[AuH2ORepublican]

"Is Jock Scott running for the Alexander House seat?"

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Yes, he's running. According to Politics1.com, Lee Fletcher, Kay Katz and Robert Barham are also possible candidates, but none of them have declared yet. I think Cooksey already said he wouldn't seek his old House seat.

Was it Jock Scott or his dad who ran for the House in 1985 and who organized Rapides Parish for Carter in 1976?

[Theodore R.]

It was Jock Scott, a former Democrat state legislator who ran for Congress in 1985. I don't recall if he ran as a Democrat or Republican that year. His late father, Nauman S. Scott, was a Republican who lost a race for local office in 1966. Nixon made him a federal judge; Scott was unpopular among conservatives, the epitome of the "big government" judge. By the middle or late 80s, Scott had also become Republicans. It was Jock Scott and now Alexandria Mayor Edward "Ned" Randoloph, then a state senator, who organized Rapides Parish for the Carter-Mondale forces.

[Theodore R.]

I believe that Lee Fletcher has also taken himself out of consideration in 2004 for the House. He narrowly lost to Alexander in 2002, when Mary Landrieu led the state Democrats to a big victory. Fletcher cannot take time from his new business to run.

Apparently, Clyde Holloway is not making his fifth or sixth losing race again this year.