Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

By Pete Abington

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION?

It has been 45 years since the 1973 Constitutional Convention. Politicians have stated many times that we need to redo our constitution, only that statement always seems to go nowhere. This became more prevalent in this last regular session, yet it has been almost three months and nothing has been said since. One thing is for sure, they had better think it through before we do. Our state is so complex that we have several hundred amendments to our present constitution and something needs to be done. In the event they do have a constitution convention, everything needs to be looked at, even topics like - do we need to elect a Lt. Governor, for instance. We could ask the same question about the insurance and agriculture commissioners.

Everything should be looked at, but it won’t be easy because special interests do not want them to look at some of their interests. For instance, the business lobby has exemptions in the constitution and they don’t want that visited. Do you think there are too many colleges and universities in Louisiana? Good luck with dealing with that. Do you want to see financing schemes for local governments changed? Just try to get that passed. Political blockages of the sheriffs, assessors and clerks of court could construct a tremendous opposition. Do you think that in view of cuts, everyone should get cut and not just education and health and hospitals.

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