Jeff Landry’s long-term strategy is becoming more and more apparent with each passing day of the 2024 legislative session.
By ramming through grooming courses for Louisiana public school students, mandating the posting of a single version of the Ten Commandments in each school classroom, stacking the State Ethics Board, gutting necessary social programs while committing untold millions to private school funding, and other similar legislation, it’s become obvious that he wants a gaggle of lawsuits filed against his administration. I mean, he’s begging for ’em; that must be his game plan.
It doesn’t matter to him if he loses; he’s void of any real political philosophy other than to stick his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
But by setting up a series of lawsuits, he has guaranteed members of the bar, attorneys in good standing, that the state money machine will keep pumping out financial payback for all the lawyers who contributed to his campaigns. Those barristers will be retained through the attorney general’s office (which he conveniently controls through his proxy, Liz Murrill) to defend his programs. It’s simple, really: an attorney contributes $5,000 or $10,000 – or more – to his campaign and receives cases from the state that may well enrich his office by as much as $100,000, or more – of taxpayer money. It’s a dandy return on investment.
It’s the circle of life in Louisiana politics.
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Landry reminds me of New York mayors Bloomberg, di Blasio and Adams.
He also increased the maximum billing rate for attorneys to bill the state to nearly twice the amount.
The thickness of his Teflon coating remains to be seen, but he seems to share with DJT strong support regardless of what he does.