With the election for the vacant state Senate District 26 seat just four days away, a private poll commissioned recently by a Republican political action committee suggests it’s anyone’s race. Obtained this week by The Independent, the poll conducted Feb. 8-9 among 400 district voters by Gonzales-based Magellan Strategies on behalf of the Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority finds Democrat Nathan Granger and Republican Jonathan Perry in a statistical dead heat — 37.1 percent favor Perry, 35.3 percent favor Granger, with 27.7 percent undecided. The poll has a 4.86-percent margin of error.
Granger, an Erath business owner and Vermilion Parish police juror, is making his first run for the Legislature. Perry, an attorney and Cajun comic, is in his first term as District 47 state representative and is a former Kaplan City Council member. The Magellan poll is the third survey of voters in Senate District 26, which covers about half of Vermilion Parish and parts of Acadia, Lafayette and St. Landry. Earlier polls conducted by the Granger and Perry campaigns showed the candidate commissioning the poll with a sizable lead over his opponent.
Also in the Magellan poll, Granger scored slightly higher positives and negatives from respondents: His total favorable rate was 49.8 percent to Perry’s 46.7, while his total unfavorable rate was 6.2 percent to Perry’s 5.2.
Also this week, the Louisiana Association of Educators announced it is endorsing Granger.
The special election, called after incumbent Nick Gautreaux resigned to take the post of commissioner of the state Office of Motor Vehicles, is Saturday.
... written by Docy B , February 15, 2011 - 10:55 am
Granger is going to be switching to the GOP before long. As soon as he comiserate with the base race haters in Baton Rouge. This guy is not a progressive liberal democrat.
3 Boos go to this fraud.
... written by aintnoway , February 15, 2011 - 12:16 pm
Nathan is a nice man and a sincere person. But I won't vote for him because he is #1 a Democrat. Either he believes and supports all this mess in D.C. or he is a hypocrite and is only a Democrat to get the minority vote. #2-he is good friends with Nick Gautreaux...that is enough for me NOT to vote for the guy
... written by veefox , February 15, 2011 - 01:26 pm
I would like to know from Granger how he can wear pro-life, pro-family, and pro-business on his sleve and still associate himself with the Democratic Party. Outside of the labor unions, what values of the Democratic Party do you hold Mr. Granger?
... written by Docy B , February 15, 2011 - 01:44 pm
written by aintnoway , February 15, 2011 Nathan is a nice man and a sincere person
Sincerity is when you claim to be a democrat, you should vote democratic values. The Democratic party is the party that protects the masses from the few authoritian rich among us.
Look at the new Florida governor. This man is a multi-millionaire (some would argue by theft)who tried to pay one of his staffers with a gift card. This speaks to what the rich people in America wants to do with the middle class worker. They and their republican and tea party crackpots want to destroy the middle class so that they can be worshiped as overlords.
Remember, when the peasants come to grips with the republican big lie.....
... written by veefox , February 16, 2011 - 12:04 am
What a relief Docy. Good to know there are no multi-millionaire politicians in the Democratic Party. Just hard blue collar workers huh? (John Edwards, John Kerry, The Kennedys, Nancy Pelosi, etal). The Democratic Party leadership has worked wonders in New Orleans, Detroit, and Buffalo. All cities controlled by all Democrats for over 100 years. I guess you want the same great utopia for our state and nation. Keep supporting your regressive agenda, you are a permenant minority in this state and this nation.
... written by verite absolue , February 16, 2011 - 08:35 am
Everytime I hear Mr. Granger's commercials or see his mailouts, he claims to be a "conservative" democrat...would he consider President Obama as a "conservative" democrat? If not, why would he hire a campaign worker of President Obama's to help him in his state senate campaign? FACT!!! Here's the proof:
http://www.thedeadpelican.com/2011/26b.htm
... written by Plumpy , February 16, 2011 - 03:02 pm
Just read on Dead Pelican.com . Obama people backing Granger. Well, that does it for me. I'm most definitely voting for Perry !
... written by Docy B , February 16, 2011 - 05:43 pm
written by veefox , February 16, 2011 What a relief Docy. Good to know there are no multi-millionaire politicians in the Democratic Party.
Peefox, isn't it ironic that the democratic party with all its millionaires and billionaires are always on the side of the working people.
Think Peefox, think.
... written by Republican , February 16, 2011 - 07:38 pm
Here we go again, the Republican's are trying to nationalize a local race. You'd think they'd learned a lesson from the District 22 special election. Local people know who best represents them and Saturday night all in District 26 will know it is Nathan Granger.
Geaux Granger!!!!!
... written by Dr.Northsidian Shotgun , February 17, 2011 - 08:38 am
Docy, i'm going to offer a hundred to a Meche's Glazed Donut, that you have an 8x10 glossy of JFk, an 8x10 glossy of his brother BFK and an 8x10 glossy of Marilyn Monroe, nailed on your living room wall with candles burning 24/7 in honor of their inbred democratic family values of sharing the wealth. This is the main reason, this country is so fkd up, couillions like you mired down generation after generation, with a party doctrine imbedded so deep that you really have not a clue what the next party stands for, dolts like yourself keep this country turning on its axis in a very wobbly rotatative spin of stupidity. "This is nothing personal, I would not get that close.
... written by Docy B , February 17, 2011 - 09:45 am
I use to have an 8x10 of JFK. I never had a picture of marylin monroe or BFK, although I love BFK. If you're looking for an 8x10 of that slut monroe, contact david vitter.
I do have an 8x10 of Obama though.
Are you upset that the democratic party with all its millionaires and billionaires are always on the side of the working people?
... written by SENSIBLE POLITICS , February 19, 2011 - 10:31 am
Hey Docy, send me a copy of that 8x10 of Obama. I'll send you a dart board with Dick and Bush face.
... written by LAFAYETTE NATIVE RESIDING IN CA , February 20, 2011 - 06:08 pm
I guess that CLOWN Perry will add to the republican imbecility in Baton Rouge.
Louisiana is starting to smell like that filth from the BP Oil spill.
You must be logged in to post a comment. Log in using your Facebook account or register if you do not have an account yet.
JUNE 19 Former Saint Steve Gleason, who is paralyzed by ALS, released a statement Tuesday in response to the Atlanta radio station's skit making fun of him and the disease, this Picayune post reports. What did he say? He said he'd accepted the apology of the DJs who did it, notes that at least the incident has got people talking about ALS, and asks anyone who is burning to take action about it to do so -- by helping him fight ALS.
JUNE 19 Blogger Ian McGibboney takes a look at the Gleason incident in this post. He makes a good argument about the difference between having free speech and being free from consequences for your speech (which none of us is). He also admits that many of us got upset before we listened to the skit -- but lets us know that the reality is far worse than we can imagine. It was the incredibly bad judgment, even more than the actual speech, that probably got those DJs fired, he opines.
JUNE 19 Washington Post blogger Aaron Blake writes about Sen. Guillory's switch to the GOP in this post. He writes what most political watchers in Louisiana know: Guillory was a Republican before he decided to run for the senate seat in a mostly-D St. Landry district, and has switched back now that he plans to run for Lt. Gov. in a mostly-R state. But how come Blake missed Guillory's appearance on a TLC pageant show? Now that is a video we'd like to see. (Again).
JUNE 19 Here's another Washington Post blog post about a Louisiana politician, and it's just plain scathing. Ezra Klein says Jindal's Politico post was "insulting" to the intelligence of voters, and adds that Jindal is personifying the "stupid" he's railed against, by being an "elite" who convinces GOP activists of "things that aren't true." Me-ow.
JUNE 19 Here's Gov. Jindal's post in Politico, in which he asks the GOP to get over losing to Obama (again) and stop "the bedwetting." (Uh, what?) He gives his Republican buddies what is probably a nerd's idea of a coach's motivational talk, which starts with a list of accomplishments that they can't seem to exploit and ending with an absurd description of liberals that sounds like a character treatment for a Fox "News" movie scripted by Gordon Liddy. Sure, he's preaching to the choir, but even the choir's not this gullible.
JUNE 19 Lamar Parmentel read Gov. Jindal's post on Politico, but thinks it was so dumb it probably was published in the wrong paper. This post by Lamar on the Daily Kingfish opines that possibly Jindal's post was destined for the Onion -- because the governor couldn't possibly be serious here. If you listen closely, you can hear the staff of the Kingfish giggling.
JUNE 19 Blogger Robert Mann posts from Turkey, a country he has visited several times in the past few years. Mann gives an interesting overview of the current political and societal climate of the country, which -- if you're living under a rock and don't know -- is experiencing protests and turmoil these days. Mann promises to post as much as he can during his trip, which should be fascinating reading.
JUNE 19 Blogger CB Forgotston says the legislature is keeping the vicious cycle going with its funding of new buildings for the community college/technical college system. Universities across the state need maintenance and improvement on existing buildings, and the solution is to build new buildings at other schools? By the time the bonds are paid off, those buildings will be falling down, too, CB says.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
Subscribe to this comment's feed
3 Boos go to this fraud.