There was no drama in Louisiana in the federal races. Donald Trump carried the state by about 20 percentage points, and all six congressional races went as expected. That includes District 6, where Cleo Fields won the seat with 51-percent of the vote and avoided a runoff. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says Fields was set up to win from the start.
Governor Jeff Landry is asking legislators to make sweeping changes to the state’s tax code in a two and a half weeklong special session that gets underway this afternoon. Not only does Landry want to create a flat income tax rate, to raise the standard deduction to $12,500 and eliminate the corporate franchise tax. He’s also looking to renew a temporary .45 percent sales tax, extend sales tax to 40 activities that are currently untaxed, and eliminate the film tax credit program. La-Politics-dot-com Jeremy Alford says it will be interesting to see if Landry gets what he wants…
The special session must end by 5 PM on November 25th.
It now appears that Louisiana will not be impacted by Hurricane Rafael at all. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The first college football playoff rankings of the season are out and LSU is ranked 15th. With 12 teams set to make the playoffs this year, the Fighting Tigers have more work to do in order to be in the new 12-team C-F-P playoff. Coach Brian Kelly says there’s a month left in the regular season and a lot can change…