LA Voters End Schizophrenic Gov't, So Can Other Red States
By Michael Reagan - Newsmax - Saturday, July 6, 2024
LA Voters End Schizophrenic Gov't, So Can Other Red States
By Michael Reagan - Newsmax
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Up until this legislative session Louisiana suffered from a strange phenomenon found in some red states.
Louisiana had a solidly Republican legislature, but was saddled with a Democratic governor. This problem is easier to solve than the more common red state conundrum: A conservative legislature with a RINO (Republican In Name Only) governor.
Louisiana voters came to their senses and elected a solid conservative in Republican: Gov. Jeff Landry.
What a difference that has made!
As noted left-adherent Barack Obama observed, "Elections have consequences."
And as The Washington Times concluded, "Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, with the help of his solid Republican majorities, signed off on a laundry list of legislation that spells out a Republican agenda that could ping the national GOP’s radar."
This development brought some measure of joy to your authors.
Now we can point to someone other than Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., as an exemplar of using government for conservative ends.
Here a just some of the laws passed and signed by Landry that return a measure of sanity to living in Louisiana:
$3 billion cut from the state budget
Universal school choice
Constitutional carry
A ban on vaccine mandates
A ban on ranked choice voting
A ban on sanctuary cities
State police can now arrest illegal immigrants
Other improvements made to the Bayou State include:
Public (read government) schools are forbidden to teach DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) indoctrination, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Teachers must also use pronouns that match the sex on a student’s birth certificate.
Local governments are banned from passing firearms restrictions exceeding state law.
Protesters demonstrating outside private residences can be fined.
Liability is limited for people in fear of their lives when rioters illegally block a road.
Major expansion of RICO and racketeering law applied to organized riots.
Two abortion-inducing drugs will be classified as controlled substances.
Men pretending to be women, and vice versa, are banned from using facilities that do not match their birth certificate sex.
That’s quite a return on a vote in a single election.
Landry, though, didn’t do all this on his own. "Last October, Louisiana elected a conservative governor and the Louisiana Freedom Caucus doubled their size in the legislature," the Louisiana Freedom Caucus tweeted.
Over 27 new laws were authored by members of the Freedom Caucus and passed by the legislature.
Making a red state red is a two-step process.
Elect a genuinely conservative governor and fill both houses of the legislature with equally conservative members, while expelling the Chamber of Commerce 'conservatives' that have plagued red states for so long.
That’s what Louisiana and Florida have both done.
"Andy Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, wrote on X above the list of new legislation Friday, 'I’m officially declaring it now — Louisiana is the new Florida!'"
As we wrote earlier, this should be the goal for conservatives.
Make your red state as red as possible.
Create a cultural environment so hostile to leftists that they move to the nearest blue state.
Louisiana and Florida are starting down this path.
Readers outside those states need to ask their state leadership what’s holding them back?
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I love all that Gov. Jeff Landry has done. Keep up the good work. I especially like the Constitutional Carry! We need it now in this day and age, what with the Democrats bringing us down. More great work by Gov. Jeff Landry and his team.
Sorry, but Louisiana is far from being Florida. Most white people in Louisiana are good people who do not want one sided legislation that polarize Americans. This group leading these campaigns is the minority. Real power is about balance. If some of you would stop meeting at the lodge and actually talk to people, you would realize some of what you want is what everyone else including the LBGT Community. There are more ways to skin a cat and if you have to oppress or do things from the slave bible to gain power, then you are the weakest link. Educate yourselves about the real issues and for God sake stop being afraid of other people groups. The bible perhaps does belong in schools, but when the witches come forth then what? When Muslims come forth then what? The bills mentions the Mayflower and other low iq mess that establishes white nationalism and not the true benefits of it being it school. They could have easily said it disturbs from school to prison pipeline, so that law will not stand. Louisiana, like Texas is not a Red state. We just have red necks who want to pretend they are dominant lol. I do believe God is calling Louisiana to stand out and be a light to America. But not like this. Anytime you want to take power away from others to have power you are an inferiorist. Confronting the issues has to go beyond ...WELL BECAUSE I SAID SO KIND OF ATTITUDE. Stop acting like God is weak and that he did not make other people groups. We are going to move forward and move forward right. Our nation needs our unity and our love for one another. If you have not felt the love of Louisiana, get you some new friends.