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    Louisiana voters are pathetic. Voted for a guy that ducked every debate and people didn't get to hear him on the issues and where he stood nor did he ever have to defend his record against his opponents. People wonder why Louisiana is bleeding population, the quality of life continues to go down hill whilst the state congress flings poo over culture war issues. 2600 people lost power the other night because the wind was blowing 30mph out in the east bank of JP. State gov lets Entergy get away with robbery with its 3rd world infrastructure. None of this is changing under Jeff Landry.
     
    MT15 said:
    What happened down there? Why are people not voting?

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    The DNC has abandoned any effort in trying to find an actual candidate to run for ANY office in this state, leaving Democratic voters with nothing but poor options.

    For every state level offices, our only option were these "professional" candidates whose only claim to anything is that they ran for office. As for Shawn Wilson, his claim to fame is that he was the state transportation secretary and if you driven our roads, the person responsible for their upkeep doesn't inspire any confidence. Not to mention his campaign was non-existent.

    That being said, I blamed the DNC because of their decades of neglect, but they are not solely responsible, local Democrat leaders get a share some of the blame and their VOTERS.
    • DNC because they won't won't back a candidate unless they match all the party's beliefs (see John Bell Edwards).
    • Local Democratic leaders because they are all over the map, they are not even remotely united.
    • Voters because they are not demanding the best candidate, they are more interested in trivial tribal issues and that goes for both parties.
     
    DJ1BigTymer said:
    The DNC has abandoned any effort in trying to find an actual candidate to run for ANY office in this state, leaving Democratic voters with nothing but poor options.

    For every state level offices, our only option were these "professional" candidates whose only claim to anything is that they ran for office. As for Shawn Wilson, his claim to fame is that he was the state transportation secretary and if you driven our roads, the person responsible for their upkeep doesn't inspire any confidence. Not to mention his campaign was non-existent.

    That being said, I blamed the DNC because of their decades of neglect, but they are not solely responsible, local Democrat leaders get a share some of the blame and their VOTERS.
    • DNC because they won't won't back a candidate unless they match all the party's beliefs (see John Bell Edwards).
    • Local Democratic leaders because they are all over the map, they are not even remotely united.
    • Voters because they are not demanding the best candidate, they are more interested in trivial tribal issues and that goes for both parties.
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    Sounds like people need to unite and take over the state Dem party. Easier said than done, I know.
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    My girlfriend grew up in Louisiana and she says often that Black people in the state could get whatever they wanted if they just voted
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    This is partially true. But there needs to be some context in those numbers, especially among the Democratic numbers. While it might be lower than in the past, there is still a number of registered Democrats who haven't voted Democrat in years, if ever. They just can't bring themselves to switch for various reasons.
     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    This is partially true. But there needs to be some context in those numbers, especially among the Democratic numbers. While it might be lower than in the past, there is still a number of registered Democrats who haven't voted Democrat in years, if ever. They just can't bring themselves to switch for various reasons.
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    yea, i remember when pretty much my entire extended family voted for David Duke in 91.

    They were all registered as Democrats because their grandparents never forgave Republicans for reconstruction.
     
    A professor at Louisiana State University has resigned after he claimed the newly-elected Republican governor of the state already asked the university to fire him.

    Robert Mann, who is the chair of Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at the university, has spent his career serving in press roles for regional Democrat politicians.

    He took to his X account on Sunday to announce that he had told the dean he would step down from his position at the end of the school year.

    “The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me. And I have no confidence the leadership of this university would protect the Manship School against a governor’s efforts to punish me and other faculty members,” he said.

    “I’ve seen too much cowardice and appeasement from top LSU officials already. That being the case, it’s clearly best to remove myself from the equation to avoid any harm to the school I love.”……

    www.the-independent.com

    Louisiana professor resigns after GOP candidate wins Louisiana governor race

    A two-year-old Twitter feud has resurfaced now Jeff Landry has won the governor runoff
    www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com
     
    When Louisiana’s attorney general Jeff Landrywon the open gubernatorial primary on 14 October, it not only ended eight years of relatively productive bipartisan control of the state’s government: it marked a hard-right shift in Louisiana’s politics that could set back environmental policy and human and civil rights for decades to come.

    Landry’s outright victory in the jungle primary – a system unique to Louisiana, in which all voters, regardless of party, vote on all candidates at the local, state and federal levels – shocked voters and pundits in the state alike.

    Landry was long favored to triumph, but it was expected he would be forced into a runoff.

    Ultimately, the state’s Democratic party offered no meaningful resistance to Landry’s campaign, and he cruised to a win, capturing more than 50% of the votes cast in a low-turnout race.

    The morning after the election, Robert Mann, a political science professor at Louisiana State University and a frequent critic of Landry, announced he would be leaving his position. He said he had no confidence the school’s administration would protect him from the changing political headwinds.

    To outsiders, Mann’s reaction may seem dramatic. Louisianans understood fully: in 2021, Landry used his office to try to pressure LSU into dismissing the professor over his argument that the university needed to require students to test regularly for Covid-19.

    The incident wasn’t isolated. In February 2021, Landry filed a lawsuit against the Times-Picayune reporter Andrea Gallo over her investigation into sexual misconduct charges against one of his closest aides. Landry ultimately lost his meritless case.

    As Gallo noted, winning wasn’t necessarily the point.

    “I think that it sends a very clear message to reporters, and to the public of Louisiana, that if you request documents from the attorney general’s office you better watch out, because you might be subjected to a lawsuit,” Gallo told the US Press Freedom Tracker, a website that documents attacks on media in the United States.

    In 2022, Landry had a simple message for women in Louisiana who opposed the abortion ban that took effect when the US supreme court eliminated the rights Roe v Wade had once established.

    “If you don’t like the laws in the state, you can move,” Landry said.

    Of course, most people in Louisiana – where the median income is just more than $27,000 a year – can’t just pick up and leave. Which means they’re all but stuck with Landry as governor for at least four years come January.…….

    Landry opposes any form of minimum wage and is generally hostile to so-called “welfare net” programs designed to help lower-income and working-class people. He backed a plan to make public juvenile court records public – but only in the state’s predominantly Black parishes.

    Although that bill died in the senate, it faces a significantly brighter future next year with Landry in the governor’s office.

    Indeed, Edwards and his veto pen were able to either stall or beat back entirely a host of measures that could re-materialize.

    Those include a “don’t say gay” bill banning classroom discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity, anti-drag measures, additional restrictions on access to healthcare for trans people, further criminalization of abortion and contraceptives, and deeper erosion of the state’s barely existent gun control measures.

    Even the state House member Ray Garofalo’s widely ridiculed bill requiring schools to teach the nonexistent “good” side of slavery could be resurrected.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Republican victory in Louisiana signals hard-right turn for once bipartisan state

    Governor-elect Jeff Landry opposes minimum wage, pollution controls, protections for women, LGBTQ+ and Black people
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    When Louisiana’s attorney general Jeff Landrywon the open gubernatorial primary on 14 October, it not only ended eight years of relatively productive bipartisan control of the state’s government: it marked a hard-right shift in Louisiana’s politics that could set back environmental policy and human and civil rights for decades to come.

    Landry’s outright victory in the jungle primary – a system unique to Louisiana, in which all voters, regardless of party, vote on all candidates at the local, state and federal levels – shocked voters and pundits in the state alike.

    Landry was long favored to triumph, but it was expected he would be forced into a runoff.

    Ultimately, the state’s Democratic party offered no meaningful resistance to Landry’s campaign, and he cruised to a win, capturing more than 50% of the votes cast in a low-turnout race.

    The morning after the election, Robert Mann, a political science professor at Louisiana State University and a frequent critic of Landry, announced he would be leaving his position. He said he had no confidence the school’s administration would protect him from the changing political headwinds.

    To outsiders, Mann’s reaction may seem dramatic. Louisianans understood fully: in 2021, Landry used his office to try to pressure LSU into dismissing the professor over his argument that the university needed to require students to test regularly for Covid-19.

    The incident wasn’t isolated. In February 2021, Landry filed a lawsuit against the Times-Picayune reporter Andrea Gallo over her investigation into sexual misconduct charges against one of his closest aides. Landry ultimately lost his meritless case.

    As Gallo noted, winning wasn’t necessarily the point.

    “I think that it sends a very clear message to reporters, and to the public of Louisiana, that if you request documents from the attorney general’s office you better watch out, because you might be subjected to a lawsuit,” Gallo told the US Press Freedom Tracker, a website that documents attacks on media in the United States.

    In 2022, Landry had a simple message for women in Louisiana who opposed the abortion ban that took effect when the US supreme court eliminated the rights Roe v Wade had once established.

    “If you don’t like the laws in the state, you can move,” Landry said.

    Of course, most people in Louisiana – where the median income is just more than $27,000 a year – can’t just pick up and leave. Which means they’re all but stuck with Landry as governor for at least four years come January.…….

    Landry opposes any form of minimum wage and is generally hostile to so-called “welfare net” programs designed to help lower-income and working-class people. He backed a plan to make public juvenile court records public – but only in the state’s predominantly Black parishes.

    Although that bill died in the senate, it faces a significantly brighter future next year with Landry in the governor’s office.

    Indeed, Edwards and his veto pen were able to either stall or beat back entirely a host of measures that could re-materialize.

    Those include a “don’t say gay” bill banning classroom discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity, anti-drag measures, additional restrictions on access to healthcare for trans people, further criminalization of abortion and contraceptives, and deeper erosion of the state’s barely existent gun control measures.

    Even the state House member Ray Garofalo’s widely ridiculed bill requiring schools to teach the nonexistent “good” side of slavery could be resurrected.…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Republican victory in Louisiana signals hard-right turn for once bipartisan state

    Governor-elect Jeff Landry opposes minimum wage, pollution controls, protections for women, LGBTQ+ and Black people
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    So in other words... God help us.
     

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