President-elect Barack Obama is preparing a massive government-spending program in order to stave off a full-scale depression, LaPolitics’ John Maginnis says. State officials are already working on ways to get their cut of the $775 billion (and growing) project. “Whatever is in the stimulus package also might be all that Louisiana stands to get for the balance of this administration and this Congress, given its 39% voter support for the new president and its 6-1 Republican split in the House delegation,” Maginnis writes. Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
