Louisiana Senate District 22 Update

State Representative Blake Miguez (R-New Iberia) of District 49, who will officially announce his candidacy for Senate District 22 on March 17th, has reported $453,023 on hand as of December 30, 2022. The report shows Miguez received an average contribution of $593 from 426 donors, with 200 of those contributions being $100 or less. State Senator Fred Mills will be vacating the seat due to term limits.

Candidate Hugh Andre (R-Youngsville), reported $159,803 on hand for the same period with 154 donors averaging $967 per contribution.

Video Surfaces of Mayor LaToya Cantrell Flipping Off a Float in NOLA Mardi Gras

Need more proof on whether or not you need to sign the petition to recall New Orleans Mayor, LaToya Cantrell? Well, here is is.

Video surfaced of Cantrell flipping off a float in the Krewe of Tucks parade.

.@mayorcantrell 🖕 flipping off a 🧻 Tucks float. I do not know what preceding events occurred to make her do that, but Damm. This video was sent anonymously.

💢 Reposted from ig@i.am.nola.af#NewOrleans #NeutralNews #NOLA #MardiGras #LaToyaCantrell pic.twitter.com/aeQzGXM7yN

— 🄽🄾🄻🄰 ⚜️ 🄽🄴🅄🅆🅂 (@NGN504) February 19, 2023

Former State Sen. Troy Hebert, Democrat Susan East Nelson, Joins Talk Radio Host Jim Engster

Photo source: Ballotpedia

Former State Sen. Troy Hebert, Jeanerette, joined Jim Engster on his statewide radio show this morning to discuss his run in 2007 against current Louisiana Attorney General and candidate for Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry.

Source: Troy Hebert, Susan East Nelson, Jim Engster

Opinion: Keep the Credit Card Competition Act far from the Senate floor

At the end of last year, Congress came together to pass the 2023 omnibus spending bill. It included funding for 105 New Hampshire-specific projects like our food banks, our public libraries, and our local emergency services.

Additionally, the billions in funding for housing assistance, nutrition access, childcare, and help with utility bills are a lifeline for folks struggling to keep up with inflation.

But sometimes what stays out of a bill is almost as important as what winds up in it. Some members were pushing to add the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), which would have been disastrous for small businesses, their customers, and the local banks and credit unions that serve our communities.

Read more: Opinion: Keep the Credit Card Competition Act far from the Senate floor

LSU professor: Louisiana’s industrial emissions are an economic carbon capture opportunity

Photo source: h2thefuture.org

Carbon capture represents a significant economic opportunity for Louisiana, in part because the state already emits so much carbon dioxide, an LSU chemical engineering professor said Thursday.

“There’s a lot of byproduct CO2 that we just emit right now that if you had a way to sequester it here in Louisiana, it’s a pretty good situation economically,” said John Flake, the former chair of LSU’s chemical engineering department and a researcher with the H2theFuture “green” hydrogen initiative spearheaded by GNO Inc.

Flake made his remarks during a keynote presentation at TEC Next, a Baton Rouge industry technology and networking conference. The two-day event is hosted by the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and sponsored by ExxonMobil.

Read more: LSU professor: Louisiana’s industrial emissions are an economic carbon capture opportunity

Sen. Kennedy on Briefing of Those "Objects"

NEW: Sen. John Kennedy says the U.S. government "can't find the remnants" of the objects that were recently shot down.

"They're lost. They can't find them. The remnants are in very difficult terrain. ... They're looking, but they haven't been able to find them." pic.twitter.com/Bamj5YMEPL

— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) February 14, 2023

💥 Sen. John Kennedy on the Senate’s briefing

“This has been going on for a long time… & we don’t know what most of them are”

“The President & the DNI… need to explain… what these things are, who put them up there & do they pose a threat”

h/t @HighPeaks77#ufotwitter #ufo pic.twitter.com/cGXLy4CPMC

— UAP James (@UAPJames) February 14, 2023

Firehouse BBQ is suing governor for damages

In 2020 Governor John Bel Edwards issued his emergency rules through the Department of Health, mandating folks wear masks indoors. Firehouse BBQ went toe-to-toe with the governor’s office over the masks and capacity limits, which held up in court after a judge let the business stay open. Fast-forward two and a half years later and the fight doesn’t end there.

“So, that’s what we’re trying to do. You know, get some kind of accountability to what happens in an emergency situation. Showing them, hey you can’t shut people’s businesses down, you can’t damage the public in this way. You have to have some kind of limits to it,” said the owner, Danielle Bunch.

Read more: Firehouse BBQ is suing governor for damages

Marjorie Taylor Green Scorches Twitter Execs in Oversight Committee Hearing

WATCH: MTG goes scorched earth on Twitter execs for keeping child porn on their platform

She also shreds Yoel Roth for saying minors should have access to Grindr pic.twitter.com/hXlJxiynuJ

— Clayton Keirns (@CKeirns) February 8, 2023

LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE: Protect ALL Babies: Every Life is Valuable!

Join us for our Lighting the Way in a Post-Roe Louisiana Webinar series!

Our fourth Lighting the Way in a Post-Roe Louisiana webinar is coming up on Tuesday, January 24th at 7PM! We will be diving into discussion with personal testimonies about the currently most argued circumstances that society seeks to justify abortion: Situations in which a baby receives a "medically futile" diagnosis, and when a baby is conceived after sexual assault. Even in these sometimes difficult and also horrendous situations, every life is valuable - we need to work as a society to provide support to mothers who endure these pregnancies, and we need to recognize the value of that innocent human child and protect their life.

Among others, Dustin Bertrand will be sharing his story of being conceived in rape and how he has come to understand the preciousness of his own life and the heroism of his mom. His life and his mom's life matters!

Right now, Louisiana legislation does not protect those who are "medically futile" and we seek to change this. Also, Louisiana legislation does protect those conceived in rape but pro-abortion advocates and some of our legislators want to roll back this protection. Join us for a deeper discussion and learn what you can do!

Stay tuned and check back on ProLifeLouisiana.org/postroewebinars for information on the series.

Read more: Lighting the Way in a Post-Roe Louisiana Webinar

Lafayette Parish President Josh Guillory on Support for Rep. Beau Beaullieu

Chairman Gurvich Responds to Biden's State of the Union Speech

BATON ROUGE, LA— Finish the job? Really? What a bizarre slogan for Joe Biden to use in his State of the Union speech last night. Irony seems to be a word with which Joe Biden is not familiar, but then there are quite a few words in the English language with which Joe Biden is not familiar.

Before moving on to briefly note the political lies, distortions,  and inaccuracies contained within his speech, allow me to conclude my personal attack on this most immoral and corrupt of all presidents, by noting that Joe Biden stole the slogan “finish the job” from one of the most important speeches ever given by Winston Churchill, in the darkest days of 1942. But then plagiarism is nothing new for this president, who has spent an entire career stealing bits and pieces of speeches given by earlier American and British politicians.

As for the content of the speech itself, we cannot accuse Joe Biden of hiding his misstatements and lies within it, because the entire speech is one long and ugly diatribe against truth and common sense. For the sake of brevity (and because so many other commentators have already demolished Joe Biden’s claims), his arguments for the success of his woke, wasteful, and tyrannical regime seem to focus on the logical fallacy that because things are not going as badly and as quickly as they were six months ago, Joe Biden’s presidency has been a great success.

To take credit for these “successes,” all one has to do is ignore the fact that under Donald Trump’s presidency prices were stable and your dollars were worth about fifteen percent more than they are today; wokeness and its bitter fruit were not official administration policy; the world was a much safer place in which to live, especially for the women of Afghanistan.

So prices keep rising and the cost of living keeps going up, as our children are subjected to Marxist claptrap in schools and the media incites race hatred among our people. Meanwhile, we are told to be ashamed of our country as millions of illegal migrants pour across its borders. And for this we can thank Joe Biden!

If you haven’t seen Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ response to Biden’s awful SOTU speech, you can watch below. 

Louis Gurvich, Chairman
Republican Party of Louisiana

KENNEDY: Biden's Record is "Spectacularly Awful"

Tonight, Pres. Biden is going to tell Americans about his record—which is spectacularly awful. #SOTU pic.twitter.com/kU5JcYixSA

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) February 8, 2023

Rep. Clay Higgins Sums Up SOTU Address in One Tweet

Biden’s SOTU message…

Raise taxes. Ban guns. Kill babies. Open borders. Grant amnesty. End Oil&Gas. Socialize healthcare. Grow government.

— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) February 8, 2023

AG Landry releases ‘Protecting Innocence’ report on sexually explicit content in public libraries

BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - On Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, Attorney General Jeff Landry released his office’s “Protecting Innocence” report, detailing their findings of sexually explicit content in Louisiana’s public libraries and suggesting how libraries can address concerns and solutions to the ongoing debate.

“This is not a political issue,” said Landry. “This is about giving parents and officials the tools they requested to protect Louisiana’s children from sexually explicit material that is inappropriate for their age.”

The report comes on the heels of a contentious debate over sexual materials in public libraries statewide.

Read more: AG Landry releases ‘Protecting Innocence’ report on sexually explicit content in public libraries

Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine: Blake Miguez The Sharpshooter in Five Parts

LMOGA: ExxonMobil, EnLink & CF Industries Announce Historic Partnership for Vermilion Parish

CF Industries has entered into the largest-of-its-kind commercial agreement with ExxonMobil to capture and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions annually from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana. 

CF Industries is investing $200 million to build a CO2 dehydration and compression unit at its Donaldsonville, Louisiana, facility to capture CO2 to be transported and stored by ExxonMobil in secure geologic storage the company owns in Vermilion Parish. 

The 2 million metric tons of emissions captured annually will be equivalent to replacing approximately 700,000 gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles.

Read more: A small community with a big role

Sen. John Kennedy Stumps Judicial Nominee in Judiciary Committee Meeting

JUDICIARY: At yesterday's Senate Judiciary Cmte hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren, Pres. Biden's nominee to be US District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, what Articles 2 and 5 of the Constitution do, but she was unable to do so. pic.twitter.com/VqgQDsKmmg

— Forbes (@Forbes) January 26, 2023

LADEMOS Chair to "Hear Concerns and Answer Questions" About Potential Run for Governor

.@LaDemos chair Katie Bernhardt, facing criticism for promoting herself as a potential candidate for governor, sent this out to party members, saying they're setting up a call to "hear concerns and answer questions" #lagov pic.twitter.com/fsOIE1Ry7u

— Sam Karlin (@samkarlin) January 25, 2023

JINDAL: Preserving Access to Rural Cardiac Care

Americans living in small rural communities take great pride in their hometowns. When it comes to their health care, America's 46 million rural residents want access to basic care within their own communities. Inflation, poor fiscal performance, and a lack of political leadership threaten that access. More than 500 U.S. hospitals are now at risk for closure, impeding access to care in many of these towns. The Biden administration's latest effort to save these hospitals forgoes a comprehensive strategy for a superficial solution that will result in less local care and worse outcomes for many communities.

On January 1, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule went into effect that allows a critical access hospital to convert to a "rural emergency hospital"—a new designation, defined as a facility which provides emergency and outpatient care, but must forgo inpatient care services and transfer patients within 24 hours to another hospital. This "catch-22" situation risks timely emergency services for rural patients and absolves state and local officials from fighting to preserve access to life-saving medical care.

Saving critical access hospitals that rural Americans depend on for time-sensitive cardiac or stroke care is key to keeping local economies strong and reducing the burden on overflowing metropolitan hospitals. Washington bureaucrats have yet to propose a comprehensive strategy to work with state and local leaders to engage with physicians to solve this problem.

Read more: Preserving Access to Rural Cardiac Care | Opinion

Walter Campbell Announces his Candidacy for Lafayette Parish Assessor

For Immediate Release

January 25, 2023- Lafayette, LA

Long time Lafayette Parish realtor, Walter Campbell announces his candidacy for Lafayette Parish Assessor.

Walter Campbell, a resident of Lafayette, is a husband of 30 years, father of two, business owner, and community leader. As a REALTOR for nearly 25 years, he has developed extraordinary skills in leadership, sales, marketing, technology, communication, and a desire to help others achieve their aspirations.

He has been active in leadership on the local and State REALTOR® Boards and participates regularly in various non-profit organizations including Lafayette Habitat for Humanity, Kiwanis of Acadiana, Boy Scouts of America, and most recently asked to serve with the Salvation Army Board of Directors.

Walter is a graduate of USL (1992) and is also a military veteran (1986- 1992), a life long Republican, and prides himself as a supporter of UL Lafayette, LSU, and the New Orleans Saints. In his spare time, Walter enjoys family time with his two grandchildren, fishing, and staying healthy.

Water Campbell is running for Assessor of Lafayette Parish to bring transparency and fairness. Additionally, Campbell will add cutting edge technology for easier public access to filings and records within the Assessor's office.

Campbell states, “People work hard, pay taxes, and expect government services and departments to get it right the first time. However, that does not always happen. I plan on bringing my decades of leadership experience to make sure the Assessor’s office is streamlined and is equipped to provide accurate and fair assessments to the citizens of Lafayette Parish.”