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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who successfully sought the Louisiana Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit brought about by three plaintiffs represented by attorney William Most who sought to block Louisiana citizens from being able to vote on Constitutional Amendment Two (2) on Saturday, March 29, 2025.

It was only four (4) days ago that we published this feature  revealing the fact that Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill characterized the litigation seeking to block Proposed Constitutional Amendment Two (2) from going to a vote of the people as “frivolous.”

We also indicated the Amendment has our “full-throttled support.”

Late yesterday evening (Tuesday, March 18, 2025), the Louisiana Supreme Court tossed that litigation with prejudice (meaning the Plaintiffs may not reinitiate the litigation).

In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, founder Robert Burns focuses in on the Supreme Court’s ruling last night and reiterates our “full-throttled support” for Constitutional Amendment Two (2) on the ballot for the March 29, 2025 election:

3/19/25:  Burns coves the Louisiana Supreme Court’s ruling late yesterday tossing the legal challenge to Proposed Constitutional Amendment Two (2) on the ballot of Saturday, March 29, 2025.

We stress on the video that, contrary to attorney William Most’s apparent belief that Louisiana citizens lack the ability to, as Burns states it, “do their homework” and thereby make educated votes on the Proposed Amendment, modern technology permits a plethora of opportunities to become very well informed on the contents of all four (4) Amendment Proposals.

To that end, let us again reference this Advocate article for an in-depth overview of the Proposed Amendments.

Further, as Burns stresses on the video, we are going to provide Dr. Steven Procopio, President of the Public Affairs Research Council  providing an in-depth presentation of Proposed Amendment Two (2) which he provided to the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday, February 24, 2025.  We will note that we would have already done so, but we’ve had to waste valuable time and energy covering Most’s “frivolous” lawsuit.  Here’s video coverage of Procopio’s coverage of Proposed Amendment Two (2) only:

2/24/25:  Procopio provides an in-depth presentation of Proposed Amendment Two (2) on the ballot for March 29, 2025.  [Note:  the ONLY items we edited out of Procopio’s feature is one (1) question which he declined to answer because he indicated it would require him taking a position on the Amendment — rather than just providing information — and several questions entailing the litigation on the matter, which is now moot in light of yesterday evening’s Louisiana Supreme Court ruling].

We are about to present a mere 32-second excerpt from Procopio’s presentation which Sound Off Louisiana passionately believes is absolutely critical for Louisiana’s economic advancement and one of the biggest reasons we so strongly advocate for passage of the Proposed Amendment.  Here is that 32-second segment:

2/24/25:  Procopio provides what we passionately believe is one of the biggest reasons Proposed Constitutional Amendment Two (2) needs to pass on Saturday, March 29, 2025.

CLICK HERE for Procopio’s presentation in its entirety to include all four (4) Proposed Constitutional Amendments.

So, we conclude this feature by strongly commending Attorney General Liz Murrill for her tenacity in getting the lawsuit stopped dead in its tracks, as we also do to the Louisiana Supreme Court for stopping it dead in its tracks!

We believe the plethora of material by which voters can educate themselves on whether they support or oppose each of the four (4) Proposed Amendments does in fact make Most’s litigation “frivolous;” furthermore, it’s the rationale behind Burns stating on the first video above that the lawsuit constituted a, “slap in the face” to Louisiana voters because of its insulting premise that we don’t know how to educate ourselves on matters such as this!

Entergy Louisiana CEO Phillip May as a Sophomore at Glen Oaks High School in Baton Rouge in early 1978 (May graduated from Glen Oaks in 1980).

Phillip May stressing a point about Meta’s $10 billion investment in Louisiana at the meeting of the Baton Rouge Press Club of Monday, March 17, 2025.

On January 25, 2025, NOLA.com published this article outlining all that went on behind the scenes to attract Meta’s $10 billon AI investment in Louisiana.

The article really hammered home all the hard work and the incredible heavy lifting that took place behind the scenes to pull the Meta project off.  The article further makes it clear that, though he didn’t seek the public recognition for it, Entergy Louisiana’s CEO, Phillip May, carried much of the water that had to be done to make the project a reality (especially in its very early stages).

May is a classmate of Sound Off Louisiana’s founder, Robert Burns, with May graduating from Glen Oaks High School in Baton Rouge one year ahead of Burns in 1980, while Burns graduated in 1981.

Let’s take a look at a few of the highlights of May’s presentation.

First, in the following brief clip, May explains how Gov. Landry and his team, through their hard work to procure the project, have provided Louisiana citizens with, “the opportunity over the next three to five years to forever change the economic trajectory of this State.”  Let’s take a look:

3/17/25:  May touts Gov. Landry and his team’s efforts to, “forever change who we are, what we do, and how this economy thrives.”

Next, let’s take a moment to focus in on May’s emphasis regarding  Louisiana winning this Business Facilities Platinum Award for the first time in its history as a result of the Meta project:

3/17/25:  May touts Louisiana winning the Facilities Platinum Award for the first time in its history.

When it came time for Q & A, Burns felt he had to pose one about the Deep Seek announcement, which prompted the single biggest market cap one-day loss in history when it posed the potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be produced at a fraction of the cost of what has been considered before the announcement to be possible.  Let’s take a look at Burns’ question to his former classmate, and his classmate’s response:

3/17/25:  Burns poses the question entailing the Deep Seek announcement to his classmate.

Now for the toughest part of this feature.  Burns texted a couple of other Glen Oaks classmates to let them know that May was speaking today and that Burns would be posting a photo of May from the 1978 Glen Oaks yearbook.  They replied back, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!  If you’re going to post his, you have to post yours!”

We can be good sports here at Sound Off Louisiana so, even at the risk of scaring off female viewers of the blog, here’s Burns’ photo taken from the same yearbook (1978) at which time Burns was a Freshman at Glen Oaks High School:

Glen Oaks High School yearbook photo of Robert Burns in 1978 when he was a Freshman at Glen Oaks High School.

In all seriousness, it was really fantastic to see a high school classmate and to be able to publish a feature outlining his incredible accomplishments, along with those of Gov. Jeff Landry and his team.

Gee, back-to-back favorable posts for Gov. Landry!  We sure hope nobody in his office has a stroke!

Glen Oaks High School classmates Robert Burns (left – Class of 1981) and Phillip May, CEO of Entergy of Louisiana (right – Class of 1980) visit briefly before May addressed the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday, March 17, 2025.

CLICK HERE for May’s presentation to the Press Club in its entirety.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry prepares to provide the introduction of his tax reform package to the Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee on November 7, 2024.

Sound Off Louisiana founder Robert Burns awoke this morning (Saturday, March 15, 2025) only to see an old friend, Foghorn Leghorn, staring right at him!

“Fog,” as Burns likes to call him, seemed very upset with Burns as evidenced by his hands directly on his hips as he stared Burns down.  Here’s dialogue between the two of them:

FOG:  “I say I say I say I got a bone I need to pick ‘wit you, Burns!”

BURNS:  “What’s wrong, Fog?”

FOG:  “I say I say I say you been up here on ‘dis here crusade ‘hooping and ‘hollering against my good friend, Jeff Landry.  I say I say I say you been a ‘preachin ‘bout how bad he is ‘wit that dog gone Police Commission!”

BURNS: “But, Fog, it’s all true.  I supplied the documents.”

FOG:  “I say I say I say I done told ever’body I know ’bout how corrupt ‘dat Commission is, but you ‘gotta say somthin’ good ‘bout my boy, Jeff, now.  You can’t be up here just a ‘railin ‘genst ‘da man!  I ain’t ‘gonna stand for it.  You hear me, boy?  I say I say I say, now get ‘yoself out ‘dere in front ‘dat ‘dere camera of ‘yose and say something good ‘bout my boy, Jeff!”

BURNS:  “Okay, Fog.  I can do that!  I don’t want you all upset with me!”

FOG:  “I say I say I say now ‘dats more like it.  Can’t wait to see what you ‘gonna say!”

So, with that, and in conformity with “Fog’s” admonition earlier this morning to Burns, here’s our latest feature providing our full-throttled support behind Gov. Landry’s Constitutional Amendment 2 (and all three of the other Amendments as well):

March 15, 2025:  Burns adheres to “Fog’s” admonition and touts why he believes voters should wholeheartedly support Constitutional Amendment Two on March 29, 2025 (as well as the other three Amendments on the ballot as well).

As stated in the feature, here is The Advocate article which we tout to explain the four amendments.  It enables anyone to do “homework” on the amendments, which is something attorney William Most, who has sued Secretary of State Nancy Landry over this Amendment, apparently doesn’t feel voters are capable of doing.

Also, here’s is the link for the quote of Pastor Tony Spell, which we reproduce here:

He (Spell) added that some religious organizations own rental housing with many units, for example.

“That’s why I’m concerned about it, because I own some of those properties,” he said.

So, with that, we urge voters to support Constitutional Amendment Two on the March 29, 2025 ballot (along with the other three Amendments as well).

Editor’s Note:

Burns dedicates this feature to the loving memory of his mom, who would have turned 94 only a few days ago.

During the time his mom spent in the nursing home directly across the street from he and his mother’s apartment, Burns would cross the street and visit three times a day every day (until Covid and, even thereafter, would go once a day with the fantastic folk at the nursing home being willing to wheelchair his mom to the door to where they could still visit, albeit with the glass door separating them).

For the eight (8) months prior to Covid, Burns would also take his mom out for a brief walk in Walden Subdivision, where she and he walked for decades.  His mom could not walk very far anymore, and she had to be supported at all times because her brain was susceptible to having a sudden blackout at which she would immediately collapse, so Burns had to be able to support her and immediately hug her tightly until that episode would run its course.

The nursing home would insist that a wheel chair be used to the point of the door, and Burns would always amuse his mom by doing his best Foghorn Leghorn impersonation and say, “I say I say I say I think it’s time for our walk, mom!  What do you say?”  She would typically always say, “You’re a mess, boy!”

Somehow, we think she’d be saying the exact same thing about the above feature!

God Bless You, Helen Yvonne Burns, for the 57 wonderful years you spent on this earth giving me the honor of being your son, and I look so very forward to the day when I see you again!