U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy says he won’t be running for governor of Louisiana. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says Cassidy is the ranking Republican member of the senate committee on health care, education, employment, and retirement policies. Cross says Cassidy’s history of bipartisanship will also be helpful.
Cut 5 (09) “…divided government.”
The Golden Band from Tigerland is the first marching band to ever receive a Grammy nomination for the album Full Circle with alum Sean Ardoin. LSU Band Director Dr. Kelvin Jones says it’s historic and now Ardoin is releasing a double vinyl album, that’s of course purple and gold and 15% of the proceeds will go to the band for scholarship and more.
You can pre-order the double vinyl album at SeanArdoin.com
Governor John Bel Edwards will host a wedding reception at the mansion tonight for his youngest daughter Sarah Ellen who will marry her longtime sweetheart Christopher Bates who hails from Benton. Edwards says his daughter met her groom while the two were at LSU ten years ago. She now works in Washington D-C. The governor says Bates had to ask permission in order to take his daughter’s hand in marriage.
The wedding ceremony will take place at St. Joseph Cathedral in downtown Baton Rouge.