New kids on the block: A new Baton Rouge-based political action committee, the Louisiana Victory Fund, says it plans to hold elected Republicans more accountable, while pushing to get more conservatives into elected office. According to a news release, the LVF plans to endorse two dozen young conservative candidates it considers key to structural reforms. “Folks are getting tired of the status quo and want reform—conservative reform,” says PAC Chairman Ryan Quiñones in a prepared statement. The PAC is a federal hybrid PAC, meaning it can raise funds through one of its one of its arms and contribute to candidates through another. The Baton Rouge-based PAC launched a website on Tuesday.
Open air: The Capital Area Transit System will hold the first of two public meetings tonight on proposed route adjustments, which include removing two routes with low rider numbers. In addition to closing the routes connecting downtown to O’Neal Lane and the Mall of Louisiana, CATS officials will also add more buses or bus hours to the Government Street/Jefferson Highway, Perkins Road/Mall of Louisiana, Highland Road, Airline Highway/Southern University and Southern University circulator routes. Officials also plan to pitch other minor service tweaks. The meeting begins at the Bluebonnet Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd., at 5:30 p.m. The second meeting will be held Monday. The CATS board will vote on the changes Tuesday.
By the numbers: State Rep. John Bel Edwards and U.S. Sen. David Vitter came out on top of a new poll released today by WAFB-TV and Raycom Media, garnering a combined 45% of the vote, while 37% say they are undecided in the governor’s race. Edwards continued a surge to the top of the polls, coming in with 24%, followed by Vitter at 21%, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne at 8% and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle at 7%. Metairie-based Multi-Quest conducted the telephone poll for Raycom by surveying 602 registered voters over the past week. Of the 407 who said they were most likely to vote, Edwards topped the board with 32%, followed Vitter at 24%, while Angelle and Dardenne were tied at 10% and 21% said they are still undecided. In a head-to-head matchup of Edwards and Vitter, 52% responded they would vote for the Amite Democrat, while 33% said they would vote for Louisiana’s senior U.S. Senator. See the full poll results and story from WAFB.
