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Former New Orleans Representative Austin Badon, who’s been appointed by Governor Jeff Landry to serve as Assistant to the Commissioner of the Office of Motor Vehicles, switched political parties and said he’s one the state’s newest Black Republicans. When asked if Landry asked him to join the GOP…
“I’m a big boy, I can make my own decisions and I don’t need any influence from anybody else and he had no influence on me at all,” said Bandon.
But Badon said he did text Landry and let me know that he’d changed parties last week.
The driving factor to why he chose to leave the Democratic Party, Badon said, was the immigration issue at the Texas border.
“This whole migrant situation was basically driving me and it’s something that has been on my mind for many years,” said Badon.
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