A new Senate poll could spell big problems for Bill Cassidy. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Louisianans will get a taste of both winter and spring over the next few days. Andre Champagne has the story.
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A new Senate poll shows a very competitive Senate primary and could spell big trouble for the incumbent. The poll commissioned by the John Fleming campaign and conducted by JMC Analytics and Polling shows Fleming leading Julia Letlow and Bill Cassidy in a three-way race. Among 645 likely Republican voters, it shows Fleming with 26-percent support, Letlow with 25-percent and Cassidy with 22-percent. Pollster John Couvillon says in head-to-head matchups, Fleming leads both.
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Couvillon says Fleming’s key to success has been being able to consolidate Blake Miguez’s support after he exited the race in favor of a run in the fifth congressional district.
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Couvillon says Cassidy has failed to move the needle in recent polls, and that’s going to spell big trouble for him as the campaign moves forward.
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A Republican state representative has filed a trio of bills targeting carbon capture. The lead measure Pineville Representative Mike Johnson has filed is the Louisiana Landowners Protection Act, which would eliminate eminent domain for carbon capture projects. Johnson notes that eminent domain is an important tool for “public necessary purposes.”
Johnson says the no private business should ever force any private landowner into court in an effort to take his or her property for something that is not in the greater public’s interest.
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Johnson says while he has no reason to believe any private companies are looking to take private property through eminent domain for carbon capture projects, he wants to prevent that from becoming an option to them.
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Industry leaders say if Johnson’s bill passes, the oil and gas industry may look to neighboring states like Texas, putting a dent in Louisiana’s economy.
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Louisiana weather continues to prove its unpredictability this week. Even though it’s still winter, it will feel like late spring in the next few days. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says the state could see record-high temps from now through Saturday.
Keim says temperatures across Louisiana will plummet early Sunday when a cold front arrives.
Keim says chilly conditions are expected to be the worst next Tuesday morning.
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Keim says temperatures will rise again next Wednesday.