NEW ORLEANS — Politics is often a zero-sum game. So let’s take a look at who won, and who lost, during the just-ended legislative session.
Governor John Bel Edwards is a big winner. He convinced lawmakers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure improvements by breaking a decades-old spending cap. The big loser in that fight was the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republicans who opposed Edwards’ budget plan.
Insurance companies lost big. They wanted to make rate increases easier to get, but consumers won that and other insurance-related fights.
The LGBTQ community also lost. Lawmakers passed several anti-gay and anti-trans bills — but the governor says he’ll veto them all.
That means we could have a veto override session next month. As Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
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