Dear friends:

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great Mardi Gras.


This will be a long email, mostly about the crime special session happening now, and the upcoming regular legislative session. It’s been tough. The House Democratic Caucus is doing all we can to push back, make a record, and represent our constituents. (TwitterFacebook) Our new Chair is Rep. Matt Willard from New Orleans.


Thursday March 7 from 5-7pm I’m having my annual meet and greet/fundraiser at Urban South Brewery. Kids always welcome. At 6pm I’m going to talk about what we’re expecting this year and take some questions. It would be great to see you in a calm setting after the craziness of last year!


My campaign account is on fumes after the last two years. I’d really appreciate if you’d help me to retire some debt and start to rebuildBecoming a monthly donor of any amount is a great way to help cover regular expenses (admin, accounting, interns, and the like).


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I appreciate all of you. Please reach out anytime. Remember we can usually help out with state issues (OMV, unemployment, DCFS, SNAP, etc)


Mandie

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Special Legislative Session on Crime

On Monday February 19 we started a special legislative session on crime, that will last 2.5 weeks at most. The public is being told that these bills will make them safer and stop crime; this is not true. Aside from one bill to expand drug courts (we all voted for it), the rest of the bills increase sentences, expand immunity, and increase the amount of guns in the community. The pace is moving very fast - with little time for debate, not that I'd call it debate without participation by Republicans besides the bill authors.  VOTE filed suit for a TRO (which was denied) due to this pace, and it will now go to a preliminary injunction hearing. Over and over again we are hearing that the Justice Reinvestment Initiative from several years ago didn't work, except that's not at all true.


1 - First, I was on the Hot Seat with Travers Mackel and Rep. Nicky Muscarello (R) if you want to get a general idea of what we're dealing with in this special session.

2 - Just about anyone over 18 will be able to carry a concealed firearm without training or a permitLaw enforcement says this is dangerous (click to watch video below); the Fraternal Order of Police has come out strong against it. I agree. We are looking at ways to limit where permitless guns can be brought.


3 - Regarding the death penalty: it’s been hard for the state to buy drugs for lethal injection because companies don’t want to sell it to them, for ethical reasons. If this bill passes, the state will be imposing very strict, possibly illegal, confidentially guidelines in hopes of procuring them or maybe making the drugs in house? Hard to tell. I was able to get an amendment on, thanks to some smart advocates, that prevents the governor, legislators, and their families from profiting off selling the drugs to the state. Sad. Oh, it also expands the ways we can execute someone to nitrogen gas and the electric chair.


4 - Parole, probation, and good time will be whittled down to almost nothing. This is what encourage people who are incarcerated to turn their life around. Removing it will dramatically increase prison populations, and according to many, make prisons even more dangerous.


5 - Juvenile records will ALL be public. Juveniles are in a different system because we recognize that young people should have the opportunity to grow up and out of their young mistakes. The reason given for this bill is that victims often aren’t told about hearings and release - but that's the prosecutor’s responsibility. Records can live forever on the internet.


6 -There are bills on law enforcement immunity, gun owners' immunityfentanylcarjacking, the public defender board, and a few others. 


House Dems have done a great job pushing back and making a record. Here are a few videos highlighting the Orleans Delegation and their hard work:


CLICK EACH IMAGE TO WATCH SHORT CLIPS BY REPS. MATT WILLARD, JASON HUGHES AND

REP. AIMEE FREEMAN

Regular Legislative Session

This starts March 11. My bills (click to search) are not all finalized. Codifying marriage (Obergefell), missing persons database, firefighters' union, and AI deepfakes have been filed. Several more to come.


So far we are seeing the return of Don’t Say Gay, the pronoun bill, removal of required lunch breaks for working minors (?!?!?!), display of the Ten Commandments in schools, and many more.


There’s also been talk of having a constitutional convention. Not good.


Homeowners insurance will be a major focus of this session. I have not yet seen the package of bills that will be proposed by our new commissioner. I'll probably have a couple of bills, since I am now on the Insurance Committee.


OTHER

I’ve been in the news a lot lately, mostly on the crime session. You can see my news links here.


Lift Louisiana is hiring a field organizer.


I'm still doing lots of informational reels.


I finally took my nephew to the Louisiana Children's Museum and we had a great time! Check it out. He is a good chef.


Lennon Landry, future world renowned chef?

This was a great Mardi Gras!

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