Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.
The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015. In addition, the GOP holds a two-third supermajority in the House and Senate.
Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The results also mean Louisiana will have its first female attorney general and first woman elected as secretary of state.
Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.
Imagine being as stupid as Louisiana lol
Welp, Louisiana-stupid is now being added to my daily use. Thank you.
Step 1: Be the butthole of America (Outside of Florida)
Step 2: Go all in on the team that got you there and are very vocal about keeping you there
Step 3: ???
Step 3: Choose fascism, because obviously, it’s voting that got you into this mess. (/s)
Don’t laugh, I’ve heard this argument being made. “Why should I waste my time voting when the only candidates are all shitheads? Just go ahead and put whoever you want in office and quit wasting my time. It’s not like it matters anyway.”
I have, too. The problem is, that’s extremely lazy and privileged. It’s lazy, because the candidates aren’t identical; one is superior, even if only by a little. Progress happens incrementally, not all at once.
It’s privileged, because they can’t be bothered to do even the basic level of research to discover those differences. They’d rather paint both candidates with a broad brush, call it a day, and assume they’ll be able to go on with their life as before no matter who wins.
But these candidates, from the school board to the presidency, vote on laws and policies that affect their life every day. They choose projects to fund and judges to interpret the law. Our votes matter, because there’s an entire party spending an inordinate amount of effort trying to suppress the ability to vote.
If you meet someone like that, tell them they’re a privileged asshole for thinking that preventing theofascism is somebody else’s problem.
This article feels like it’s trying to spin things into something less than Republicans restoring the hold they had in a state that has been predominantly Republican for a very, very long time.
Well yeah, GOP and corporate media policy is to always shift blame for the results of GOP policy to anyone else.
I look forward to seeing the voter turn out and that 70% of the population didn’t vote because it’s hard, they don’t have time, yada yada yada, bitching begins after they see them strip the entire state of anything remotely good.
Edit: So close. 65% of the eligible voters sat on their ass. Enjoy the government you chose through your inaction.
In case you had any doubt, abortion is also banned there.
A ban on drag is coming very soon. And the whole “don’t say gay in schools” thing. And writing slavery out of curriculums. And criminalizing trans operations. Oh, and gerrymandering.
These are all things our legislative branch tried to pass that our democratic governor was able to keep at bay. We’re about to turn into Florida.
Add to the list of states I’ll never go to
So when do we march south again?
Sherman shall rise again
Let me guess… they campaigned on fixing the socialism and the sheeple will continue to elect them because sheeple logic.
I live in TX. GOP has had control for about 30 years and always campaine on fixing the broken system created by the other side… its sad
Welp, guess I’ll never see Mardi Gras before New Orleans is swallowed by the sea.
Sounds like this was a test run of what is to come.
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