While I was leaning towards Lenar Whitney or Trey Thomas, the most important thing is to avoid a run-off between corrupt Democrat former Gov. Edwin Edwards (who is polling in the 30s in the jungle primary and likely will make the run-off due to such a large GOP field) and RINO state Senator Dan Claitor, so, if conservative Republican businessman Paul Dietzel continues to be Claitor the Traitor’s main rival for the second spot, I will switch my support to Dietzel. The LA-06 is an overwhelmingly conservative and Republican CD after 2011 redistricting (in which black precincts in Baton Rouge were added to the New Orleans-based black-majority LA-02), and it deserves nothing less than a conservative congressman. That sure ain’t Claitor the Traitor.
I guess that we should be thankful that Edwards ran and is consolidating the Democrat vote in the jungle primary, since otherwise we could have ended up with a run-off between RINO Claitor the Traitor and a conservative Republican, and Claitor could win the run-off with close to 100% of the Democrat vote and 20-25% of the Republican vote. Conservatives can defeat Claitor the Traitor in the first round (which will be held on Election Day in November) by coalescing around the conservative with the best chance of beating Claitor out for second place, and right now it looks like it’s Dietzel.
We’ll see if Whitney or Thomas post any fund-raising or start showing up in the polls, as of the last report Whitney raised nothing and Thomas less than 9 grand. Either could be an attractive candidate.
Runoffs in Bama and NC tonight.
2 House seats at sake. In Bama-6 I’m for Gary Palmer, who’s up huge in a recent poll. Ironically Chad Mathis, who attacked Palmer and all of his other primary opponents as RINOs has given him a glowing endorsement.
The other seat is NC-6, a hard charging D.A. (Berger) versus a Baptist Minister (Walker).
There are also runoffs for Bama SOS and Auditor.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2014/results/primaries/alabama-runoff
http://elections.nytimes.com/2014/results/primaries/north-carolina-runoff