By PAUL KEDINGER

Managing Editor


“We have to watch the money,” noted Kayla Link, a member of the Acadia Parish Tourist Commission during Thursday’s meeting.

Link was referring to the state Enterprise Zone Tax revenues which provide a lion’s share of the Commission’s operating funds.

With the election of Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu as mayor of New Orleans and Gov. Bobby Jindal considering a move to abolish the lieutenant governor’s office, the fate of those revenues might be diverted to other tourism promotions, particularly to New Orleans.


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