Republican U-S Senator John Kennedy won re-election last night without the need of a run-off as he received 62-percent of the vote. 12 people opposed Kennedy and he congratulated his opponents for the campaigns they ran and left his supporters at his election night party with this message…
cut 12 (15) “….grab it”
Louisiana’s House members all won re-election, including Congresswoman Julie Letlow who was elected to her first-full term. The 41-year-old already has a seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, where all federal spending plans begin…
cut 10 (08) “….do just that”
Letlow is the first woman from the state to be re-elected to the House since 1988.

The attorney for nearly 200 nursing home patients who were moved to a dirty, hot warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached is protesting a judge’s decision to settle a class action lawsuit in the case. Marsanne Golsby has more
Cut 1 (30) “…I’m Marsanne Golsby.”

There were eight constitutional amendments on last night’s ballot and five of them failed, including Amendment Seven, which contained the language involuntary servitude and slavery. The author of the amendment, Baton Rouge Representative Edmond Jordan, urged voters to reject it, because he wanted to bring back a rewritten version of the amendment next year.