re: Tort (Legal) Reform is by far the biggest issue in the Louisiana Governor’s race

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If we want to truly improve in so many categories as a state….insurance cost, business climate, etc….then electing a candidate who will stop at nothing to get this done has got to be the focus.

Otherwise, what are we really hoping to change?

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Money in rural/local politics makes a difference. Trial Lawyers, attorneys and the Bar Association have a metric shite ton of it.

So if you want tort reform and you're a candidate for Governor and you want to win election, you want to STFU about it until you're in office.

The reason is that the two functions of being a good Governor-or any good politician-is running for office (IE-being a good enough candidate to be elected) and then holding office.

If you don't want your name smeared and your candidacy/electability destroyed, then you'll STFU about issues that folks with tons of money are motivated by.

Tort Reform talk will cause even Republican attorneys and lawyers to spend all of their money against whomever is talking it. You can dislike that all you want, but Citizens United and the SCOTUS make money in politics a reality, and people spend money in politics to support their own self interest.

So if you want tort reform, you want a candidate who believes in it but somehow will never tell you about it publicly, because they'll never win.

Go look at the sheer amount of money that John Bel Edwards had spent on his PAC's and campaigns over two cycles when both of the last R candidates talked tort reform. Again, you may not like that idea. I don't particularly care for it.

But I care to talk about reality more than some pie-in-the-sky, never-neverland that doesn't exist...and candidates who talk tort reform are going to create their own opposition candidates through vast sums of money spent against them.

So actual conservatives who are tort-reform minded should STFU about it IMO. Just get elected and THEN get it done.