Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill

The deep red state of Louisiana is not known for college campus radicalism, outside of the bigots who believe a Tiger mascot is racist. But considering the left's war on free speech, shouting, intimidation, or violence, shutting down people expressing ideas they don't like, the Louisiana legislature decided to head off what many believe is coming sooner or later.

Governor John Bel Edwards(D), decried House Bill 269, previously passed the Louisiana Senate by a 30-3 vote, and the State House of Representatives with a unanimous vote, as a “solution in search of a problem”. The bill would have ensured that universities afforded “any person lawfully present on a campus” the right to political speech, so long as it was not disruptive. HB 269 also mandated a disciplinary hearing and allowed for potential punishment for those who impeded 1st amendment protected free speech.

“This bill is a solution in search of a problem that creates a long, detailed structure for the evaluation of the freedom of expression on college campuses. However, this bill is unnecessary and overly burdensome to our colleges and universities as the freedoms this bill attempts to protect are already well-established by the bedrock principles” in both the state and national constitution." - Gov. John Bel Edwards

Perhaps Gov. Edwards doesn't pay attention to the news, or maybe he just doesn't care because Democrats aren't being intimidated and attacked. Despite all the examples of violence, speakers being blocked, and the overwhelming atmosphere of intimidation on campuses across the country towards non-Leftist thought, Edwards doesn't seem to feel there's a problem. 

The truth is that an alarming number now feel completely justified in denying someone's opportunity to speak in a public venue by any means necessary. In a state struggling to balance a budget, damaged economically by Obamacare regulation, and Feral Travons shooting up sections of the three largest cities in the state, the last thing Louisiana needs is outsiders coming in and causing trouble and violating anyone's rights with out consequences.

You can bet if it were queers, muslims, blacks or just women targeted for intimidation and violent anti-free speech protest, you know what would happen. The left would be going ape-shit and congressional Dems would be calling for FBI and Civil Rights investigations. 

There shouldn't be a need for free speech laws beyond the Constitution, but here we are.

Mitch "The Statue Slayer" Being Eyed As Possible 2020 Dem Candidate

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Son of Moon - Brother of Mary, made a national production out of tearing down several historic monuments, including Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the U.S. and hero of the The Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. The removal of other 100 year old historic statues, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard, made Landrieu into a hero of the "Ignorance is Strength" American Taliban who seek to erase the history that isn’t compatible with their radical sensitivities. 

But to those with finely-tuned political antennae and top shelf bullshit detectors it was clear that Landrieu’s pandering and demagoguery had less to do with any sincere conviction and everything to do with getting noticed, (Mitch even got himself a Black Mistress) and launching a career in Democratic party politics on the national level. That is exactly what is happening. 

"Democrats looking for new blood to revitalize their party are taking a close look at New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who is suddenly being discussed as a dark-horse presidential nominee. That Landrieu is a new face from outside Washington makes him even more intriguing to hard-nosed Democratic strategists. "I find him to be an incredibly fascinating political figure,” said Jamal Simmons, one of the Washington Democrats turning an eye toward Landrieu. When you think who are the non-Washington figures in the left that ought to have a say in where we go, I think a lot of people would point to him. Now, as the party looks to rebuild, Democrats say Landrieu and other non-establishment politicians like him could be the future of the party." - The Hill 

But Mayor Mitch has several hurdles to overcome, not the least of which is being a white male in a party that has embraced identity politics as religious dogma. The only white male who has a chance would be Uncle Joe Biden who has coyly hinted at a desire to run. That however would put him at odds with those on the far left who will settle for nothing less than a woman – or a minority – as a candidate (unless it’s Hillary) in 2020.

The early handicapping favors freshman California Senator Kamala "I Slept My Way to the Top" Harris who has both the right pigmentation and a vajayjay, although she would have to tone down her bitch on wheels angry black woman act to appeal to more than the party base.

So Stay Tuned. As everyone should know by now, Louisiana is notorious for its long line of flamboyantly slimy politicians. Mitch is just our latest edition.

Add One More to the Right Side of the Aisle

Louisiana voters have chosen Republican state Treasurer John Kennedy to fill the state's open U.S. Senate seat, giving the GOP a 52-48 edge in the chamber. Saturday's election settled the nation's last Senate seat for the term beginning in January. Kennedy was the front-runner the entire run-off campaign.  

He defeated Democrat Foster Campbell, the state utility regulator going away by 30+ points.  The victory was a long-sought one for Kennedy, an Oxford-educated lawyer in his fifth term as treasurer. Kennedy had tried unsuccessfully twice before to win a U.S. Senate seat, running first in 2004.  

No democrat now holds a Senate seat in any of the Southern States.  Republicans swept all three Louisiana congressional run-off races in todays vote.

With Ropes In Hand, They Plan On Taking Him Down

This Is What It's Come To In America

"There was a time you as white folks could walk around at your pleasure, but if I as a black man tried to walk through your white neighborhood..... I would have been run out or arrested by the police. Now I can walk freely anywhere I please. Today, you as a white person come into my neighborhood, you would be beat, robbed, shot or raped, or stopped be the police and suspected of criminal activity. You starting to get the message? " - A Black New Orleans SJW to Diogenes

Jackson Square - New Orleans La. 

Jackson Square in the New Orleans French Quarter, site of the signing of the Louisiana Purchase which expanded the U.S. westward, dedicated to the Hero of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, and the 7th President of the United States is once again under attack by self-righteous Social Justice Warriors.

Activist Group Plans to Pull Down Andrew Jackson Monument

from The Advocate

A New Orleans activist group is threatening to pull down the city's most recognizable statue in response to what members claim are unreasonable delays in removing four other monuments. Take 'Em Down NOLA says it will attempt to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson during a protest later this month in Jackson Square. Legal delays have kept the other statues -- honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard.

"We're going to go to Jackson Square. We're going to put ropes around Andrew Jackson and we're going to take him down off his pedestal," Take 'Em Down organizer and longtime civil rights activist Malcolm Suber said during a forum the group held Thursday.

The demonstration, scheduled for Sept. 24, will come a few days before judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled to hear arguments over whether to lift an order that halted the removal of the monuments.

"The key is we're not going to wait," Take 'Em Down organizer Angela Kinlaw said. "The city has taken plenty of time to make a decision. But the people are ready to move."

The equestrian Jackson statue is one of numerous monuments, streets and buildings that Take 'Em Down organizers believe promotes the idea of white supremacy by honoring slave owners and others who contributed to the oppression of minorities.

"Why would we want to continue to honor this person?" asked Suber, who said removing a statue so associated with New Orleans would send a wider message and serve as a "shot heard 'round the world."

Plans to take down the monuments weren't helped after the original contractor hired to remove them dropped out after its owner said he received death threats. Interest from other companies was lukewarm when the city later asked for public bids. Take 'Em Down organizers blamed the delay on both the courts — the 5th Circuit is considered one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the nation — and a lack of aggressive action by the city. They said the city should have denounced or ignored the court order.

"I'm saying we should defy that order. That order should have no standing with us at all," Suber said. "We have no respect for the 5th Circuit because they're all (expletive) racists anyway."

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The term "Social Justice" has very little to do with Justice. SJW have just become a festering pustule on America.  It's about small groups of angry people who have been given the ability to intimidate. You cannot change history, nor wipe out it's memory of affects. In this case, if SJW's had any sense, they'd want to preserve the past as to demonstrate to their children how we as a people can right the wrongs of the past.

But blinded by anger, whipped up by profitable racist agitators, and the blessings of the Federal Government, no one will ever accuse SJW of being thoughtful........ 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards Asks to be Impeached

This is government by hostage taking like in the bad ol’ days of Edwin Edwards.
The only way John Bel Edwards will release the hostages is if he gets more tax increases.

Governor John Bel Edwards, who campaigned to fix the state budget problems with cuts, not by raising taxes on an already high taxed citizenry, spoke to the the citizens of Louisiana Thursday night. In his twelve plus minute speech, the Governor addressed the state's budget deficit of nearly $1 billion dollars…and he told Louisianans it's worse than he thought. (even though he had sat in the Louisiana House of Reps from 2008, and as minority leader since 2012 where he voted for deficit spending)  So now he targets Health and Higher Education for cuts.

On the day he stopped TOPS funding for state college students, Edwards spoke in dire terms:

“I will also tell you about cuts we are facing that, without your support to fix, will close down higher education institutions all across our state."

Then he he pull out all the stops and jumped with all fours squarely onto the third rail of Louisiana politics while measuring his neck for a noose by saying the cash crisis even threatens the upcoming LSU football season and more:

“…the LSU main campus in Baton Rouge will run out of money after April 30th, as will the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. There is no money left for payroll after those dates.”

Governor Edwards vetoed a bill passed by the legislature in the special session that would've cut the budgets of five state boards and save millions. Beholding to unions, he has yet to propose cuts in a bloated state employee staff, or outside consultants. (Thanks Boobie Jindal)

He tried this emotional terrorism last month when he threaten to cut a program in Louisiana that helps parents of special needs children with housing, transportation, healthcare, and other essentials. The program is a valuable tool for families truly in need of assistance when developmental disabilities can take up so much of a parent’s time and resources. And, Edwards, had threatened to cut those services if the legislature didn't raise taxes. 

They Did.

After passing a 28 page bill, the state now virtually taxes everything. Besides raising sin taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, new taxes include things like your membership fees and dues to civic organizations like the American Legion, YMCA, Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the American Revolution, local historical societies, concert tickets and Opera and Symphony memberships. But that's still not enough for John Bel.

But ya don't have to pay taxes on your food stamp purchases!

By threatening to turn off the dialysis machines at Charity Hospital and canceling the most anticipated LSU's Football season in years, the good governor has pulled the noose a little tighter. And we aren't very picky which lamp post he'll swing from.  

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[And So It Goes In Shreveport]
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Trump Threatens Louisiana on the Twitter With His Legions of Sleazy Lawyers

After claiming to have been shut out of important Republican National Convention committee slots in Louisiana, Donald Trump’s campaign argued on Monday that the posts were chosen at a “secret meeting” to which Trump delegates weren’t invited. Trump adviser Barry Bennett told MSNBC an interview Monday:  

“The problem we’re having here is that there was a secret meeting in Louisiana of the convention delegation, and apparently all of the invitations for our delegates must have gotten lost in the mail.”  

Bennett also said during the TV interview that the Trump campaign’s “legal team” will try to decertify Louisiana’s delegates. Trump late Sunday threatened on Twitter that there was a “lawsuit coming” against someone in Louisiana.

Just One Big Problem: Mr. Trump’s two Louisiana state co-chairmen both attended the “secret meeting” which was in fact a gathering at the Louisiana state GOP convention March 12, according to Jason Dore, the state party’s executive director. Dore said the state party held its election for delegation committee posts in accordance with state party rules, which were implemented and published online in 2015.

Trump got his legal delegates, his  whining real issue are the votes from five delegates awarded to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who has since suspended his campaign, and five other unbound delegates. Both the Rubio delegates and the unbound delegates are free to vote for any candidate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

This is an attempt create controversy in his favor. But what Mr. Trump fails to understand is the Louisiana GOP are also  themselves a pack of sleazy Lawyers, and are well versed on the underbelly of politics he seems to lend himself to lately.

(WSJ)

Bobby Jindal Throws Hat Into The Ring for VP

The one time darling of the GOP, former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who failed miserably in his bid for president has announced that he’s standing in support of Donald Trump.  Jindal, who was at one time extremely critical of Trump as "Bombastic" and "Off Kilter' as a presidential candidate, has now had an epiphany, so to speak, and has hitched his tarnish wagon of political hopes to the stallion D.J.Trump who seems to be running away with the race.

Our popular Governor was re-elected to a second term in a landslide, but immediately began running for president soon thereafter, increasing state spending and bloating a state budget with things like creative hiring practices of state consultants and increasing state employee roles to make Louisiana employment numbers look better then the national average. Jindal left the state with a swollen 29 Billion dollar budget, and $1.8 billion in the Red. (just as comparison to a  state with similar population numbers, Oklahoma's state budget is 6 Billion).  After turning his attention solely to bolstering his resume as a stanch conservative to impress the primary voter base, and not with the business of the betterment of his state in mind, he left office two months ago as the least popular governor in the country.

But Bobby Jindal is no fool. A Rhodes Scholar and son of Indian immigrants, he sees himself a well versed and softer spoken compliment to Donald Trumps brashness, to be used as a deflection of the media and the left's mantra of Trump being anti-immigrant and racist. Jindal says now he believes Trump’s success is a “death knell” for the Republican establishment, the one he himself rode to victory twice. 

"The reality is, you can do the math. He has done very, very well. It is exactly what is wrong with the GOP establishment and it ignoring the will of the voters."

Believe me when I say, Bobby Jindal has just actively thrown into the ring his hat for VP.  

David Vitter is Sorry For Banging Skanky Hookers...... Can He Be Louisiana Governor Now?

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R-Brothel) want so much to get out of the bore of Washington DC and become the High Governor of the Great State of Louisiana, and be closer to the brothels state he loves sooo much.  It’s been a while since family values poster boy has addressed the scurrilous accusations that he was a loyal customer of Whorehouse Madams, because by gosh, that was so long ago, and God and Mrs. Vitter have forgiven him, SO MOVE ON. And his campaign for governor has done a good job of getting reporters who dare to ask him about that fired for their journalistic impropriety, allegedly.

But the Vitter campaign has had a change of heart, so Louisiana, our wannabe Governor has new ad, which he is obviously using to troll all of us, because the damned thing is called ....and no, I'm not making this up..... "Hard Times."

(Note: It only took the Vitter campaign a few hours to realize its poor choice of wording and change the name of the ad to “Difficult Times.”)

"Fifteen years ago, I failed my family, but found forgiveness and love. I learned that our falls aren’t what define us, but rather, how we get up, accept responsibility, and earn redemption. You know me. I’m a fighter. And as your governor, I’ll get up every day to fight for you. For a much better, stronger Louisiana." 

It’s funny that Vitter thinks Louisiana is in deep doo, since our current Republican governor Bobby Jindal keeps insisting he’s done a real bang-up job of cleaning up the joint, by, for example, shutting down the charity hospital system, and then refusing expanded Medicaid funding, leaving hundred of thousands of poor Louisiana citizens without affordable health care that was supported and funded by every Governor since it's inception over 200 years ago.

The Vitter campaign’s decision to vaguely address and dismiss that Hard Time Vitter broke the law, and the vows of his marriage by humping Freaky Canal Street Brothel Ladies of the Evening might have something to do with the not-even-remotely subtle ad released last week by his rival, John Bel Edwards, which not only goes there, but then drives another 100 miles past there, refills the gas tank, and keeps on going.
 
Vitter’s campaign had already denied recent allegations that the staunch “pro-lifer” had knocked up his mistress and dumped her like an adult dookie when she refused to abort his love child. So it would be irresponsible for us to speculate that the “forgiveness and love” Vitter found, after undermining the sanctity of his traditional marriage, includes keeping some ‘tang on the side and then asking said ‘tang to murder his unborn baby.

Polling shows Vitter is expected to have his diapered ass handed to him on Nov. 21.

Activist Group Pushing For Removal Of New Orleans’ Monuments Tied To #BlackLivesMatter

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An activist group seeking the removal of four Confederate-related monuments in New Orleans apparently has ties to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The group “STAND With Dignity” is a partner group under the “New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice” group, which often holds rallies comprised for immigrant and illegal immigrants demanding the state to cease deportations.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s plan to remove Lee Circle, PGT Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and the Liberty monument has been met with an outcry of backlash from residents in the city.

Not only has an influential group known as Save Our Circle been formed to save all history and art in the city of New Orleans, but two recent polls show that residents and citizens of the state are overwhelmingly not on-board with the removal, including black voters and Democrats.

STAND With Dignity often uses Twitter to promote the hashtags #BlackWorkersMatter and #BlackLivesMatter. And they usually get what the want.  Most recently, the group was successful in lobbying the New Orleans City Council to increase the city’s minimum wage to $10.55 per hour, a plan bound to hurt businesses across the city, as it has happened in Seattle, Washington.

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The Last Day of Southern Congressional Democrats

Jonathan Tobin

The outcome of tomorrow’s Louisiana Senate runoff election is not in much doubt. With the most recent state poll showing Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy with a whopping 26-point lead over incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, it is a virtual certainty that the last vote of the 2014 midterms will ensure that the GOP will have a 54-46 Senate majority in January. Even before the votes are counted, the result is being rightly touted as the end of the Democratic Party in the South. But while the reasons for this are worth examining, it’s also important to point out that the implications of this trend have more than a regional impact.

Just as the Democrats have developed a built-in advantage in the Electoral College in presidential elections, a new solid South in the hands of the Republicans means they have now acquired an equally potent edge that should allow them to retain control of Congress for the foreseeable future.

As Nate Cohn writes in the New York Times’s Upshot section, though most put the shift of the South into the GOP column down to race, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Democrats survived and even thrived at times in the Deep South decades after Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” enabled Republicans to flip the region into the GOP column in presidential elections. But the steady drift of the Democratic Party to the left on social, cultural, and economic issues has now alienated most voters in these states and left moderate Democrats like Landrieu increasingly isolated from both their constituencies and their national party.

As Cohn notes, blaming this solely on alleged white racism or on a backlash against President Obama ignores the fact that Democratic losses in the South can be traced to the way the party has embraced liberal issues that energize its northern and urban base but which alienates southerners:

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Good Bye Blue Dogs

Consider this: If Mary Landrieu loses her runoff in Louisiana on Dec 6th there will be not one Democrat controlled house chamber, governor or US Senator from the Carolinas to Texas. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Obama.

Amazingly, Blue Dog Southern Democrats are still analyzing what happened in the last election and how to get competitive again. They think pocketbook issues (as they see them) like raising the minimum wage, are the road to redemption. Well maybe, but stuff like that has about as much chance of success as handing out toys in Kabul hoping to change the hearts and minds of the Taliban. Good luck.

The facts are,  the Democratic Party cannot win without working class whites. In Arkansas a two term incumbent Senator won just 31% of the white vote (with the Clintons campaigning their asses off for him). In Louisiana Landrieu got 18 measly percent! No way in Hell anyone is going to win with those kinds of numbers I don't give a damn if every illegal and every minority in the state votes twice! So what's the problem? Why can't Democrats attract white voters?

It's simple really, white middle-class and working class voters perceive the Democratic Party as their enemy. We're the ones who "didn't build that". We're the racists who need to be punished. We're the ones who's kids are turned away from our universities in favor of a "dreamer" who is way way WAY less qualified. We're the ones who hate gays, "war on women" and cling to our guns and religion. We are the fall guy when Democrats make their pitch to any and every interest group under the sun. We're the bad guys not to be respected or listened to, and we should just shut up and continue to work our asses off to pay for everybody else's food, clothing, shelter, entertainment, drugs, booze and degenerate lifestyle.

So to the Southern Democrat...the very best of luck in your efforts. But the fact is you have worked very hard over many decades to change your image from a Henry "Scoop" Jackson to Justin Bieber, and you can live with the damn results.

Mary Possibly Facing the Worst Senatorial Loss in 50 years.

Landrieu May Go Down Harder Then Expected 

by Robert Janicki

Early voting in Louisiana began this past Saturday and voting percentages are up significantly from the primary election held on November 4th as part of the national midterm congressional elections.  The patterns suggest Landrieu will not only lose, but lose very badly with a rout that hasn't been seen in senatorial elections in 50 years.

Pollster John Couvillon believes that the election could go 62-38 for Congressman Dr. Bill Cassidy, which would be a monumental rebuke of Mary Landrieu and might well continue to be viewed as a referendum denunciation of Obama's failed radical liberal policies.

Here you can see a complete breakdown of details inside Couvillion's polling and analysis.

And just a side note: Once again, the Times-Picayune/NOLA.com has endorsed Sen. Mary Landrieu over her challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy.

See you at Mardi Gras Mary!

Has this been a great election or what? First we drub the Democrats like it's 1984 and then we get to watch Mary Landrieu swing in the wind for another month or so. There she is in a panic, languishing in her purgatorial world of eroding power with the only outcome being humiliation and ignominy.

It's obvious this job gave her life purpose and meaning. Being Senator for her wasn't a means to an end, it was the end. She came from money, a good family, the best of everything, but what did she accomplish? Apart from politics not much. But she was not just a good team player, she was the BEST team player! No better Senator for the Democratic Party than Mary Landrieu! Her home in DC (she uses her parent's old La. homestead as her home of record - co-owned by her and her seven siblings) is fundraising central for the Dems. During campaign season not a week goes by without some function or another taking place at her "townhouse" (townhouse in this context being a multi-million dollar 7400 sq ft mansion). Yes indeed, she has been the Washington Democratic establishment's best friend.

Which makes it all the more heartbreaking that Chuck and Harry have abandoned her in HER hour of need. Yes friends, the Dems have decided Mary is not a good investment any longer. They tried, nobody can say they didn't, but it makes no sense to throw good money after bad...and Mary Landrieu is soooo over. See you at Mardi Gras Mary!

Bobby Jindal Endorses The Convention of States Project

Louisiana Gov.Bobby Jindal knows first-hand about how Washington D.C. strips away state's rights in its insatiable thirst to control everything from education to healthcare to the environment.  Gov. Jindal has been a tireless champion of Tenth Amendment rights, which resonates with the Convention of States volunteers and supporters.  In fact, it resonates with all Americans looking for common sense from its leaders and real solutions that get government out of our daily lives. 

Recently Jindal remarked from the State Capital: 

"The federal government has clearly grown far beyond the size and scope that the Founders ever envisioned.  Over-spending, excessive regulatory overreach, and disdain for individual liberty all run rampant in Washington D.C. Luckily, the Founders gave us a mechanism to reform a runaway federal government in Article V of the Constitution.  We can -- and we must -- scale back the monstrosity that our federal government has become.  For this reason, I support the Convention of States project efforts to call an Article V convention to propose amendments to restrain the size of the federal government."

The Convention of States  Project, is dedicated to reducing the power of the federal government through the use of Article V of the Constitution.  The COS Project currently has organized leadership in 43 states around the country, including thousands of volunteers committed to stopping the federal government's abuse of power. 

Three Article V applications have already been passed in Alaska, Florida and Georgia. Louisiana is expected to be the fourth.

The DNC Has Not Thrown Mary Landrieu to the Gators

Politico is reporting the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has canceled its advertising reservations for Sen. Mary Landrieu ahead of the December runoff in Louisiana. I Call Bullshit!

This runs counter to the information I have been able to attain. 

"The committee canceled all broadcast buys planned from Monday through Dec. 6 in the state’s five major media markets, three sources tracking the air war told POLITICO. That’s about $1.6 million worth of time. The DSCC is in the process of canceling an additional $275,000 in cable placements, according to buyer sources...."

"The National Republican Senatorial Committee, by contrast, has reserved $2.3 million of broadcast ad time over the next month."

I have contacted all five of the local North West Louisiana Television outlets as well as numerous radio stations here in the second largest media market, no one can substantiate these rumors. They say the ads are contracted and paid for. 

Mary Landrieu's voting numbers in South Louisiana remained respectable, but did very poorly in her traditionally weakest territory, North Louisiana. 

I believe ad money will be shifted to ads in the northern part of the state, and center on the only parish that Obama won outside of southern Louisiana.  In that parish (Caddo), the December runoff will also include a mayoral election in the states third largest city, pitting a Black candidate against a White candidate and assuring a heavy democrat turnout. 

Stay Tuned......

The Statement That May Have Sealed Mary Landrieu's Fate

This evening I attended the U.S. Senate Candidate's Debate held  here at Centenary College Shreveport. For the most part, it was as expected, Landrieu attacked Cassidy's voting record, Cassidy corrected the lies in her campaign ads and made her own up to her record which she seems proud of, and the Tea Party Candidate seemed bored with the whole thing.

At the very end, all three candidates were asked to rate the President, and Governor Jindal. It was Mary's answer that brought smiles and muted laughter from some of the state's most noted political watchers in attendance. Having distanced herself from the Obama throughout her re-election campaign, no one expected her to answer as she did. Running 4 points behind Cassidy, some say it was a 'Hail Mary', so to speak, and a very unwise thing to say.

Here's video from Louisiana Public Broadcasting.

Last Minute Shake-Up in the Mary Landrieu Campaign

 

Landrieu Replaces Campaign Manager:
Brings in Old Trusted Advisers

Embattled 3 term Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, who has slipped in the polls and endanger of not making the December run-off, has shaken up her campaign as a last ditch effort to gain ground on Rep. Bill Cassidy and his lead in the race.

N.O.Times-Picayune -Facing the toughest battle of her political career, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is replacing her campaign manager and bringing in experienced hands from her previous three successful Senate runs to help with the final push to the Nov 4th open primary. Adam Sullivan, who had been campaign manager, is leaving that role but continuing as an advisor to the campaign. 

Spotted Recently in a New Orleans Cafe

"As Sen. Landrieu has done in all of her races, she is bringing on some of her long-time and trusted advisers to assist during the last month of the race to lead us to victory on Nov. 4," said Landrieu campaign spokesman Fabien Levy.

Aides didn't say why Sullivan is being replaced, other than to say Landrieu is bringing in people she's comfortable with and has relied upon for previous campaigns. Winning a Senate seat has never been easy for Landrieu in a state trending more Republican and conservative, but this race appears to be her toughest yet.

Landrieu is facing stiff challenge from a field led by Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge and Tea Party Conservative Republican Rob Maness of Madisonville.

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Calling Out Mary Landrieu

Saturday, a group of pro-life women, including Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., and Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, gathered to call out Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., for being out of touch with her constituents.

“Not only has Sen. Landrieu voted for taxpayer funding of abortion and against conscience rights, she refuses to support a common sense, compassionate limit on abortion after five months when the child can feel excruciating pain, Sen. Landrieu has failed to stand up for pro-life Louisiana values and must be defeated.” 

As for the mid-term election: A judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit challenging Landrieu’s residency in the state.

Landrieu is shooting for her fourth term, and is set to become chairman of the Senate Energy Committee (a cheap attempt by Harry Reid to bolster her importance and influence for the eyes of voters in the state) but constituents don’t seem to be impressed: The latest Rasmussen poll shows Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La.has taken a three-point lead in the race, 44 percent to 41 percent.

But that still falls within the margin of error and doesn't cover the built-in voter fraud so wide spread in democrat strong-holds of the southern parishes.  Neither candidate seems poised to get to 50 percent, which is necessary to avoid a December runoff in Louisiana’s open primary system.  

All said, with the Tea-Party candidate polling at 8-9% and refusing to drop out and swing his support to Cassidy, Landrieu is sure to make the runoff, and in all probability, again squeeze out a win.

Not Looking Good for Mary Landrieu

In a new statewide poll was solely developed and conducted by Southern Media & Opinion Research, Sen. Mary Landrieu continues her fall in the polls. The people of Louisiana have not forgotten her crucial payed for vote in the passing of ObamaCare.

Bayou Buzz

"According to the SMOR poll, based on a survey of 600 likely Louisiana voters conducted April 28-30, 2014, Senator Mary Landrieu continues to drop, with her positive rating now hitting an all-time low of 39% and her negative numbers skyrocketing to 58%.

The results also reflect a gap between “likely voters and “voters”. According to Pinsonat, SMOR used “likely voter” criteria because it was focusing upon an actual upcoming election, rather than a poll showing general popularity. Likely voters, are considered habitual voters, thus, are likely to vote this fall.

Landrieu continues to maintain high positives (79%) among African-American voters, but she continues to lose ground among white Democrats (male and female) and among female.

After being informed that Landrieu had been a U. S. Senator since 1996 and was recently appointed to Chair the U.S. Senate Energy Committee, 59% of the voters thought electing someone new was more important than keeping her in office. Landrieu’s seniority does little to sway voter choice for the U.S. Senate."