Dear Legislator,
The new House Speaker, Mike Johnson (R-LA), has strongly advocated for the Convention of States both when he was in the Louisiana Legislature and now in the U.S. House of Representatives. While the COS resolution was under consideration by the legislature in 2016, Rep. Johnson appeared before the HGA Committee, where he said:
“I was slow to come to this conclusion to support the idea of the Convention of States because I, too—my initial reaction was, what about the runaway convention and some of the questions that have been asked? But, I have been reading and studying on this for the last year or so— longer than that—and I have concluded—this is me personally, this is me coming to you as my colleagues-- I now believe that this is the only measure that we have to limit the expansive growth and increasing encroachment of the federal government.”
Once in Congress, Rep. Johnson held a Congressional hearing on Article V and the Convention of States just weeks before he was elected Speaker. For a short video of Mike Johnson’s support for COS in Louisiana and Washington D.C., see this short video here: .
For information about the Convention of States project click here: https://conventionofstates.com/ . We would gladly discuss this constitutionally provided remedy to the runaway federal government.
Julie Sandifer, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Director - 225.266.5818 cell
Dale Clary, Prairieville, Louisiana Legislative Liaison - 225.572.3289 cell
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