absolutely incorrect.
Louis R. Avallone:- 100%. And so here's the statement. And if you haven't read it folks, I'm going to read it. it. This is word for word This is the statement by Chief Whitehorn He says in response to the Supreme Court's of Louisiana's decision that John Nickelson The Republican attorney with zero law enforcement experience has successfully gotten an election Overturned and he did so by misleading the people of Caddo Parish.
Stehen Parr: That's a a lie. That is not what happened. First of all, the people of Caddo Parish were not the ones who changed the election. It was a judge, not from Caddo Parish, but the judge was from Rustin.
Louis R. Avallone:- No, we're gonna get to that, yes.
Stephen Parr:- Well, let's start here, let's start here. The judge was from Rustin, right? Okay, and then it went to a panel of judges, not all of them were from Caddo Parish. Actually, Actually every single judge in Caddo Parish that was involved in this case from the beginning, they all recused themselves. So John Nickelson didn't get this overturned by misleading people in Caddo Parish. Certainly not by misleading the voters 'cause the voters weren't the ones who overturned the election. So that's a factually false statement.
Louis R. Avallone:- But Mr. Whitehorn continues. He said he misled them into thinking to people voted twice for me. But the facts are that the people who voted twice were both registered Republicans who served in leadership positions for the Republican Party. He also misled them into thinking that there were people who cast votes under the names of dead people.
Now, let's just put this first of all,
Stephen Parr: Again, that's not that's not quite what happened. But first of all, what he's doing, he's calling Nickelson a liar.
Louis R. Avallone: He is. And I know that's not shocking in an election.
Stephen Parr: But it's much worse. But it's much worse. This statement in and of itself is misleading. John Nickelson never argued in court that the two people who voted twice voted for Whitehorn.
What he argued in court was two people voted twice. The margin of victory in the race was one vote. And we cannot know who these two-- two people voted for.
Louis R. Avallone: Okay, but it's not-
Stephen Parr: It’s just a fact.
Louis R. Avallone: But it's not, throwing those folks out, you still had folks that were interdicted who voted.
Stephen Parr: You still had people who were determined by the courts to not be allowed to vote and they did vote anyway. You had people who mailed in ballots without filling out the flap on the outside of the ballot correctly, which means thereby there, by law, their votes should not have counted.
Louis R. Avallone: I know, but let's –
Stephen Parr: And so all of that means we had way more illegal votes than we did legal votes. John Nickelson never once argued in court that any one of those people actually voted for Henry Whitehorn.
Louis R. Avallone: But isn't what Whitehorn saying in this statement is that somehow Nickelson and his legal team missed - the court?
Stephen Parr: Well, no, he actually doesn't even mean the court. No, he says he misled the people.
Louis R. Avallone: I understand
Stephen Parr: That's a lie People obviously weren't the ones right making the decision. The people weren't the ones making the judge in the Caddo district court That made that decision.
Louis R. Avallone: There was the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Stephen Parr: Exactly.
Louis R. Avallone: Those judges made that decision to affirm the lower court's decision And now the Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided you know what, we're not reviewing this at all.
Stephen Parr: Okay, but let's just take this on the face value here because he's saying the argument is John Nickelson was trying to say that these illegal votes were for me and there's no way these illegal votes were for me.
Actually there's no way there wasn't a single one that was for you because when you look at the statistics, basically somebody either voted for it, Nichols or they voted for Whitehorn on the ballot, right? Those are your two choices. So you basically have a heads, tails choice, right? It's a coin flip. Okay, so you can run probability statistics on this. And it's not just the 11 that were identified in court.
There were more than 50, there were 54 mail -in ballots that were identified by Nickelson's team to have been illegal. He just didn't take the time to present those in court. But do you know what the probability, the statistical probability--, that not one of those 54 illegal votes was for Whitehorn was? It is 0.6 billionths of a percent.
Point-six billionths, not tens, not hundreds, billions of a percent. It is the odds of it happening. You are so much more likely to win the lottery. You won't win the lottery. are so much more likely to get crushed by a tyrannosaurus rex then for none of those votes to have been for Henry Whitehorn.
Louis R. Avallone: But isn't it more troubling here that Whitehorn is basically indicting our entire justice system because if if Nickelson is lying if he misled the people Okay, let's just use let's just say he misled the people or that he's lying otherwise.
Stephen Parr: So he misled the judges… So the judge are fools. Exactly. Whitehorn's calling the judges fools.
Louis R. Avallone: At the district court, at the appellate court, at the supreme court level. See, here's where actually, Whitehorn isn't actually calling them fools. Whitehorn, this is where I get to the left, keeps coming back, they are the party projection all the time. What was the exact phrase he used? He said, he said, John Nickelson misled the people of Caddo, right? Misled? misled
Stephen Parr: That is exactly what he said the argument He's making is an attempt to mislead the people of Caddo He said Whitehorn Henry Whitehorn is intentionally Misleading the people of Caddo with his statement accusing John Nickelson of misleading people Because John Nickelson never argued that either one of those votes were for Whitehorn from that from the votes of that That Whitehorn is talking about here. That's not the point.
Louis R. Avallone: And has anyone ever stopped, whenever Whitehorn makes the statement, well, you know those two folks that voted twice, they were registered Republicans. Has anyone ever stopped and looked at the districts where they're very heavily Republican registered voters in those precincts, did any of them vote for Whitehorn?
Stephen Parr: Yes. Yes. I looked at those districts.
Louis R. Avallone: So then how do you continue to make the same argument that says, well, because they're white and because they're Republican, they must have voted for Nickelson. But all of the other white Republicans and all of these heavily Republican voting precincts that voted for me somehow, how does that same logic not apply?
Stephen Parr: All right, let's use that same logic. Would you consider John Nickelson to be a leader of the Republican Party in Caddo Parish, one of the leaders of the Republican Party?
Louis R. Avallone: Well, he's a former city councilman, I would say yes.
Stephen Parr: Yes, so you would consider him a part of that leadership. So like the two people that Whitehorse talking about having voted, John Nickelson would fall in that category. He's a registered Republican who is part of the leadership of the Republican Party of Caddo Parish. Yes?
Louis R. Avallone: Yes.
Stephen Parr: Okay. Do you know who John Nickelson voted for in the first Adrian Perkins mayor race? Adrian Perkins. The Black Democrat: Adrian Perkins.
Louis R. Avallone: - Yeah, absolutely. –
Stephen Parr: So it's impossible for a white Republican in a leadership position in the Republican Party to vote for a black Democrat. John Nickelson himself did it. So what Henry Whitehorn's doing here is he's playing a race game that's unacceptable because John Nickelson himself disproves the theory Henry Whitehorn's trying to propose.
Louis R. Avallone: - And look, one of the reasons this has is so upset is that this really goes beyond just an election. election.
Stephen Parr: It's about the person who wants to be sheriff, not wanting to enforce the rule of law when it comes to our elections. That's what upsets me.
Louis R. Avallone: But it's also about dividing our community along racial lines and I've had enough of it.
Stephen Parr: Let's get to the top three things you need to know before tomorrow. First thing you need to know before tomorrow the the Louisiana Supreme Court has decided not to get involved in the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Race controversy Yesterday evening the court denied the application by Chief Henry Whitehorn to hear the case and reverse the decision of both the lower court and an appeals Court to hold a new election Whitehorn did receive one more vote than John Nickelson on November 8th and in a recount the next week But there are at least 11 votes that were counted and were cast illegally.
Louis R. Avallone: Look this new election I think helps both sides here. It's gonna lead to a more diverse result. And by the way, it coincides with possibly the most contentious presidential primary in American history. That means more voter turnout. And generally in Louisiana, that means more Democrats and Republicans.
Stephen Parr: Let's get to the second thing you need to know before we move on to the Louisiana Supreme Court is asking the state legislature to redraw their districts.
Five of the seven members of the Supreme Court wrote a letter to the legislature asking me part. part of the upcoming redistricting special session. They say they want a second minority majority district to be drawn for the Louisiana Supreme Court. A Louisiana court already has ordered the legislature to redraw congressional districts in the state to be in line with the recent U .S.
Supreme Court decision that forced Alabama to redraw congressional districts in that state. Democrats have been demanding a second minority majority district in Louisiana in an effort to gain back control of Congress.
Louis R. Avallone: You know, again, I have very-- very deep reservations about having a discussion about drawing a voting district strictly along racial lines.
Stephen Parr: The only way to stop racial discrimination is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
And the third thing you need to know before tomorrow it is Sugar Bowl weekend in New Orleans University of Texas is taking on the University of Washington in the 90th annual Sugar Bowl.
The winner will get a ticket to the college football playoff national championship on January 8th in Houston. The city of New Orleans is expecting to bring in $200 million in revenue from the game. Already hotels and restaurants in downtown New Orleans are reporting an increase in visitors and foot traffic.
Kickoff is on Monday at 7 .45 p .m. You know, I pray for the safety of those in our community. I pray for the safety of those in New Orleans, the murder capital of the world.
Yup! Yep. And cars getting stolen and things all on those lines. Hopefully it's turning around. Hopefully it's an event -free weekend.