Louisiana has 24 candidates seeking election to the U.S. Senate in the November election to fill the vacancy that will take place when republican U.S. Senator David Vitter will retire. Most of those 24 candidates are republicans with two democrats that are running neck and neck so far.
The republicans are campaigning against President Obama like Donald Trump is doing and as Vitter did when he ran for governor against John Bel Edwards. In other words, they are campaigning against the past instead of articulating their future plans to the voting public. That campaign policy failed Vitter big time and Edwards was elected governor. If the current polls hold true, Trump will also fail on November 8. The two democrats are campaigning about the future and one of them should make the run off election.
This writer believes it would be wise for Louisiana to elect a democrat to fill the vacancy that will be left by Vitter's retirement. Louisiana already has one republican U.S. Senator and now needs a democrat to balance the state, the people and the country's needs. Another do nothing republican should not be an option. The people of Louisiana are learning how Louisiana's republican attorney general Jeff Landry is trying to undermine the Edward's administration for personal reasons. That is what republicans do and how they govern.
Louisiana also needs another democratic voice in Washington to work with governor Edwards who can articulate Louisiana's needs to the President and congress. Under the democratic administration of President Obama our nation has emerged from the great recession of 2008. And under the democratic administration of governor Edwards Louisiana is in the process of emerging from the big time failures of past republican governor Bobby Jindal.
The future of Louisiana will best be served if the next U.S. Senator from Louisiana is a democrat.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
