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GOP secures all elected statewide offices in Louisiana, after Republican victories Saturday

Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.

The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015. In addition, the GOP holds a two-third supermajority in the House and Senate.

Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The results also mean Louisiana will have its first female attorney general and first woman elected as secretary of state.

Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.

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So now that democrats are no longer a problem, Louisiana is going to become a thriving bastion of freedom and unprecedented economic growth because of the laws and policies that republicans are going to implement to help everyone... right? Right??
- The dog has caught the car. Let's see what he does with it.
  
  Same as last time - undoing the budget surplus, massive tax giveaways to oil and gas, and shutting off the tap to anything that helps anyone who doesn't give campaign contributions. Last time, they closed all of our state hospitalsand laid off large swathes of the state work force, and bankrupted the state's employee insurance fund. This time, I am willing to bet they gut the emergency fund at the first opportunity.
  
  This will end well.
  
  chews on tailpipe
- Just look at the last thirty or so years in Texas for your answer.
  Everyone I know is miserable and sees no way out.
  
  Texas is one of the wealthier states with very good growth in wages and very attractive to business with their zero business tax strategy. Along with this is some of the best housing prices and population growth. They seem to have done pretty good in the last 30 years although they have sides that have not done so good.
- I mean, they already have the highest rate of inflation in the U.S…
- Is a possibility.
- Given they had around 35% turnout, it's more like they're getting the government they didn't vote for.
Imagine being as stupid as Louisiana lol
- Welp, Louisiana-stupid is now being added to my daily use. Thank you.
This article feels like it's trying to spin things into something less than Republicans restoring the hold they had in a state that has been predominantly Republican for a very, very long time.
- As someone who has lived in Louisiana for a long time , it used to be MUCH more balanced than it is now. We had democratic governers and state senators. It has inched further and further right over the past few decades, and they’ve run off anyone worth enough sense and money to get out of this shithole. The election results have been terrible this year and honestly I blame the Louisiana Democratic Party which seems to have either fallen apart or sabotaged our candidates this year by doing absolutely nothing and ceding control to the republicans. My friends and I all went and voted but there’s basically no uniting force in the Democratic Party here to even attempt to get the truth out anymore. Just hatred and stupidity running rampant now is what it feels like.
  
  The LA Democrat party leadership has been a lethal mix of inept and corrupt for a while now. I would argue John bel Edwards won in spite of rather than due to their assistance. There is a rumor floating around (not confirmed) that they hosted a fairly large fundraiser for Shawn Wilson (ostensibly to funnel whatever they raised into his ongoing gov campaign) and then just pocketed the money. Given that the former dem party chair Karen Carter Peterson just got sentenced to 22 months in fed prison (on the day of the primary no less) for helping herself to campaign money, that seems more plausible a story than it might otherwise. Seriously, who is going to throw their hat in the ring for ANY statewide office if that's the kind of support you can expect for your flagship candidate? And then you get to get your veto overridden by a repub supermajority ? Nah, way less stress to just stay in a lobbying job somewhere. Say what you want about Karl Rove and co, but the state level elections were where he and his cohort of repub strategists focused quite a bit of effort grooming candidates since the late 90s and it has continued to pay dividends for them.
  
  The Democratic party is an absolute mess here. They practically don't exist.
- Well yeah, GOP and corporate media policy is to always shift blame for the results of GOP policy to anyone else.
Step 1: Be the butthole of America (Outside of Florida)
Step 2: Go all in on the team that got you there and are very vocal about keeping you there
Step 3: ???
- Step 3: Choose fascism, because obviously, it's voting that got you into this mess. (/s)
  
  Don't laugh, I've heard this argument being made. "Why should I waste my time voting when the only candidates are all shitheads? Just go ahead and put whoever you want in office and quit wasting my time. It's not like it matters anyway."
Those who are able need to vote with thier feet.
- While you're not wrong, that's really going to suck for the folks who aren't able to leave.
  
  In fact, it will make it less likely that things will ever stop sucking for those who aren't able to leave.
  
  Suck worse than waiting for the next Katrina?
  
  No doubt. But at this point sacrifices must be made. The system doesn't allow for correction without it. Eventually, we can start a fund to help people leave. But in the mean time the state will lose representation as the population declines.
- I think they already did.
In case you had any doubt, abortion is also banned there.
- A ban on drag is coming very soon. And the whole "don't say gay in schools" thing. And writing slavery out of curriculums. And criminalizing trans operations. Oh, and gerrymandering.
  These are all things our legislative branch tried to pass that our democratic governor was able to keep at bay. We're about to turn into Florida.
Add to the list of states I'll never go to
Let me guess... they campaigned on fixing the socialism and the sheeple will continue to elect them because sheeple logic.
I live in TX. GOP has had control for about 30 years and always campaine on fixing the broken system created by the other side... its sad
So, cops are going to get exemptions from local property taxes? I'm not as upset about firefighters and EMS getting it but still... it'll be a good excuse in a couple of years, at most, to raise property taxes on those who can't afford to move to a better state.
- Literally making them landed gentry who are above the law.
Welp, guess I’ll never see Mardi Gras before New Orleans is swallowed by the sea.
So when do we march south again?
- Sherman shall rise again
This is exactly why it's Louisiana though.
Sounds like this was a test run of what is to come.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
(AP) — Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.
Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.
Louisiana’s gubernatorial election was decided in October when Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, won outright and avoided a runoff.
The Republican will take on the task of replacing Louisiana’s outdated voting machines, which don’t produce the paper ballots critical to ensuring accurate election results.
The lengthy and ongoing replacement process was thrust into the national spotlight after allegations of bid-rigging and when conspiracy theorists, who support Trump’s lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, inserted themselves into the conversation.
Saturday’s ballot also had four proposed constitutional amendments, including allowing local governing authorities to give an extra property tax exemption to first responders, which received voter approval.
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