NEWSWEEK- The longest-serving Democrat in the Louisiana state legislature is switching parties, handing Republicans a supermajority in Baton Rouge for the first time in the state’s 210-year history.
On Friday, the Louisiana Republican Party announced in a press release that state representative Francis Thompson—who was first elected to the statehouse as a Democrat in 1975—had decided to switch parties, giving Republicans a 70-vote supermajority in the legislature that would allow them to override a veto by the state’s controversial Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards.
SEE: Louisiana Democrat Switches Parties, Giving Republicans Historic Power (msn.com)
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