After every hurricane, our area’s insurance and electric prices go up. I’ve been working for years to get help addressing the outrageous cost of trucking and business insurance. If it’s going to help our area, it seems like it’s an uphill battle in Baton Rouge. But when they need help, they just send us a bill.

They have some serious questions to answer before I can agree to send $45 million taxpayer dollars to private insurance companies. The primary question is how much will north and central Louisiana’s homeowners’ rates go down in exchange for padding the insurance company’s pockets?

For more on McFarland’s stance regarding this very important issue listen to the interview he did with Louisiana Radio Network by clicking here.

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