Published: May 11, 2026
By: Veronica Camenzuli, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE – Republican Monroe state Sen. Jay Morris said someone left a voice mail threatening a mass shooting at his legislative office after he was accused by the Democratic Party of using a racial slur toward a Black party executive in a tense public hearing May 8.
Morris said he didn’t refer to Democratic Party executive director Dadrius Lanus as “boy” as the party accused, and a review of the audio and video from the hearing appears to back him up.
The May 8 hearing was to consider a bill from Morris to redraw Louisiana’s unconstitutional congressional map that will almost certainly reduce the state’s majority Black districts from two to one or zero.
Morris did turn to the audience that included Lanus during the May 8 hearing and say, “Y’all need to shut up.”
In a speech on the Senate floor May 11, Morris blamed the Democratic Party for advancing what he told USA Today Network is a lie.
Read more at Shreveport Times.
LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 
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