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Does Louisiana have a super majority in the house and/or the senate?
Posted on 11/17/19 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/17/19 at 11:52 am
If so, can republicans do as we want regardless of JBE?
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Posted on 11/17/19 at 11:57 am to Hill Tiger
Republicans in La House and Senate are all out for themselves. Democrats and Republicans have been in charge and the state is going down hill.
Worst public education in the United States. Teachers Union sucks. Teachers do not teach. They have class and make the parents teach at home for 4 hours a night.
Reason I home school my kids. If I have to do 4 hours of their job I will do the whole thing screw them.
Worst public education in the United States. Teachers Union sucks. Teachers do not teach. They have class and make the parents teach at home for 4 hours a night.
Reason I home school my kids. If I have to do 4 hours of their job I will do the whole thing screw them.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 11:58 am to Hill Tiger
Good thread.... I'm guessing yes but not for sure. All they needed was 7 seats... If so how much of a lame duck will JBE actually be?
Posted on 11/17/19 at 12:00 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
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Reason I home school my kids. If I have to do 4 hours of their job I will do the whole thing screw them
Those of is that cannot make the schedule to home school end up paying double, once the the disaster public school is and again for private tuition.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 12:00 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
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Worst public education in the United States
Source?
Posted on 11/17/19 at 12:03 pm to Hill Tiger
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If so, can republicans do as we want regardless of JBE?
Problem with that is that John Bel has the line item veto. That has got to go!!!!!!
Posted on 11/17/19 at 12:37 pm to Hill Tiger
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Does Louisiana have a super majority in the house and/or the senate?
They had the senate even before the runoff.
I think they got the house too, but not 100% on that.
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If so, can republicans do as we want regardless of JBE?
No. They can stop any JBE bills like minimum wage. And they can pass any bill that requires a majority.
But getting unanimity for the 2/3 can be tough. There wil always be a few republican's whose constituents won't like whatever the bill is being pushed. Herding that many cats is freakin' tough.
Maybe a few vetoes are overridden. Would be nice to see, but might be on mostly meaningless symbolic stuff.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 12:49 pm to 4cubbies
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Worst public education in the United States
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Source
Well that's what everybody says so it must be true. Realistically 48, 49 or 50, it is bad.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 2:00 pm to Hill Tiger
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If so, can republicans do as we want regardless of JBE?
If they have the balls. The Governor appoints the Speaker of the State's House. The Speaker then assigns Reps to committees. I don't know if the Governor can appoint a minority party member as a Speaker but regardless of that a Governor is going to appoint someone who will be as agreeable with what they want to do as possible. The state's GOP members of the House need to be of one mind and will, willing to use a veto to override when necessary.
They won't though. They'll be worried about being removed from committee assignments or having their legislation blocked.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 2:15 pm to Bard
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The Governor appoints the Speaker of the State's House.
Not accurate. JBE wanted Walt Leger, a fellow Dem in 2016 as Speaker. Speaker is decided by vote of the full House.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 2:17 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
"Throw me something Mister!"
Posted on 11/17/19 at 2:39 pm to Hill Tiger
I think republicans are one house member away...
Posted on 11/17/19 at 3:15 pm to Bard
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The Governor appoints the Speaker of the State's House.
He gets to recommend someone but it is not like appointing a judge or anything like that. The state house does not have to approve him and the governor is not the only that gets to make nominations. Did you people forget 2016?
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Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards lost his first skirmish with the Republican-dominated Louisiana Legislature when his personal choice for speaker of the Louisiana House was defeated in a rare contested election.
A last-minute candidate, New Iberia Rep. Taylor Barras, a former Democrat who turned Republican in 2011, sneaked through the two partisan candidates who had battled for the top legislative job since the election.
Just like in 2016, JBE will recommend a Speaker and the house republicans will say thank you but no thank you and then pick their own speaker.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 3:19 pm to WeeWee
Senate is veto proof, House came up 1 short with loss in the Plaquemines/Orleans/Jefferson seat.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 3:23 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
He posters on this board seem to have the lousiest luck with teachers ( or they’re pre-disposed to denigrate them). There are some very good, dedicated teachers working these days.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 3:42 pm to chalmetteowl
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I think republicans are one house member away...
The republicans have a supermajority in the state senate but they are two votes short in the state house. However, there are two independents in the state house, Joe Marino who describes himself as a fiscal conservative but social liberal, and Roy Adams who I can't find anything about online except that he is opposed to budget cuts that hurt his rural district.
Having a supermajority in the state legislature would have been great, but the main thing is that the republicans that are in the legislature now are A LOT more conservative than they used to be. Louisiana Committee for a Conservative Majority (a super PAC founded by Jeff Landry and John Kennedy) got most of those republicans elected and that is not going to be good for JBE who had a hard time working with the last legislature which was made up mostly of RINOs.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 4:46 pm to WeeWee
JBE can sit in his office and do nothing and it will be better than his last 4 years
Posted on 11/17/19 at 6:43 pm to WeeWee
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He gets to recommend someone but it is not like appointing a judge or anything like that. The state house does not have to approve him and the governor is not the only that gets to make nominations. Did you people forget 2016?
Doh!
Thanks.
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