Vote No on Constitutional Amendment No. 2

When they vote on March 29, Louisiana voters should reject Constitutional Amendment No. 2. Passage of this irresponsible amendment will destroy a carefully managed savings account that has funded classroom needs in our state’s public and private schools for more than 30 years. As a member of the Louisiana Senate in 1990, I led the fight to establish this savings account.
This was on my mind in 1999 when I considered how the Legislature would spend $4 billion paid to the state by the big tobacco companies. Most of this tobacco settlement would rightly be devoted to public health, but I argued that one-fourth of the settlement should go to education.