We’ve generally taken it easy on Davante Lewis, the crypto-gay Green New Deal neocommunist public service commissioner elected in 2022, largely because most of what happens on the PSC is very much in the weeds and they’re a little like football referees – when the PSC does a good job with utility regulation nobody notices their work; it’s only when there are massive screwups that people pay attention.

An example: a couple of months ago, Chris Holton had a post here at the Hayride on a PSC vote which rejected a proposal to ban components from China and other hostile nations being installed into Louisiana’s power grid. There is rising concern that Chinese-made electronics plugged into our electric matrix could give a potential enemy an effective kill-switch of our grid, opening us up to blackmail or worse.

That post made an impact, as a pair of “No” votes on the proposal – Republican Craig Greene and Democrat Foster Campbell – switched their votes at the next PSC meeting amid an outcry from the public.

But Davante Lewis was unmoved. He voted for Chinese parts before the outcry, and he voted for them after.

He’s consistent, that’s for sure.

Lewis has also been a consistent supporter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the AOC/Squad crowd who are all for turning America into Venezuela. From a hagiographic piece on Lewis at The Nation a few weeks ago…

“We’ve seen success in pushing back against utilities, making them have to answer [to their customers], not just their shareholders. We are starting to see the cracks of progress,” Lewis stated.

He’s involved with a community staple, New Orleans DSA, where he was the keynote speaker at its convention in June. He talked about his position as an openly queer progressive in statewide elected office, a rarity in the South. He’s contributed to New Orleans DSA’s “Make Entergy Pay” campaign, which demands that Entergy cancel all residential bill debts dating back to the pandemic and ban residential power cutoffs, or residents will stop paying their bills.

“His work is intentionally helping the average person who has exorbitant electric fees…making our public services better for everyone,” said Aspen Williams, a member of the New Orleans chapter.

Moving forward, Lewis looks to continue investing in a cleaner, more efficient future for Louisianians. For example, he’s pushing for better net-metering guidelines, ensuring constituents are adequately compensated for installing solar panels on their homes, and he’s spoken to the US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on investments in renewable energy via the Inflation Reduction Act. Each will reduce energy costs for customers and provide better, cleaner energy to the energy grid.

Beyond his actions for climate justice, Lewis has used his platform as commissioner to advocate for social justice in Louisiana. His lawsuit against the state highlighted the racist redistricting efforts from Republicans, and now a similar case has produced a positive Supreme Court decision in Alabama. On multiple occasions, he’s made impassioned pleas to Senate committees, asking them to protect Black voting power by creating two majority-Black districts and protect the rights of queer citizens.

“I came here earlier this year pleading the same thing: see me because I’m Black, and this body said no…. In this session, you come back, and you’re attacking me again. So, when I say it’s hateful, that’s what I mean, because your words don’t matter,” said Lewis during the June 1 Senate Education Committee session discussing Horton’s Don’t Say Gay bill. “Recognize that you see me, and you hear me, and that you won’t use policy as a violence tool, as it has been used every step of the way in American history.”

This is progressive political power in motion: constant, relentless engagement and advocacy for the electorate, fighting against the exploits of wealthy corporations and the social injustices committed by the major political parties. “What [the people] expect me to do is never lose sight of them, never lose sight of what you’re fighting for,” Lewis said. This power doesn’t have to just exist in New Orleans or be pursued in St. Tammany Parish; intersectional justice can be brought to all corners of the state.

But it turns out that the DSA isn’t just about trying to make enemies of the utility companies while demanding they force us to subsist on what electricity wind and solar power can produce. The DSA is allied with Hamas, even when Hamas starts wars with Israel…

https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/1710778425303081288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1710778425303081288%7Ctwgr%5E133de390ef9adc7b3b451377a359cd825ecead89%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jns.org%2Fdemocratic-socialists-of-america-holds-pro-palestine-rally-in-new-york-city%2F

Thousands have taken to the streets in New York City in solidarity with Palestinian struggle!

🇵🇸 FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, #PALESTINE WILL BE FREE! pic.twitter.com/6AIC6R42z3

— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) October 8, 2023

The New York Post was less than impressed with that spectacle..,

Hamas terrorists fired rockets into towns, shot at civilians from paragliders, and kidnapped women and children from their homes. Grandmothers at gunpoint, loaded onto golf carts, to be held hostage or killed by twisted, depraved thugs — supported by soulless New York City progressives.

Yes, in Times Square on Sunday, the Democratic Socialists of America will host an “All Out for Palestine” rally. Wear a mask so you’re not recognized, the organizers say. Best to just let the swastikas do the talking.

“Never mind the hundreds of Israeli civilians and children who have been murdered, wounded, abducted, and terrorized. Their lives mean nothing to the DSA. Nothing,” Congressman Ritchie Torres rightly wrote Saturday. “The NYC-DSA is revealing itself for what it truly is: an antisemitic stain on the soul of America’s largest city.”

The DSA is the party of Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Rashida Talib — and oh yes, New York’s very own Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal “Fire Alarm” Bowman. They are quick to lecture about “extremism” in America. What do they say about this?

Well, already Omar has called for a “deescalation and ceasefire,” meaning that Israel should just accept that 600 — and likely more — of their people were brutally murdered. War crimes should be accepted, because hey, they’re Palestinians.

“Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we’ve seen, which we cannot allow to continue,” Omar wrote.

But this ISN’T a “cycle” of violence. This is one group of people — Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah — intent on Israel’s destruction.

So those are Davante Lewis’ people, and they’re in the streets supporting a bunch of terrorists and murderers who have been soaking up aid money for decades and spending it not on building a civil society in Gaza but in buying guns and rockets to launch yet another bloody war on the Israelis.

Because the Palestinians are “oppressed.” Forget about the fact it’s Hamas who’s doing the oppressing. Did you know that all of the water, power and telecommunications infrastructure in Gaza is all supplied by Israel? That’s a bit of a curious fact – and potentially inconvenient for Davante Lewis as a member of both the regulatory body handling most of those services in Louisiana and a key source of moral support for the terrorists who have started this war.

We call Lewis “crypto-gay” not just to make fun of him, but to point out something fundamental about his politics. He didn’t say one word about how he was queer when he ran against Lambert Boissiere last year. He ran on electric rates and demonizing the utility companies for them, and with a mountain of money coming in from the Soros crowd backing his play, it was enough to swamp the lazy and complacent incumbent.

But then as soon as Lewis won – in fact, as soon as the race was called on election night – here came all the press releases touting the victory of Louisiana’s first “openly gay statewide official.” Which was news to a whole lot of people who’d just voted for him.

Maybe they would have voted for him anyway if they’d known what they were getting with Lewis being one of Dave Chappelle’s Alphabet People. It’s really nobody’s business but his who he sleeps with, which is why wearing his sexuality on his sleeve is so obnoxious now that he’s elected.

But his DSA membership is something else entirely. Lewis can’t claim that he was born that way; he chose to be part of that gang. And now that gang has thrown in – in as public a fashion as possible – with the world’s worst barbarians as they’ve rampaged through Israel’s civilian population.

So does Davante Lewis share their foreign policy views? Or is he going to repudiate his pals? We’re fascinated to know.