CenLamar | Est. 2006

U.S. Senator and Louisiana gubernatorial candidate David Vitter hasn’t had the best month. His poll numbers are sagging. His bid to replace Gov. Bobby Jindal, once thought inevitable, now appears flailing, despite the fact that Vitter has raised exponentially more money than any of his challengers, combined. And his 2007 prostitution scandal has suddenly reemerged as a topic of interest, concern, and renewed speculation. If he is to be successful in his campaign for the Governor’s Mansion, David Vitter understands he must first convince a majority of women in Louisiana he is fit to be their leader, that he has sufficiently…

Recently, the Fund for Louisiana’s Future, a pro-David Vitter political action committee headquartered in Washington, D.C. and led by Charles R. Spies, a D.C.-based attorney originally from Michigan, launched two television commercials attacking Louisiana gubernatorial candidates Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne. Although they have been on the air for at least a week, the commercials were uploaded onto the SuperPAC’s official YouTube account this morning. If you didn’t know any better, you would likely believe the disclaimer (“Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee”) that appears at the end of both commercials. After all, by law, SuperPACs are prohibited…

If 27-year-old David Vitter had only moved back to Metairie a few months before, it is likely Louisiana would have been spared the indignity of having David Duke as a state representative and, only two years later, as the Republican candidate for governor. In late 1988, even though he wanted to, Vitter could not qualify to run for state representative in District 81; he hadn’t lived there long enough. Ironically though, David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who actually lived two blocks outside of the district, quietly changed his address, qualified for the election, and,…