Louisiana's governor John Bel Edwards call for a special session of the state's legislature to face the problem of a severe short fall for fiscal year beginning July 1 ended in failure. The republican controlled House could not agree on what measures to take to deal with the short fall and so another special session will have to be called at a later date to deal with the same problem.
The republican controlled legislature has been broken since Bobby Jindal took office in 2008. Their lack of a plan or policy lies in the conservative ideology of extremism which prevents them from dealing in facts with facts. And the present situation of do nothing is being influenced by the republicans desire to defeat Edwards in the next election. U.S. Senator John Kennedy who is said to be thinking about opposing Edwards has stuck his nose in the states business. Too bad as he has been a failure at representing Louisiana in the U.S. Congress.
Governor Edwards has laid out a plan to bring Louisiana's fiscal house in balance and to seek a long term solution where future budget dealings would become more productive, reliable and lack the emergency of the last nine years that resulted in budget cuts that did nothing to correct the states real fiscal problems.
The people of Louisiana need to elect more democrats to the state legislature as a way to bring balance that is badly needed to that body. That is one answer that would help in the future.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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