‘A Smashingly Successful Legislative Session in Louisiana!’

 

Louisiana’s finest swamp-scented commentator Hosshead Jacques is back with a review of the 2025 Session of the Louisiana Legislature:

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Folks, I’m a-tremblin’ all over.  Only a born fool would be disappointed in what we’ve gotten from our august lawmakers this season.

Firstly, I’m as proud as a possum that I can personally contribute to the strengthening of Looziana’s economy just by breathing.  The carbon dioxide that I exhale will help fuel the rising industry of carbon capture and sequestration that the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee made sure would face no hurdles a’tall.  In fact, as I reenact the killing of the bills against our lovely carbon capture scam, I mean scheme (pardon me, folks, slip o’ the tongue!), by those Committee members, I can almost see the dollar bills floatin’ down from the heavens above like manna and coverin’ our beloved Bayou State:

HB 4 to allow parishes to vote to allow carbon capture and storage:  NO!

HB 353 to require safety measures are followed for carbon capture projects:  NO!

HB 522 to impose a temporary moratorium on carbon capture projects:  NO!

What a thrill y’all!  And that’s just a fraction of what I can recount whenever I want to pump some more money-makin’ CO2 into the atmosphere.  The best part of it is that you all can join me in this ritual, too!  So get to breathin’ folks, and do it with a smile, knowin’ that it makes a ginormous difference for the income of our State.

But folks, but folks!  We got to be real careful, now.  With all this new money flowin’ into the State like the Mighty Mississipp, we got to watch how we spend it.  We can’t afford to waste it on any unproven programs.  That’s why we’re so proud of Senate President Cameron Henry for slashing the funding for Looziana’s school choice program:

‘While the House kept Landry’s originally proposed $93 million budget for the program intact, Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, has said that he plans only to fund $50 million. Even with a budget of $93 million, only one-third of voucher applicants would secure a scholarship.

‘Critics point out that by not funding those students through LA GATOR, they will have to be funded by their public schools.

‘Further, “dropping down to $50 million means only current voucher students will qualify,” Daniel Erspamer of the Pelican Institute told The Center Square. “Some voucher students are about to graduate, and this would mean no new students entering kindergarten, which would have happened” in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.’

Pfff!  Erspamer, what’s he know?  He runs one of them think tanks, like those big metal contraptions driving around on their treads can think a thought.

Who knows how bad things would go in this State if parents had more control over their chilren’s larnin’ than those pretty little bureaucrats settin’ in Baton Rouge?

We seen how well our intrepid desk-riders have managed the insurance problems we’ve all been facin’.  Let’s count them blessins:

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/06/garlington-a-smashingly-successful-legislative-session-in-louisiana/.

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Hosshead would like to thank the following web sites for providing material for his review:

https://mailchi.mp/3d87bcd48b3f/concarryraffle-16940631

https://thehayride.com/2025/05/dozens-of-advocates-urge-senators-to-maintain-la-gator-funding/

https://make-la-insurance-affordable.com/cost-of-claims/

https://www.nola.com/opinions/quin_hillyer/louisiana-tort-lawsuit-insurance-landry-tim-temple-pelican/article_a1f2165e-34f5-4cb0-a407-a4f40160cf90.html

https://1033thegoat.com/louisiana-window-tint-laws-2025/

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Anathema to the Union!