Today is Veterans Day, a day set aside each year to honor those who have served in the US Armed Forces. Eric Gill has more…
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State election officials are seeing more participation for this early voting period than what occurred in the primary. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand is releasing new information regarding the spying scandal involving a person hired by the David Vitter Campaign. Michelle Southern reports…:
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Today is Veterans Day, a day set aside each year to honor those who have served in the US Armed Forces. Louisiana National Guard Col. Pete Schneider says Veterans Day is a day of reflection and thanks, but it’s also a day to celebrate those who served and kept us free…
He says Veterans Day is not only a day to thank those who serve, but their families for the sacrifices they make, too. Schneider says there are about 10,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard and many have been deployed overseas…
If you happen to see a veteran today, Schneider encourages you to thank them for their service. Over the past several years, the business community has offered veterans perks on Veterans Day. Schneider says this is a gesture that is very much appreciated by our vets…
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Secretary of State Tom Schedler says he’s seeing more participation during early voting in this election than for the primary. Schedler says typically the general election receives less votes than the primary, but numbers are looking good during this early voting period, even though there will be no voting today because of Veteran’s Day.
Schedler says he thinks voters are much more engaged with the runoff election, possibly because the ballot is smaller and the candidates are more recognizable….
Voter turnout for the primary was 39-percent. Schedler says he’s not ready to say we’ll see a higher turnout for the runoff.
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Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand releases new information regarding the spying scandal involving a person hired by the David Vitter Campaign. Normand says he’s been able to recover deleted recordings from the device of PI Robert Frenzel. He says one of the videos shows the owner of the PI firm trying to coerce someone into saying a blog written by Jason Berry on Vitter’s previous relationship with a prostitute, was false.
Normand said Ruckert has obtained counsel and said they would not talk to investigators until November 23rd, two days after the election with Democrat John Bel Edwards. Normand says they also uncovered a secret video on Frenzel’s device, which shows a conversation with a potential witness to discredit the Wendy Ellis/Cortez prostitute’s story about her relationship with Vitter…:
Normand says they will be meeting with the FBI on Thursday to discuss the findings. Vitter has called the entire Metairie coffee shop “spy-gate” incident, silly. The senator says he had a person there to investigate an illegal scheme involving his opponent…:
Vitter says he has also turned in findings to the FBI with significant supporting affidavits and documentation that a witness is being paid to lie about him…:
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Republican David Vitter and Democrat John Bel Edwards spent a lot of time attacking each other’s record during an hour long televised debate last night. Edwards made the case that Vitter is a very ineffective senator and says if he’s elected governor, he’ll just continue Governor Bobby Jindal’s failed policies.
Vitter claims Edwards is completely misrepresenting his record, when in fact on many occasions he publically disagreed with Jindal. He says Edwards hasn’t ever stood up against his party leader, President Barack Obama.
During the debate the candidates did talk about education, Medicaid, transportation and workforce development. The conversation got testy towards the end when Vitter’s prostitution scandal was brought up. Edwards made reference to his “Patriots over Prostitutes” commercial.
Vitter says Edwards is acting “holier than thou,” but the Louisiana Democratic Party is using private investigators on his behalf, along with having trial lawyers doing his dirty work.
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The LSU football team will look to avoid a repeat of last year. In 2014, the Tigers lost a heart breaking game to Alabama and then were shutout the next week at Arkansas. Senior safety Jalen Mills says his teammates need to stick together to avoid deja vu…
Freshman offensive guard Will Clapp says there will be a lot of film study this week to help them correct the mistakes they made in the Alabama game…
Clapp says they’ll use the loss to Alabama to motivate them to do better…