Louisiana onAir

The Louisiana onAir Hub supports Louisianans to become more informed about and engaged in local, state, and federal politics while facilitating more civil and positive discussions with their representatives, candidates, and fellow citizens.

  • Louisiana onAir is one of 50 state governance and elections hubs that the US onAir Network is providing to help reinvigorate US democracy.  This post has short summaries of current state and federal representatives with links to their complete Hub posts.  Students curate post content from government, campaign, social media, and public websites.  Key content on the Louisiana Hub is also replicated on the US onAir nations Hub at: us.onair.cc.
  • Louisiana students will be forming onAir chapters in their colleges and universities to help curate Hub content.  As more students participate and more onAir chapters are started, we will expand to include more state and local content as well as increase the number of aircasts – student-led, livestreamed, online discussions with candidates, representatives, and the public.

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Jeff Landry – LA

Current Position: Louisiana Governor since 2023
Affiliation: Republican

Jeff Landry is an attorney who is the governor-elect of Louisiana, having been elected in 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has served since 2016 as the 45th attorney general of Louisiana and as the U.S. representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013.

Born in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Landry graduated from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. He was a member of the Louisiana National Guard, which he joined while still in high school, for 11 years. While in college, Landry worked as a police officer and sheriff’s deputy

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LA Legislature

The Louisiana State Legislature (French: Législature d’État de Louisiane)[1] is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana State Senate with 39 senators. Members of each house are elected from single-member districts of roughly equal populations.

The State Legislature meets in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

Source: Wikipedia

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Bill Cassidy – LA

Current Position: US Senator since 2015
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: Physician from 1983 – 2015

Cassidy specialized in the treatment of diseases of the liver at the Earl K. Long Medical Center (LSUMC). n 1998, Cassidy helped found the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic to provide uninsured residents of the greater Baton Rouge area with access to free health care.

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FEMA and the federal government shouldn’t be reinventing the wheel after every disaster. I’m working on legislation to ensure we learn from what works and what doesn’t to strengthen our response and better help families recover after natural disasters.

Senator Bill Cassidy gives statement after vote to convict Trump

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John Kennedy – LA

Current Position: US Senator since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue from 1996 – 2015

Kennedy was a partner in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge law firm Chaffe McCall from 1985 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996. He also served as an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center in Baton Rouge from 2002 to 2016.

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Quitting a social media account or web app shouldn’t be hard. My Click to Quit Act would give users a quick and sure way to delete unwanted accounts.

‘One Of My Constituents Got This In The Mail’: John Kennedy Presents Surprising Letter At Hearing

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Louisiana Votes in 2024

Federal & state elections on the ballot:  US Senator, 6 US House members

Ballot measures:

The Louisiana Division of Elections & Voting, part of the Secretary of State, oversees all Louisiana elections.

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Louisiana Collaborators

The US onAir Network will be working with volunteers from Louisiana universities, colleges, and nonprofit organizations to oversee the curation and moderation of posts, aircasts (online discussions), and in person events for the Louisiana onAir Hub …  related to federal, state, and local elections and government.

Our first outreach will be to Louisiana State University partly because of its proximity to the state capital. We have identified many of LSU’s civic engagement, academic, internship and research programs related to making democracy and civic responsibility a focus of higher learning on their campus … for students, faculty, staff, and local community. This post, over time, will have similar information on other collaborating organizations in the state.

Contact ben.murphy@onair.cc for more information on how to involve your organization.

About Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 19th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska). The state’s capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans.

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