More than any other state, Louisiana has paid the price for big, corrupt government. Two years after Katrina, Democrats in the Bayou are in total meltdown. Not only is Bobby Jindal likely to cakewalk into the Governor's mansion this fall, but State Treasurer John Kennedy
just switched to the GOP, setting up a likely Senate run against Mary Landrieu next year.
After months of speculation about a party switch, state Treasurer John Kennedy announced Monday that he is running for re-election this fall as a Republican, after serving two terms as a Democrat. Kennedy's re-election campaign announced the switch in an email. In it, Kennedy said he spent more than a year grappling with the decision — though the expectation of a change was heightened this summer when Kennedy met with then-White House political strategist Karl Rove and state GOP leaders.
"I have concluded that the Republican Party is the party that best reflects my values today," Kennedy said.
Remember how Mitch Landrieu, Mary's brother, couldn't even get himself elected mayor of New Orleans after Ray Nagin's utterly inept Katrina performance? That's because Republicans provided Nagin's margin of victory. That's how they dislike the Landrieu family post-Katrina.