Posted on 09/21/2011 8:03:07 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
Comes today word that John Alario, Louisiana’s Mr. Democrat for decades in the state legislature, says he might want to switch parties and become a Republican. Alario says he’s “pondering” a switch and will make a decision by year’s end.
This is terrible news, and it ought to be denounced by the state GOP immediately.
Alario has been in the state legislature since 1972. He was in the House of Representatives from 1972-2008, and from 1980-84 and 1992-96 he was Edwin Edwards’ hand-picked House Speaker. Term limits, for which Louisiana owes Sen. David Vitter an eternal debt of gratitude, drove Alario out of the House.
So he ran for the Senate. And won. And he’s been a state senator since 2008, with his first re-election in that job set for next year.
In that 2007 Senate campaign, the Louisiana Republican Party put out a flyer hammering Alario over what has long been a reputation for old-time political corruption. The flyer, sporting a snappy “The Alarios” logo on it which knocked off the logo for the HBO series The Sopranos, read:
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehayride.com ...
Louisiana isn’t the only state with that problem: in Texas, no Dimocrat has a chance for election in any statewide office, so... they run as Republicans!
Fortunately, they’ve usually left a trail of public statements and public actions, but it requires vigilance to identify them.
It’d be great if the La. GOP were to say “Sorry Mr. Alario, we just don’t need you!”
The LA GOP has no guts. They would embrase my dog if she were, Dog (R) Benton, LA. Unfortunately she is totally dependant on big daddy gubmint (AKA: me)
Jindal is no better than the D to R swaps.
Demo(RATS) from OBummer’s sinking ship
Demo(RATS) jumping from OBummer’s sinking ship
Establishment Republicans will take him in a minute. Conservative activists MUST pitch a fit to keep the Establishment from falling in line with this garbage. THEY are bad enough without swallowing whole the Democrat corruption machine TOO.....
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