Former Gov. Edwin Edwards has been showered with attention from the press and longtime supporters ever since he was released from federal custody last month. But John Maginnis says it’s a mistake to assume that the public wants him back in office. “The state has moved on,” Maginnis says. “Voters now seem satisfied with or at least accustomed to governors who can’t trade wisecracks with Don Rickles, even those who know who he is. In that way, Louisiana is becoming more like the rest of the Union, and so long as the food doesn’t follow suit, it is not a bad thing.” Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
