This summer, I attended an event and saw a man shooting video of a small group of people talking with Jon Bel Edwards. In my opinion, this man was standing behind Edwards capturing the private conversations of those talking with Edwards. I saw this occur twice. This man, who I later discovered, is named Josh, ultimately told me which PAC he worked for and I wrote about the issue. The PAC is associated with the Vitter campaign, because the Vitter campaign was paying the PAC and the tracker Josh a total of $8,000 per month since early 2015.
The Democratic Governor's Association, for the purpose off letting everyone know they have a chance to win the governor race, has reported that the Sheriff's have backed Jon Bel Edwards. Also, two major national ranking entities have moved the Democratic Party chances up, compared to where it has been:
Of course the big question after Louisiana’s general election is, can Democrat state Rep. John Bel Edwards pull the upset over Republican Sen. David Vitter for governor? The odds aren’t trivial that he can.
Some of my own post-governor’s election observations and thoughts for the runoff:
Immediately after news broke of the stranger-than-fiction arrest of an investigator capturing audio and video of Sheriff Normand, a State Senator and a private citizen and lawyer, John Cummings--opinions were blasted all over social media and elsewhere.
Is Democrat State Rep. Jon Bel Edwards really a different-type-of Democrat? In a state that has no Democratic statewide elected officials, can he edge out Republican US Senator David Vitter, who was considered to be the undeniable favorite in the 2015 Louisiana governor’s race? Can Vitter mobilize the republican forces to support his candidacy, which is necessary for him to prevail? How are the policies of the two candidates the same? Different?
It’s been a bad two hair days for Senator David Vitter, who of course, is running for Louisiana Governor for tomorrow's election.
Some are saying he is the victim of last-minute campaign tricks and perhaps he has been.
But, if so, maybe the ones perpetrating all of these dirty tricks are not just those on the other side of the vs. Vitter.
Polls, shmolls.
For months, we have been told that David Vitter is unbeatable because the poll says he is.
Even though a new Quinnipiac University poll showed Dr. Ben Carson with a lead in Iowa, Donald Trump is still leading in every national poll on the GOP presidential race. Four months after he announced for President, Trump has defied the political professionals to claim the unquestioned lead.
Op-Ed by Mike Malak
Michael Turner, (R) Ohio, Chairman, convened his House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces to review continued flight-testing of the JTF Lockheed F-35, designed to replace the aged A-10. The Committee considered engineering details, including altering the plane’s ejection seat weight tolerances to permit more female pilots to safely fly the aircraft. This change would further the U.S. military’s goal of more gender inclusive combat berths in all services. Testimony revealed other countries, also, want to integrating women into one of the most challenging of all wartime roles, defensive and offensive air-to-air-combat in state of the art hardware.
by Jim Brown
In the numerous gubernatorial debates that have taken place over the past year, candidates have been asked time and time again what they will do about the massive fiscal debt that continues to grow. How will they fill the financial hole that some say will approach two billion dollars in the coming year?
This week, the usual suspects slammed me after my posting two articles that dealt with the David Vitter scandal issue. Article one was an opinion piece by LouisianaVoice, which focused upon whether Vitter has not been debating because of his concern about his “sex scandal issue”.
Defying the expectation that after seven televised debates viewers possibly could learn anything new about Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, and state Rep. John Bel Edwards, they did: in tonight’s edition, they learned why each by way of personality is unsuitable to be governor of Louisiana.
Who’s leading in the election for Louisiana governor?