NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mick Jagger briefly waded into Louisiana politics, taking a verbal jab at the state’s conservative governor, as The Rolling Stones performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
The band had finished “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” during Thursday evening’s set when Jagger began talking about inclusion, according to New Orleans news outlets. “We want to include him too,” Jagger said of Gov. Jeff Landry. “Even if he wants to take us back to the Stone Age.”
[Editor’s Note: Mick Jagger is a foreign national who has never taken on U.S. citizenship and is ineligible to vote in our elections.]
Jagger didn’t mention specific policies. Landry is a Republican who was endorsed by former President Donald
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