“Doesn’t live in the district.”
Elbert Guillory is from Opelousas, which is in the LA-05 since 2012:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=456
“All the hoopla over Guillory is misplaced. At best he’s a RINO. At worst, an opportunist. He’s never had a particularly conservative voting record in the Louisiana Legislature all the while he was a Democrat.”
Actually, his record in the legislature was *very* conservative for a Democrat, particularly one representing a black-majority constituency. http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/75837/elbert-guillory
So I think that Guillory should run in the LA-05. I don’t know enough about Riser to judge whether he’d be a better congressman than Guillory, but LA has that jungle primary even in congressional races, and there would be a good chance that Guillory and Riser both make the December runoff, so the voters can sort it out then.
I know Neil Riser. I served on the GOP State Central Committee with him.
I will likely support him.