A tram passes through the polling station in New Orleans. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/ Getti Imaj)
Louisiana voters on Saturday rejected all four constitutional amendments, including the governor’s plan to reform the state tax and budget laws.
About two-thirds of voters rejected all amendments in an election that could have broader political influences on the rest of the Landre.
The governor, who has sometimes relied on strong arms tactics to obtain his agenda through the Louisians’ legislation, can be more weak to retreat after failing to pass his policies in the ballot box.
Landry’s priority for the election, the second amendment, would have reduced the maximum income tax that the state can make laws and increase the annual state budget. It would also make the exemption of new tax cuts became more difficult.
The proposal was expected to produce a funding for Landrey and state lawmakers later this year. The second amendment would transfer hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue from state reserves to the Louisiana General Fund, where the Landri and state lawmakers could have spent it easily.
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Landri had tried to make the voters in the second amendment by linking it to the compensation of public schools teachers. If it has passed, it would be expected to become permanent for $2,000 and $1,0
Now, educators are at risk of salary cuts since Landri has not exposed money for their aid in the current budget.
In a statement after the results were confident, the governor attributed the second amendment to billionaire George Soros, a Hungarian Born in Hungary, and the conservatives targeted the target for several years to support the liberal factors.
“Soross “We understand how difficult changes are to implement in a situation that is conditional for defeat. … This is not an end for us, we will continue to fight to make the transformations for Louisia’s victory,” Landry said.
In 2023, the latest tax records donated $1 It is unclear whether none of the Surokan institutions’ awards were in the elections.
Landry supported the second amendment to another controversial billionaire. The conservative Republican Charles Koch is the founder of the American welfare, a group that has knocked on the doors, managed banks on the phone and sent direct positions in favor of the proposal.
Opponents of the second amendment celebrated their defeat on Saturday night. William is the most, a lawyer who has filed a complaint against him without success to remove the proposal. He said the language that has been placed in front of the voters is twist and misrepresentation, which makes it illegal.
“I think this is a complete rejection of the throat of attempts to deceive Louisiana voters to vote for something they don’t want,” he said. “… This will send a clear message that if the state officials want to change our constitution, they cannot do it through the trick or trick.
Perhaps Landri and the Republican Legislary Council have raised public opposition to the second amendment by putting it in the same vote of the third amendment, which was a juvenile fair measure that sparked anger of the Democrats and national anti-imprisonment groups.
The third amendment, which 66 percent of voters opposed, would make it easier for adults to be imprisoned for a longer period of time. This led to the National Criminal Judge Reform Organizations, such as the Vera Institute and the Southern Poor Law Center, to spend more than $500,000 to change voters.
Louisiana director Sara Omojola told the Vera Institute that the results of the third amendment showed voters who would start refusing to be imprisoned as the only option for a criminal judge. He added that the high imprisonment rate has only served to destabilize communities, not reduce crime.
“In the failure of the third amendment, voters explained their desire for things that actually make our societies safer – such as quality education and opportunity,” Omojola said in a statement.
While these organizations focused on the failure of the 3rd amendment, they became the backbone of a campaign “No on All” to vote for all four constitutional amendments that Landry pushed.
Supporters of Tax proposal in the second amendment said they believed the issue of criminal judgment had a negative impact on their measures in interviews earlier this week.
Daniel Erspamar, CEO of the Plekan Institute, a conservative thinking institution that helped tax and budget amendments, said: “(Three) is a major motivation for groups that say no to everything.
The Landry team began to see problems during the election early voting. John Cooylon, an experienced Luisian poll, said Democrats and Black voters appeared to be more Republicans than Republicans during the beginning of the vote.
“I’ve never seen a loud voice with this strong (for Democrats,” Covillon said.
In addition to the third amendment, Cowylon said leftist voters who are inclined to motivate the vote against Republicans because of concerns about President Donald Trump. Landry is also closely parallel to the Trump administration.
But the opposition to the second amendment, and the budget and tax changes came from some conservative activists. Religious groups and NGOs were unhappy that the amendment weakened constitutional protections for the exemption of property taxes they enjoyed.
Woody Jenkins, leader of the Republican Party of Eastern Baton, Roj and former state representative, was among those who opposed the amendment. In an interview on Saturday night, he said that although “all political establishment of the state” supported the proposals, voters had a difficult time to digest.
“People’s members don’t want to vote on something they don’t understand,” Jenkins said. “… They don’t want to review the constitution that everything except the restaurant is immersed in it.”
The failure of the amendments 2 and 3 is also likely to lead to the collapse of the first amendment, with 65 percent of voters failing against the proposal. It allows a special court in Louisiana to form a judiciary outside the present and judicial areas.
It also failed to amend 4, with 64 percent of voters. He regulated the special election rules to fill an empty or new judge, primarily on the Louisian Supreme Court.
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