"YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ME" - We Have Labeled Davante Lewis Louisiana's Most Dangerous Politician For Very Good Reason

An article in "The Nation" makes our point for us

Apr 14, 2023

Some readers may tire of posts about the state’s newly-elected Public Service Commissioner; we understand. We wish we had no cause to write them. We would prefer that “Big Renewable” had not spent TWO MILLION DOLLARS - about 10x the historically usual amount - to swamp Lewis’ opponent and exploit the little-known aspect of the PSC.

We wish Mr. Lewis had not become the single most influential Democrat in Louisiana.

He is everywhere. Speaking at M.I.T. on climate policy. Traveling to schools to indoctrinate children. Adding his ‘two cents’ on every issue, local, state, and national.

There’s so much about Lewis that we do not bring to these pages, simply because you’d all become weary of it. The fatigue would be natural; we get it.

This captures the Democrats’ mood about Davante…

And “The Nation” captures that mood too, in this gushing shiny article about Mr. Lewis…

Lewis, 31, intends to break the mold—and he’s in a good position to do so, because he is now a Louisiana public service commissioner—one of just five elected officials tasked with overseeing utilities across the state.

“The Nation” captures is aptly…

Lewis was elected last December. The need to hold utility companies accountable—both for the sake of environmental justice and to meet Louisiana’s climate goals—drew many people to his campaign, in which he managed to push the typically under-the-radar post into the spotlight and ultimately cruised to a 20-point victory over the 18-year incumbent Lambert Boissiere III.
He was assisted by a wide-ranging movement of activists and grassroots organizations, such as the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance and Sunrise New Orleans, who were moved by his promise to affordably transition to a renewable, resilient grid. He also gained the support of hundreds of current and formerly incarcerated people with the local nonprofit VOTE, hopeful that he’d lower phone rates in jails and prisons—another area that falls under the scope of the Public Service Commission (PSC).
Lewis did all of this while also calling for a Green New Deal in one of the largest oil and gas states. His victory has created a feasible climate majority on Louisiana’s Public Service Commission—not quite a decisive majority, but a realistic path for moving the state’s energy grid to renewables, supported by three out of five commissioners.

(It’s always striking in articles like these that they presume solar/wind/battery are “resilient.” Let’s talk “resiliency” after the next big storm in the Gulf of Mexico. But we digress…)

“Renewables” are merely vulnerable unreliables. Everywhere they go, they don’t solve the problems people hope they will solve, while creating new problems people never imagined they’d have to cope with.

California’s mandates about energy production and consumption are the toughest in the country, yet there is no measurable reduction in CO2 output from California. This as energy prices have risen 60% since the state began mandating “renewables.”

“Net zero” goals might as well be suicide pacts; not only are they impossible to reach, any progress toward reaching them is damagingly expensive. “Net zero” is a brutally dangerous part of the “Green Energy” movement.

But the Leftist climate cult goes with it, because… you know… “Climate Change!”

Read the full article HERE, but let us do the sloppy work for you…

Apart from utilities, the PSC, which consists of five officials holding six-year terms, also regulates water, telecommunication, sewage, gas, some pipelines, and intrastate transportation. Lewis sums up his job as protecting the human right to “having fresh air, clean water, a warm house in the winter and a cool house in the summer.” Louisiana’s PSC also has a major influence over the climate as the sole authority over state utilities, determining how quickly the grid will adopt renewables, or perpetuate fossil fuels. (It doesn’t regulate petrochemical production or permitting.)

More…

After a succession of greetings at the 225 Fest, we sat on a low-slung cement wall (when I asked if it was too low, Lewis assured me, “I’m short!”) to discuss his first steps in his larger vision of regulating with climate and racial justice in mind.

Moving more explicitly into “renewables” and Lewis’ power on the PSC…

As a “first and foremost” priority, Lewis says he plans to ask Louisiana’s Climate Initiatives Task Force to present the state’s 2022 climate plan to the commission. The state has a long way to go to reach its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions, currently drawing just 4 percent of its electricity from renewables. “A lot of what the governor’s Climate Action Plan calls for are things that the PSC has to do,” said Lewis. For instance, the PSC can develop a renewable energy portfolio to regulate emissions reductions. The plan also asks the PSC to review net metering options, a budgeting scheme designed to compensate rooftop solar and small-scale solar generators. Lewis plans to bring both policies to the table.
“The legislature can’t force the utility company to go green. Only the PSC can do that,” said Lewis. “In terms of saying, ‘Hey, do I want 20 percent solar next year? That’s our authority.”
In other words, Louisiana doesn’t have a prayer of meeting its climate goals without the PSC’s deciding, under its distinct authority, to act on them. And while the PSC’s moving the utility grid to renewables is not guaranteed with Lewis’s win, it’s now more in the realm of possibility than ever before. “I would say that for the first time there is a more aggressive majority who believes in renewables,” said Lewis. “You have three votes where you can theoretically get yourself there [to renewables], but it’s not necessarily three solid votes.”
In theory, one of those votes comes from Foster Campbell, the only other Democrat on the commission, who has spoken openly about the need to move to renewables, explicitly noting the climate risks of fossil fuel dependency. The other comes from Craig Greene, a Republican commissioner in Baton Rouge, who has opened dockets on green tariffs to “bring renewable resources into Louisiana” and cheaper electricity options for consumers. These options include utilities purchasing off-grid renewables, which Lewis favors because the utilities would assume the financial risk rather than folding the costs into utility bills. He sees this as aligned with a just transition, moving to renewables while considering risks, like economic costs, for a wider vision of justice.
Another priority for Lewis is modernizing the grid for climate change.

Davante Lewis is a radical-Left Democrat, a transgressive ideologue who, like all the others, seeks “equity” not equality, racializes everything, and presumes the power of the state is greater and better than your power over yourself. Never mind that everything the Democrats touch turns to garbage, and results are reliably opposite of the original intent…

Lewis acknowledges that it might not be possible for him to move Louisiana all the way to 100 percent renewables, given that he is only one vote. The future of the grid is still far from determined.
But he plans to give it his best shot.

Davante promotes himself quite ably on social media… about 6,000 have already seen his post on the article…