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Sep 27 2008

Election Day in 7 days

Published by Nick under Campaigns

Well, I hope ya’ll are doing well after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. We continue to recover after Gustav and Ike. The last household of my immediate family got power back yesterday. There was no significant damage to any of their houses. Phew.

After all that excitement, it is hard to get focused back on Louisiana politics, but we have an election coming up in just seven days now. There are some storm delays in the election cycle due to the Hurricanes.

The at bat is in 7 days. These elections were delayed from Sept 6 due to the hurricanes. So who is running and what do we know about them?

Lets take a first swing at listing who is running. Please let us know more about these candidates.
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