This is really, really bad. If it’s a preview of things to come, than maybe I should quit studying politics and find a new hobby.
The only hope is the presidency; the Congress is lost for quite a while.
This news is most disturbing. Democrat John Rarick, arguably the most conservative Congressman of his day, held the district from 1967 to 1975. He was defeated in the 1974 Democratic primary by Jeff La Caze, a “National Democrat,” who was, in turn, defeated by a Republican.
The difference on this race were former Orleans Parish residents who now live in Baton Rouge and E. Baton Rouge Parish.
Doesn’t this race go to a run-off, since nobody got at least 50 percent?
the strange thing is, Paul Sawyer was Baker’s right hand man in his DC office, and was in the race early, but even Baker would not endorse him.
Something had to be bad behind the scenes with that guy, otherwise the Republican party would have been been all over him.
Another issue is that Cazayoux was in the running for Speaker of the La House but was strongly opposed by Jindal and didn’t get it, so he jumped in the Congressional race. Nobody else on the Democrat side remotely had his positives. If Cazayoux had won the Speakership, Jenkins-or whomever else the GOP could have gotten in the race-would have been the congresscritter-elect this morning