How much do you know about the governor candidates?
How much do you know about the governor candidates?
Find out where John Bel Edwards and Eddie Rispone differ on issues before election day on Nov. 16.
Find out where John Bel Edwards and Eddie Rispone differ on issues before election day on Nov. 16.
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He would cut taxes but has not said where he would cut spending.
He wants to freeze Medicaid enrollment at the start of his term.
He supports fully funding the Louisiana college scholarship program TOPS.
He would maintain the current ITEP’s 80% tax exemptions and would continue to let locals vote on the exemptions.
He wants to raise the minimum wage.
Holding a constitutional convention is a high priority.
He supports legislation that allowed shortened sentences for nonviolent, non-sex-crime offenders with credit for good behavior, causing thousands of early releases across the state.
He favors adding exceptions for victims of rape and incest to a ban on abortions after 15 weeks that would go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a similar Mississippi law.
He would prefer to focus on expanding school-vouchers over increasing teacher pay or raising spending-per-pupil.