Sun Wukong said

This guy hates educators even beyond the usual conservative talking points. He is going to make our lives hell for as long as he is governor. The only thing that *might* create a firewall is if the local hick reps and senators start to get push back locally as boards of education tend to be big central employers, especially in rural districts. But we're a long way off from that happening, if ever.

I'm effectively dead inside anyway. I'm prepared for the worst.

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But Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, said that action could “open the floodgates” to other amendments to protect additional items in the constitution to win the votes of other lawmakers.

His prediction came true on Tuesday. Before approving HB 800, House members approved amendments that instruct delegates to not touch pensions for retired state workers and school employees and supplemental pay for local law enforcement officials.

Several critics of HB 800 warned their colleagues that the bill cannot protect any specific items in the constitution during the convention, despite the amendments.

Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, likened the protective language in HB 800 to “a pinkie swear,” meaning that it’s nothing more than a promise.​

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