“The teacher’s union is a particularly powerful voting block here in Louisiana.”
I am sure you meant teachers as a voting bloc. Teachers’ unions have no power in Louisiana. Teachers’ unions are often confused with the educational bureaucracy, which in all fifty states is Marxist and anti-American to the core.
Most teachers I know personally are very conservative.
Some individual teachers here in Louisiana may be conservative, but when the chips are down, they vote their self-interest. Always. Otherwise, Bel Edwards wouldn’t have been elected governor.
When I say teachers union, I refer to the collective, not necessarily the Louisiana Association of Educators.