#301 LA’s Overdetention Problem & the Week Ahead

Exposing CCS and Protecting Your Rights

Join us for a deep dive into crucial legislative updates impacting Louisiana. We expose the scam behind carbon capture sequestration (CCS) and spotlight critical bills on the House and Senate floors—covering topics from election integrity and eminent domain rights to health policies against harmful substances. Tune in for an enlightening discussion on the importance of public involvement, transparency, and holding representatives accountable. You'll also hear about upcoming key testimonies at the Capitol and exclusive commentary from industry insiders and advocates. Don't miss this episode if you care about safeguarding your freedom and understanding complex policy issues affecting your daily life.

 

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY:

Proverbs 12:2-3 TPT

 

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KEY POINTS:

00:00 Introduction and Opening Remarks
02:05 Scripture of the Day
04:50 Discussion on Carbon Capture and Sequestration
04:59 Gold and Silver as Legal Currency
08:42 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bill
12:33 Slender Eyes Drops Advertisement
13:42 Geoengineering and Weather Modification Bill
15:09 Republican Party Critique
24:42 Ethics Complaints Bill
28:56 Exit Polling Bill Controversy
31:30 Senate Free Speech Bill
33:36 Senate Bill 117: Banning Ultraprocessed Food in Schools
34:21 Senate Bill 39: Prisoner Rights and State Liability
37:44 Senate Bill 214: Commissioner of Insurance Appointment
43:33 Senate Bill 216: Road Construction Incentives
47:18 House Bill 216: Ethics Board Transparency
47:39 House Bill 577: Voting System Procurement
53:53 House Bill 601: Carbon Capture and Property Rights
55:08 Upcoming Legislative Actions and Guest Announcement
59:04 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

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TRANSCRIPT:

 Danielle Walker (00:01.454)

Hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to the state of freedom. It's another week, another week of session and there's a lot to talk about. We thought we would be having Caroline Gabriel, who's an attorney at William Most's firm joining us this morning, but she was unable to join us. So we will just be giving you an overview of the week ahead and there is plenty, plenty there.

 

Before we get into it, let me start us off right with the scripture of the day. It's Proverbs chapter 12 verses 2 and 3 and it says,

 

Danielle Walker (00:57.974)

Y'all, not the Lord's flavor. I'm sure it's a good flavor.

 

Chris Alexander (00:58.952)

Well, it's, it's Danielle. It's the Lord's favor and the Lord's flavor. I want the Lord's flavor.

 

Danielle Walker (01:03.522)

That's right. We are the Lord's flavor. All right. The Lord's favor flows to those whose hearts and intentions are pure. There's something so valuable to the Lord about a pure and a teachable heart, you know, and there are the ones, the people who have a pure and teachable heart, these are the ones who are going to enjoy his favor and remain connected to him even when difficulties in life come.

 

And this passage says that a devious heart invites his condemnation, which sounds pretty strong, but that's not something that the lovers of God need to fear as long as we keep inviting him to search our hearts and motives and as we respond appropriately when he corrects us. And Paul reiterates this point in chapter seven and eight of Romans, he says, now my renewed mind is fixed on and submitted to God's righteous principles.

 

So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life union with Jesus, the anointed one. So be encouraged. If you are seeking the Lord, there's absolutely no condemnation for you. And in fact, the gift of the Lord's favor is with you. However, if you're devious and not turning to him, then yeah, you will be subject to his condemnation.

 

until you do.

 

Chris Alexander (02:29.032)

Yeah. You know, it's hard, Daniel, to... It's simple, but it's difficult sometimes to fully surrender and to stop the habit of self-condemnation. You know, when you really think about it, it's overwhelming to think that there's no condemnation in Christ because we are often busy condemning ourselves, you know, and unable to forgive ourselves and, you know...

 

Danielle Walker (02:41.891)

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (02:57.332)

It can be difficult to do, to recognize. like, what do you mean, me? Are you serious? I mean, it's like, what do mean there's no condemnation? Look at all the stupid things I've done in my life. But that really is the devil talking to us.

 

Danielle Walker (03:07.651)

Yeah.

 

It's true, because we don't get any rewards for hanging on to unforgiveness for ourself, you know?

 

Chris Alexander (03:14.984)

We really don't. In fact, we do ourselves a profound disservice. But it's all unmerited grace. We really can't do it ourselves. It's only God's grace that allows us the sort of liberation that comes through Him. And we have to remember that. No more self-condemnation.

 

Danielle Walker (03:18.423)

Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (03:32.238)

That's right. I like that. Chris, have, I mean, it's Tuesday, but it feels like it's Thursday already. Yesterday was a busy day at the Capitol, which is pretty unusual for a Monday mid-session, I would say. There was a fair bit going on, not that much that we were following closely, but a couple things. And why don't we start out with what hit committee yesterday was

 

Chris Alexander (03:39.348)

Yes it does.

 

Danielle Walker (04:02.496)

Representative Raymond Cruz brought back his bill to establish gold and silver as legal currency in the state, his house bill 386, and it passed by the thinnest margin possible.

 

Chris Alexander (04:15.646)

Yeah.

 

Yeah, past seven to six, it was a streamlined version of his original bill because it will not have the specific backing of the state and there will not be a depository set up. But it does establish gold and silver as transactional currency in Louisiana and can be used with a gold back debit card, just like fiat money.

 

So it is a step in the right direction. it's still a good bill, still a good movement forward. But unfortunately, there were some Republicans who, despite the fact that it was completely not objectionable, he cured their original objections when he went in the first time. And yet still there were a number of Republicans who voted against this very important bill.

 

And it passed out of out of commerce, House Commerce seven to six. But the Republicans, Danielle, who still voted against it for the second time, do you like to who they are? Representative Kim Carver, Representative Troy Abear, Representative Jessica Domaine, Representative Neil Reiser, Representative Vincent St. Blanc, Representative Peggy Thomas, all Republicans who voted at

 

Danielle Walker (05:25.592)

Please tell me.

 

Danielle Walker (05:42.776)

Polly Thomas.

 

Chris Alexander (05:43.838)

Polly Thomas, I'm sorry, my bad, who voted against it nonetheless. Dixon McMakin, to his credit, switched his vote from the first time that it went before to enable it to pass seven to six. But it is, obviously we're thankful that the bill passed and is going on to the House floor, but it's unfortunate in a Republican dominated commerce committee that the vote was even that close.

 

Danielle Walker (06:07.726)

Well, it's despicable. And I think, Chris, we should go and look at the bios of these committee members because I'm convinced that not a single one of them understands anything about the free enterprise system to start with at the most basic level. The other thing is this just proves, yeah, I'm absolutely right. I have no doubt. I have no doubt that I'm right. And the other point I just want to make is, I almost, I had a great thought.

 

Chris Alexander (06:23.634)

Okay.

 

I think you're right.

 

Danielle Walker (06:37.358)

Chris. it just shows that their objections were hollow to start with. Their objections, if their objections were truly allayed as, you know, Representative Cruz took to heart what they said, he changed the bill accordingly, he re-presented the bill in a format that should be palatable based on their strong objections, stated objections, and they still refuse to vote for it. That means that those objections

 

Chris Alexander (07:01.019)

Yes.

 

Danielle Walker (07:07.106)

We're not real.

 

Chris Alexander (07:08.712)

Yes, and it was because once again, the bankers, the banking industry, the Louisiana Bankers Association was against the bill. So once again, these Republicans sided with big banks instead of with ordinary Louisiana citizens who deserve to have every economic option, including transactional gold and silver. So seven, six vote. Fortunately, it's going on to the House floor and we're going to keep pushing hard.

 

Danielle Walker (07:37.282)

Yeah, while they continue to gaslight us and tell us that they're protecting us from ourselves.

 

Chris Alexander (07:41.756)

Yes, exactly. Protecting us from our own choices and our own freedom. Yeah, it is despicable. And there was one other vote yesterday, Danielle, that I want to tell you about. This was House Bill 685 by Emily Schennevere. And we've talked about this before. This is the bill, the DEI bill, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, that will abolish these

 

Danielle Walker (07:46.766)

Despicable it's absolutely despicable

 

Danielle Walker (07:52.449)

Okay.

 

Danielle Walker (07:59.97)

The DEI.

 

Chris Alexander (08:06.756)

leftist Marxist concepts like critical race theory, diversity, equity, and inclusion, disdain for the constitution, will abolish those concepts entirely from our public agencies in the state of Louisiana. What Republicans could possibly oppose this, could vote against this? Who knows the poison that these concepts and these doctrines cause? Well, this bill

 

Danielle Walker (08:33.004)

woke Republicans?

 

Chris Alexander (08:34.468)

Yeah, yeah, right. Well, I guess so, yeah. So this was on the House floor yesterday for final vote. It passed, thank God, 57 to 32, but there were several... That's not nearly wide enough for a bill like this. I'm thankful for the Republicans who supported it, obviously, but there were several Republicans who voted against this bill. And one of them was Representative Vincent Cox. One of them was Representative Beth Billings.

 

Danielle Walker (08:46.21)

That's not nearly wide enough of a margin.

 

Chris Alexander (09:03.652)

Also a Republican. One of them was representative Jeff Wiley. Three Republicans, it looks like, voted against a bill to abolish Marxist concepts from our public agencies in the state of Louisiana. Emily Chenovere did a fabulous job defending her bill on the floor. I think it's worth also mentioning the Republicans who were absent for this critical

 

Danielle Walker (09:29.132)

Yeah, because clearly there were a number of them. That doesn't add up to 103.

 

Chris Alexander (09:33.626)

No, no, there were absent for this critical vote. Representative Boriak, Representative Broad, Representative Domaine, Representative Fontenot, Representative Freyberg, Representative Gadbury, Representative Hilferty, Representative Kerner, Representative Jacob Landry, Representative Muscarello, Representative Stagney, Representative Ventrilla.

 

and Representative Wilder were all absent for this vote. And do know what's somewhat suspicious about this? All of these who were absent for this vote were present for the vote immediately preceding this vote on the floor. So I don't know what the motive is to be absent for this vote, which is so important, but these Republicans were absent and it's worth mentioning in addition to the three, as I said, who voted no on it.

 

Danielle Walker (10:32.364)

Yeah. And for some of those, can assume that maybe it was time for a restroom break. This is what I would like to hope, Chris. I'd like to hope that it was time for a restroom break. They felt this was a strong bill that was going to pass no problem. And they took the opportunity to go and get some refreshments. But the truth is, a lot of those names are names that we consistently hear on the wrong side of issues. So it's just a little difficult to continually try and assume the best.

 

Chris Alexander (10:38.068)

Sure.

 

Chris Alexander (10:49.245)

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (11:01.652)

Exactly, No doubt about it.

 

Danielle Walker (11:06.456)

Did you have anything else you wanted to talk about from what happened yesterday, Chris, before we move on to Tuesday?

 

Chris Alexander (11:11.034)

No, but I did want to reiterate once again, Cox, Billings, and Wiley all voted against this DEI bill. All Republicans. Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (11:18.326)

Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Well, would be, it'd be interesting to know what their objection was.

 

Chris Alexander (11:26.492)

Yeah, it would be interesting. You know, I don't know that there is an objection that's palatable because the bill is very good. Anybody can go read it, HB 685. And it's high time, it's past time, to be honest with you, that this garbage gets out of our public agencies.

 

Danielle Walker (11:32.599)

No.

 

Danielle Walker (11:43.168)

Yeah, yeah. Well, I hope that and a lot more gets out of our public agencies.

 

Chris Alexander (11:47.156)

perhaps even some of the people who are in our public agencies.

 

Danielle Walker (11:51.682)

Yeah, they can go. They can go right along with it. All right. So today is going to be quite a busy day starting in-house natural resources and environment. Nine o'clock. Chris, I believe you are planning to be down there to testify on Senator Facy's SB 46. This is his bill that would ban geoengineering and weather modification.

 

That one is up this morning.

 

Chris Alexander (12:21.522)

Yes. And keep in mind HB 608, which is the companion bill on this in the House by Representative Coats passed last week. This is the Senate version, SB 46, Senator Mike Facy. And anybody who listens to our show understands the dangers of this chemtrails, of all these chemicals and these dangerous toxins that are being pushed out of the back of these airplanes into our skies and then fall on us.

 

This bill will prohibit that. And as you said, it's going before House Natural Resources this morning. And I do plan to be there to vigorously testify in favor of that bill.

 

Danielle Walker (12:57.464)

Beautiful. All right. And I'll just mention that a couple of people who have not been voting the right way on carbon capture in that House Natural Resources Committee do have Senator Facy as their senator. So I'm hopeful that they will give him that respect and respect the will of the people on this one and vote the right way.

 

Chris Alexander (13:21.8)

Let's hope so. This is one of those bills where why would a conservative Republican object to a bill like this?

 

Danielle Walker (13:30.04)

Yeah. mean, Chris, as I've been talking to people this week, I mean, which it seems like it's been two weeks this week and it's only Tuesday. One thing that continually comes to mind is that this party system is so corrupt. know, our parties are so infiltrated. Republicans are just, mean, I've heard a lot of people say this.

 

You know, I've never been stabbed in the back by a Democrat. They always come at me head first. You know, you know where they're coming from. It's the Republicans who stabbed me in the back. And someone said that if they, if we could see what, what all the stabbings look like, would look, they would look like a porcupine. So it's just, it's just unbelievable. And I think that's why it's so important that we remain vigilant. It's also so important why folks go to lacag.org and do the calls to action.

 

because we have to continue the drum beat of pressure on these legislators because we cannot ever assume they're going to do the right thing, ever.

 

Chris Alexander (14:31.142)

No, no, you really can't. Many of them do the right thing because of pressure, not because of principle. Interesting point, Danielle, in line with what you just said. Tucker Carlson, I heard him say the other night that exactly what you just said, that it's not even, it's not the Democrats who really pose the most sinister threat to us. It is the Republicans. Because the Democrats tell you what they believe. There's no question about it. They don't hide it from you.

 

Danielle Walker (14:52.846)

Mm-mm.

 

Chris Alexander (15:01.062)

whereas Republicans are much more deceptive in terms of their betrayal of the citizens. And so you have to watch them much, much more closely because they understand that they have a vested interest often in concealing what they're really doing in the legislature from their own voters because they know that they couldn't be reelected if their voters knew often what they're actually doing. And that's the reason why we exist, to keep track of all this and to make sure that their voters

 

do know what's really going on.

 

Danielle Walker (15:32.77)

And I think that's the danger of having such a deep red state is that these politicians know they can't get elected with a D behind their name in a lot of localities. And so they just switched to Republican, but they keep all of their values. keep all of their, I'll just say values. And then they bring those.

 

But they bring them under the sheen, under the cover of conservatism because that's what got them elected is these conservative talking points. And then they come and behave, you know, according to their values or according to the special interest pressure because they don't have values. And that's the big, I think, danger of Republican dominated states. And it's exactly why we're seeing what we're seeing right now.

 

Chris Alexander (16:14.516)

Yes.

 

Chris Alexander (16:22.9)

Well said.

 

Very well said.

 

Danielle Walker (16:27.022)

And I think it's exactly why we saw what happened in 2020 up till now.

 

Chris Alexander (16:31.762)

Yeah, very well said, Danielle. And again, know, most organizations, they track floor votes, Senate floor votes and House floor votes. They don't really pay too much attention to what goes on in committee. If a bill dies in committee, they don't really talk about that. But we do. In addition to that, those committee votes are so important or those committee absences are so important as well.

 

Additionally, with regard to the floor of votes, which we also follow, it's not only important to know who votes for and against important legislation, it's important to track who wasn't there for the vote. And if there's a pattern of absences, one of the ways that these Republicans try to conceal what they're really doing is simply by not being there for the vote. Because again, the tracking organizations usually just track

 

Danielle Walker (17:15.212)

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (17:29.172)

who voted for and who voted against. And they usually don't follow who wasn't there. We follow who wasn't there, as in the case of HB 685, where there was 10 or 11 Republicans in a relatively close vote on a very important bill who were not there for the vote. And I won't give many of them the benefit of the doubt, as you said, Danielle, but when the ones who were absent for HB 685 were present at the vote immediately preceding that,

 

Danielle Walker (17:46.69)

Yeah. Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (17:58.932)

that does raise some suspicion as to why they were not there for that vote.

 

Danielle Walker (18:03.042)

Yeah. And I think Chris, one other aspect that we'll be tracking, we do track that other groups do not track is decorum. Are you just straight up rude to people who come and testify? Are you straight up rude unnecessarily to your colleagues? That's something that matters to me. I think it matters to you. And it's something that we will be reporting on whenever we see it, we'll call it out.

 

Chris Alexander (18:26.066)

And it's very important to do that. It's possible to engage in vigorous and heated debate and keep it on the issues.

 

Danielle Walker (18:33.228)

Yeah, be respectful. That's it. All right, Chris. Well, OK. Also happening today after our long little rabbit trail there, House and Governmental Affairs at 930 in Room 2 is Senator Alan Seabaugh's SB 109. And this is his constitutional amendment, our proposed constitutional amendment to provide for foreign donations and elections, just keeping foreign donations out of elections.

 

And I find it very hysterical that Senator Seabaugh is bringing this and he cares so deeply about keeping foreign interference out of our elections, but doesn't seem to care or actually vigorously, vigorously defends the right to keep foreign interference in our elections through the voting computers.

 

Chris Alexander (19:19.73)

Yeah, there's a real dichotomy there for sure. And I think it's simply because Senator Seabaugh doesn't believe really in the face of overwhelming evidence at this point that computer-based voting systems are subject to malicious hacking and fraud and switching of election results, despite what President Trump has said, despite what Tulsi Gabbard has said, despite what Elon Musk has said, that these computer-based voting systems are not only hackable, but

 

have been hacked and are subject to foreign interference. it's a good bill, SB 109, as far as it goes, because it does prohibit foreign money in any facet of our election system in Louisiana. State elections, ballot propositions, all the rest of it, but it does not say anything about the vulnerability of these computer-based voting systems.

 

as it relates to foreign adversaries getting into those systems, intruding into those systems. So you're right. And our system is never going to be complete and invulnerable to foreign interference until we understand how vulnerable the computers are.

 

Danielle Walker (20:33.228)

Chris, it's not a difficult concept, right? mean, anyone who has had their identity stolen, anyone who's had their credit card compromised knows that you can hack just about anything. And if you found out that your credit card was stolen, basically, you know, just online stolen, and people started using it, would you just not call and cancel it? Or would you just let them run up your bill?

 

That's basically the concept.

 

Chris Alexander (21:03.078)

Yeah, that's exactly right. And the idea, Danielle, I know we've talked about this before, the idea that a piece of paper, paper component, as our secretary of state calls it, that is spit out by a hackable, vulnerable machine or computer, that that is reliable and that that makes our elections truly auditable is a joke. It's an absolute joke.

 

But Nancy Landry is trying to align herself or suggest that she's aligned with the vision of the Trump administration, despite President Trump's EOs that are raising powerful alarms against these computer-based voting systems. She thinks because a piece of paper is spit out of a computer, that that makes our elections secure. And it's very important for our listeners to understand that it does not.

 

Danielle Walker (21:56.718)

And I'm not sure she thinks it does, Chris. I think that she thinks that may be palatable to voters. But I, you know, and maybe she can, she can convince us that that is auditable, but I don't, I'm not convinced that she truly believes it's auditable. Anyway. All right. Also today in House administration of criminal justice at 10 o'clock, we have House Bill 457 by Representative Denise Marcel. This is her solitary confinement bill.

 

Chris Alexander (22:10.386)

And you're probably right.

 

Chris Alexander (22:24.284)

Yeah, and we asked Representative Marcel to include in that bill faith materials when an inmate is in solitary confinement. She said she included that in the bill. It's going before criminal justice in the House this morning, and we support that legislation.

 

Danielle Walker (22:40.652)

Yeah. All right. There's a lot up for final passage today on the house side. First up is House Bill 75 by Representative Danny McCormick. And this is related to compensation for CCS pipeline people who have the pipeline on their property, right?

 

Chris Alexander (23:00.126)

That's correct. And basically what what representative McCormick's bill says is that if a person is does not opt in for the pipeline, in other words, does not voluntarily allow their land to be seized or used for carbon capture and sequestration pipelines and ends up being forced into what they call the unit, which is all affected landowners. If they hold out.

 

and ultimately they're forced into the unit, they cannot be penalized in any way in terms of the compensation that they receive for having to surrender their land. In fact, the bill guarantees that they receive maximum compensation, and that's why it's an important bill.

 

Danielle Walker (23:44.59)

Yeah, it's an important bill because our legislators won't do the right thing or have yet to do the right thing.

 

Chris Alexander (23:48.476)

Yeah, yeah, this is a band aid, but it is a band aid that is helpful. Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (23:55.564)

Yeah, and necessary. All right. Also up today for vote on the House floor is House Bill 160 by Representative Kelly Hennessy Dickerson. And this is her ethics complaints bill.

 

Chris Alexander (24:08.296)

Yeah, and this is a bill that, Representative Hennessey, as we talked about before, Danielle, was very amenable to our suggestion that she include in this bill whistleblower language to protect people who make a complaint to the ethics board against a public official or anyone else for that matter, are not subject to any kind of retaliation.

 

So the bill does two things. The bill makes the complainant no longer anonymous. So they have to disclose their identity at some point in the process. And to counterbalance that, there's a pretty strong provision against any sort of retaliation against the complainant. And the complainant, can bring suit and there are other penalties in the bill to protect the complainant from retaliation.

 

Danielle Walker (24:58.902)

There's a couple good bills this session to tighten up the way the ethics board is handled. So I appreciate this one being brought by Representative Dickerson. Next up is House Bill 405 by Representative Matthew Willard. This one is requiring the Secretary of State to provide some updates with relate to any laws that are passed that affect the way our elections are run.

 

Chris Alexander (25:21.34)

Yeah, it's a transparency bill that requires the Secretary of State to be open and fully disclosed prominently changes in our election laws. One of the things that you suggested to me, Danielle, that needs to be included in this bill is a specific provision with regard to procurement where the Secretary of State has to be very transparent about the

 

Danielle Walker (25:40.707)

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (25:47.412)

process whereby she is trying to secure a new voting system for our state because there's no more important issue. When are the meetings, when are the public meetings, Secretary Landry? What are you going to be discussing at these meetings with regard to the procurement process? At what stage of the process are you in? When will the public have an opportunity to come in and make their opinions known and felt about how we feel about the proposed new system?

 

because she has not been fully transparent on this issue or really on a number of other issues related to our election system. So I think it's important to add a provision in this bill that requires her to be fully transparent with regard to the procurement process.

 

Danielle Walker (26:32.386)

Yeah, and I think fair notice for all those public meetings as well, related whether it's related to the procurement process, which is first and foremost in terms of importance, but any public meetings, can't just give people, I mean, people need fair notice to be able to show up from all over the state.

 

Chris Alexander (26:50.772)

Of course they do and they would show up if they had the notice.

 

Danielle Walker (26:56.654)

Yeah. All right. House Bill 400 is also up today for final vote on the House floor and that's Representative Genevieve's parental consent for minors. This hopefully is not going to be too controversial today. Chris, you have any predictions on this one?

 

Chris Alexander (27:12.02)

I think it should pass. there won't be too many absent Republicans. Can you imagine, once again, Danielle, can you imagine Republicans either voting no or being absent on a bill that simply, as a broad rule, requires that parents or guardians of minors be notified and consent to major surgical procedures or medical services provided to their minor children?

 

Danielle Walker (27:17.144)

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (27:39.636)

Would you ever think that we would be living in an age when you would have to wonder about whether Republicans are going to vote for that bill or show up for that important vote? I don't think so. Yeah. But we're going to be watching it very, very closely. I believe it's going to pass and I certainly hope it does and it should pass overwhelmingly.

 

Danielle Walker (27:51.276)

Yeah, I'm done with the party system. No, yeah, yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (28:02.88)

It should, yeah. And honestly, bipartisanly.

 

Chris Alexander (28:06.504)

Well, exactly. mean, there are some good Democrats. You and I have found ourselves on a number of occasions on the side of the Democrats on certain bills that are very, very important. So I think that Democrats, a number of Democrats may come on board and vote in favor of this.

 

Danielle Walker (28:22.924)

Yeah, several passed in favor, several voted in favor in committee. So I think, I think we can expect that. Yeah. All right. Senate final passage today. we have SB 80, which is Senator Greg Miller, one of, who continues to surprise me, not in a good way, his exit polling bill that he is caring for secretary Landry to silence the voice of the people at the polls.

 

Chris Alexander (28:51.688)

Yeah, there are exactly. the bill, our listeners know, SB 80, prohibits regular citizens from conducting exit polls. And it reserves that quote unquote right to bona fide news gathering organizations like CNN. You know, CNN, how much we trust CNN and how much we believe that they're always telling us the truth. They're the only ones now who will be able to do exit polls, lawful exit polls.

 

And by the way, I went back and did some research on this, Danielle, looked at the Texas law and other states. There are very few states that have any major restrictions on people being able to do exit polls. Most of the states, it's a hundred yards. If you're non disruptive and you're simply asking questions about how a person voted voluntarily, then you can do an exit poll. And there's not one state

 

Danielle Walker (29:26.498)

Mm-hmm.

 

Chris Alexander (29:50.226)

that I found that makes a distinction between ordinary law abiding citizens and bona fide news organizations. So if this bill passes, we're going to be the only state in the country that specifically prohibits law abiding citizens from conducting exit polls. And the reason for this, the reason why Secretary Landrieu is pushing this bill so hard is not because she's concerned about disruptions.

 

not because she's concerned about voters being harassed. That's a complete joke. The reason why she doesn't want citizens there doing exit polls is because she does not want the myth that our computer-based voting system is safe and secure to be exploded by the gathering of real data at voting precincts about how people actually voted and then comparing it against the official results from that precinct or other precincts.

 

That's really what's going on here. Nancy Landry does not want any suspicion raised about computer-based voting systems on which she is running at lightning speed to spend $150 million of our tax dollars on that. So that's what this is all about. It's an unconstitutional restriction of speech. It's an unconstitutional restriction of freedom of association. And it's just a deplorable piece of legislation.

 

and it's going for final vote on the Senate floor today. Now it still has to go over to the House after that, but we have a strong call to action up on this. So if you care about your free speech, and Danielle, I don't mean to go on too much about this, but a lot of people may look at this and say, why is this a big deal? I don't do exit polls. The reason why it's a big deal is that this is how

 

Danielle Walker (31:20.718)

Yeah, Senate floor.

 

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (31:42.484)

Liberty is ultimately lost if you don't stand up and oppose on principle a blatantly unconstitutional restriction of free speech and freedom of association Then it only gets larger and larger and larger and that's why James Madison said that it is it is a Death by a thousand cuts. We don't wait until the last minute to stand up for our freedom We need to do it right now as a matter of principle and precedent

 

Danielle Walker (32:11.158)

Right. And as much as I hate those billboards, you know, the ambulance chasing billboards that line the interstates across our state, it does it. There's a two edged sword with our eagerness to litigate. And I bet there are any number of attorneys who would be happy to take this on should it make it all the way through. This is going to get this is going to have suit so fast and so hard. I mean, of course,

 

it ultimately only cost us. So when our legislature passes unconstitutional bills, we're the ones who pay. We pay for the attorney's on the litigant side, right? We pay for the attorney's fees on the defendant's side. Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (32:54.718)

For the defense? Yeah, exactly. No question about it. So it's just bad all the way around. It's bad constitutionally, it's bad fiscally, and it's just bad policy.

 

Danielle Walker (33:06.318)

Yeah, I do wish we could get a lot of those criminal defense attorneys who are who are focused on accidents and insurance claims to focus more on suing for unconstitutional bills. I bet we'd have a lot smaller Constitution. I we'd have a lot fewer, you know, a lot thinner bureaucracy in our state. Yeah. All right. Next up Senate Bill 117 by Senator Blake Miguez. This is his bill that would ban ultra processed food in schools.

 

Chris Alexander (33:20.787)

Yeah.

 

Chris Alexander (33:25.236)

I think you're right.

 

Chris Alexander (33:36.434)

Yeah, and this bill should not have any trouble passing. It's similar to Senator McMath's bill. Get the junk out of the food. There are a lot of kids in this state who eat breakfast and lunch at school. Give them healthy options. know, that's, that's, this is, this is a no brainer. You know, especially when you consider the obesity epidemic, Danielle, the chronic disease epidemic among our youth, ADHD.

 

Danielle Walker (34:02.368)

ADHD.

 

Chris Alexander (34:05.039)

Give them healthy options to eat. can't imagine why anybody would oppose this.

 

Danielle Walker (34:09.836)

Yeah. How about only healthy options?

 

Chris Alexander (34:12.154)

only healthy options.

 

Danielle Walker (34:14.414)

Yeah. All right. Next up, Senate Bill 39 by Senator Jay Morris. This is his bill that essentially would say that it's you have no recourse if we if we hold you past your out date in prison.

 

Chris Alexander (34:31.348)

Fortunately, Danielle, because of a lot of concerns raised by us and others, this bill has been gutted to significant degree. So it's not nearly as nefarious as it was before. In original form, the bill would have essentially immunized the state from liability for their own errors, for keeping inmates in jail well past their out date, which is false imprisonment. It's unconstitutional. It's illegal. But instead of correcting the problem,

 

They want to immunize the people who create the problem. Now, fortunately, a lot of the immunity provisions have been cut out of the bill now because of concerns, as I said, but it's still not needed. The legislation is not needed. The process whereby an inmate can get some relief for a flagrant violation of their liberty and their freedom is already onerous enough, and it doesn't need to be made more onerous through this legislation. So, you know, I...

 

Danielle Walker (35:27.512)

Yeah. You know what's ironic? Okay, so we have all these tough on crime Republicans, right? Especially in our executive branch, but also in the legislature. And then we have the biggest jailbreak making national news in New Orleans right now with 10 escapees. Why don't you focus on the criminals you have already detained? Why don't you focus on getting them out of there on time?

 

Chris Alexander (35:29.212)

We obviously, yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (35:57.164)

rehabilitating them, making sure that there is not a giant hole in the cinder block that entire groups of men can escape from. Why don't you focus on that? This is an embarrassment. Our state is a laughing stock right now and we're still doubling down to be tough on crime. It's ridiculous. I was wondering whenever I saw the faces, the mugshots of those 10 men flash up on the screen, some of whom look very scary by the way, how many of them?

 

have actually should already be out.

 

Chris Alexander (36:29.33)

Well, I don't know. Let's assume for a minute that none of them should be out. And they probably are all legitimately incarcerated. So instead of keeping in prison inmates who have served their time and paid their dues weeks and months and years after their outdates, which invites lawsuits, which we pay for, instead of that, why don't you try to keep in jail

 

Danielle Walker (36:37.378)

Yeah, I'm sure.

 

Chris Alexander (36:57.864)

the hardened criminals who actually belong there instead of letting them escape. That's a great point, Danielle. Maybe we refocus our priorities a bit here.

 

Danielle Walker (37:06.83)

Yeah, well, maybe some of our, what happens maybe, Chris, if Emily Shenevere's bill passes and we get some of the DEI out of some of these different agencies, maybe we'll have better managed agencies.

 

Chris Alexander (37:21.352)

You know what? And I never even thought about that, but there is a very powerful connection between the diversity, equity and inclusion and the lack of merit based performance evaluations and hiring and that sort of thing. And the inefficiency with which so many of our public agencies are run, Danielle, because it's not about merit. It's not about excellence very often. It's about political correctness, which breeds uniform mediocrity.

 

Danielle Walker (37:39.714)

Yeah. Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (37:49.678)

Yeah, it does. All right, next up, Senate Bill 214. This is by Senator Royce Du Plessis. This would basically give the right, so it would make it so that Commissioner of Insurance is no longer an elected position, but instead is appointed by the governor. This is tiring. This is really tiring. Obviously, is the pet of the governor, this bill.

 

Chris Alexander (38:12.2)

Yeah, really is.

 

Chris Alexander (38:18.484)

Why should the Commissioner of Insurance, a statewide elected position, not be subject to direct vote of the people? I don't care what other states are doing. They're not Louisiana. And if this were going on in those states and I lived there, I would be opposed to this as well. I mean, why do you single out the Commissioner of Insurance? He should be directly accountable to the people, just like the governor, just like any other statewide elected official. But this bill will make

 

the commissioner of insurance appointed by the governor by way of a nominating committee, the speaker of the house, the president of the Senate, the attorney general and other agencies get to put forward nominees and the governor chooses the commissioner of insurance from among that list. And first of all, it should be elected, as I said, an elected position. And secondly, why are we

 

advancing legislation that increases the power of the executive branch in the state of Louisiana. When the governor and the executive branch generally already have disproportionate power under our constitutional and political system, why would we be doing that instead of decreasing and diminishing the power of the executive? The very reason why the legislature does not routinely exercise vigorous oversight as it's supposed to do over the executive branch is because they're afraid of the governor.

 

They're afraid of reprisal, which often is legitimate fear, that there will be reprisal if they oppose him. doesn't justify their inaction by any means, but that's the reality of it. So why would we be increasing his power? It doesn't make any sense. It's SB 214, and by the way, this is being brought by a Democrat, Royce Duplessis, who's about as far left.

 

Danielle Walker (39:51.182)

So suck it up and take it, suck it up and take it. No.

 

Danielle Walker (40:00.918)

right? No.

 

Chris Alexander (40:09.766)

in the state Senate as you can get. I can't think of anybody right off who is more left than Royce DuPlessis. This is the same state senator who wanted to decriminalize male adult prostitution in Louisiana, I think a couple of years ago, which failed, fortunately, once we brought the committee's attention to what exactly the bill did. But the bottom line is this is a terrible bill. don't know because Governor Landry, you know, you'll never be able to trace this to him.

 

Danielle Walker (40:22.702)

prostitution.

 

Yeah, yeah, I did. Yeah. Brought it to light.

 

Chris Alexander (40:40.072)

But I would be very surprised and I'd bet you nine cents to a dime that Governor Landry is behind this legislation.

 

Danielle Walker (40:47.438)

Well, I would hope, Chris, that some Democrats on the House side or even in the Senate would take opposition to this. And I would like to see this amended so that instead of, you know, the governor having the authority to appoint the insurance commissioner, simply that the insurance commissioner should have some experience in insurance, because I believe Tim Temple is the first insurance commissioner we've had in decades, if not longer, who actually

 

comes from the industry. And I'm not saying they need to necessarily come from the industry, but they need to have some level, a deep level of familiarity with it so that they can do the negotiating in an educated manner. Whether it's someone who's worked on it from a contracting side or someone who's worked with insurance companies from a legal side, I think those would be reasonable requirements for the position.

 

Chris Alexander (41:41.648)

Exactly. And Danielle, final point on this from my perspective. Can you imagine right now if we had a system where the commissioner of insurance was appointed by Governor Landry? so let's just say hypothetically, our current commissioner had been appointed by Governor Landry. Instead of having a vigorous debate among the governor and the commissioner of insurance about the best way to go about solving our insurance problems in Louisiana.

 

we would have a commissioner insurance that is simply rubber stamping and doing the bidding of the governor. That's what would be occurring right now. And that is the danger of what will happen if we come to a point where the governor is appointing the commissioner of insurance in Louisiana.

 

Danielle Walker (42:16.686)

You're exactly right.

 

Danielle Walker (42:26.68)

Well, that's clearly what the governor wants, Chris. That's clearly what he wants for nearly every position because that's what we're seeing is a strong push to continue to give more and more power to the executive. It's unbelievable. It's absolutely unbelievable. anyone who understands federalism, as you've said many times on this show, anyone who understands a government of, by, and for the people,

 

Chris Alexander (42:40.165)

Exactly.

 

Danielle Walker (42:54.316)

would not want that. And I had high hopes, Chris, that when Governor Landry came in, that he would have the courage and actually the will, the tenacity, the foresight to start diminishing the power of the executive while he sat there. Wouldn't that be a beautiful thing?

 

Chris Alexander (43:09.917)

Yeah, it would have been very Marcus Aurelius-like, who was a great, great leader of the Roman Empire for 17 or 18 years. And yet he was very humble, very statesman-like, and never allowed that power to go to his head, and really did make the country and the empire much more efficient and much less corrupt.

 

You go back, Daniel, and you look at Governor Landry's inaugural address, and I've gone back and read his inaugural address a couple of times now. And it's very statesman-like in the way that it's written, in the ideals that are articulated. And then you go and contrast that with the way he has governed. the discrepancy between the two is shocking. And maybe it shouldn't be at this point, but...

 

But it is. But anyway.

 

Danielle Walker (44:05.592)

All right. Yeah. Okay. Next up for Senate, is this Senate floor debate today? Yeah, Senate floor debate today is Senate Bill 216 by Senator Valerie Hodges. This is her contract bidding for DOTD to discourage delays and incentivize the early completion of road construction projects. Hopefully you're not expecting too much opposition to this one, Chris.

 

Chris Alexander (44:31.656)

I don't think so. And I know this is one of your favorite bills because the bill creates real incentives for it finish the state road projects timely and disincentives not to. And God knows we need it. Do we not need more efficiency in our DOTD when it comes to completing these projects? I mean, I go different places in the state, Danielle, and it seems like they've been working on these things, certain things for years and years and years. And I'm like, why does it take so long to finish these projects?

 

Danielle Walker (44:34.2)

Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (44:55.948)

Because they have.

 

Danielle Walker (45:01.964)

Well, clearly it's got to be perverse incentives and poor oversight. I can't come up with any other reasons.

 

Chris Alexander (45:08.594)

And I think this bill would go a long way in solving that problem.

 

Danielle Walker (45:12.46)

Yeah, I hope so. Also by Senator Hodges, her Senate Bill 226, which we know was slashed with the sword in the committee and gutted out basically everything that was meaningful, that had teeth, that was going to protect our elections and protect our immovable property, was taken out of it. But it looks like her bill is subject to call.

 

We saw Senator Morris and Senator Jay Luna give her a very hard time on the Senate floor with some really just I think just despicable and and I Don't know Disingenuous, I guess is the word I'm looking for questions related related to the nature of her bill

 

Chris Alexander (45:56.04)

Yeah.

 

the bill and Senator Luno and Senator Miller by the way sit on the Miller's the chairman and Luno's on Senate Jude the very committee that gutted SB 226 in original form which would have halted the procurement of computer-based voting systems until President Trump's executive orders the evaluation that he has ordered is completed on these electronic based voting systems and would have allowed expropriation of any property

 

currently owned by a foreign adversary that's located within 50 miles of a critical infrastructure facility. Both of those things were gutted from this bill in committee. So now it's on the Senate floor. I don't even know what's left of it at this point, to be honest with you, Danielle. But the point is, we can't forget what occurred.

 

Danielle Walker (46:49.644)

No, and I'll reiterate a point I made last week, Chris, which is this is this, think, in the four year span of the legislators term, right, we're in the second year. So this is the year in a way that's furthest from any election. So this is the year they think they can go rogue. They think they can not necessarily be held to account for the way that they vote. But they are sorely, sorely mistaken if they think that's true.

 

Chris Alexander (47:16.083)

Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (47:16.258)

because we are watching them and we will not forget their behavior because next year, coming the summer, they're gonna be starting to campaign for reelection. And guess who's gonna be blasting them into next week, into next year, into the next decade? That's gonna be us.

 

Chris Alexander (47:31.636)

That's going to be us because we're documenting it all right now and we will remind the voters, just as we're reminding everybody right now, Danielle, about what they're doing. But at election time, it'll be prominently displayed. There's no question about that because it has to be.

 

Danielle Walker (47:40.93)

Yeah. Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (47:50.754)

Yeah, yeah. So that's my shot across the bow that I'll keep making, reminding people. We will not forget. All right, next up on Wednesday, tomorrow's a big day too, Chris. It's not quite as bad as last week, thankfully. first up in, excuse me, Senate and Governmental Affairs.

 

There is a House Bill 216 by Representative Steve Jackson. This is his bill that would simply mandate that the Board of Ethics meetings be recorded publicly and broadcast publicly.

 

Chris Alexander (48:28.66)

and they should be. And it's a good bill and we're going to be supporting it.

 

Danielle Walker (48:30.902)

Yes, they absolutely should be. Yep. All right. Next is House Bill 577 by Representative Darryl Deshotel This is about procurement for voting systems. This is basically giving Secretary of State Nancy Landry everything she wants with a cherry on top.

 

Chris Alexander (48:49.324)

Yes, this is one of a number of pieces of legislation being strongly pushed by the Secretary of State to allow her to streamline this procurement process, to make it easier and quicker for her to write the check for $150 million worth of computer-based voting systems. That's what this bill does. It's a dangerous bill, HB 577, and we are opposing it and we have a strong call to action up.

 

Right now at lacag.org Action Center on 577, we encourage everyone to go and do that call to action immediately.

 

Danielle Walker (49:25.686)

Yeah, and I can think of any number, literally countless areas of our government that could use streamlining and this is not one of them.

 

Chris Alexander (49:33.416)

This is absolutely not one of them because right now under the normal procurement process, Danielle, it requires competitive bidding. It requires a protracted process to make sure that what we invest in with regard to our voting system is secure, is reliable, is safe. It's extremely important. Well, she wants to streamline that whole process, vest herself with almost plenary authority, with very little oversight to go forward and do whatever she wants to do.

 

And 577 is one bill that would allow that to happen. And it's a very, very, very important that everyone go do this call to action on HB 577.

 

Danielle Walker (50:12.706)

Yeah. Also up is House Bill 590 by Representative Annie Spell. And this is the House companion bill, the statutory companion bill to Senator Seabass bill to keep foreign funds out of our elections.

 

Chris Alexander (50:25.362)

Yes, this is a good bill. I'll just say the same thing about this that I did about Senator Seabaugh's bill. These bills should be addressing the vulnerabilities of the computer-based voting systems as well. If we're trying to protect our elections from foreign adversaries, it's not complete without a strong provisions related to computer voting in Louisiana. We do support the bill. It's good as far as it goes. It just doesn't go far enough.

 

Danielle Walker (50:45.868)

Yeah. Yeah.

 

Yeah, absolutely. All right, Chris. what, it's called single object, right? Single object, that's been the terminology they like to use whenever, the critical infrastructure bill that Senator Hodges brought. I just feel like that could come back around to bite them. We'll see. All right.

 

Chris Alexander (50:59.869)

Yeah, yeah.

 

HB.

 

Chris Alexander (51:12.114)

Yeah, you're talking about HP 471.

 

Danielle Walker (51:16.0)

I was talking about her Senate Bill 226 that they gutted because they said that it was not single object, but yeah, dual object. I think that it can still be single object if they were able to, if someone had the bravery, the fortitude to suggest an amendment to include keeping foreign voting components, foreign mechanical and software components out of our.

 

Chris Alexander (51:21.46)

dual object. The dual object. Yeah.

 

Danielle Walker (51:45.463)

election systems.

 

Chris Alexander (51:45.948)

Yeah, and Danielle, the reason why they used the dual object objection in Senate Juday as a pretext to take all the secretary of state provisions out of it, all the election provisions out of it, because that dealt with elections and other part of the bill dealt with other infrastructure issues. But the bottom line is it's not a dual object because the fundamental thing that all the issues had in common was it all dealt with critical infrastructure. That's why it was in the same bill.

 

Danielle Walker (51:54.924)

Yeah, 100%.

 

Chris Alexander (52:15.536)

and it should have remained there.

 

Danielle Walker (52:18.094)

Yeah, it should have remained there. All right. Next up, House Health and Welfare on Wednesday. We have a lot of good bills that are moving close to getting close to the final to the final resting place. We have I mean that in a positive sense, not in a negative sense. Senate Bill 2 by Senator Mike Facey. This is his bill to get fluoride out of our water systems. Praise the Lord.

 

Chris Alexander (52:42.388)

Praise the Lord for that. Let's get it out. There is, as we talked about before, Danielle, there is an amendment in the bill that would allow local jurisdictions by vote of 15 % to put it on a parish-wide ballot to put the fluoride back in if they wanted to. But the presumption is that it's going out. We don't think there's going to be a problem with it. And everybody knows how detrimental all this fluoride is in our water.

 

Danielle Walker (53:12.748)

Yeah, the only thing I take issue with Chris on this one is its effective date is August 1st. I think that it should be effective immediately. There's no need for once this bill passes for them to continue to poison us.

 

Chris Alexander (53:24.756)

I agree. So it's permissible to poison us for another five or six months.

 

Danielle Walker (53:29.91)

Right. Yeah. OK. Next up, Senate Bill 14 by Senator Patrick McMath. This is his his maha bill, basically make make Louisiana healthy again, getting a lot of dyes and garbage out of the school food, food, meals.

 

Chris Alexander (53:47.162)

very similar to Senator Miguez bill and we support it for the same reasons.

 

Danielle Walker (53:51.97)

Yeah. Also up in the same committee is Senate Bill 19 by Senator Facy, and this is his ivermectin being able to be dispensed without a prescription.

 

Chris Alexander (54:04.172)

Very, very important bill, very important bill. And, you know, we have a call to action up on SB 19 right now. A lot of people have responded to it. A lot of people are very interested in this bill and most people are supporting it. And I can't imagine a reason why anybody would not be.

 

Danielle Walker (54:27.234)

Yeah. And last but not least, set for House floor debate tomorrow is House Bill 601 by Representative Brett Gaiman. And this is his bill about eminent domain rules for carbon capture.

 

Chris Alexander (54:41.338)

Interestingly, Danielle, as I may have said on the last show, I can't remember, but this bill, which would require a landowner to consent and agree to having carbon capture sequestration pipelines on their land, he doesn't know for sure now if he has the Republican votes to pass this bill.

 

Danielle Walker (55:05.206)

Unbelievable.

 

Chris Alexander (55:05.923)

You know, that simply it's a bill that would protect fundamental private property rights in Louisiana from carbon capture sequestration pipelines against a landowner's will. And he doesn't know for sure if he has the votes, which is why I think he had to move it from yesterday to Wednesday. And we have to continue. We have a call to action up on this one as well. So please go do this call to action. These people respond to a lot of public pressure from the citizens.

 

And often, you said earlier, Danielle, that's the only thing they respond to. But if HB 601 does not pass, we are going to be documenting meticulously the Republicans who voted against this or the Republicans who were absent for this legislation.

 

Danielle Walker (55:49.696)

Yeah. And Chris, on that note, we have a guest coming on Thursday morning for our show. Her name is Carla Limbs. She is a sitting representative in the South Dakota legislature. She's running for lieutenant governor of South Dakota. And she, along with many others, led the charge in South Dakota to make it so that eminent domain was not allowed for corporate takeover of private property for carbon capture.

 

So it will be a very interesting conversation with her on Thursday. I think very enlightening. think, you know, we've actually shared some swamp creatures here in Louisiana have taken in some of South Dakota's swamp creatures. had that conversation with her on the phone yesterday. So maybe she'll also share a little bit about that with us.

 

Chris Alexander (56:35.452)

Yes, you can share some swamp creatures and Danielle, I want to remind our listeners in South Dakota, there was a crop of Republicans that killed eminent domain, very similar legislation that good conservatives are trying to pass here in Louisiana. It was killed in South Dakota a couple of years ago and that crop of Republicans were punished severely by the citizens at the voting booth.

 

13 or 14 Republicans were swept out of office. The very ones who opposed that legislation brought in a new crop and they passed the legislation right now that exists in South Dakota, which is the law prohibiting eminent domain for carbon capture. So who knows what may happen here in Louisiana, but I guarantee you our citizens have our eyes on it.

 

Danielle Walker (57:28.258)

Yeah, because the truth is what we've been saying, Chris. No one, no one who's looking at this issue honestly wants this.

 

Chris Alexander (57:36.852)

The only people who want this are the people who see billions of dollars of our tax dollars and billions of dollars worth of 45 Q tax credits, which also is our money, and they want to make money. They don't they don't even care whether or not this is actually something that's necessary or scientifically grounded or actually will help the environment. In fact, Danielle, if you watched the people.

 

who opposed all this CCS legislation in our own legislature this session, very, very rarely, if ever, do you hear the argument based on the environmental good of carbon capture sequestration. You hardly ever hear it. Even they know it's a fraud. Even they know it's a scam. The argument that they make is, well, it's going to bring jobs. It's going to bring jobs. Yeah, it's going to bring jobs that are propped up and paid for.

 

with our money. That's what it's going to do. Those are not legitimate private enterprise jobs. This enterprise would fall flat on its face if it were not for federal tax subsidies and our direct tax dollars. And they know that too. So the whole thing is a complete scam being perpetrated on our citizens. And you get back to 601 here, Danielle, which is the most important piece of legislation right now that will give the citizens some protection.

 

Danielle Walker (58:49.742)

That's right.

 

Chris Alexander (59:04.954)

against imminent domain for these pipelines. 601. We're going to be keeping a very close eye on this. And I hope the Republicans already have learned a lesson, the ones who opposed the CCS legislation originally in committee. And I hope they come on board and do what they need to do to pass this legislation and get it to the governor's desk.

 

Danielle Walker (59:24.492)

Yeah, I hope so too. I absolutely hope so too, because I don't think we need to, this is very much like the cockroach bill. This is not a bill that we need to be fighting every session. There's important things that we need to do. Let's get this passed. Let's protect the citizens. Let's listen to the voice of the people and let's move forward.

 

Chris Alexander (59:43.924)

Exactly. Let's just do it and just do your duty. Just do your duty. That's all we're asking. We're not asking for anything else. Just honor the Constitution and do your duty.

 

Danielle Walker (59:55.906)

That's right. Well, everyone, please go to the CAG.org LACAG.org and do those calls to action this morning. You can do them once a day. So maybe you just want to set a reminder on your calendar to go to the CAG every day and do your calls to action. Make sure that your legislators hear from you loud and clear, because then they will have no excuse on how they voted. Also, if you would visit us over at freedom state.us, you can support some of our

 

Some of our sponsors and affiliate partners would appreciate that. And Chris, I know you got to be released to go run down to the Capitol. You're probably running late as it is.

 

Chris Alexander (01:00:34.58)

Yeah, I'm running a little bit late, but don't worry. Party can't start till a CAG gets there. But I do want to reiterate your encouragement, for everyone to subscribe, share the state of freedom. Communication is so important. And the more broadly we are able to communicate and share critical information across the state, the more informed we're going to be, the better educated we're going to be, the more wisely we're going to vote, and ultimately the better government.

 

Danielle Walker (01:00:38.754)

Well, that's right.

 

Chris Alexander (01:01:03.56)

we're going to have. So please share and subscribe to the State of Freedom and tell all your family and friends about it because you're not going to find a platform like this one. I promise you. Danielle, have a great day. Love you and we shall meet again.

 

Danielle Walker (01:01:19.97)

Yep, see you on Thursday morning, Chris. Bright and early, all right.

 

Chris Alexander (01:01:21.928)

Sounds good.