CenLamar | Est. 2006

On Saturday night, during the disappointing LSU vs. Alabama football game (quite possibly, the most-watched television event of the year, every year, in Louisiana), Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Bel Edwards debuted a campaign commercial many are already calling a “bomb” and a “sledgehammer.” On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd called it, “the most vicious ad ever.” This has already been a wild campaign season in Louisiana, arguably the wildest in the Great State since supporters of Edwin Edwards urged people to “Vote for the Crook” instead of the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David…

Depending on who you ask, Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter is behind Democratic State Rep. John Bel Edwards anywhere between 8 and 20 points in the polls, and it’s hard to see any momentum shifting over to Team Vitter (with the exception of former Governor Mike Foster’s practically incoherent endorsement of David Vitter, noting, without any sense of irony, that Vitter offers the best chance at racial reconciliation, even though the senior Senator is quite famously running a campaign constructed on subtly stirring up racial divisions). As I mentioned earlier this week, the Vitter campaign has spent more than $8,000…

In his newly-released campaign commercial, U.S. Sen. and gubernatorial candidate David Vitter takes aim at the excessive benefits given to elected officials: Health care subsidies, pensions, perks like golf memberships and “college scholarships for their friends.” **** Shortly before January 26, 1997, my father Lamar (who passed away only four years later) performed a miracle: He scored four tickets at the Superdome on the ground-level section, around the forty yard line, for Super Bowl XXXI: Hometown boy (or close enough) Bret Favre and the Green Bay Packers versus Drew Bledsoe and the New England Patriots. My dad won his tickets…