re: Further info that Jeff Landry is an absolute piece of shite

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I hate that I ever cast a vote for that pos

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This is kind of a going theme in Louisiana politics. No matter who the candidate is.

This phrase will follow every election.

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You wanted to keep out the Democrats at all costs. You have a Republican controlled Legislature and a Republican governor who got out his kneepads to kiss Trump's ring. Looks like you will now have to blame Republicans.

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Republicans have no problem blaming each other and working against each other. The biggest problem is that Democrats don't hold their own party accountable for dumb shite and stick together on the far left-wing shite! So, then we are blessed with a pendulum swing that elects idiots like Landry because he has an R by his name. When the country watches the trans agenda, Ukraine, the COVID response and open boarders take precedence over national security, trade inequality and improvements in the US instead of foreign countries, this is the result nation wide.

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nor did I. We had two excellent alternatives in Nelson and Waguespack…instead we got an empty

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Schroeder would have been better too. There was actually a great slate of GOP candidates, Landry not included.

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Under no circumstance will I ever vote for a democrat again.

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It's that attitude that has us in this position to begin with. I get it, but damn man we gotta do better.

Seabough is as much of an arrogant vindictive pos as Landry. Peas in a pod with huge egos with low intelligence.

So why do yall keep voting for these guys? The GOP in general? Killing yourself seems like a better option than voting for a moderate or democrat that will actually improve your life. In fact, everytime you do it, your life does get better. It’s actually facts.

From the outside, it’s re****** politics and arse backwards thinking.

You deserve everything you vote for.

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That is not in Landry’s defense, you just highlighted the entire problem. He vetoed the projects of legislators who did not vote the way he wanted. That overtly implies, fall in line next time and you get to keep your pork BS projects.

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Yeah for everyone applauding, here is a small sample of the kind of stuff that Landry didn’t veto:

$500k to Kenner for park improvements
$50k to Delhi for renovation of Cave Theater
$75k to Oak Grove for park improvements
$250k to Central for Greenwell Springs Park arena cover and improvements
$50k for “landscaping beautification” in Mandeville
$100k to YWCA of Baton Rouge
$300k to New Iberia for the Bayou Teche Museum
$35k to St. Amant Fire Department to purchase an ATV
$130k to Slidell for skate park and baseball association
$250k to Word of Truth New Life Center, Inc. for renovations and completion of a community center
$100k to some Masonic lodge for roof repairs
$200k to Ouachita Parish for park upgrades
$125k to Walker for park upgrades
$100k to Friends of the Welsh Museum, Inc. for renovations
$250k to YWCA of Baton Rouge for “community outreach”
$1.5 million to City of New Orleans for Carver Playground
$100k to The Rock of Christ Youth Center for improvements
$250k to Beauregard Parish for park restrooms
$125k to Desoto Parish for a covered arena at the 4-H center
$975k for the Wynn Parish fairgrounds pavilion

There’s a lot more of the same in the bill, this is just a small sample. I’m focusing on parks/recreation since that seems to be what people are calling out. However, several of the line item vetoes were actually infrastructure projects that make as much (or more) sense to fund at the state level than most of the stuff I listed here.

This is not Landry cutting pork. It’s Landry saying “get behind my (bad) policy if you want your pork approved.”

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“As long as the governor is going on turkey hunts and traveling to LSU baseball games on billboard lawyers’ private planes, the people of Louisiana will continue to pay outrageous insurance premiums while the governor continues to bully legislators and attack the Insurance Commissioner,” Seabaugh said in a statement

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He ain’t wrong. If you want to know what legislative measures might actually have a positive impact on the market, look at what gets vetoed. The rest is window dressing and feel good measures that Landry knows aren’t going to work, at least not in a major way. It’s why he keeps grandstanding and trying to make Temple the fall guy.

That's not the whole story, but you're just one of those that repeats the narrative. You know nothing on how it works. For every piece that goes thru, hundreds are flushed

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Ah yes, “my” life while everyone else’s life gets worse. Exactly where GOP thinking gets it wrong.

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Your exact quote was the people who vote for GOP candidates have those lives get worse. That is factually incorrect. Now you are moving the goalposts to say “well, maybe not your life, but others” - which is also factually incorrect in many instances.

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Millions of people individually voting for what’s best for them and not what’s best for their community. And falling for propaganda that suggests GOP legislation actually benefits more people than it actually does (it benefits a far fewer number, and most are stupidly right and most of those people AINT y’all or at least the general population).

“Who cares if I’m doing well if the my community is on fire” - Republican logic.

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Again, you don’t have the data to back up this assertion. If we just take the last decade at the federal level, the quality of life for nearly every demographic was better under Trump than it was under Biden. Now, granted, quality of life is a tough metric to define but from an economic perspective it holds true and it is really the only one that has any objective measurement.

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As if that fire, smoke and ash won’t creep into your neighborhood and slowly degrade your own life.

Do you enjoy living well amongst many others that aren’t doing well? The state is last in everything.

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The state has been last in everything regardless of what party is in control.


But I’ll be completely honest - and the last 300 years of western civilization show I am correct - when people vote and make decisions based on their best interest, society, as a whole, evolves to benefit the most. It will never be perfect and there will always be a percentage of those who suffer but it is an infantile mindset to argue that advancing civilization for the vast majority should be demonized because of the plight of the few.