Four years ago, Louisianians elected a Democratic governor. In a land where people consistently shoot themselves in the foot with their votes for pro-business, anti-human Republicans, this was no small victory.
John Bel Edwards inherited a real financial disaster from Bobbie Jindal (and Eddie Rispone by default) and managed to turn a huge deficit into a surplus in just four years.
He's not my favorite candidate. He oppresses women's reproductive rights. He fails to keep church and state separated and he hasn't, thus far, forced the many oil company interests that thrive here to pay their fair share of taxes. The infrastructure is failing here, but it has not been addressed in any significant way.
Still, someone like Eddie Rispone, who swears that he'll turn this state back 150 years the minute his hand comes off the Bible, is a poor choice by comparison.
I don't know why John Bel Edwards won four years ago. I would like to believe that at least some percentage of Louisianians actually did some research and figured out he was the best candidate. He was. He still is.
But this is a state mired in lack of education and incompetence ---- and it starts at the top with politicians neck deep in a rhetoric that is neither progressive or beneficial. John Bel Edwards was a breath of fresh air in a state that stinks of political ignorance.
I will vote for him again. I hope the rest of the state does too.
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