Landrieu hitting field before Monday Night football
Source: CNN
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is looking for one last Hail Mary pass to save her increasingly grim reelection prospects, this time on the field of the Superdome before the Monday Night Football matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the Baltimore Ravens.
The Democrat, who's co-chair of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, will participate in a a pre-game National Adoption Month presentation on the field before the nationally-televised game begins. It will give her a significant platform to tout her work on the issue as she heads into the final leg of her runoff battle with Rep. Bill Cassidy.
Cassidy is heavily favored in the runoff, however, leading Landrieu by double digits in three consecutive polls. Her reelection chances took a serious blow last week when she was unable to usher a bill approving construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a political winner in oil-rich Louisiana, through the Senate.
But the senator isn't giving up yet. On Monday she launched a new ad accusing Cassidy of voting to cut school funding to pay for tax breaks for "millionaires like himself."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/24/politics/landrieu-superdome-appearance/
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)That's so cute.
Mass
(27,315 posts)I disagree with her on many issues, but she is somebody who has fought for her state again and again and it is sad that it ends this way, particularly against an idiot like Cassidy. I am still fuming at the Democrats' performance and at the fact they will take the same leaders and hope other results.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It was a worthless vote. She wasn't going to win on that issue alone and the the fact it failed only heightened her incompetence. Now every article mentions the failure of that vote and how it hurt her campaign. Had she never done it, had it never gone to the floor, she probably still loses, but no one is holding that up as proof her campaign is in trouble.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)GO ..GO AWAY MARY .. WE DON'T WANT YOU. WE'LL FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO REPRESENT PROGRESSIVES AND LIBERALS OF LOUISIANA !!
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)You might remember that Landrieu had the courage with Kay Hagan to vote in favor of background checks in the Senate Gun Bill. She supports women's reproductive rights and the Violence Against Women Act. I'm sure her Republican opponent will be equally supportive.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)Many of us aren't good at being pragmatic, a Senator who votes with us 60% of the time is still better than a Senator who votes with us 0% of the time.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)But, her message on economic issues, like unions and the environment are pretty weak.
I don't like her. Not a huge supporter
But, I did donate money after the GE toward the run-off
I'm sure she'll lose, but I can hope
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Make it into a party that talks tough about class and corporate power(in the Huey Long tradition...or at least the good part of it)and that gives up on what this race proves to be the hopeless strategy of trying to co-opt the Right-something we now know can never be done.
Use this time as down time to revive the thing from the bottom up and to call out the Right on its support of economic royalist policies that screw over most Louisianans.
We now know that triangulation will never work again...kicking out the jams and fighting the power is the only way forward.
Anything else means being stuck at the 42% Landrieu is going to get for the rest of eternity.
24601
(3,962 posts)liberals of Louisiana? Apparently that will be Representative (likely Senator-elect) Cassidy.
Impossible many here will say. But is not President Obama the President of all US Citizens, not just those who voted for him? His decisions affect everyone on the political spectrum from hard left to hard right, and also our neighbors who are politically apathetic?
When a constituent requires assistance navigating the VA or the IRS, Congressional Staffs have a good record concentrating on the problem at hand rather than the citizen's politics, or lack thereof. Intuition says that there are exceptions.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)I'll skip that part of Monday night football.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)After all you are not Joe Lieberman or worse, Zig Zag Rebel Zell.
With that said, you have to stand on your own merit.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Fitting.
Go shill for another TransCanada corporation pipeline vote, Landrieu.