The Louisiana Bond Commission has voted to withhold 39-million dollars in non-cash line of credit for a sewerage and water board project. It’s in response to city officials pledge they would not enforce state laws that ban abortion. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin serves on the Bond Commission is in full support of withholding the money.
“As a governmental body decides you are not going to abide by the laws passed by the state of Louisiana and signed into an act by the governor of the state of Louisiana, in my opinion, they should all be impeached,” said Ardoin.
A representative from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office made the recommendation to withhold the money in response to New Orleans city officials saying that abortion laws would not be enforced. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne voted against delaying this funding.
“This is one project is going to be the scapegoat, that’s going to be held hostage, in order to satisfy everybody they made a politically correct vote,” said Dardenne.
State Treasurer John Schroder is the chairman of the Bond Commission and voted to withhold the non-cash line of credit, but expressed his displeasure that the Attorney General’s office is using the Bond Commission to send a message to a city.
“I am just warning everyone this is a bad, bad road to get on,” said Schroder.
The Bond Commission will consider again next month whether to release the 39-million to the Sewerage and Water Board plant.
Meanwhile, a Baton Rouge judge has blocked the state’s abortion ban law from going into effect. It’s an issue that will likely need to be decided by the Louisiana Supreme Court.
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