PSC Commissioner Foster Campbell
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell is taking the state’s GOP congressmen to task, all five of them. He said they voted earlier this week against a continuing resolution to keep the government running with a higher debt ceiling, even though the legislation included 28-billion-dollars in emergency disaster relief for Louisiana and elsewhere. “Next fall they’ll be running ads sayings how independent they are and how they want to do the right thing but when it came time, showdown time, they voted all against it,” said Campbell.
Campbell says the Republican members voted three times in favor of raising the debt ceiling when Trump was president, and he believes helping Louisiana recover from the state’s destructive hurricanes is more important than party loyalty. He says he doesn’t believe hurricane victims, including those in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes slammed by Ida, would tell you at this time that they care about party politics, but rather “they want help.” Campbell went on to say, “I think it’s a shame that these people voted against their own people just because they wanted to hold the line for the Republican Party.”
Though House Democrats pushed through the bill containing billions for hurricane relief and other disasters around the nation, Campbell lambasts the Louisiana GOP delegation for their “no” votes given the number of people hurting from hurricane devastation in the state. “They voted against their own folks, their own people are calling them every day to get help. Rather than giving them help, oh no I can’t vote for that, you’ll just have to do,” said Campbell.
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