Campaign Finance

From the Advocate: State Treasurer says he will seek re-election, boasts over half a million in carry over money from his 2007 Treasurer bid.

From the Advocate: Governor on the road again tracking down campaign cash.

From the Advocate and WBRZ: Seeking campaign cash while residents are losing jobs and struggling to get by strikes many as crossing the line.

From the Times Picayune: Even as state treasurer and Senate hopeful John Kennedy was explaining why he had misrepresented his second quarter fundraising totals to the media, his campaign put out an email to supporters making the same false claim.

You’ll remember back in March there were rumors the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Pascal Calogero, was about to resign due to allegations the court’s decisions were being influenced by campaign contributions.

So far, Calogero has not resigned, but yesterday he launched a blistering broadside on Tulane Law School professor Vernon Valentine Palmer and Loyola University business professor John Levendis, whose research prompted the allegations.

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From The Gambit Weekly: A $50,000 contribution from Colorado-based landfill company Louisiana Land Systems will resurface as the company seeks to open a landfill just outside of Baton Rouge.

From the Times-Picayune:

From the Times-Picayune: Despite his listing as a co-chair of the fundraiser for Senate hopeful John Neely Kennedy yesterday, disgraced Louisiana Senator David Vitter was conspicuosly absent from President George W. Bush’s televised remarks at the Baton Rouge airport. Bush, who was accompanied by Kennedy and Governor Bobby Jindal, did provide Vitter a lift back to DC aboard Airforce 1. No word on whether the Senator pitched in for gas.

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From the Muckety: As the conservative attack group Freedom’s Watch scurries amid allegations of collusion with the National Republican Congressional Committee in the sixth district special election, its ties to the Republican Party are scrutinized.