50 Cent ignites social media with video supporting Louisiana Amendment Two
He posted a video and written support for the amendment through his G-unity Foundation, and it wasn't long before people started resharing the video in which the head of G-Unit Television and Films introduced himself by his 'government' name, Curtis James Jackson.
Some online questioned why he chose a day before voters in the state were to adopt or deny significant changes to the constitution to announce his support for the amendment.
Louisiana Commissioner calls constitutional amendment #2 'foolish'
Louisiana State Representative Tammy Phelps said, 'I'm hoping Shreveporters are smarter than that.' She went on to say, 'Saturday's election is really, really important to the state of Louisiana because we're changing our constitution, things that have been protected, things that have been best thus far for the state of Louisiana.'
Still, many applauded Jackson for having a say in supporting the amendment. The amendment involves many changes to the state tax code that Governor Jeff Landry and his administration believe will be a game-changer for Louisiana, making it a more welcoming state to do business.
There is also a video of Donald Trump Jr. supporting the amendment, and the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce has also come out in support.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
New York Post
2 hours ago
- New York Post
Fox News anchor Bret Baier ticketed for distracted driving amid Trump DC crackdown: ‘Didn't know there was paparazzi'
Not even Fox News anchors are immune from President Trump's law and order push in Washington, DC. 'Special Report' host and Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier was spotted by an eagle-eyed cop picking up his phone while driving in the capital's tony Georgetown neighborhood Saturday. 'I picked up my ringing phone as I drove past an officer while driving my wife's car in Georgetown,' Baier confessed on X Tuesday after video of the traffic stop circulated on social media. 'He pointed to have me pull over — I did. He was very professional. I had to dig for the registration card. Got a ticket and left. I didn't know there was paparazzi,' added Baier, who punctuated his post with an eye-roll emoji. 3 Bret Baier was seen respectfully interacting with a cop after getting pulled over. Instagram/@mollaanbabbingtoncompass 3 Bret Baier scored a high-profile interview with President Trump last week. Getty Images Video captured by Mollaan Babbington Group, a real estate firm in DC, showed the moment Baier was pulled over in a white Mercedes-Benz G-Class, also known as a G-Wagon. In DC, as in many municipalities and states, it is illegal to use a cellphone to text or call while driving unless the device has hands-free functionality. When reached for comment, a Fox News spokesperson directed The Post to Baier's social media statement. 3 The Fox News anchor was driving his wife Amy's car when he got pulled over. REUTERS Baier's run-in with the law came one day after he traveled on Air Force One to Anchorage, Alaska to cover Trump's highly-anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 55-year-old interviewed Trump on the way to the summit — and golfed with the president and special envoy Steve Witkoff at Trump's northern Virginia course the same day as his traffic stop. Starting Aug. 7, Trump began deploying federal law enforcement to the streets of DC in response to a series of high-profile crimes in which public servants were victimized — most notably former Department of Government Efficiency worker Edward Coristine, who was left blooded by juveniles after he intervened to prevent a carjacking early on Aug. 3. On Aug. 11, Trump deployed the DC National Guard and federalized the DC Metropolitan Police Department for 30 days. Since the crackdown began, local cops and feds have arrested hundreds of criminal suspects, including 52 collared Monday night, according to data from the Trump administration. The latest arrests included a suspected MS-13 gang member, per Attorney General Pam Bondi. The DC Police Union claimed Monday that since Trump's Aug. 11 order, crime has plunged 8% overall, including an 83% decline in carjacking and a 46% drop in robberies. Trump indicated earlier this month he would likely ask Congress to extend federal control of the MPD beyond the minimum 30 days.
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
Cooperating with ICE will lead to innocent West Virginians being profiled, arrested
A protester holds up a sign opposing collaboration between local police and federal immigration officials at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Feb. 10, 2025. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona Mirror) Last week, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that West Virginia is now participating in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 287(g) program, which will allow the National Guard and local police to enforce certain immigration laws. Fox News called this one of the most 'wide-ranging agreements' a state has forged with ICE under President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. The 287(g) program was discontinued in 2012 after a Department of Justice investigation found widespread racial profiling and other discrimination against Latinos by an Arizona task force, Stateline reported. Although West Virginia is nearly 1,500 miles away from the U.S. southern border, Morrisey said during a press conference that the state has 'effectively become a border state.' He also blamed the people entering the country illegally for 'unlimited amounts of fentanyl flooding into our state.' The majority of fentanyl is smuggled into the country by people who can enter the U.S. legally, according to the American Immigration Council. Fewer than half of people arrested by ICE since Trump took office are actually convicted criminals and only 5% were arrested for drug crimes nationally. So either ICE is doing a terrible job, or immigrants aren't the problem. The Deportation Data Project reported earlier this month that 1 in 5 ICE arrests are of Latinos with no criminal past or removal order. A substantial portion of ICE arrests this year were a result of illegal profiling. Basically, people are being arrested for having brown skin. If your argument for ICE is that people should enter the country legally, then shouldn't ICE be only using legal methods to arrest people? The legal route for ICE to make an arrest would be if a suspect was arrested first by local police and found to be in the country illegally. Raiding Japanese and Mexican restaurants or hanging out at Home Depot and Lowes is not the legal way. In July, a court in California ordered ICE to stop using these methods to arrest people in the Los Angeles area, and an appeals court upheld that order. Since then, street arrests went down by 83%. ICE's illegal profiling has also resulted in numerous U.S. citizens and legal immigrants being arrested. Morrisey's move will result in your friends, neighbors and co-workers being profiled and arrested for not passing as white. In Alabama, a man was tackled at his worksite and ICE officers said his REAL ID was fake. It wasn't. A man in California was detained for three days, despite being a legal citizen. A woman in Los Angeles was grabbed by ICE agents moments after her family dropped her off for work — witnesses said they never even asked to see her ID. West Virginia has a small number of immigrants — only about 2% of the population, but they also account for 18% of employees in farming, fishing and forestry occupations, and 11% in science occupations, such as microbiologists, biochemists and epidemiologists. Immigrants contribute a lot to West Virginia. In 2023, they paid $450.3 million in taxes. And thanks to immigrants, our population loss was less severe than it would have been without them. As of 2018, about 52% of immigrants in the Mountain State had gone through the long process to become legal U.S. citizens. And about 42% of adult immigrants had a college degree or higher that same year — compared to 19.6% of West Virginians. There are many reasons people choose to migrate to the United States without going through the proper channels — crime, violence, war or simply to build a better life — but our immigration policy has made it harder and harder for people to immigrate here legally. Immigrants aren't the enemy that Trump's administration is trying to paint them to be. Immigrants are not causing problems in West Virginia. Maybe it's time Morrisey remembered that West Virginia was settled by immigrants and be grateful they still want to live here. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Hamilton Spectator
5 days ago
- Hamilton Spectator
Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for high-stakes summit on Russia-Ukraine war
FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) EV flag wire: true flag sponsored: false article_type: : sWebsitePrimaryPublication : publications/hamilton_spectator bHasMigratedAvatar : false :
