LA Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Clean Water Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted

[LymphocyteLover]

https://www.essence.com/news/louisiana-governor-withholding-water-infrastructure-funds-reproductive-rights/

In September, the city of New Orleans and some surrounding parishes in south Louisiana began to prepare for at least three months of saltwater intrusion in the local water supply. President Joe Biden then declared the crisis a federal emergency and authorized funding for FEMA and other state agencies to mitigate the burgeoning crisis.

While months of extreme, record-high heat and lack of rainfall in and around the Crescent City are responsible for the crisis, some are pointing at current Louisiana Attorney General and Louisiana governor-elect Jeff Landry as partially responsible for the city’s ability to address the now circumvented crisis, as well as the decayed state of the city’s entire water infrastructure. Landry personally solicited the Louisiana State Bond Commission last year to withhold millions in funding from the New Orleans Sewage and Water Board due to the city government’s refusal to arrest and prosecute women in the wake of Louisiana’s total ban on abortion. The New Orleans Sewage and Water Board remains in desperate need of funding to tackle necessary repairs to its four water intake structures—one of which that has been inoperable for 34 years.

It's hard to describe how evil this is

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Just when you think their depravity can't get any worse.

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. How many nights did this evil asshole have to lie awake

to think this crap up? WOW. I just have to wonder what kind of wolves raised him.

[Deuxcents]

3. Vote these people out! This is cruelty and needs to stop

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

16. In Louisiana?

Good luck with that. They care more about their hate than they do about clean water.

[Chi67]

4. WOW

Now I hope I have heard it all, but somehow I doubt it! This is absolutely insane. No one in the GQP can be trusted. They ALL need to be voted out next November!

[mountain grammy]

5. Unimaginable

I can’t believe this.

[malaise]

6. Effin evil

That is all

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. That makes sense.

Deprive everyone of clean water because a minority of women get abortions.

I hope they all gag on the water.

[Initech]

8. What a truly evil piece of shit!

[Bev54]

9. And yet they elect him to higher office

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Sounds like grounds for impeachment. File the paperwork. What a callous bastard. nt

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

17. Like that will ever happen in Louisiana

Expecting that is, to put it kindly, delusional.

It's not the most corrupt state in the Union for nothing, you know.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. that's a real shame, sincerely

[byronius]

11. That's a guy headin' fer the hot place.

Along with most ‘conservatives’.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

18. You haven't been to Louisiana, have you?

It *is* the 'hot place.'

And hell doesn't exist, but are you proud of advocating for permanent torture? It's only the worst evil imaginable.

[byronius]

22. I spent my early childhood there.

But then moved to Saudi Arabia.

I tend to think hell is a place without books.

But — I getcha.

[niyad]

12. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[ecstatic]

13. Governor-elect as in just voted in to office?

At what point is it okay to start using the no pity smiley? We are almost 18 months post-roe and motherfuckers are still voting these assclowns in? Wake the fuck up!

[intheflow]

14. tHe UNBoRn CHILDRUN!!!

You know what proves the sanctity of life and punish women who want control of their own bodies? Making sure already unwanted babies are born with birth defects due to contaminated water. Sanctity of life my ass.

[onenote]

15. Story is out of date: the funds were approved in September

The State Bond Commission initially voted 7-6 in mid-August to withhold $39 million in funding. However, a month later, in mid-September, the Commission reversed itself and approved the funding.

The initial vote was, indeed, evil and indefensible. But it is important that posts on DU contain timely and accurate information.

[LymphocyteLover]

19. Thanks, I did not know. Still, their new governor is truly a reprehensible dude

[onenote]

20. agreed.