Jeffrey D. Sadow is an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University Shreveport. If you're an elected official, political operative or anyone else upset at his views, don't go bothering LSUS or LSU System officials about that because these are his own views solely. This publishes five days weekly with the exception of 7 holidays. Also check out his Louisiana Legislature Log especially during legislative sessions (in "Louisiana Politics Blog Roll" below).
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8.11.16
Returns squash notion of LA Democrat comeback
In today’s
election Louisiana Republicans held serve and look to have confirmed that the
shock win of Democrat Gov. John
Bel Edwards was a one-off event.
Concerning the
U.S. Senate, Treasurer John Kennedy, the
front-runner essentially wire to wire, as
expected led the field. That Democrat Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell barely
outdistanced Republican Rep. Charles
Boustany and who combined with other Democrat votes only drew 30 percent –
compared to Edwards getting 40 percent by himself in his general election
contest – shows he is toast, with Kennedy finally realizing the Senate on his
third try over a dozen years.
Congressional
contests ended as expected. Excepting the Second, the majority-minority
district where Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond
easily dispatched fellow partisan Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden, of all other
districts only Democrat lawyer Marshall Jones managed to
make it into a runoff, barely leading Republican state Rep. Mike Johnson. This ensures the
election of Johnson, who will collect most of the votes of the other Republicans
who ran, who got almost 50 percent – with the silver lining for Democrats being
the most articulate social conservative in the Legislature will exit that body.
Perhaps
most interesting among the other GOP wins, in the Third Public Service Commissioner
Republican Scott Angelle barely
outdistanced law enforcement officer Republican Clay Higgins. As Angelle has an aura
of incumbency after a third-place showing to Edwards and votes not for him disproportionately
will vote for Higgins, this could turn into a much different race than a
presumed coronation of Angelle.
In the one
contested PSC race, businessman and GOP activist Mike Francis easily won,
keeping the seat in the party’s hands and a majority on it. The Third Supreme
Court District might be the only dark cloud for the GOP, where appellate court
judge Jimmy Genovese, an ally of trial lawyers, narrowly won. Even as he ran as
a Republican, increasing the GOP majority on the body, he would replace a
Democrat with largely the same sympathies to trial lawyers.
Louisiana
Democrats dreamed that somehow they had picked the lock to win future statewide
races. It turns out that they mistook a lightning strike for that.
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