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Insight: Super PACs Have Arrived in Louisiana Politics

 

The race for Senate is just starting to heat up. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s campaign started running a new TV ad recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fQefC8_Ntc

Congressman Bill Cassidy, who is challenging Landrieu for her seat, released his first ad this week. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K9vJzPfw5A

Each cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to air. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Jeremy Alford, publisher of LaPolitics.com, wrote this week about how the floodgates for campaign fundraising are opening up in Louisiana.