“Oil and gas ran the Capitol for a long time,” Landry said. “It’s not coming back like all these people want.”
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“That is what we’re talking about: Easier access to guns, children who have to be told they might be murdered in school,” Landry said. “We don’t have to do this. We can work on our gun safety legislation. We can work on secure schools.
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Democratic New Orleans Rep. Mandie Landry, whose city has recently been the murder capital of America, became emotional when testifying against the bill Tuesday.
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State Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans) let out a sigh of relief as her proposed medical marijuana bill narrowly made it out of the Labor and Industrial Relations committee on Tuesday (May 23).
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State Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, said a task force was created last summer to compare how other states approached the issue. She said 25 of 37 states with medical marijuana programs have protections that serve both employees and employers.
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Landry said that under the bill an employee who showed up to work high would still not be eligible for employment compensation, adding that she found it “extremely insulting” that LABI would insinuate otherwise, which she said they also did in a previous email.
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“The Louisiana resident buys the product, then the consumer loses their job and no longer has the money to buy the product that the state says was legal… We have a very strange circle here with the government not being very good at selling marijuana,” Landry said.
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But the American Academy of Pediatrics supports gender-affirming healthcare. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry made the point that this point of care can be life saving for an individual with gender dysphoria.
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“I think if people in my district suddenly received a huge rate increase overnight and heard that the department couldn’t do anything about it, I think it would make people in the state even more irate,” said Landry.
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“If the people in my district suddenly received a huge rate increase overnight, and heard that the department couldn’t do anything about it, I think it would make people in the state even more irate,” Landry said.
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The proposal’s sponsor, Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, cited civil court cases in Texas and Alabama that involved “disgruntled exes” who sued their pregnant former partners upon learning their pregnancies had ended. Ambiguity in existing law has some healthcare providers concerned they could be held liable or criminally responsible for a medically necessary abortion, she said.
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Louisiana’s abortion law is clear that abortions are no longer legal and that consequences will be handed down to those who perform them. But state Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, said when it comes to the mothers themselves, not everyone is on the same page.
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Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, asked if such a law would prohibit civics classes from covering U.S. Supreme Court cases on same-sex marriage. No one answered her question.
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“This is a bill that would protect women from being criminalized or sued for the results of that pregnancy,” Landry said. “That means abortion, self-managed abortion, miscarriage or even suspicion of abortion.”
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“What we are hoping, and we think it might work, is to run the appeal process at the same time as the criminal process, to just kind of light a fire under them and say, ‘You really have to start fixing this or try to sell the property, because we’re going to put you in jail,’” Landry said.
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Mandie Landry, state rep from New Orleans, says Louisiana was the first state in the country to feature a film tax credit program. Today, 38 other states have adopted the same feature.
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Democratic New Orleans Rep. Mandie Landry said she believes pay is also a barrier to serving in the Legislature.
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"There's over $300 million in payroll taxes paid, about 10,000 jobs. I know so many people in the movie industry, they used to wait tables and now they have really steady jobs," Landry said.
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Democratic New Orleans Rep. Mandie Landry, whose city is the epicenter of Louisiana’s film industry, said that citing the one study is “cherry-picking to spin a narrative.” She pointed out that the study does not account for other benefits of the industry, money spent in the state for supplies to create sets or locals employed for jobs — such as caterers — while filming occurs.
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“The big shifts started in the early 2000s and, apparently, dramatically increased since 2008. Since then, gerrymandering has added to the problem, creating much more racially segregated districts. And like the rest of the south, cultural/religious values have become more prominent in the state, which here trend far right,” said State Rep. Mandie Landry of New Orleans.
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