The answer seems to be no. And nobody should be.

Mostly the Louisiana legislature failed to reflect the will of the state’s voters, though there were some important bills which did pass. Both the House and Senate passed HB 648, the pediatric sex-change bill, and sent it to Gov. John Bel Edwards’ desk.

But Edwards is going to veto that bill and a few others which passed the legislature, because the imposition of the queer agenda on even a red state like Louisiana must be ceaselessly laid on…

At a press conference on Thursday, Gov. Edwards compared the recent measures to historical opposition to the Civil Rights Movement.

“On those issues, the judgement of history … will be very clear. It will be as clear as the judgement of history has been on those who didn’t want civil rights in the ’50s.” Edwards said. “I’m not going to wait until then to say it’s wrong. My judgement today is those bills are wrong.”

Three major bills impacting the LGBTQ+ community have passed both chambers during the legislative session that started in April. According to NOLA.com, Edwards said he would veto these bills.

HB 466, known by its opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay,” bill was among them.

The bill includes restrictions on any talk of sexual orientation, gender identity or “pronouns,” with any student in kindergarten through 12th grade.

There’s also, HB 81, which mandates school employees, such as teachers, to use names and pronouns that match with the students’ birth certificate, unless parents give permission to do otherwise. Additionally, teachers can not be required to use certain pronouns if they have “religious or moral convictions,” which tell them not to do so.

Finally, HB 648, would ban healthcare professionals from providing hormone therapy or other gender affirming care for people under 18 years old.

According to NOLA.com, HB 648’s sponsor, Rep. Gabe Firment, R-Pollock, said he believes those under 18 are unable to make educated decisions on whether to receive that care.

So to some extent the session was a success in that it finally smoked out just how egregious a leftist John Bel Edwards is, and how fraudulent his presentation as a “conservative Democrat” was from the very beginning. He’s for child mutilation and grooming of seven-year-olds.

Edwards will issue his vetoes, there will be a demand for a veto override session, and our bet is that Edwards will threaten to use his line-item veto to strike all the projects from those who agree to show up for the overrides. With effective legislative leadership this would be an empty threat, because the same veto override session could override both the line-item vetoes and those of bills like HB 466 and HB 648. But Louisiana has no such legislative leadership; when Senate President Page Cortez and House Speaker Clay Schexnayder flex their muscles it’s to support Edwards, not stand against him.

We would be quite surprised if there is a veto override session. Schexnayder is running for Secretary of State, after all, and he wants to begin campaigning. Schexnayder issued an obnoxious demand that his colleagues give him $1,000 apiece for his campaign in a letter sent out a week or so ago; that’s an indication he’s happy to move on and declare, as he did of the failed probe of the Ronald Greene killing by the State Police that he initiated, “mission accomplished.” As for Cortez, we’re struggling to find a single example of independence from John Bel Edwards on the part of the Senate he runs; Cortez seems almost certain to throttle a veto override session, though perhaps 20 of his colleagues would disagree.

One would hope so. But on the other hand, the Senate’s disgrace in this session, particularly with respect to the budgetary bacchanal they set forth in devouring the great measure of Louisiana’s surplus and frittering it away on Edwards-friendly projects and grants, is complete. Perhaps the individual senators might find it more to their liking to go home and attempt to explain away their votes on the budget while touting money for a new bucket truck for the local fire department or a community center for all the Democrats in their districts to congregate in.

We need a massive sea change in Louisiana politics this fall and we need to demand a far, far higher standard.

The state’s budget passed with almost zero opposition on Thursday. This after the real battle, that over SCR 3, the Senate resolution which authorized the busting of the statutory spending caps and the orgy which ensued, was lost.

Only nine House members voted against the budget. They deserve credit for a principled vote after the battle had been utterly lost. They are…

• Beryl Amedee
• Raymond Crews
• Kathy Edmonston
• Larry Frieman
• Brett Geymann
• Sherman Mack
• Danny McCormick
• Rodney Schamerhorn
• Philip Tarver

Hilariously, the Legislature failed in the one project its leaders had demanded be fulfilled in this session – namely, giving teachers a pay raise. Mind you, this is a stupid idea – raising teacher pay in and of itself is potentially laudable, though an across-the-board raise is stupid and unjustified, as some teachers deserve a raise and others deserve to be fired, and who is the Louisiana legislature to determine which is which?

Nevertheless, teacher pay raises were set up as the primary mission of the session even despite more than two in three Louisianans disfavoring those raises as the primary use of the surplus. And yet SCR 2, the Senate resolution which would have changed the Minimum Foundation Program (MFP) funding formula to produce those pay hikes, was never even taken up in the House.

So the raises are in the budget, but they’re one-time raises. The Legislature is now asking the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to deem them recurring, which is the Legislature abdicating its job as the state’s budgetary authority.

That’s what an abject disaster Schexnayder and Cortez are. And that’s what an utter disaster this session was.

Think very, very hard before you vote for an incumbent legislator’s re-election. There are some good and worthy ones, but they’re not in the majority.