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Channel3000.com April 14, 2021 3:16 PM By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press Posted: Updated: Gerald Herbert Sen. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, talks with Stuart Bishop, R-Lafayette, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, during opening day of the Louisiana legislative session in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, April 12, 2021. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers trying to muscle through a wide-ranging rewrite of Louisiana’s tax laws Wednesday ran into the same proble...

LSU Title IX failures are front and center as lawmakers go to work for the 2021 session. There are multiple bills outlining how universities should handle sexual misconduct, including who to report it to.

The sales tax holidays were suspended until 2025 as part of the $0.45 sales tax signed into law in 2018. Could they come back earlier than that?

The sales tax holidays were suspended until 2025 as part of the $0.45 sales tax signed into law in 2018. Could they come back earlier than that?

Remember the role that sarah palin played in pumping up the base by saying racially charged comments toward african-americans, toward latinos. and are we going to see a replay of 2010? thats what im really curious about. is she going to be able to pump up that base and is it going to be able to fight over those rove moderate establishment republicans? i dont know. were going to know in about two months here. but its classic palin. >> now, joe, you know the "duck dynasty" family has been getting ...

>> reporter: and make no mistake, health care was a major issue in this campaign. riser, the establishment choice, hammered mcallister as a squish on obama care. >> on his campaign website, vance says hell fight to repeal obama care, but just recently, vance mcallister told reporters that obama care is constitutional and "were past the point of repealing it." tired of politician double talk? vote neil riser. hell shoot you straight. >> and in the last debate before the election, mcallister dropp...

Saturday, september 16th and vote for my good buddy, vance mcallister. >> but it wasnt just the full-bearded endorsement that separated mcallister from his opponent. he was also a truth-teller when it comes to repealing obama care. >> im not going to stand here and lie to you and tell you i can repeal it, because i want your votes. >> reporter: and make no mistake, health care was a major issue in this campaign. riser, the establishment choice, hammered mcallister as a squish on obama care. >> o...

Were going to have to amend it to make it better. and he was rewarded. this is -- i tell you, this and what happened with bradley byrne in alabama one, these are house races in those gerrymandered house districts that we talk about all the time. >> there was another added element in addition to the pragmatism, which i think youre right about. the winner of this primary came from outside the system. he ran against a guy in the system. a state senator in the legislature. i think youre going to see...

In -- you know, kind of like a follow up to what happened in the alabama one. where you had a business person whos sane and rational winning. >> theres always hope. a republican who took down the tea party backed front-runner by emphasizing a populist and pragmatic approach to government that he says is not based solely on ideology. political newcomer vance mcallister easily beat state senator neil riser in saturdays runoff for the fifth congressional district. riser was backed by tea party grou...

The strategy of thinking they can run against obama care, even now when people are trying to suggest that we are at gloom and doom for president obama, seems a little bit of a far reach. >> well, i dont know. i mean, i think it might be an equally far reach to say that this special election, i think, was in congressional district five in louisiana, has broader implications for the way that republicans -- i think what is telling about this race, though, is that you did have in mcallister someone ...