“This will be a complete disaster. Our last constitutional convention was two years, they met five days a week. To say we’re going to redo our constitution in two weeks is a terrible idea for everyone,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D- New Orleans.
Read MoreOther local officials have stepped up, thankfully. City Council President Helena Moreno and state Reps. Jason Hughes and Aimee Adatto Freeman have pushed for state funding to feed poor kids, while Rep. Mandie Landry and Sen. Royce Duplessis — all New Orleans Democrats — are fighting for homeowners amid Louisiana’s property insurance crisis.
Read MoreState Rep. Mandie Landry talks about her fight with GOP members at the state capitol.
Read More“I know there are a lot of you in this room who smoke weed, who ingest weed,” Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, said in opposition to Schegel’s amendments. “If you don’t vote against this, I think you’re being a huge hypocrite.”
Read More“So we have in little kids classrooms words like adultery and coveting your neighbors wife. How is that appropriate when its not appropriate to teach a child about how they get pregnant when you’re going to talk about what adultery means in the bible.”
Read MoreRep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, offered an amendment to place criminal penalties on anyone who commits a sex offense while trying to determine an individual’s sex. House Speaker Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice, ruled the amendment was not germane to Wilder’s bill, which relates to civil law.
Read More"We all know that one of the main reasons it was drawn the way it was, was because Gov. Jeff Landry wants to get rid of Congressman Graves," state Rep. Mandie Landry, a New Orleans Democrat who testified at the hearing, said in a social media post. Landry is no relation to the governor.
Read More“Mardi Gras has hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. There’s a ton of alcohol. There’s kids everywhere. And to think that people could be roaming around with a gun and no one can stop them scared all of us,” State Rep. Mandie Landry said.
Read More“Someone with a permit, it has been apparent from this committee and others that gun-free zones are a no go but for someone with a permit who understands how to carry that gun it only applies to them,” said Landry.
Read MoreState Rep. Mandie Landry (D) spoke out against the bill on Tuesday, pointing out that a substance must be addictive to be classified under the state’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law: “Nothing has changed to make these drugs addictive,” Landry said, per HuffPost. “You cannot be addicted to misoprostol unless you get pregnant once a month, I guess.”
Read MoreLandry also argued that, with tighter restrictions on the drugs, women needing them for a legitimate use might have trouble obtaining them if they lived miles or hours from a pharmacy that carries them. Misoprostol, for instance, can be used to induce labor in pregnant women, and treat ulcers.
Read MoreMandie Landry said what was originally a good bill was “hijacked by outsiders who are not doctors and aren’t even legislators,” referring to the Right to Life group.
Read More“Then this different issue comes in. It was like the senator pulled a fast one. Changing the category of the medications is just malicious, and now every conservative state in the country will be copying it.”
Read More“These medications touch on maternal health, which, as we’ve all discussed for several years now, is really bad in Louisiana,” state Rep. Mandie Landry, a Democrat, said as she argued against reclassification of the drugs. “In their (doctors’) view, this (measure) will have very bad effects.”
Read MoreLandry said the recategorization would require certain storage facilities to store the drugs, which could hurt rural clinics’ ability to access them and provide them to patients.
Read MoreState Rep. Mandie Landry sought to pass an amendment deleting the controversial amendments from the bill or recommit the bill to the health and welfare committee for more discussion, but her motions failed. “Placing mifepristone and misoprostol on the controlled substances list is harmful and malicious,” Landry says. “It is purely the product of Louisiana Right to Life and their politics. Doctors and common sense are all against it.”
Read More“These medications touch on maternal health, which, as we've all discussed for several years now, is really bad in Louisiana,” state Rep. Mandie Landry, a Democrat, said as she argued against reclassification of the drugs. “In their (doctors') view, this (measure) will have very bad effects.”
Read More"Everyone was blindsided," Louisana representative Mandie Landry, one of the bill's few dissenters, told WaPo.
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