Legislation to attract the aerospace industry to Louisiana has been approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says other states are currently providing better tax incentives to lure aerospace companies.
The measure would give sales tax rebates to aerospace businesses that create 200 permanent jobs and would make a one-billion dollar investment. Governor Landry’s chief of staff, Julie Emerson, testified in favor of the bill.
Louisiana has a history in the aerospace industry. The Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans has been building rockets for NASA since the 1960s.
There are 455-thousand people on the state’s inactive voter list, but they are still able to vote in the May 16th closed party primaries.
Secretary of State Nancy Landry says a registered voter gets put on the inactive list if he or she has not cast a ballot in the last ten years and did not respond to an address confirmation card sent by the office.
If it was up to Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, we wouldn’t be having these closed primaries at all. Nungesser says along with resulting in a far less representative government, next month’s primary will cost the state a lot of money.
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On top of that, races that do not produce a majority, which will in all likelihood include the U.S. Senate Republican race, will move on to a runoff on June 27th, costing the state even more money.