Louisiana Voice

It’s official.

It’s always been suspected but SB46 by Sen. Michael “Big Mike” Fesi (R-Houma) formally certified a handful of legislators who co-sponsored Fesi’s bill and our governor who signed it into law as nut cases.

And when the final votes were tallied, you can include 34 other state senators and 46 additional representatives as candidates for residency in the Hotel Silly.

While virtually every list places Louisiana near the bottom nationally in income, education, obesity, child poverty, teen pregnancy, environment and overall quality of life, 15 morons of mediocrity jumped on the bandwagon last year to sponsor a bill requiring the Department of Environmental Quality to track reports of (gasp!) contrails.

Fesi and his bill’s co-sponsors preferred to call them “chemtrails” when in reality, they’re contrails, or water vapor.

But Fesi, following the lead of Tennessee and a few other hysterical state legislatures, was certain we were being sprayed with chemicals, a conspiracy theory that scientists debunked long ago and far away.

But never mind. Fesi managed to convince fellow Sens. Heather Cloud (R-Turkey Creek) and Valarie Hodges (R-Denham Springs) and 12 representatives: Beryl Amedee (R-Houma), Michael Bayham, Jr. (R-Chalmette), Marcus Bryant (D-New Iberia), Kimberly Coates (R-Ponchatoula), Raymond Crews (R-Bossier City), Kellee Hennessee Dickerson (R-Denham Springs), Kathy Edmonston (R-Gonzales), Peter Egan (R-Covington), Dodie Horton (R-Haughton), Danny McCormick (R-Oil City),.

In the annals of comical acts by the Louisiana Legislature, SB46 has to be one of the most absurd, most asinine pieces of legislation to pass muster and to actually be signed into law (Act 95) by a crackpot governor in the state’s storied history.

It’s Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling come to fruition.

No one is poisoning us with chemicals and they aren’t chemtrails, they’re CONTRAILS, which are created when airplanes fly in cold and humid atmospheric conditions and ice crystals form around the exhaust particles emitted from the plane’s engines.

But that explanation obviously wasn’t good enough for Fesi, et al. He just had to rush to introduce his bill to save humanity—or at least those living within the borders of the Bayou State.

Even more disheartening is the fact that the full House gave its FINAL APPROVAL by a 58-33 vote with 14 having the good sense to go fishing and not even participate in the vote. The SENATE VOTE was even more lopsided, passing by a 35-0 vote with four of its members choosing not to vote. Thirty-five to zip, folks. They’re speaking gooney-babble in the Louisiana Legislature.

One would think with all the problems facing this state, there would be little time to dawdle over some hairbrained theory about harmless contrails—and be assured, harmless they are..

And one can’t even blame this whacko conspiracy theory on Donald Trump, though on the surface, it sounds like something he would embrace in a late-night message on Truth Social. Instead, his administration has actually PUBLISHED A WEB PAGE debunking the chemtrail conspiracy theory and attempting to explain exactly what those long white clouds are.

Perhaps our squeaky-toy governor should’ve checked with Trump before signing SB 46 into law.

But then it would be completely out of character for our state elected officials to take a logical approach to a perceived problem.