Fayard Says She’s Running For Secretary Of State
Caroline Fayard, who lost a close race for lieutenant governor to Jay Dardenne last year, is now eyeing his old job as secretary of state. Fayard, a Democrat who grew up in Denham Springs, announced today she is organizing a campaign for secretary of state this fall and will make a formal announcement in the near future. Fayard, one of the few bright spots on a thin Louisiana Democrat bench, had been mentioned as a potential candidate for several offices this fall, including governor. In a statement, she says the secretary of state’s office was the best fit. “I want to be in a position to be of genuine help to the people and small businesses of Louisiana. I want to make a difference,” Fayard says. “We need new leaders with new ideas in Baton Rouge.” Tom Schedler, who took over as secretary of state after Dardenne’s election, has said he plans to run for the seat this fall. Schedler is a Republican who was a state senator from Slidell before joining the secretary of state’s office. Rep. Walker Hines, R-New Orleans, also says he plans to run for secretary of state.
Scott Angelle is also rumored to be looking at this one.
It should be remembered that the Secretary of State is the person entrusted with the voter rolls. Secretaries of State in other places – like Minnesota, for example – have done a fantastic job of ACORNing elections and allowing Democrats to win amazingly close races on recanvasses and recounts.
I can’t think of a worse place to put Caroline Fayard and her corrupt campaign finance practices. But I’m just one voter. Others will have to decide this one for themselves.
We need to keep an eye on Soros’s Secretary of State Project. Might Fayard be one of his recruits? Given her penchant for corruption, she’d be a perfect fit. Granted, Fayard and her family are adept at laundering money, but, surely, some good sleuthing could expose funding by the SoS Project.
If Fayard manages to be elected, electronic voting machines might present her with a headache, so interference might be limited to absentee paper ballots – lots of room there, since absentee ballots can be faxed and re-voted on scanable ballots by supervisors. Essentially, though, look for a push to allow for Election Day voter registration and voting and another to dispense with the photo ID requirement.
Let’s not forget that Fayard met with the DGA president in Maryland three
weeks ago. Who knows who else she met with when she was up there?
Governor Jack Markell, of Delaware, is the DGA chairman and Governor Martin O’Malley, of Maryland, is the vice chairman. Would love to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting. ;->
First impression – her decision to run for SOS to “help the people and small businesses” is based on the fact it may be the cheapest campaign to run.
Schedler isn’t ambitious for anything more than doing a good job. A rarity in La. Politics last seen with Al Ater. Fayard wants to be a senator, and Hines just wannabe.
Except that Ater bent over backwards to try to manufacture voters for Democrats — see
http://jeffsadow.blogspot.com/2006/05/ater-still-doesnt-get-it-but-he-got.html
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Agreed, Jeff. For the life of me I don’t understand the beatification of Al
Ater when he was an intensely partisan Democrat Secretary of State.