The most closely watched federal race in the state is the one for the newly-redrawn 6th Congressional District. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Saints have fired head coach Dennis Allen after the team suffered its seventh straight loss. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Louisiana voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect a new Congressman in the newly drawn sixth district, which cuts a diagonal line through the state from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. It’s the state’s second majority-Black district. All five candidates for the seat are Black, including Democrats Cleo Fields and Quentin Anderson and Republican Elbert Guillory. Fields is a current state senator and served in Congress in the 1990s. Fields says one of his priorities is to increase the minimum wage.
Fields says early childhood education will be another of his main priorities.
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Anderson has never previously held elected office. He echoed Fields’ call to boost the minimum wage.
Anderson said another of his priorities is addressing crime that’s rampant in the two major cities in the district, saying that it goes beyond policing.
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Guillory is the lone Republican running in the race and had previously served in both the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana Senate. He also said public safety is one of his top priorities, along with education.
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Guillory also said he would work to keep American dollars in America and to cut down on foreign spending.
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The other two Democrats on the ballot are Wilken Jones and Peter Williams. The redrawing of the district by a federal judge’s order led to Republican incumbent Garret Graves declining to run for re-election.
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After their seventh straight loss, the Saints have fired Head Coach Dennis Allen. It comes one day after the Saints lost to the Panthers in Carolina, 23-22. Ross Jackson, the Saints’ beat writer for Louisiana Sports-dot-net, says the Saints needed to make, saying the team had many negative firsts yesterday.
Special Teams Coordinator Darren Rizzi has been named interim head coach, and Jackson says that’s the right move.
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Jackson says depending on how well Rizzi does in the final eight weeks of the season, he may be considered for the full-time head coaching position in the off-season. Other names Jackson mentioned include Lions Offensive Coordinator Ben Johnson and Vikings Defensive Coordinator Brian Flores. On WWL Radio, former Saints running back Deuce McAllister says Allen was not clicking with the team.
Allen ends his tenure with the Saints with a record of 18-25 in two and a half seasons, missing the playoffs in 2022 and 203.
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Tropical Depression 18 has formed south of Jamaica, and it’s expected to become Rafael as it moves northwest towards the Gulf of Mexico. By mid-week, it may reach Category 1 hurricane status as it nears Cuba. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says a storm in November is rare…
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However, its potential impact on the Gulf Coast remains uncertain. While the system could maintain strength as a tropical storm or low-end Category 1 hurricane, Keim says factors like drier air and wind shear in the Gulf of Mexico could weaken it upon entry.
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Southeast Louisiana is the cone of uncertainty. But the system is expected to weaken or might even dissipate before reaching the coast. But Keim says there’s the potential for rain and breezy conditions for Saturday night”s Bama-LSU game.