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Good morning, I am Joshua Morott and today I filed to run against Speaker Mike Johnson for the 4th District.
I stand before you not as a politician seeking office, but as a citizen who can no longer abide the silence.
We are told that this is the land of the free.
Yet we watch, day after day, as the promise is quietly stolen:
from the family court that turns parents into felons for wanting to say goodnight,
from the farmer whose land is seized for carbon capture pipelines that serve distant boardrooms,
from the hunter who must pay the government to feed his children from the woods God placed before him,
from the working mother who sees her paycheck vanish while Washington writes checks to every war but our own.
This is not freedom.
This is captivity dressed in the language of law.
I will not stand idle while the people of Louisiana are asked to accept less than they were promised.
I will fight for a government that remembers its first duty:
to serve the citizen, not the donor, not the lobbyist, not the general, not the corporation that buys influence with yesterday’s campaign checks.
To that end I make these pledges:
First:
every marriage license shall bear the plain truth in bold ink:
“Divorce carries a cost in blood and years—child support, lost weekends, custody roulette, and the real price of remaining a parent.”
And a mandatory prenuptial section—signed while love is still clear-eyed and generous, not when anger has already poisoned the well.
Second:
we cap court fees and lawyer fees in family cases.
No family should have to go bankrupt just to fight for their own children.
Third:
we outlaw direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising and aggressive lawyer advertising.
No more TV screens filled with drug commercials pressuring people to “ask your doctor” for pills they don’t need.
No more ambulance-chasing lawyer ads that jack up insurance rates and turn justice into a commercial.
These are not free speech—they are corporate exploitation. We ban them both.
Fourth:
we end the hunting and fishing license racket.
The government does not own the deer in our woods or the fish in our bayous.
No more permission slips to feed our families from what God gave us.
And what you hunt, you should be allowed to sell—same as the fisherman who can sell his catch without government permission. Let free people keep the fruits of their labor.
Fifth:
we stop the carbon capture land grabs.
No more seizing private property for industrial schemes that poison our air and water while lining corporate pockets.
Louisiana farms are not for sale to the highest bidder.
Sixth:
we abolish property taxes.
No one should have to pay rent to the government on the home they own outright.
Once you pay for your land and your house, it is yours—not the state’s.
End the annual tax on ownership.
Seventh:
we restore trust in our elections.
Voters must prove their identity with an ID.
Paper ballots only—no machines that can be questioned.
And every voter receives an itemized receipt showing exactly how their ballot was cast—so we can have real checks and balances, not blind faith in a black box.
Eighth:
we bring our troops home and exit forever the entangling alliances that bleed us dry.
We withdraw from NATO, where our share of the common budget alone costs us nearly $475 million every year.
We withdraw from the United Nations, where our assessment for the regular budget alone is nearly $770 million annually.
America will no longer be the world’s ATM or its policeman.
Our sons and daughters will no longer die on foreign soil while our own borders bleed.
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