Some say our governor, Jeff Landry, has no love for Louisiana’s flagship university, favoring instead UL Lafayette, his hometown university and alma mater. Perhaps that explains his incessant negative actions and comments that attract national attention and upset students, faculty and alumni, not to mention humiliating our state.
Should I run down the list? Remember his tirade on X about coach Kim Mulkey not having her women’s basketball team on the floor for the national anthem? The team had never done so in the past, just like the football team, and was in the locker room praying before the game. And he threatened scholarships for athletes.
Or what about the showdown over having Mike the Tiger on the field despite objections from the LSU Vet School faculty? Undaunted, he rented “Omar” from a Florida circus. It was a seven-minute flop and an embarrassment.
Then, after getting cheers at a recent Turning Point Rally in downtown, he has another knee-jerk reaction and goes out to the LSU campus to make a late-night video challenging the LSU Board of Supervisors to make it the first university to erect a statue of Charlie Kirk to honor free speech. What about James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment? Will his LSU board dare defy him? I predict more words he will have to eat…