By all accounts, Don Cazayoux owes his seat in Congress to the fact that the Repubs picked the wrong candidate in the primary--nutburger ex-state rep Woody Jenkins.
Well, per a report from Baton Rouge's newspaper, The Advocate, Jenkins appears to be a glutton for punishment.
"I am close to making a decision, and that decision will probably be to run," Jenkins said in an e-mail Tuesday.
Jenkins said that since the May election, he has been contacted by hundreds of supporters, volunteers and contributors urging him to run again. He said his campaign team is still intact and ready for another race.
"Their feeling is that the results on May 3 were primarily the product of low voter turnout, and that a high turnout and the dynamics of the presidential election on Nov. 4 would lead to a different result," Jenkins said in his e-mail.
One problem--this isn't the same district that elected Repubs for 33 years. And another problem--the national party wasn't exactly enthused about him (the NRCC reportedly refused to put in a dime unless he met certain financial benchmarks).
There's something else that could hurt Jenkins ... the potential to tie David Duke around him like a millstone. Back in 1996--before his run for the Senate--he bought a telephone list from Duke and tried to hide that he bought it. He was fined by the FEC for this. Although he denied knowing that Duke profited from it, his signed agreement with the FEC explicitly states that he knew Duke used the same ad agency that he did.
To be sure, the other likely candidate, Laurinda Calongne, isn't much better from what I've seen of her. According to her Website, she's a member of a large charismatic/pentecostal church in Baton Rouge, Healing Place Church. Judging by her ads, I'm left thinking, "Isn't one nutcase Republicostal Congresswoman enough?"