Republican Gov Defends Bill That Denies Access To Information
Lousiana's Governor with what I would also call a self-own here, by defending the Republican bill with a colorful comparison. "I’ll give you a great example, when you go to a restaurant, do you go over there and watch the cook make everything he serves you? No, you just walk into a restaurant, those restaurants you that you think serve a great meal and you order that great meal. You don’t want to know how, what the cook put in there."
I'll assume he was going for sausage-making, the cliché that politicians often resort to when they don't want the public to know what they've been up to.
Jeff Landry was briefly a U.S. congressman, coming in on the tea party wave in 2010. Washington didn't suit him much, as he basically represented the oil and natural gas industry anyway, and not Louisiana while he was there. When his district was redrawn, however, he lost out in a bitter primary fight with Rep. Charles Boustany and came back to Lousiana where he became Attorney General. Landry won the Gubernatorial election in 2023 and assumed office on Jan 8, 2024.
Someone might want to remind Governor Landry what James Madison wrote in 1787: