Just a little blurb about the race that is shaping up in LA-06 on the Republican side:
Woody Jenkins is widely expected to run yet again. I'm guessing he's banking on higher turnout to push him over the top in the fall, as it is a presidential election year. He also put out a robo-call throughout the district late last week.
Laurinda Calongne is also expected to run again after coming up short in the run-off to Woody in April. Her campaign manager put out this statement to the Advocate:
It [will] take people with real business experience to solve the country's economic problems.
Uh, yeah ... I think the "real" business people led us down this economic morass, Mrs. Calongne. Let's let the people help figure out how to get us out of this mess.
Bill Cassidy, a State Senator from Baton Rouge is also expected to run. The biggest problem he will have is that he just got elected to the State Senate two years ago. He has little legislative experience to run on, so it will be interesting to see if the Republican voters of this district decide to back an inexperienced candidate for Congress over a candidate that has served over 20 years in the State Legislature in Woody.
