Speaking at lectern is U.S. Rep. Mike Lee at town hall meeting in in Pine Prairie on July 6. Seated, from left, are Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court Randy Deshotel, Evangeline Parish School Board President Wayne Dardeau, Pine Prairie Mayor Quint West, Pastor Kevin West of First Baptist Church Ville Platte, and Pine Prairie Council Members Tammy Buxton and Gilbert Bordelon. (Photo by Tony Marks/Ville Platte Gazette)
Two days after celebrating the country’s independence, U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, who represents the state’s fourth district, held a town hall meeting in Pine Prairie.
The congressman acknowledged all the bad news dominating the headlines today. “There’s a lot of bad things going on,” he said.
“There’s some really bad news right now. We all feel it.”
He went on to say our “freedoms are in peril t…
