“We took a $100 million hit from the Revenue Estimating Conference, and we took at least a $400 million hit by the constitutional amendment not passing,” Seabaugh said.

Seabaugh says contrary to popular belief, public school teachers are NOT state employees; thus, their salaries are not set directly by the legislature.

“The State gives local school boards money to do with as they see fit. If they want to use that money for teacher pay raises, they can,” Seabaugh noted.

With teachers staring at a pay cut for next year, let alone a lack of pay raise, what about the bill to increase the governor’s salary that’s currently making its way through the legislature? Seabaugh says it’s being greatly pared down.

“It’s my understanding that that bill is being amended to take the governor and the statewide out, so nobody will be getting a pay raise. The only thing remaining in it is an increased reimbursement of expenses,” Seabaugh explained.

Support staff had received a $1,000 stipend for this school year, which also stands to go away barring any legislative action to the contrary.

Jacobs: “Would you consider and are you considering, perhaps, running for congress next year under the new map the legislature is considering, or perhaps running for Governor next year?”

Cassidy: “Absolutely not.”

After a political career that started 20 years ago, first as a state senator in December of 2006 when he was elected in a special election, to six years in the U.S. House and 12 years in the U.S. Senate, Cassidy says his time in elected office is now numbered.

“I’ve got 7 months to be the best senator I can possibly be,” Cassidy noted.

Cassidy says come January 3rd of next year, his future will be outside the world of politics.

“After that, there’s so many things to do; so many things to do. And I look forward to all those opportunities,” Cassidy said.

The 68-year-old Cassidy also said he had no intentions of returning to his medical practice once he leaves the Senate.

“Nothing has been spent yet. Where it’s going to be spent kind of depends on if we end up getting an arena or not,” Rousse said.

A lawsuit has been filed to prevent the LSU Economic Development District from levying a sales tax on nearby businesses, because the tax was implemented without voter approval.

Rousse says they are also looking for other funding sources to build the new arena, but he opposes taking money away from the academic side. He’s hopeful state government will put money towards the project.

“No interest in a substitution effectively taking away from the academic side of the house. But if the State understands the economic development that comes with that, we’re more than willing to put up the property,” Rousse explained.

Rousse says money remains the biggest challenge in getting the arena built.

“We’re still trying to figure out what are the actual dollars needed to get that done and make sure that it doesn’t come from; there can’t be a substitutional effect from our academic side of the house. The money would have to be injected into the system from the State, and so on,” Rousse said.

“Is there a willingness by, not just the governor, but by the legislature, to find money within the governor’s budget to be able to either maintain the stipend or create a permanent pay?” Carter asked.

Carter says while it’s been going on for years, the fight for teacher pay is now entering a new phase.

“We’re going to try our very best to lobby legislators to see if we can fight for a line item in the governor’s budget to at least maintain the stipend; but also procuring funds to be used for a permanent pay for teachers and school employees,” Carter said.

Carter says with the state experiencing momentum in terms of student achievement, it is more important than ever to pay teachers competitive salaries.

“If we want to maintain keeping quality teachers in front of students, we’ve got to be competitive with other states. Within part of the southern region, we’re probably somewhere between $2,500 to $3,500 less,” Carter explained.

“Quarterbacks making a million dollars, and it’s public knowledge? The next school just offers $1.5 million. And now they’re poaching, luring and enticing our star athletes away, and we don’t want that,” Chaisson explained.

Opponents of the legislation say revenue share deals are funded with public dollars and therefore should be public. It’s money the school is using to directly pay the player, which is different from NIL, which is a third-party source.

Attorney Scott Sternberg spoke in opposition. Sternberg represents three media outlets in a public records lawsuit against LSU that’s attempting to see the revenue share deals.

Sternberg says agents know what the players are making, so allowing the public to know how much a university is compensating a player is not putting the school at a competitive disadvantage.

“Ole Miss is not going to public records request how much we’re paying the quarterback and then pay the quarterback more. The quarterback’s going to tell Ole Miss how much he’s getting paid to make more,” Sternberg said.

Chassion, who has a daughter that played college basketball, says the revenue share contracts with schools should also remain private to protect the player from harassment.

“I don’t want to have to worry about my kid or my daughter, or someone’s kid or somebody’s daughter, knowing that that kid is now a millionaire and is subject to being targeted, harassed; people live and die with football,” Chaisson said.

Chassion’s bill is awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.

“And I can tell you that the top offenders that I’ve seen: Snapchat, Instagram, Discord and Roblox,” Murrill said.

Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre says state law is clear: If you are a registered sex offender as a result of a crime against children, you cannot use social media platforms, chat rooms and peer-to-peer networks.

“One being, stay off the social media. And they couldn’t do that. So sometimes you can’t fix people, and sometimes I wonder if pedophiles can be fixed at all?” Webre asked.

Murrill urges parents to closely monitor their children’s online activity.

“Parents really need to step in and limit their children’s social media use and be very, very in their business about what they’re doing and who’s talking to them on the internet,” Murrill noted.

This year alone, through May 10, Louisiana has received nearly 27,000 cyber tips, compared to more than 31,000 cyber tips received in all of 2025. The ICAC Task Force and Cyber Crime Unit have made a total of 292 arrests, identified 36 child victims, and rescued 32 children from ongoing abuse investigations just this year.

“Unhappy with things going on at the Capitol, related to redistricting, or unhappy with Governor Jeff Landry’s policies on some certain things; and some other people are irritated that they have to keep voting on amendments every election cycle,” Deslatte explained.

Deslatte says voters do not have the time to research these issues to make informed decisions.

“It is a heavy lift to expect voters to be able to sift through some of these proposals, because they are complex. They take a lot of education. People have other things going on in life,” Deslatte said.

Governor Landry posted on social media today that since Amendment 3 failed, if the legislature does not come up with a way to fund a pay raise for teachers, no public employee will get a pay raise. Deslatte says she doesn’t know exactly what Landry means by that.

“I’m curious, if that means also that his cabinet secretaries, several of whom are scheduled to get pay raises in the budget bill for next year; does he mean that they also won’t get pay raises?” Deslatte asked.

“If we looked at the polling, most, if not all the polls, showed Cassidy in third place. The more recent polls showed Letlow gaining momentum,” Chervenak said.

Chervenak does not expect Cassidy will run for political office again. Before he was a politician, Dr. Cassidy practiced medicine and Chervenak says Cassidy performing policy work in the healthcare arena could be his next move.

“Maybe he can do some work in terms of healthcare policy. He’s an expert on that policy. Maybe he can form an organization, a non-profit, and help influence health policy,” Chervenak suggested.

Cassidy is 68-years-old and he’s either been a state legislator or Congressman since 2006.

Cassidy will serve the remainder of his term which will end just after the new year. Chervenak says Cassidy’s political future actually ended when he voted to convict Trump for his role in the January 6th attack on the nation’s capitol.

“The vote to convict the President for inciting the insurrection certainly led to Trump feeling betrayed; and so that led to the endorsement of Julia Letlow. There was no way he was going to endorse Cassidy,” Chervenak explained.

“It was determined that the guardian had left the toddler unsupervised inside the bathtub,” Handy said.

Corporal Handy says the guardian, 50-year-old Dawn Lee, left the bathroom to conduct some other business in the home and returned to the horrifying sight.

“The guardian returned and located the toddler unresponsive inside the bathtub, Handy said.

Khaine was rushed to a hospital but was ultimately pronounced dead. Handy says Lee was booked into jail.

“The guardian was ultimately arrested for one count of negligent homicide,” Handy noted.

“You’re doing it to benefit yourself by buying cheap imports and mixing them with some American shrimp and passing them off as domestic,” Kerner said.

Cheri Blanchard, a Louisiana board member of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, says it’s sometimes unclear exactly who is doing this in order to sell the shrimp at a premium price and keep the profits.

“I would think the most potential would be at the supplier level, going to the restaurant; but there’s also a really high potential that the restaurant itself can be doing that,” Blanchard noted.

House Bill 857 passed both houses of legislature without a single dissenting vote. Kerner says those caught mixing foreign shrimp with domestic shrimp will face substantial penalties.

“First offense, $15,000, second offense, $25,000 and third offense, $50,000,” Kerner explained.