Bayou Brief: “An internal memorandum from GOP political operative Jay Connaughton, privately circulated among GOP state legislators outlines a series of talking points to use in a coordinated campaign aimed at politicizing and undermining the emergency orders issued by Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) in curtailing the Covid-19 pandemic.”
“Taken in its totality, the document reads like a guide to subverting public health policy and reframing the efforts to curb the pandemic, which has already claimed the lives of at least 1,800 Louisianians, as an ‘economic shutdown.'”
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