… I’m a pro-life, pro-gun, Southern Democrat,” he said. “I have an ‘A’ rating with the NRA, and I have been an avid hunter and fisherman my entire life. I am a proud centrist – a Blue Dog – a straight-up-the-middle fighter for the little guy who is struggling to make ends meet.”
The congressman has been expected to make the bid ever since he said in June that he was looking at the race. However, he wouldn’t confirm a report at the time that said he had decided to run, and he has been quiet ever since.
Melancon occupies one of the most tenuous Democratic House districts in the country, and his candidacy gives Democrats what is perhaps their top potential recruit for the Senate race.
Vitter’s race was put on the map in 2007 when the senator acknowledged committing “a very serious sin” with a prostitute. National and local Democrats have been making an issue of Vitter’s foibles ever since, but, until now, they lacked a candidate to potentially take advantage.
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