Article archive / June 1, 2011
Originally published: . Volume 2, No. 10. Source pages: 2.
Publisher of the Times, Julie Nelson, contacted LPA recently to remind them that she had completed her punishment, a six-month suspension from the LPA listserve.
Nelson was suspended last November (See PT, Vol 2, No 4, “Times Publisher Gets the Boot”) for quoting Dr. Robert Storer and Dr. Kelly Ray about their “no” votes on a resolution to support the autonomous regulation of psychology in Louisiana. Nelson was warned not to do it again. But then she was suspended after she made remarks about the inadequacy of such a rule and the ease of getting around it.
Her six months was up May 4 and she asked Executive Director Ms. Lowe about the matter. Lowe instructed Nelson she must make a “reapplication” to the EC in order to be reinstated. Nelson agreed and sent back her reapplication: “I request to be reinstated to the listserve.”
However, when nothing happened, Nelson discovered that it was up to the President Dr. Kelly Ray to agree to hear the request, in order for the EC to consider it. Even though business is conducted by the EC on a regular basis via other means, President Ray is not required to review Nelson’s request until a physical meeting is held. No meeting is currently scheduled, and the EC meets physically only four times a year.
Following this, Nelson withdrew her reapplication.
Ray and Nelson have been in strong disagreement over matters surrounding Act 251, which moved the practice of psychology by MPs to the medical board. Ray pays dues of $2500 per year to LAMP, the organization that covertly negotiated and lobbied the passage of Act 251.
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