"You have to have [your phone] essentially stuck to your dashboard, or I use Apple CarPlay,” Rep. Mandie Landry (D), New Orleans, said. “Whatever you use your phone for, you can’t touch it with your hands.”
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At Monday's press conference, Williams lauded New Orleans Democratic State Rep. Mandie Landry for championing legislation in 2023 that gave prosecutors the tools to file the charges.
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“It appears that she broke that law, and what that would amount to is, it could be malfeasance,” Landry said.
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“I think it’s a perfect example of our upside-down tax policy,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, a legislator who voted against the bill and is a member of the House committee that oversees tax policy.
“We are giving tax breaks to people who own very expensive boats but we can’t give tax breaks to people who own cheap cars or who have expensive insurance policy premiums,” she said.
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STATE REP. MANDIE LANDRY (D), LOUISIANA: Religion in the classrooms that seemed like that was decided a long time ago. It's definitely promoting religion, period, and promoting Christianity, and not everyone, not every kid, you know, subscribes to those religions.
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“We always know, those of us in office, that something like that is possible, but to actually see that happen. And for me to see it happen to a very liberal female Democratic pro-choice legislator, really kind of hit home,” Landry said.
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Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, one of the few votes against HB358, said she wanted to vote for the bill but could not due to desperate texts from her constituents.
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"We did all this stuff about auto insurance, but we have done almost nothing about homeowners insurance this year, and we might have done stuff in the past, but it keeps getting worse and worse. I have that experience myself," Rep. Mandie Landry (D - New Orleans) said.
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"They sent me some of the emails, 'This will eliminate more than 100 pharmacies, this will harm people's ability to manage life-threatening conditions like organ transplants or cancer. This puts the lives of Louisiana patients at risk.'," Representative Mandie Landry said. "CVS, you should be so ashamed, because you are scaring people."
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"We have about $8 billion in tax incentives and tax breaks that we give away every year, and we don't really know if we're getting the return on investment for that money," Landry said, touting the bill's bipartisan support.
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“We are supposed to protect the elderly – not somebody who is trying to make more money off the elderly,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, who opposed the bill.
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Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans) teamed up with Rep. Debbie Villio (R-Kenner) and Governor Jeff Landry’s Office to push the bill.
It requires the sheriff or their team to “immediately notify”:
Department of Public Safety and Corrections
State police
All police departments in the parish
Any known witnesses
Any known victims
Local media outlets
“Unnecessary, grossly incompetent escape of inmates in New Orleans on Friday, really unacceptable,” said New Orleans democratic representative Mandie Landry in a social media video.
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State Representative Mandie Landry comments on various local bills including insurance and abortion.
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Asked by committee member Rep. Mandie Landry (D) about evidence showing that people sometimes substitute marijuana for alcohol, Hall said “the only study I really have on that” was a Yale study of veterans that found marijuana “caused exaggeration of the PTSD.”
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“So this isn’t necessarily about benefits, it’s about informing people to the government so that they can be deported?” asked Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans).
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“What we’re seeing is real simple,” she said. “The tax goes up, smoking use goes down, health outcomes go up.”
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"What we're seeing is simple, tax goes up, smoking use goes down, health outcomes go up," Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans said.
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The House Ways and Means Committee will be talking about a measure to bump up the tax by a dollar a pack on cigarettes. New Orleans Representative Mandie Landry says Louisiana ranks among the states with the lowest tobacco taxes, and she thinks it's time for a change.
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