By January 2014, during the last open race for governor in Louisiana, the field of candidates was already hopping and bopping. Gov. John Bel Edwards, then a state representative, had been raising money for months and building his name recognition. Former U.S. Sen. David Vitter had recently announced on YouTube and Commissioner of Administration Jay
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