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EPISODE · Jun 9, 2026 · 20 MIN

How Out-of-State Money Ends Up on Your Neighbor's Yard Sign

from The Louisiana Business & Industry Show · host Guaranty Broadcasting Company

That anti-industry yard sign down the street didn't start in your parish. According to this week's guest, you can trace the money behind it all the way out of Louisiana.Desiree Lemoine spent 11 years at the Louisiana Chemical Association before helping launch Industry Makes, an organization built to give Louisiana's manufacturing workers and the small businesses that depend on them a voice at the local level.Hosts Gordy Rush and Tim Johnson sit down with her to trace how out-of-state money ends up funding local activists, why the gas station on your corner depends on the plant down the road, and the roughly $935,000 one parish spent just defending its right to bring in new investment.▶ SUBSCRIBE to the Louisiana Business and Industry Show for new conversations with the people shaping Louisiana's economy: https://www.youtube.com/@LouisianaBusinessandIndustrySh

That anti-industry yard sign down the street didn't start in your parish. According to this week's guest, you can trace the money behind it all the way out of Louisiana.Desiree Lemoine spent 11 years at the Louisiana Chemical Association before helping launch Industry Makes, an organization built to give Louisiana's manufacturing workers and the small businesses that depend on them a voice at the local level.Hosts Gordy Rush and Tim Johnson sit down with her to trace how out-of-state money ends up funding local activists, why the gas station on your corner depends on the plant down the road, and the roughly $935,000 one parish spent just defending its right to bring in new investment.▶ SUBSCRIBE to the Louisiana Business and Industry Show for new conversations with the people shaping Louisiana's economy: https://www.youtube.com/@LouisianaBusinessandIndustrySh

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