Landry, Republicans don't hide how little they think of Louisiana voters

[RandySF]

Blame George Soros.

That was the message from Gov. Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Republican Party before and after Saturday’s election that saw voters resoundingly reject four constitutional amendments. In their eyes, the Hungarian-born billionaire who conservatives bash for all things left-leaning was also responsible for their failed referendum.

Sure, if you want to connect the faint dots, a Soros organization did make a substantial donation in 2023 to an offshoot of one of the groups in a coalition that opposed the amendments. But there’s no way of knowing if that money from two years ago was spent on this Louisiana election.

The results were particularly disappointing to Landry, who spent much of his time over the past month on the chamber of commerce luncheon circuit campaigning for Amendment 2. Among the many things the convoluted proposal would have done is substantially reconfigure the state’s tax and budget laws.

Boiled down from 115 pages to fit on an election ballot, the overwhelming consensus was Amendment 2 was too much for voters to digest.





https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/31/landry-voters/

[Midnight Writer]

1. Perhaps instead of chamber of commerce luncheons, he should have made his case to the voters

I think common folk are fed up with laws being written behind closed doors by lobbyists and business interests, while working class folks are shut out and their interests marginalized.