Insight: Super PACs Have Arrived in Louisiana Politics

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published June 13, 2014 at 6:20 AM CDT

The race for Senate is just starting to heat up. Sen. MaryLandrieu’scampaign started running a new TV ad recently.

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

Congressman Bill Cassidy, who is challengingLandrieufor 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.

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Amy Jeffries

Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

Insight: Super PACs Have Arrived in Louisiana Politics

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