Republican Senator David Vitter is leading all other candidates in cash on hand for this year’s governor’s race. Eric Gill reports…
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The Mandeville Police Department says a man is charged with his 8th DWI after he allegedly drove a car that didn’t belong to him drunk into another vehicle then fled the scene. Michelle Southern reports…:
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Republican Senator David Vitter is leading all other candidates in cash on hand for this year’s governor’s race. Wednesday was the deadline for statewide elected officials to file annual campaign finance reports for 2014. Vitter has reported $3.5 million in the bank for his campaign. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says this is not surprising…
Fellow Republican candidates Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne reported $1.55 million, and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle has $1.43 million. Pinsonat says both Dardenne and Angelle are off to a good start…
Democratic State Representative John Bel Edwards reported $745,000. Pinsonat says the wildcard is Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy, who has reported $3.45 million in cash on hand. The treasurer is considering running for governor, attorney general, US Senator, as well as re-election. Pinsonat says Kennedy has enough money available to do just about anything he wants…
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The case of the man who was convicted of literally scaring a Lafayette woman to death in 1999 after he broke into her home, then had the ruling overturned, will be reviewed by the Louisiana Supreme Court. A jury found 40-year-old Willie James Robertson guilty in 2013 of causing 86-year-old Irene Schoofs heart attack which killed her. Legal analyst Tim Meche…:
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The death of the woman happened in 1999 but the case wasn’t prosecuted until 13 years later. An appeals court overturned the manslaughter conviction and acquitted Robertson and now the state’s high court has agreed to take a look at the case at the request of the Lafayette Parish DA’s Office. Meche says the evidence in this case is very flimsy…:
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Meche says in these types of cases courts look to determine whether or not the evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction, and the court of appeals concluded it was not. He says the trend of late is that the Louisiana Supreme Court reverse courts of appeal in cases like this…:
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The Mandeville Police Department says a man is charged with his 8th DWI after he allegedly drove a car that didn’t belong to him drunk into another vehicle then fled the scene. Lt. Gerald Sticker says 48-year-old James Hittson took his friend’s 2006 Chevrolet Avalanche from an apartment where they were hanging out without her permission…:
Sticker says when Hittson returned the crashed vehicle to the owner, a disturbance ensued where the suspect threatened the woman and her boyfriend. He says cops then got a call from a local Winn Dixie regarding a vehicle that had been slammed into while the owner was shopping…:
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Sticker says the suspect’s history includes seven prior DWI’s starting in 1984 from Tangipahoa, Jefferson and St. Tammany Parishes. He says they arrested Hittson and booked him into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on many charges along with DWI – 8…:
cut 11 (06) “suspensions as well”
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In a recent CBS News Poll, 67-percent of Republican respondents said they did not know enough about Governor Bobby Jindal to consider him for the Republican presidential nomination. Political analyst Clancy Dubos says this is bad news for Jindal especially after the publicity he received after his stance on “No-Go Zones”…
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The poll found that 18-percent of respondents would consider Jindal. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush lead the poll with 49-percent saying they would consider him as the Republican nominee. Pinsonat thinks Jindal’s strategy is not to gain the presidential nomination this time…
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He feels Jindal is laying the groundwork for a presidential run in 2020 or 2024. But Pinsonat points out that a lot could happen in the next four to eight years and the odds do not favor Jindal. But he says that won’t stop the governor…