CenLamar | Est. 2006

Hale Boggs. Disappearance and search As Majority Leader, Boggs often campaigned for others. On October 16, 1972, he was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 with Representative Nick Begich of Alaska, who was facing a possible tight race in the November 1972 general election against the Republican candidate Don Young, when it disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. The only others on board were Begich’s aide, Russell Brown, and the pilot, Don Jonz;[2] the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich. (Begich won the 1972 election posthumously with 56 percent to Young’s 44 percent, though Young…

See this article in the Politico, which describes the dynamics in one of only two major elections still unfinished in the 2008 cycle, Louisiana House District 4 (the other one being the Georgia Senate race between Republican incumbent Saxsby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin). On December 6th, voters in LA-04 will decide between Democrat Paul Carmouche and Republican John Fleming. Carmouche is the respected, long-serving District Attorney of Caddo Parish, a socially and fiscally conservative Democrat, and Fleming is a medical doctor who believes in implementing the FairTax (a 23% national sales tax in lieu of other taxes) and…

The doors have been blown wide open in the appeal of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat who appears to have been convicted of the crime of guilt-by-association in order to completely clear the field for the reelection of Republican Bob Riley. It’s a sensational story that goes all the way to the White House, and if it weren’t true, most people wouldn’t believe it could be true. During the past year, Governor Siegelman has been on a crusade to clear his name and convince the American people that he is/was the victim of a coordinated political witch hunt…