Is the Guv the best possible successor for the other seat in 16’?
David Vitter, Louisiana’s incumbent GOP Senator is running for Governor. The election is next year, in the fall of 2015.
The polls show him with a big lead. Likely, he will win. He will then appoint his replacement to finish out his term which ends in 2016.
There is much speculation as to who he will appoint, but he’s not talking, so my sources tell me.
Two names mentioned in the “political grapevine” are Congressman John Fleming (R-LA04), and State Treasurer John Kennedy.