After voting against it last week, a House committee voted for a Senate-approved proposal today that would allow law enforcement agencies to scan motorists license plates to catch uninsured motorists. Wendy Adams from the Libertarian Party spoke out against the measure…
cut 14 (09) “…crony capitalism”
A private company would install the cameras in sheriff deputies vehicles in nine parishes and they would receive 30-percent of the 200-dollar fines for lapsed auto insurance.

Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden announces he will challenge this fall fellow democrat and incumbent 2nd district Congressman Cedric Richmond. During his campaign announcement, Holden touted his successes as Baton Rouge’s mayor…
cut 7 (08) “….do business”
Richmond has represented the 2nd district since 2011.

Governor John Bel Edwards is expected to sign legislation that would result in Louisiana becoming the sixth state in the nation to prohibit a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell described on the Senate floor the type of abortion this bill will prohibit…:
CUT 3 (11) “piece by piece”
Five other states have passed similar laws, but state courts have blocked the law from taking effect in Kansas and Oklahoma.

At a press conference in Baton Rouge, Democratic US Senate candidate Foster Campbell said he would like to see the minimum wage uped to 10-dollars an hour. Campbel says no one in Louisiana can live off the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour…
cut 9 (09) “…a problem”