Three weeks into the legislative session and it’s quiet when it comes to debate on significant legislation and that might be design. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the Landry administration is not pushing any significant legislation after doing a lot of heavy lifting in his first two years in office.
“Remember when we heard these ads touting how they had reduced income tax? They had flipped the bad taxes off of business and industry. They lowered insurance with their reform legislation,” Pinsonat said.
Pinsonat says the Landry Administration is not interested in rocking the boat with the governor set to run for re-election next year.
“We’re just going to kind of fix things if they come up, but we’re not going to create any controversy because we claim that the state is better off than it was two or three years ago. And that’s what we promised, and that’s what we’re delivering,” Pinsonat explained.
Pinsonat says the most emotional debate of the legislative session so far was over a bill to prohibit the use of eminent domain for carbon capture and sequestration projects. Pinsonat says legislative leaders have made sure that and other controversial bills make it out of committee.
“Limiting carbon capture, that’s the best example. And that’s kind of what we’re seeing. You have the same thing going on with any law reform or anything related to insurance reform,” Pinsonat said.
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