Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.
The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015. In addition, the GOP holds a two-third supermajority in the House and Senate.
Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The results also mean Louisiana will have its first female attorney general and first woman elected as secretary of state.
Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.
So now that democrats are no longer a problem, Louisiana is going to become a thriving bastion of freedom and unprecedented economic growth because of the laws and policies that republicans are going to implement to help everyone… right? Right??
The dog has caught the car. Let’s see what he does with it.
*chews on tailpipe*
You Gen Z folks will put anything in your mouths
I will waterboard you like its 2004.
Ok boomer
This will end well.
Is a possibility.
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Given they had around 35% turnout, it’s more like they’re getting the government they didn’t vote for.
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If you choose not to vote, you’ve made a choice for the government you get. Fuck em.
35% voter turn out.
Eat and drink the poison you deserve you lazy fucks.
Imagine being as stupid as Louisiana lol
Welp, Louisiana-stupid is now being added to my daily use. Thank you.
This article feels like it’s trying to spin things into something less than Republicans restoring the hold they had in a state that has been predominantly Republican for a very, very long time.
As someone who has lived in Louisiana for a long time , it used to be MUCH more balanced than it is now. We had democratic governers and state senators. It has inched further and further right over the past few decades, and they’ve run off anyone worth enough sense and money to get out of this shithole. The election results have been terrible this year and honestly I blame the Louisiana Democratic Party which seems to have either fallen apart or sabotaged our candidates this year by doing absolutely nothing and ceding control to the republicans. My friends and I all went and voted but there’s basically no uniting force in the Democratic Party here to even attempt to get the truth out anymore. Just hatred and stupidity running rampant now is what it feels like.
The Democratic party is an absolute mess here. They practically don’t exist.
The LA Democrat party leadership has been a lethal mix of inept and corrupt for a while now. I would argue John bel Edwards won in spite of rather than due to their assistance. There is a rumor floating around (not confirmed) that they hosted a fairly large fundraiser for Shawn Wilson (ostensibly to funnel whatever they raised into his ongoing gov campaign) and then just pocketed the money. Given that the former dem party chair Karen Carter Peterson just got sentenced to 22 months in fed prison (on the day of the primary no less) for helping herself to campaign money, that seems more plausible a story than it might otherwise. Seriously, who is going to throw their hat in the ring for ANY statewide office if that’s the kind of support you can expect for your flagship candidate? And then you get to get your veto overridden by a repub supermajority ? Nah, way less stress to just stay in a lobbying job somewhere. Say what you want about Karl Rove and co, but the state level elections were where he and his cohort of repub strategists focused quite a bit of effort grooming candidates since the late 90s and it has continued to pay dividends for them.
Step 1: Be the butthole of America (Outside of Florida)
Step 2: Go all in on the team that got you there and are very vocal about keeping you there
Step 3: ???
Step 3: Choose fascism, because obviously, it’s voting that got you into this mess. (/s)
Don’t laugh, I’ve heard this argument being made. “Why should I waste my time voting when the only candidates are all shitheads? Just go ahead and put whoever you want in office and quit wasting my time. It’s not like it matters anyway.”
I have, too. The problem is, that’s extremely lazy and privileged. It’s lazy, because the candidates aren’t identical; one is superior, even if only by a little. Progress happens incrementally, not all at once.
It’s privileged, because they can’t be bothered to do even the basic level of research to discover those differences. They’d rather paint both candidates with a broad brush, call it a day, and assume they’ll be able to go on with their life as before no matter who wins.
But these candidates, from the school board to the presidency, vote on laws and policies that affect their life every day. They choose projects to fund and judges to interpret the law. Our votes matter, because there’s an entire party spending an inordinate amount of effort trying to suppress the ability to vote.
If you meet someone like that, tell them they’re a privileged asshole for thinking that preventing theofascism is somebody else’s problem.
Those who are able need to vote with thier feet.
While you’re not wrong, that’s really going to suck for the folks who aren’t able to leave.
In fact, it will make it less likely that things will ever stop sucking for those who aren’t able to leave.
No doubt. But at this point sacrifices must be made. The system doesn’t allow for correction without it. Eventually, we can start a fund to help people leave. But in the mean time the state will lose representation as the population declines.
I think they already did.
In case you had any doubt, abortion is also banned there.
A ban on drag is coming very soon. And the whole “don’t say gay in schools” thing. And writing slavery out of curriculums. And criminalizing trans operations. Oh, and gerrymandering.
These are all things our legislative branch tried to pass that our democratic governor was able to keep at bay. We’re about to turn into Florida.
I look forward to seeing the voter turn out and that 70% of the population didn’t vote because it’s hard, they don’t have time, yada yada yada, bitching begins after they see them strip the entire state of anything remotely good.
Edit: So close. 65% of the eligible voters sat on their ass. Enjoy the government you chose through your inaction.
So, cops are going to get exemptions from local property taxes? I’m not as upset about firefighters and EMS getting it but still… it’ll be a good excuse in a couple of years, at most, to raise property taxes on those who can’t afford to move to a better state.
So when do we march south again?
Sherman shall rise again
Let me guess… they campaigned on fixing the socialism and the sheeple will continue to elect them because sheeple logic.
I live in TX. GOP has had control for about 30 years and always campaine on fixing the broken system created by the other side… its sad
This is exactly why it’s Louisiana though.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
(AP) — Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.
Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.
Louisiana’s gubernatorial election was decided in October when Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, won outright and avoided a runoff.
The Republican will take on the task of replacing Louisiana’s outdated voting machines, which don’t produce the paper ballots critical to ensuring accurate election results.
The lengthy and ongoing replacement process was thrust into the national spotlight after allegations of bid-rigging and when conspiracy theorists, who support Trump’s lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, inserted themselves into the conversation.
Saturday’s ballot also had four proposed constitutional amendments, including allowing local governing authorities to give an extra property tax exemption to first responders, which received voter approval.
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Sounds like this was a test run of what is to come.
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