A bill heading to the Senate would make it easier for Louisiana voters to recall elected officials. Halen Doughty has more…
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Former Sons of Guns star Will Hayden will spend life behind bars for raping young girls. Michelle Southern reports…:
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The full House approves a measure that would make it easier for Louisiana voters to recall elected officials. The proposal comes just months after a failed attempt to recall Jefferson Parish President Mike Yenni amid a teen sexting scandal. Covington Representative Paul Hollis says he saw a similar attempt in his own district years ago.
The measure would reduce the number of signatures required for a recall petition to 25 percent of the registered voters for districts with less than 100,000 voters and 20 percent for districts with more than 100,000 voters. Hollis says Louisiana has the highest threshold necessary to effect a recall election.
Current law requires signatures from one-third of the registered voters in in large districts and 40 percent of voters in smaller districts. Hollis says that just isn’t feasible in 180 days.
The bill passed on a 70-27 vote and now heads to the Senate.
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The University of Louisiana System President announces a contest for one student to receive a 500-dollar scholarship by coming up with his 10-thousandth tweet. Dr. Jim Henderson, who is an avid fan on twitter, says it’s a very small milestone in the grand scheme of things but thought this would be a good way to get students involved. He says the process of selecting the tweet is a very rigorous process.
Henderson says he came up with the idea as he saw his 10-thousandth tweet was approaching.
Henderson says he determined twitter would be the best way to reach students in a fun way that also has a valuable purpose.
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A measure approved by the House would give voters the chance to decide if they want to prevent a convicted felon from running for office until 8 years after they served their sentence, now moves to the Senate. Norco Representative Gregory Miller is the author of the constitutional amendment…
If approved, the vote would be placed on the November 6th ballot. Miller says Louisianans already have a hard time trusting elected officials…
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A St. Landry Parish cold case becomes a murder case after an inmate confesses to killing his great uncle in 2011. Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says Dale LaFleur has been missing since 2011 and his great nephew 23-year-old Phillip LaFleur was incarcerated in LaSalle Parish on a separate murder charge. He says Phillip LaFleur passed a note to the guards saying he wanted to speak with St. Landry Parish detectives.
Guidroz says they have an audio and video confession from LaFleur stating he killed his great uncle and dumped his body in the Atchafalaya River because the uncle was delaying giving him money. He says search efforts are underway to retrieve the body from the river.
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A Southern Media and Opinion Research Poll finds Governor John Bel Edwards’ approval rating has dropped nine percentage points since September of 2016. It now stands at 54-percent. Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says the public is sick and tired of the governor and legislature not coming to an agreement on how to fix the state’s budget woes.
Pinsonat says Edwards’ honeymoon is over. He says African American residents continue to give Edwards’ a positive rating, while only 44-percent of white voters feel that way about the governor.
The survey also finds more than half of Louisianans believe the state is headed in the wrong direction. Pinsonat says in their September poll, 42-percent said the state is moving in the wrong direction and in this latest survey 52-percent feel that way.
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