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Blanco says her résumé beats Jindal's By CHRIS FRINK cfrink@theadvocate.com Capitol news bureau Lt. Governor Kathleen Blanco has generally avoided controversy during her 20-year political career, which was highlighted by her work with the tourism industry. Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco regularly compares her experience in office to the experience Bobby Jindal does -- or does not -- have. Out campaigning, Blanco likes to say that Jindal held a series of short-term political appointments and never left a position better off than how he found it. By contrast, Blanco says she's earned every position she's held. She's been elected to the...

<p>BATON ROUGE - Republican Bobby Jindal, R-Baton Rouge, increases his lead, and there's a statistical tie for second place between Democrats Kathleen Blanco of Lafayette and Richard Ieyoub of Lake Charles in the Louisiana gubernatorial race, according to The Times/Louisiana Gannett poll.</p>

Candidates want to expand lieutenant governor's role Louisiana Gannett News Posted on September 16, 2003 BATON ROUGE - Although the 1974 Louisiana Constitution provides few specific duties for the state's second highest elective office, a majority of candidates for lieutenant governor agree the position ought to be involved in expanding the state's economy. Shortly after adoption of the current constitution, former Gov. Edwin W. Edwards authorized then-Lt. Gov. Jimmy Fitzmorris to act as the lead in seeking industrial investment in the state. Several years later, the Louisiana Legislature voted to put the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism under the...

<p>BATON ROUGE - Not since 1971 have we had such a long list of gubernatorial candidates.</p> <p>That was the year there were 17 candidates on the Democratic Party primary ballot and two on the Republican primary ballot. Conducted in the same polls at the same time, one had to be a Republican to vote in the Republican primary and vice versa.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE -- State Rep. Melinda Schwegmann announced Monday that she is switching her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and will run for her former office of lieutenant governor in the October primary.</p> <p>Addressing the House floor on the last day of the legislative session, the New Orleans representative said she "felt somewhat abandoned by many Democrats, while at the same time, I have been embraced and encouraged to run by numerous Republicans."</p>