October 25, 2023

In Southeastern Louisiana, in St. Tammany Parish (of the original ‘Florida Parishes’), Attorney General Jeff Landry just won by a landslide in the race for the incoming governor of Louisiana.

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Louisiana is, if you credit the MSM, considered one of the ‘worst’ states in the U.S., for just about anything but food. Yet, one can find extant, ‘diverse’ culture, personal freedom; there is also, in practice, widespread colorblindness — or at least indifference — to race in large areas of Louisiana, where the Democratic Party does not rule the roost.

St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana — on the ‘Northshore’ of Lake Pontchartrain — has flown under seven flags since its beginnings.  It is one of Louisiana’s largest parishes; heavily forested; naturally aqua-fed by ancient springs. The parish is named after a locally revered, Native American Indian early resident (‘Tammany’ the man wasn’t, per se, a ‘saint’ — that might be Louisiana humor).  The parish has ownership of a sophisticated, multinational, multiracial heritage with a predominant intermingling of vital Indigenous, European, and African culture.

Across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, we currently have a quite willful Democratic, Black, female mayor, increasingly at odds with her own city council, as petty civic scandals proliferate, crime skyrockets, insurance premiums for hurricane and flood coverage drive folk from their homes, urban infrastructure decays, and even the famous Creole, Cajun, and French cuisines suffer from way-inflated produce prices.

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Our current Democrat governor was very lockdown-friendly; he has by and large (excepting abortion) followed the Biden directives in almost every area despite running on a conservative platform. He is not popular anymore here, and not just with Republicans. He pushed the transgender sports thing beyond Louisiana’s moral capacity; he was then rebuked and reversed by the State Legislature. His COVID Year-2 overkill was also rebuked and reversed.  Louisiana generally does not like to be told what to do on matters of personal survival and morals: go figure.

Many came out early and late to vote for Landry; many ‘knew’ beforehand that he would win. Why? Jeff Landry has been and is, to this day, as Louisiana’s attorney general, a national leader for the rights of states; he’s challenging the state-hostile policies of the Biden administration. Landry, both by himself and in conjunction with AGs from other states, is putting himself out there: in areas critical to our rights, ethics, and economy.  

Here is Scott McKay on Landry’s win in political context:

“Moreover, Louisiana is a deeply red state with deeply blue-state problems owing to Longite government, and its cities are almost all blue and collapsing. This is a red state, but its politics often seems as though it’s what a blue state would look like if the big blue cities weren’t big. And that’s really the case — New Orleans’ population is much reduced from 30 or 40 years ago; Baton Rouge has been utterly stagnant for this entire century; Shreveport consistently is among the nation’s leaders in population loss. So the votes simply aren’t there for Democrats anymore — and even to the extent that they are, Democrat voters have largely given up.

And Landry ran an utterly flawless campaign, something national Republicans are quite incapable of doing.”

AG Landry had a hand in securing the passage of Louisiana’s benchmark Sovereignty Resolution  this past June: