An analyst is predicting Louisiana could see much better turnout for the November midterms than usual. Matt Doyle has more.
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Is legal action the next step in the effort to get LSU linebacker Devin White on the field for the first half of the Alabama game? Jeff Palermo has the story…
With no hot races in Louisiana, a low voter turnout is expected for the November 6th election, but JMC Analytics Publisher John Couvillon is even more bullish, saying turnout could be close to 30-percent, because of the national political climate.
Cut 3 (08) “…peer pressure there.”
Analysts say national turnout could crack 55 percent, which would be more than double the 2014 midterm numbers.
Couvillon says the only Congressional race that may get a bit interest is the 3rd district, where Clay Higgins faces a Republican challenger and a crowded democratic field. Even then the analyst says he expects Higgins to avoid a run-off, and the rest of the congressional races shouldn’t be close…
If any candidates fail to crack 50 percent, the election run-offs would be held December 8th.
Couvillon says Secretary of State Candidates are still flying under the radar. The pollster says that’s due to the position’s low profile, and fundraising difficulties.
Early voting for the November ballot runs through Tuesday, but closed on Sunday.
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A Moss Bluff man is facing charges of attempted second degree murder after allegedly shooting at his wife. Calcasieu Sheriff Tony Mancuso says 36 year old Robert Moreau was driving home with his wife from a party with a gun in his lap when he threatened to shoot her. It escalated as they got home.
Upon disarming Moreau, one of the couple’s three sons, ages 10, 12, and 14, then pulls another gun on Moreau and threatened him if he doesn’t leave their mother alone. Mancuso says this did not sit well with Moreau.
Cut 7 (10) “…and taking shots”
The rest of the family fled to a neighbor’s house, while Moreau took off in his truck. Authorities tried to stop him, but Mancuso says the Moreau led them on a 4 mile pursuit.
Moreau’s bond was set just shy of a quarter million dollars.
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LSU says the SEC will not overturn Devin White’s suspension for the first half of the Alabama game, because of targeting a Mississippi State player. So can legal action be taken? Legal analyst Tim Meche says LSU would have no problem finding a Baton Rouge judge to grant a temporary injunction, but it comes with a risk
Suspended Hahnville High School quarterback, Andrew Robison, received a court order to play football, but he’s yet to take the field, because the LHSAA could hand down future penalties. Meche says the same thing could happen to LSU, if a judge ruled White can play Bama…
Meche says it would be a stretch for a group of fans to file a lawsuit against the SEC and get a judge to grant a temporary injunction against the suspension and it’s unlikely LSU or White will take legal action. His advice as a legal mind and fan is for the program to move on
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The Advocate newspaper reports that Marquette Transportation, the barge operator that’s responsible for hitting the Sunshine Bridge at Donaldsonville, had 32 collisions or “brush-ups” with bridges since 2013, and were not penalized. Ascension Parish Council Chairman Bill Dawson says their piloting should have been addressed much sooner.
Dawson worked for decades and is currently a consultant in the industry, and when asked if the pilot who took the crane barge into the bridge should have been allowed out on the water…
The report shows the US Coast Guard has not referred the company for penalties despite incidents that have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage that triggered “informal investigations”. Dawson says it’s clear the Coast Guard needs to reform how it tracks company and pilot accidents on the river.
According to the report, Marquette Transportation collision or near miss incidents have not resulted in fatalities, or enough damage to trigger a more substantial investigation by higher levels of the guard.