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==Post politics==
He operated his Raymond's Department Store, which once had eight competitors downtown. The store, no longer in existence, was the oldest jobber of Dickies work wear in Louisiana and later specialized in school uniforms.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Raymond%27s+Department+Store+in+Marksville&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Raymond%27s+Department+Store&hnear=Marksville&cid=6247615245347302389|title=Raymond’s Department Store|publisher=maps.google.com|accessdate=December 19November3, 2009; no longer on-line2019}}</ref>
On April 7, 2011, seven weeks after undergoing a heart operation, Laborde appeared before the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee that he had chaired years earlier. He excoriated the plan of Republican then Governor [[Bobby Jindal]] to presumably sell off five state prisons to Jindal's significant contributors, the GEO Groupmand the Corrections Corporation of America<ref>OpenSecrets.org and FollowTheMoney.org</ref> for about $30 million each, far less than their replacement costs.<ref name=advocate>{{cite news|url = http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/Prison-plan-dominates-public-comment-session.html|author=Michelle Millhollan|title=Prison plan dominates public comment session|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=April 8, 2011|accessdate= April 10, 2011}}</ref>
