re: Gov. Landry looking to greatly expand his political power

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Will all 27 of them be Shane Guidry?

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Landry is also calling for a Constitutional Convention where he has the sole authority to appoint all 27 non-legislative delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Yeah, no authoritarian overreach there.

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And he wants the whole thing done in 2 weeks. Yikes!

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Honest question: what bad/DEI/woke things has Tate done while here?

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I understood the fear of dei when Tate came in but what has he done bad

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How quickly you forget the special sessions earlier this year - specifically the special session on crime. That was a slam dunk for Landry. I think something like all 22 bills passed - not just the concealed carry. Hate him all you want but they got some good things changed with respect to crime.

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It was a mixed bag. There were some unquestionably good bills. More time for rape victims to bring additional evidence for example. He is also giving state police a raise and expanding crime lab capacity (though John Bel started that). The agreement with the NO DA could also be productive.

But eliminating parole and good time? That's the kind of symbolic political "tough on crime" virtual signaling that does nothing about crime and just cost more money.

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And the current REP guv is trying to reverse all that BS, and the weak arse commie libs are crying Stahp! Dont! Hitler!

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This is spot on what I would expect from a Landry supporter trying to defend him.

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Hate him all you want but they got some good things changed with respect to crime.

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The changes made during the crime session are all changes that will cost the state more money than what is being spent right now, with likely little to no return as it relates to public safety. It was also completely irresponsible, from a dollars and cents state budget perspective, especially when the state is projected to head to a fiscal cliff next year with the 0.45% sales tax set to expire.

Louisiana (before the crime session) had close to the highest rate of per capita incarceration relative to its population than any state within the United States. Removing parole and limiting the amount of time that inmates can earn credit for good time is only going to keep them in prison longer and require the state to expend more money on keeping inmates housed and fed, with medical care, for a longer period of time.

The crime rate is likely not going to go down, either. Louisiana has a high number of people who are either poor or working poor. You want to fix crime? Fix poverty.

The people who were in favor of this bill (like the Sheriff's Association) are people who depend on getting money from the state for each warm body that is in their local jail. Imprisoning people is a cottage industry, especially in a lot of the rural parishes in the state. Disincentivize the money shifted by the state to local jails, and then placing people in prison for longer periods of time won't be as attractive.