The Hayride

This afternoon, as the House began preparations for a vote on the job-killing CLEAR Act, which the Congressional Budget Office incidentally estimates will bring about some $14 billion in litigation costs, dramatics ensued when Louisiana’s lone House Democrat put forth an amendment purporting to lift the deepwater moratorium that the rest of the delegation strenuously [...]

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As we’ve done with Jeff Landry and Hunt Downer, we asked Congressional candidate Kristian Magar, who’s running against Landry and Downer for the Republican nomination in the 3rd District seat being vacated by Charlie Melancon’s Senate run, 20 questions about the race, its issues and what he’s hoping to achieve if elected. Magar’s candidacy is something [...]

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In this episode – dueling Senate polls, no hookup for Traylor and the curious case of Joseph Cao.

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In this update: Vitter’s weekend of “teeing it high and letting it fly,” taking a look at the financial disclosures in the state’s Congressional races, and the media attention coming out of Butch Gautreaux’s Lieutenant Governor bid.

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In today’s update: more heat in the Vitter-Melancon campaign and the 3rd District tussle begins crossing party lines. FUR FLIES IN SENATE RACE: After the Charlie Melancon campaign and Louisiana’s Democrat Party manned the bellows in an attempt to make a campaign issue of Sen. David Vitter’s friendly response to a Town Hall question Sunday on the [...]

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Primary and Filing Status On the primary front, it has been relatively quiet this month. The Alabama runoff has been the only election held since June 22, and it provided yet another example of voters (in this case, in the Republican runoff for governor) choosing someone other than the preferred candidate of the local political [...]

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Under the umbrella of the oil spill circus, one of the areas getting enormous amounts of attention is the Jones Act. Unfortunately most of that attention and discussion is based on politics from both sides of the aisle. Facts are being tossed completely out of the window.

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Today’s edition has continued nastiness in the Senate race between Charlie Melancon and David Vitter, a surprising poll result in New Orleans and candidates pulling endorsements.

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As Johnny Carson used to say – some “wild, weird stuff” is going on. SANGISETTY RELEASES BIRTH CERTIFICATE: Louisiana 3rd District Democrat congressional candidate Ravi Sangisetty seems like a proactive guy. One might argue he’s a bit too proactive. Sangisetty sent out a release today containing a copy of his birth certificate, without any explanation [...]

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Since last week’s qualifying established the fields for Louisiana’s statewide and local races this fall, the last few days have been relatively quiet on the state’s campaign scene. Quiet, perhaps, but not silent.

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