Paul Braun
Former Capitol ReporterPaul Braun was WRKF's Capitol Access reporter, from 2019 through 2023.
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U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy announced Friday that he will not run for Louisiana’s open governorship in 2023.Cassidy teased his announcement in a routine press call earlier this week, igniting intense speculation about his potential candidacy and a matchup against his U.S. Senate colleague John Kennedy.
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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy told reporters Tuesday that he has made a decision about the race and he will announce it publicly later this week. The statement comes one day after his Senate colleague John Kennedy said he is “seriously considering” mounting his own gubernatorial bid and released his own polling data showing that he would be an early favorite in the race.
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Less than one week after Louisiana voters gave him a second term, Republican Sen. John Kennedy said Monday that he is seriously considering running for Louisiana’s open governorship in 2023, and promised to make a decision “soon.”
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Por qué en las elecciones de noviembre aparece una enmienda constitucional que prohíbe la esclavitudAhora bien, ese no sería necesariamente el caso. La 13.a Enmienda de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos incluye un lenguaje similar que permite el trabajo forzado de reclusos, y el trabajo de los reclusos ha continuado en los estados que han adoptado recientemente un lenguaje en sus constituciones estatales prohibiendo la esclavitud y la servidumbre involuntaria. El propio Jordan ha reconocido que el cambio que propuso sería un gesto en gran medida simbólico. Pero aun así, dijo que a veces el simbolismo es realmente importante.
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La votación anticipada comienza el martes 8 de noviembre, tan sólo dos semanas antes del día de las elecciones. Las candidaturas clave comprenden los seis escaños en el Congreso, una competitiva carrera por el senado estatal en Nueva Orleans y una contienda en el Senado de los Estados Unidos que cuenta con varios aspirantes que compiten por reemplazar al actual senador republicano John Kennedy. Y hay ocho propuestas de enmiendas estatales sobre las que los votantes deben decidir.
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Early voting begins Tuesday, just two weeks before Election Day. Key races include all six congressional seats, a competitive state senate race in New Orleans and a U.S. Senate race featuring a number of challengers vying to replace incumbent Republican Senator John Kennedy. And there are eight proposed statewide amendments that voters will be able to weigh in on.
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Louisiana’s insurance industry is in crisis. Eleven insurers have gone under over the past year and a half. Other insurers have stopped writing new policies or are refusing to renew existing policies because of the risks of operating in the storm-ravaged state.
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Louisiana voters are used to seeing a slew of proposed constitutional amendments on their ballots each fall. This year, they’ll decide whether or not the state rewrites the portion of the constitution that bans slavery and limits involuntary servitude. But the effort faces an unlikely opponent – the same lawmaker who got that question put on the ballot in the first place.
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The fundraising battle in Louisiana’s lone U.S. Senate race shows incumbent Republican John Kennedy far outpacing his Democratic rivals with less than two weeks until early voting begins for the Nov. 8 election.
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Karen Carter Peterson’s stunning resignation and guilty plea to federal wire fraud charges left an unexpected vacancy in her highly-coveted Senate district and set the stage for the most intriguing state legislative race of 2022.The contest quickly drew two of the biggest names from New Orleans’ Democratic party: state representatives Mandie Landry and Royce Duplessis.