Gov. Landry at SWLA Chamber Event: State’s success the “greatest story yet to be told”

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The 20th annual Chamber Southwest Louisiana LegisGator Luncheon was hosted at L’Auberge Casino Resort on Friday. LegisGator is the largest legislative event in the state. Hosted each year to bring constituents, state and federal representatives together in the same room, the luncheon serves as an opportunity for lawmakers to update community members on state and federal actions directly.

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For Landry, LegisGator was an 18-month check-in. More than a year into his term. Louisiana has been gradually moving up the ranks in surveys, with the state jumping up in nationwide rankings, he said. This is in addition to statewide increases in job opportunities, new business interests and an impending industrial boom, he said.

Louisiana has reached a historic level of economic activity, Landry said. There is $70 billion in private investment planned throughout the state — from the $10 million AI data center being built in Richland Parish to the several carbon-capture projects that have been proposed in Louisiana.

Among that growth, he called Southwest Louisiana one of the “bright, shining spots” in Louisiana. With investments like the LNG Center of Excellence and the I-10-Calcasieu River Bridge Project, the region is keeping up with the state’s momentum. These steps taken towards a more diversified economy are thanks to “one of the most cohesive congressional delegations,” he said.

One of those delegates is Cassidy, who is finishing his second term as a U.S. Senator. Working to better the state and country is his “higher purpose,” he said.

“If I’m only living for myself, what’s the worth of living? But if I’m waking up and thinking about how do I work and win for the people of Louisiana and the people of the United States of America, I got a spring in my step.”

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Louisiana’s present is the “greatest story that no one in this state is writing about,” Landry said. “Over the past 18 months, we have actually been able to assemble that critical mass of people who want to put aside the selfish part of politics and are hell-bent on changing the state,” he said. “We are no longer the laughingstock of the South. Louisiana, for once in a lifetime, is poised to take its place as a leader in a new industrial South. And if you don’t believe me, just go look up Google.”

He urged residents to get “past the gaslighting that people like to do that divides us” and have “faith in those that we have elected to change the state.” “While we have waited, I want you to know, we don’t wait anymore.

Today, the world gets to see us as who we are. … As the people who get to share a culture of hard work and humility,” he said. “And whether they write this story today, or not, today we are living in the greatest story that has yet to be told.”

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