U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon is actively considering running for U.S. Senate next year, John Maginnis reports. But the Napoleonville Democrat has to get a few things out the way before he challenges U.S. Sen. David Vitter. First, he’s got to make sure that Jim Bernhard, the Shaw Group chairman, doesn’t enter the race. Next, Melancon’s got to woo back business interests, upset over his support of the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as card check. “Melancon would need to create some separation between himself and the liberal Democratic leadership,” Maginnis writes. Read the column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
