Recent polling shows that voters are largely unhappy with Republican Governor Jeff Landry and with members of the 2025 Louisiana State Legislature. Republicans also hold supermajorities in both the State House and Senate. As the Louisiana Radio Network reports, pollster and political consultant Bernie Pinsonat says voters are especially turned off by what he characterized as the bickering between Landry and Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple, especially since they’re both from the same political party. “They (voters) don’t like that nothing’s being done when two legislators are fighting, much less the governor and the insurance commissioner.”
Pinsonat says he conducted the poll just prior to the start of this year’s legislative session, which began April 14 and ended June 12, 2025. The pollster explained that he found the number of people who felt that the state was going in the right direction was rather low. “You would have thought with two-thirds in the legislature, two-thirds all the elected officials being statewide Republicans that the voters who gave them all that power would have been more pleased with their performance. But they just weren’t.”
Meanwhile, Governor Landry has signed more insurance reform bills this week. Landry says he cannot guarantee the new laws will lower rates. But he calls the latest reforms a more balanced approach to regulating insurance. “Combined with doing everything insurance companies asked us to do and more… if rates don’t fall, you’ll have to ask them, I don’t know. There’s not much more we can do.”
One of the new laws gives the state’s insurance commissioner the ability to reject rate increases from insurance companies. But Commissioner Tim Temple opposed the legislation saying the practice will discourage new and existing carriers from writing policies in Louisiana.
Perceived Intraparty GOP ‘Bickering’ Sews Louisiana Voter Discontent
