Three Democrats have joined seven Republicans in qualifying for the fifth congressional district primary. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson names his starting pitchers for the opening series of the college baseball season. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Monroe Mayor Friday Ellis says the amount of debris from the ice storm that his public works crews are collecting is astonishing. The average for a week is 120 tons that is taken to the landfill, but yesterday alone 600 tons of debris was collected…
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Ellis expects debris removal will take eight months…
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Ellis says the city of Monroe is working with Southern Disaster Recovery in removing the debris and the partnership is going well so far…
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Three Democrats have joined seven Republicans in qualifying for the fifth congressional district primary. Among them is Winnsboro religious scholar Larry Foy, who announced his candidacy even before Julia Letlow abandoned her re-election bid in favor of a U.S. Senate run. Foy said his goal is to return the balance of power in Washington to where it belongs.
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Another Democrat running is Dan McKay, an attorney from Bunkie. He said if elected, he will protect democracy by standing up to President Trump, who he called a “dictator.”
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The third Democrat to qualify is Jessee Fleenor, a dairy farmer from Loranger, who took a very combative tone in addressing the media immediately after qualifying, at times using language that we cannot repeat on the radio.
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And that was one of the more tame adjectives Fleenor used in his 20-minute speech. Candidates have until 4:30 tomorrow afternoon to qualify.
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The Qualifying period for candidates to sign up for Louisiana’s new closed party primaries for a US Senate seat and U-S House seats concludes tomorrow. State Treasurer John Fleming has already qualified for the Senate Republican Primary and incumbent Bill Cassidy and challenger Julia Letlow are expected to qualify tomorrow. What about Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta?. The 67-year-old said he would challenge Cassidy, but political analyst Bernie Pinsonat believes Skrmetta will not run…
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Will a major Democrat candidate run for U-S Senate. There are rumors former New Orleans mayor and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrie could enter the race. Pinsonat says it’s unlikely…
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Former Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards reiterated again this week in an interview with the LSU Reville that he’s not interested in being in Congress. Pinsonat says funding would be difficult for any Democrat that runs for a statewide office, because the national party does not look at Louisiana as a winnable state…
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