Louisiana Democrats endorse 3 Kennedy challengers, bypassing executive committee choice

Aug 14, 2022 View Original Article
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    -12% Somewhat Liberal

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"Lewis, a staffer at the Louisiana Budget Project, said the Public Service Commission has to do a better job of promoting renewable energy."
Positive
22% Conservative
"Keedy joined all Republicans in voting last week against the Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to lower prescription drug costs, boost the effort to curb harmful emissions and promote green technology and to pay for the costs by raising taxes on some billion-dollar corporations."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"He also supported Trump's failed efforts to dismantle Obamacare and voted against President Joe Biden's spending plan to revitalize the national economy and his program to spend $1 trillion to rebuild the country's infrastructure."
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-56% Liberal
"He has Trump's endorsement."
Positive
16% Conservative
"In the three months preceding June 30 alone, Keedy raised $5.5 million."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Syrita Steib attends a meeting of the state Democratic Party, Saturday, August 13, 2022, at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La.The Louisiana Democratic Party capped an afternoon of confusion Saturday by voting to endorse three main challengers to U.S. Sen. John Keedy."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Keedy will be seeking a second six-year term when voters go to the polls on Nov. 8."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Sen. Bill Cassidy, also a Republican, voted for the road work plan."
Positive
0% Conservative
"As of June 30, Keedy had raised $28.2 million compared to only $2.2 million for his main Democratic challengers."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Louisiana Democrats have not sent someone to the U.S. Senate since 2008, Gov. John Bel Edwards is the only statewide elected Democrat and Republicans hold two-thirds of the seats in the state Legislature."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"None of the candidates mentioned the FBI raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump because their video presentations had been recorded beforehand."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"During his first term, Keedy voted for the tax cuts pushed through Congress by then-President Donald Trump that favored big companies."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"During his first term, Keedy voted for the tax cuts pushed through Congress by then-President Donald Trump that favored big companies."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"We are certainly disappointed if not disgusted by the representation of John Keedy, Mixon said."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Mixon is making that vote a prime reason why Keedy ought to be sent home."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The vote means that Chambers, Mixon and Steib all have the party's backing against Keedy, a Republican."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Chambers, during a video presentation, said he would energize voters to defeat Keedy, citing recent elections where half of Black voters stayed home."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Each of the three Democrats faces an uphill battle against Keedy."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"He (Keedy) does a terrible job of making decisions that actually benefit the people of Louisiana, Chambers said in a presentation to Democrats meeting in the House of Representatives chamber in the State Capitol."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Keedy joined all Republicans in voting last week against the Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to lower prescription drug costs, boost the effort to curb harmful emissions and promote green technology and to pay for the costs by raising taxes on some billion-dollar corporations."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Keedy is the only senator ruing for reelection this year who voted against certifying Biden's electors on Jan. 6, after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn the election outcome."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"Keedy is the only senator ruing for reelection this year who voted against certifying Biden's electors on Jan. 6, after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn the election outcome."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"He also supported Trump's failed efforts to dismantle Obamacare and voted against President Joe Biden's spending plan to revitalize the national economy and his program to spend $1 trillion to rebuild the country's infrastructure."
Positive
2% Conservative
"He also supported Trump's failed efforts to dismantle Obamacare and voted against President Joe Biden's spending plan to revitalize the national economy and his program to spend $1 trillion to rebuild the country's infrastructure."
Positive
2% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Lewis, a staffer at the Louisiana Budget Project, said the Public Service Commission has to do a better job of promoting renewable energy.
30% : Kennedy joined all Republicans in voting last week against the Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to lower prescription drug costs, boost the effort to curb harmful emissions and promote green technology and to pay for the costs by raising taxes on some billion-dollar corporations.
22% : He also supported Trump's failed efforts to dismantle Obamacare and voted against President Joe Biden's spending plan to revitalize the national economy and his program to spend $1 trillion to rebuild the country's infrastructure.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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