A Pathetic Bunch

The front page story “State of Alarm” was not only a tragic example of the present pain and suffering of women in our state from inadequate prenatal care, but serves as yet another example of the failures of our esteemed Republican state legislators to improve the quality of life for the citizens of this state.

Sadly, instead they focus on whatever ‘hot topic’ is promoted nationally by extremists.  In the last legislative session, their main concerns were “protecting our children” from what they deemed unfit books in our public libraries, from unfair advantages in sports, and from transgender care for a minute population of our state.  They were in fact so obsessed with the last protection that they even called a special session to deal with it even though data shows that it is an inconsequential problem in this state.

And when it comes to “protecting the unborn,” they’re all about making sure none are aborted, but apparently couldn’t care less about how healthy that unborn child is.

In their decisions on how to spend all that extra money in the state’s coffer this year, our legislators chose allocating 30% of the state budget to 197 personal ‘pet projects’ for the particular parishes they represented.   Nearly a third of the total cash, 13.2 million, is going to the home parishes of House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, House Speaker Pro Tempore, Tanner Magee, House Appropriation Committee Chair, Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, and House Ways and Means Committee Chair, Stuart Bishop.

Meanwhile newborns continue to die at a rate “higher than the developed world,“ with no end in sight.

This trend could be stopped, but not with this pathetic bunch of legislators more interested in hot topic headlines rather than real improvement in the quality of life in our state. and let's not even talk about our esteemed A.G., Jeff Landry.