July 7th, 2010
CONTACT: Aaron Baer
225-389-4495
Melancon Enters Senate Race. Why?
“In the wake of revelations about unsuccessful Chicago-style political patronage to force candidates in Pennsylvania and Colorado out of Senate races, one has to wonder what type of promises Barack Obama and his allies have made to long-shot candidates unlikely to win their races this November,” said Republican Party of Louisiana Communications Director Aaron Baer.
For nearly a year Charlie Melancon toyed with idea of the candidacy that he officially announced today and in March 2009 he announced that he was “not contemplating a run.” But, just two months later John Maginnis reported that “well-placed political sources say that national Democrats are making a renewed push” to convince Melancon to enter the race.
“Voters in Louisiana deserve to know who these ‘national Democrats’ were and just what was involved in their ‘renewed push’ to persuade Melancon into the race where he trails badly in the latest polling,” said Baer. “Louisiana already knows that Melancon has been working for Obama in the U.S. House of Representatives and he would continue to work for Obama in the Senate, but the question remaining to be answered is whether or not Melancon will be working for Obama after his defeat this November.”
In Case You Missed It…
What was Melancon promised?
by Sam Hanna, Jr.
July 7th, 2010
“…Vitter is a conservative in the truest sense of the word, and Louisiana voters know it. A majority of the voters in Louisiana are self-identified conservatives or they lean to the Right. Either way, they’re Vitter voters on any election day against any Democrat in a state that overwhelmingly said ‘no’ to Barack Obama and all of that nonsense about ‘Yes We Can’ or ‘Change We Can Believe In’ or whatever it was.
Louisiana voters also know that Vitter opposed or opposes just about anything and everything Obama and Democrats in the Congress have peddled to the American people. Or shoved down our throats void of a rational debate of its merits.
On the other hand, many voters throughout the state don’t know Melancon…
That will change in the not-too-distant future. Qualifying for this fall’s Senate race takes place this week…
In the coming weeks, we’ll see more of the candidates. Melancon will attempt to define his image for voters to consume…
Try as he might, Melancon will never shake that pro-Obama label. Remember, Melancon has voted for Obama-backed measures 84 percent of the time.
Guilty by association would be a proper assessment of their relationship.
And that begs a question.
What was Melancon promised in order to give up a safe House seat to take on an incumbent U.S. senator, assuming Melancon fails to unseat Vitter?
A job in the Obama administration?”
