Kudos to Senator John Kennedy for his excellent article in the August 14th edition of The Times-Picayune. Therein he made two excellent points: (1) that crime is ravaging our business community, and (2) progressive anti-cop and soft-on-crime policies are largely to blame. He also noted one particularly staggering fact: Louisiana, a middling size state, has three cities (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, & Shreveport), which rank within the top ten most violent cities in the nation!

Of course, we all know that Louisiana is a poor state, which under the near eight years of the John Bel Edwards’ administration lost population while its economy shrank and crime rapidly increased. The mismanagement of the economy and outright hostility to our petrochemical industry by the national Democrats only served to worsen an already catastrophic situation.

In its weakened condition, led by a leftist trial lawyer with little management experience, Louisiana was ill-prepared to deal with the crime problem morally and politically, while it lacked the personnel and physical resources to respond to the on-going crisis. And worst of all, our citizens, rich and poor, black and white, old and young, urban and rural, began losing hope.

But help is on the way. In the person of Jeff Landry, we will soon have a new governor who appreciates the urgency and severity of the crime problem, and has the personal experience to know how to fix it.  We will have a legislature which is willing to reverse the misguided laws passed in recent years which treated hardened criminals as victims, and an administration which will not countenance the early release of dangerous repeat offenders back onto our streets.

Working together with revitalized and reinvigorated police forces from around the state, our next governor and his administration will quickly move to reduce crime, and there is every reason to believe that substantial results can be achieved in short order.

With an ongoing reduction in crime, our businesses can return to the inner cities and again thrive, our citizens can again walk their own streets in safety, and our children can grow up in a normal world without being traumatized by the horrors now daily visited upon them. That will be be a future worth fighting for!

VOTE FOR JEFF LANDRY ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14TH. IT REALLY IS FOR A BETTER LOUISIANA.

LOUIS GURVICH, CHAIRMAN
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LOUISIANA