Supreme Court to hear Louisiana’s immigration suit against Biden Administration

This morning the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v Texas & Louisiana – a major case involving the Biden Administration’s refusal to deport criminal aliens.

“This case is about public safety; the law is clear, and the President should follow it,” said Attorney General Jeff Landry. “The Biden Administration does not get to pick and choose which dangerous criminal aliens they want to deport.”

Read more: Supreme Court to hear Louisiana’s immigration suit against Biden Administration

Posted on November 29, 2022 and filed under Jeff Landry.

ExxonMobil awards DU $500,000 for Louisiana Wetland Restoration

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ExxonMobil recently committed $500,000 to Ducks Unlimited (DU) to help support the Bayou Chene restoration project in Vermilion Parish.

“We are pleased to see this partnership renewed and elevated,” said DU Director of Development Bob Dew. “ExxonMobil and Ducks Unlimited share a significant interest in ensuring the coastal wetlands that make Louisiana an incredible place to live, work, and visit are here for generations to come. For example, ExxonMobil has supported conservation efforts at Sherburne and Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Areas, which are owned and managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.”

Read more: ExxonMobil awards DU $500,000 for Louisiana Wetland Restoration

Posted on November 29, 2022 and filed under Oil and Gas.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Republican Party of Louisiana

Friends,

The Republican Party of Louisiana would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and present a reminder of the damages done by the Biden Harris Administration to our dinner table this special day.

The price of a Thanksgiving meal is up over 20% from last year, and that’s after the price rose nearly 14% from 2020 to 2021.

The specifics per the survey:

  • Turkey is up 21%

  • Stuffing mix is up 69%

  • Frozen pie crusts are up 26%

  • Whipping cream is up 26%

  • Frozen peas are up 23%

  • Dinner rolls are up 22%

  • Miscellaneous ingredients are up 20%

  • Pumpkin pie mix is up 18%

  • Whole milk is up 16%

  • Sweet potatoes are up 11%

  • Carrots and celery are up 8%


Americans deserve a pardon from these high prices this holiday season, but with the Biden Harris Administration, we'll have no such luck.

Posted on November 24, 2022 and filed under LAGOP.

AG Landry to depose Dr. Anthony Fauci in COVID censorship case

“We all deserve to know how involved Dr. Fauci was in the censorship of the American people during the COVID pandemic; tomorrow, I hope to find out,” said Attorney General Landry on Tuesday. “And I will continue fighting for the truth as it relates to Big Government colluding with Big Tech to stifle free speech.”

“(Wednesday), along with my counterpart from Louisiana, my Office and I will depose Dr. Anthony Fauci in our lawsuit against the Biden Administration for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor freedom of speech,” said Attorney General Schmitt.  “Since we filed our landmark lawsuit, we have uncovered documents and discovery that show clear coordination between the Biden Administration and social media companies on censoring speech, but we’re not done yet. We plan to get answers on behalf of the American people. Stay tuned.”

Read more: AG Landry to depose Dr. Anthony Fauci in COVID censorship case

Posted on November 23, 2022 and filed under Coronavirus, Jeff Landry.

Influential State Senator Voices Support For Carbon Capture Storage Amid Statewide Debate

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In a recent edition of the Abbeville Meridional, Senate Natural Resources Chairman Sen. Bob Hensgens voiced his support for Carbon Capture as a way for the Energy Industry can continue their important job creating function. He highlighted this 250,000 worker strong sector has been critical to the development of Louisiana and how CCS can continue to grow the LA economy.

Read more: Influential State Senator Voices Support For Carbon Capture Storage Amid Statewide Debate

Posted on November 22, 2022 and filed under Louisiana, Oil and Gas.

UNITED IN VICTORY Republican Party of Louisiana Formally Endorses Jeff Landry for Governor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2022


BATON ROUGE, LA— The Republican Party of Louisiana today formally announced its endorsement of Jeff Landry for Governor. The announcement comes after a majority of the elected 230-person governing body of the party, the Republican State Central Committee, endorsed Landry’s candidacy and the Executive Committee approved the endorsement in a near unanimous vote.

"Jeff Landry is a strong leader ready to transform Louisiana. Jeff’s conservative vision for our state is one of job creation, better schools, safer streets, and raising expectations of state government,” LAGOP Chairman Louis Gurvich said. "The Republican Party of Louisiana proudly endorses Jeff Landry and urges all Louisiana Republicans to unite and support his candidacy.”

"When our party is united, we win, and our party is united behind Jeff Landry," stated Chairman Gurvich. “Our elected governing body sent a resounding message of support for Jeff by endorsing him in an impressive effort where a strong majority of our members spoke very clearly. We will flip the Governor's Mansion next year in Louisiana with Jeff Landry as our candidate," Gurvich said.

Gurvich also addressed recent media stories that incorrectly reported on the endorsement and got their facts wrong. “We know the liberal media is going to do everything they can to smear our party and attack Jeff Landry. Many of the reports on this endorsement were fake news that were based on leaks and bad information. This endorsement was the result of the majority of our two hundred plus elected members taking action and choosing to endorse Jeff. This process was covered by the media, and our members were sent numerous communications by those leading the endorsement effort. Others who are crying over this endorsement are just upset because they didn’t have the support within our party to win get the endorsement for themselves,” he said.

Jeff Landry expressed gratitude to the elected party leaders for trusting him to lead the Republican Party to victory.

"I have proven my commitment to our conservative principles, and my desire to bring people together to make our state a better place to live. As Governor, I will fight every day to make that a reality in Louisiana. Having the official endorsement of our party is a big deal, and it means we can combine forces and grow a campaign and party infrastructure across this state. We've watched our neighboring states thrive because conservatives were elected as Governor. United, our party will have that same success,” Attorney General Jeff Landry said.

The elected LAGOP State Central Committee has a long history of endorsing candidates via this process. This endorsement procedure has also been used to endorse previous candidates for US Senator, Congress and legislature. The party first created an endorsement procedure for statewide offices during the 1970's with the help of party elders like former Chairman William Nungesser who wisely wanted a framework for limiting the risk of having multiple Republican candidates seeking the same office and ultimately splitting their vote.

In 2015 and 2019, Democrats won the state’s highest office as the GOP fractured between candidates. Efforts to solve this dilemma by creating a closed primary election were strongly supported by party officials and many Republican legislators, but the Louisiana Legislature has failed to act.

The LAGOP is energized and will hit the ground running to help Republican candidates up and down the ticket in 2023. In the weeks and months to come, we will be opening LAGOP Victory offices across the state to provide resources to local Republican campaigns and volunteers.

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"So much is at stake in this next election. We saw the mess of the last two election cycles, where Republicans were divided and lost. The Republican Party is getting it right this time by rallying around Jeff's campaign. Committee members know we don't have time to wait for others to selfishly kick tires and float trial balloons. Jeff is the only person who’s shown the courage enter the race while others appeared to be waiting for the better deal. We need someone who is ready to go all in for our state."

-MISTI CORDELL
Member of the Republican State Central Committee


“I’m so glad our party is learning from its mistakes. We must be united to win, and Jeff Landry is the right candidate to unite behind. No one will outwork him, and no one has proven himself more to our party. The State Central Committee, the Chairman, and the Executive Committee deserve much credit for this decision.”

-WILLIAM P. MILLS, III
Former LAGOP Finance Chairman


“For decades, Republican volunteers have poured countless hours into winning elections. Unifying the party means we will spend time building momentum instead of wasting energy on nasty attacks that only benefit Democrats. Republicans are uniting behind Jeff Landry because they want to win and they want a strong conservative as Governor.”

-JESSIE MORTON, Former Chairwoman
Louisiana Federation of Republican Women

Posted on November 14, 2022 and filed under Jeff Landry, Louisiana.

HEALTH FREEDOM LOUISIANA: You Can't Sue Pharma and Our Children Pay the Price

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The following was written by the newest Health Freedom Louisiana team member, Katie Green.

Imagine, if you will, a company so powerful that it controlled all the other companies; an industry so dominating, it was at the helm of the hospitals, the schools, government, and the entire country’s healthcare system. Now imagine that same company could harm individuals without having to suffer even a single consequence. Envision the hospital your grandmother resides in or the school your 5 yr old son is applying to next year entirely protected from any form of accountability or liability.

The majority of Americans believe that the large companies, agencies, and systems that “serve” them are all independently run. They are blissfully unaware of the hard hitting fact that the industries who dominate our lives collude, partner, and intertwine intimately together in an incestuous relationship with the government to shape the everyday existence of our domain. The landscape in which the public interacts with day in and day out traces back to the path of big pharma and its never-ending dance with monetary incentive.

The pharmaceutical companies are personally responsible for the engineered belief that toxins are healthy, children are born broken, immune systems don’t exist, and illness needs to be prevented with a cocktail of physiological mayhem.

Read more: You Can't Sue Pharma and Our Children Pay the Price

Posted on November 14, 2022 and filed under Heathcare, Louisiana.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t Let Dems Push Last Minute Consumer Price Hike

Dear Editor,

With the recent midterm elections wrapping up and all eyes on the new Congress, it's easy to forget that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the rest of the Democrats in power still have a few months left to impose their agenda on the country.

Analysts in Washington have reported that we can all expect a big fight over an appropriations bill before the new group takes control. Most likely, this will be Biden's last shot to push legislation through a fully Dem-controlled Congress, so it's safe to say that anything put forth will include all kinds of Democrat pet projects.

For instance, a provision that Democrats have been trying to tag on to almost every bill for the past year is Sen. Dick Durbin's S.4674. This bill is a sweetheart deal for big corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and other small business killers.

It would impose price controls on the payment processing market and pass the cost on to average consumers by raising banking fees on checking accounts and other financial products that average Americans use daily.

This provision might cut costs for big corporations, but American small businesses and consumers would have to pick up the tab — just another bad example of corporate cronyism that we must oppose.

But don't just take it from me - The Hill reported earlier this fall that "the Durbin Amendment …generated benefits for large-box retailers, [but] imposed substantial net costs on the majority of consumers, especially those from lower-income households."

Not a great idea for a law at a time when low-income families are already struggling to make ends meet! We cannot let them slip this in at the end of the year.

Don't let these recent elections distract from the fact that Pelosi and Schumer are still in power. Tell your legislators to keep their feet to the fire and fight back against pork-filled spending bills. Just because the newly elected Congress may be more sensible with the legislation they promote does not mean we can take our eyes off the ball.

Oppose the Democrats' push to saddle us with Durbin's anti-small business, anti-consumer legislation (S.4674.) in the eleventh hour.

-DK Willard

Posted on November 11, 2022 and filed under Democrats.

Clay Higgins, confident after winning fourth term, has eye on Homeland Security chairmanship

In complete but unofficial results, Higgins took 64% of the nine-parish vote in his southwestern Louisiana district, which extends from the Atchafalaya to the Texas line. His Republican opponent, Holden Hoggatt, was second among eight candidates with 11%.

Higgins said he will become the senior Republican on the Homeland Security Committee and will be “focused and busy” in promoting a conservative agenda.

Read more: Clay Higgins, confident after winning fourth term, has eye on Homeland Security chairmanship

Posted on November 10, 2022 and filed under Clay Higgins.

GURVICH: Today Is Payback Day, So Get Out and Vote!

At last, after nearly two years of enduring disastrous economic, social, and foreign policies, the Great Day is here! The Biden administration and the ruling Democrats in Congress are about to have their comeuppance and we can begin the process of reclaiming our country from the most partisan, inept and dishonest government in American history.

Elected by an American public which had been assured by a complicit press that he would govern as a healing moderate, Joe Biden immediately turned the country over to the woke progressive wing of the Democrat Party. Predictably, the results have been an epic disaster.

Since his inauguration, the value of your dollars has declined by something over twelve percent. Now think about that- inflation has stolen away over twelve cents of every dollar you own. That’s why food and other necessities like housing and transportation have become so much more expensive. All because the Democrats feel that it is necessary to transform the government into a progressive (read ‘socialist’) society. Our economy will be flooded with the dollars from Biden’s multi-trillion dollar woke spending binge for years to come, and as a result it is going to cost you more to buy and to borrow the money to buy a house or a car.

Gasoline and other fuels merit their own special paragraph. Under President Trump, the United States was rapidly becoming self-sufficient in petrochemicals. The price of gas was under $2.00 per gallon, and we were selling more and more oil and natural gas on world markets. But woke progressives are on an ill-considered crusade against oil and gas, even though they emit far fewer pollutants than the coal and wood they have been replacing. First Joe prohibited oil leases on federal lands, and then he made it difficult to obtain the drilling permits. As a result, our oil production dropped precipitously and prices started going up rapidly. Vladimir Putin took notice and figured his position on the Eurasian continent was bulletproof. The Ukraine War followed within months.

Crime is way up, but then I guess it would be if you believe criminals are victims of society and you happen to be in charge of the government. That is precisely what woke progressives do believe, and that’s why they’ve released hundreds of thousands of dangerous criminal back on to our streets. The increased worries and concerns you have about your friends and family, and for your own personal safely, can be laid at the feet of this administration.

But there is so much more for which we must fault this administration. The attacks on your right to have a say in the education of your children is an insult to all Americans. We must also repair the damage to their education wrought by the prolonged school closures. We must face and reverse the continuing decline in moral standards and the left’s attempt to legitimize late-term abortion and even infanticide. The foreign humiliations and tragedies in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia must never be repeated, and the decline in American power in the world must be halted, or the outbreak of war in Europe will be but a harbinger of much worse to follow.

Truly, this is such a long list of failures for such a young administration, but that is precisely why today must begin the cultural, political, and economic counter-attack which will define the country in which we live for generations. Now go do your duty and vote if you have not already done so, and say a prayer along the way. Godspeed…


LOUIS GURVICH, Chairman
Republican Party of Louisiana

Posted on November 8, 2022 .

Exclusive—Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry: Divest from BlackRock Before It Divests You

There’s an old adage within the world of business that the consumer votes with their dollar, ultimately dictating which companies, and dare I say ideas, thrive or die.

Yet investment firm BlackRock has taken this to an entirely new level. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is actively using your hard-earned investment dollars to vote in support of his personal social justice warrior goals. Ironically, this is done in the name of “preserving democracy” while Fink actively circumvents the courts, legislatures, and will of the American people to not only dictate national policy from the board room but also change human behavior through a social credit score known as ESG.

Read more: Exclusive—Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry: Divest from BlackRock Before It Divests You

Posted on October 31, 2022 and filed under Jeff Landry.