Kathy Edmonston and the LACAG Wall of Fame
My dad, the late Albert George “Ladd” Alexander, was lively within the Louisiana Republican Social gathering all of his grownup life. He was a US Marine and a patriot who exemplified JS Mill’s perception that “Dangerous males want nothing extra to perform their ends than that good males ought to look on and do nothing.” Affectionately known as “Pop” by his twelve youngsters, he was a person of braveness and motion, and he admired males of braveness and motion. Till his dying, he remained devoted in phrase and deed to the 2 nice ideas of his life: the everlasting sovereignty of God and the inalienable freedom of the person. My dad swore everlasting hostility towards the federal government’s inexorable erosion of our freedom. He lived his life with a way of pressing enthusiasm the likes of which I’ve not witnessed since. He appeared to know that life is brief and time valuable. He believed in doing one thing, even when it meant doing it imperfectly. He believed in rising after a fall, which he all the time did. And he believed within the relentless, every day effort.
Pop had in his workplace on the 14th ground of the Beck Constructing in Shreveport what he known as the “Wall of Fame”, on which hung footage of American elected leaders who he believed had saved religion with the American individuals and the Structure, leaders who had, regardless of holding nice energy, resisted the temptation to complement themselves on the expense of the American individuals. These leaders by no means forgot why they have been there. I bear in mind Henry Hyde was on the Wall, Clyde Holloway, Ronald Reagan, Woody Jenkins, J.C. Watts, and others. The best tribute my dad might pay a public servant was to position him on the Wall of Fame. Periodically Pop would add one other image and clarify to a number of of his youngsters what that individual had finished to earn a spot on the Wall. In honor of my dad, LACAG has instituted a web-based Ladd Alexander Wall of Fame that shall be maintained so long as now we have the privilege of serving the residents of Louisiana.
No one is extra deserving of being the primary provoke into the LACAG Wall of Fame than Consultant Kathy Edmonston. Edmonston believes in appearing greater than in speaking. She has been a tireless voice of particular person freedom within the face of accelerating authorities encroachment. She has spoken courageously in favor of medical privateness and towards vaccine mandates and different coercive actions by our authorities. She is among the many few legislators who’ve publicly questioned the prevailing Huge Authorities Covid narrative to which far too a lot of her colleagues have paid blind allegiance.
Edmonston’s vaccine transparency laws, Home Invoice 47, was among the many most vital objects of the 2022 legislative session. The Invoice required any Louisiana faculty or daycare to simply accept both a written assertion from a treating physician contra-indicating a vaccine or a written dissent from the coed and in addition supplies that the scholars’ authorized proper of exemption be included, in writing, with any communication issued to college students or their guardians about immunization necessities. HB 47 was vitally vital because of the widespread, propagandized, and sometimes coercive effort in Louisiana by the Well being Division and the Governor to stress Louisiana residents into getting the COVID vaccine with out concurrent disclosure of their proper of exemption, of which many Louisianans stay unaware. It was necessitated additionally by the rising proof of the extreme antagonistic well being results that the Covid vaccine has had on an alarming variety of Louisianans. Shamefully, the laws was killed on the total Senate ground by Globalist Republican Senate President Paige Cortez. Edmonston continues to combat for the laws and plans to deliver it forth once more subsequent time period.
Edmonston has additionally strongly supported laws to maintain the toxic doctrine of Essential Race Idea out of our public colleges, has supported fiscal sanity in our authorities, and has been a constant defender of probably the most susceptible and defenseless amongst us, the unborn.
Kathy Edmonston has been a devoted steward of freedom whereas typically surrounded by weak-minded legislators who’ve forgotten why they have been elected. She continues to sound the alarm that liberty is valuable, and far simpler misplaced than recovered. Her constituents, in addition to residents throughout Louisiana, are privileged to have a terrific American patriot looking for them within the State Legislature.
LACAG is happy to honor Edmonston as its inaugural member of the Ladd Alexander Wall of Fame. Pop would certainly approve.
Christopher Alexander, Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group www.lacag.org
