Say Goodbye to Louisiana’s Senator Mary Landrieu
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You remember Louisiana’s Senator Mary Landrieu. She is the politician who basically fell apart during Hurricane Katrina, and then made a last ditch effort to cozy up to the Republicans by trying to push through the Keystone XL pipeline bill. Well Mary has seen better days indeed.
(Newser) In what Politico calls “Dems’ final insult” from Election 2014, Mary Landrieu lost her Senate seat last night, in a convincing defeat that denied a Louisiana political scion a fourth term, gave Republicans a 54th seat, and unceremoniously dumped what ABC News terms the “last vestige of Democratic representation from the Deep South.” Landrieu, who had been expected to lose to Rep. Bill Cassidy in the runoff election despite having pulled out all the stops, managed only 43% of the vote, notes the Times-Picayune, due in large part to her inability to shake her ties to President Obama. The daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and sister of current mayor Mitch Landrieu, the 59-year-old has held office in the state for nearly 35 years.
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35 years without ever holding a real job? She is a poster child for what’s wrong with the American political system.
Now she’ll retire with at least one government pension and probably find income form “consulting and as a “motivational speaker.”
Excuse me while I visit the vomitorium.
Yep. She will make big bucks, but she won’t have the power.