Landry lost this race the minute Boustany convinced the GOP legislature to place the Cajun counties of Terrenonne and Lafourche (which were in Landry’s LA-03) in the heavily Republican, New-Orleans-suburban LA-01 and keep the Protestant Lake Charles area in Boustany’s CD instead of placing it in the underpopulated LA-04 (based in Lafayette), where it belonged. Boustany’s selfishness also resulted in the LA-04 being less comfortably Republican than would have been the case and the LA-05 having to go all the way into the Florida Parishes.
Unfortunately so. Still, I think Landry should take a run for the Senate.