A five year, temporary tax passed the House of Representatives with 76 votes, needing a two-thirds total of 70 to move on for deliberation by the state Senate.
Despite the fact that the council shied away from the term "MOU" in their resolution, Pratt says GDC is not deterred. "Whatever they want to call it, we accept it."
The Shreveport Councilman says that the 4-3 vote okaying a resolution to add six milestones for GDC to meet to the Memorandum of Understanding "has no teeth."
Referring to this, the sixth special session called by the Governor, Crews says, "I think most people would agree that at this point he just wants more revenue."