Looks like a victory for JBE.
My reaction would be that I don't care, because Bel Edwards might as well be a Republican.
John Bel Edwards might as well be a Republican.
Because of the abortion thing? Let’s be honest—that was going to pass with or without his signature. He made the right calculus in throwing a big red meat issue to his conservative constituency in a high profile way, kinda like how Manchin shot the ACA in his 2010 was the right call.
He’s pretty much a standard Dem on non-social issues
Even then, he's been pretty good on LGBT issues so it's not as if he's uniformly socially conservative. Abortion seems to be the only thing he's conservative on, and a lot of Louisiana Democratic politicians are.
