In this, our next installment in analyzing this year’s Louisiana legislative races, House District 90 is up for your consideration as early voting is ongoing this week.

The race is between two viable candidates, incumbent Rep. “Casino Mary” DuBuisson and challenger Brian Glorioso. Rep. DuBuisson has made many missteps in her illustrious career, so many in fact that it has become clear she is not a reliable, conservative or even principled voter.

Just this year alone, she voted in favor of busting the spending cap to allow for the obnoxious spending orgy that ensued in the waning minutes of the legislature’s regular session—and adding insult to injury, she then voted to pass the spending orgy.

As an extra added slap to her conservative voters, she REVERSED her vote in the regular session in favor of Rep. Raymond Crews’ bill HB81 that would require parental notification before a school could change the name or pronouns of any student to anything other than the sex or name that was recorded on the child’s birth certificate.  In the veto override session, DuBuisson flip-flopped and voted AGAINST overturning soon to be ex-Governor John Bel Edwards’ veto of that bill.

DuBuisson voted against HB25 that gave St. Tammany Parish authority over woke library boards that put pornography in the library’s children sections, promoting the LBGT agenda. She also voted against HB466, a bill that would bar discussions by faculty of “gender identity” with young children in schools. When HB466 passed and was vetoed by Edwards, she again voted AGAINST overriding the veto.

These weren’t just run of the mill bills but were benchmarks on conservative separation of the wheat from the chaff. DuBuisson failed miserably.

As for the bills she offered herself this year, they do not inspire an understanding of the problems we face in Louisiana as we struggle with high crime rates, among the highest insurance rates in the nation, are the bottom of the country in education, and the highest of any state in the South in population fleeing the state. She offered two bills on cosmetology licensing, one bill that would allow for personal boating from sunset to sunrise, one that sought to define and redefine what is and is not an abortion (this would have weakened abortion law and was killed in committee) and one that required pet insurance transparency. These were the priorities of Mary DuBuisson this session.

In the past, “Casino Mary” brought the infamous bill to allow a casino to be built in St. Tammany Parish (HB461). This highly controversial proposal was shot down by voters in a referendum in 2021. It was clear from the outset that the people did not want the casino in Slidell. Lawsuits were filed, and millions of dollars were spent. It was a contentious and costly endeavor that was once again shot down by the voters of St. Tammany Parish. After voters rejected the casino, she voted in favor of allowing video gambling in Slidell without voter approval, which is costing money to try to block.

These and other concern led to Brian Glorioso stepping in to challenge DuBuisson for the seat. He has earned the endorsement of the LA Freedom Caucus PAC, which seeks to find conservative candidates who could pass the strict vetting process for invitations to join the LA Freedom Caucus. The LAGOP, along with the St. Tammany Parish GOP, have chosen to jettison incumbent DuBuisson to endorse challenger Glorioso.

With over twenty years of experience and licensed in the insurance industry, he is also an attorney representing both industry and individuals. Glorioso is a conservative looking to step in and offer real solutions to these devastating problems.

There is a new day dawning in Louisiana, and our new governor is going to need people with real world experience and a strong will to effect badly-needed change. It’s time to make that change in House District 90.