Still, Louisiana is the only state where the "Duck Dynasty" TV stars abandoned the "kissing congressman" and made ads for a relative — that would be Zach Dasher of Ouachita Parish — who got into the 5th Congressional District race.Candor is often missing at political events, but it flowed at a recent Chamber of Commerce forum in Pineville. Eight men running for the 5th congressional seat filled the stage.
The Green Party's Eliot Barron explained his tardiness, saying, "I don't know my way around Pineville." Chamber members grimaced, but they seemed even more perplexed when he said he wants to "reintroduce big game into national parks."Clyde Holloway asked voters to return him to the seat he held from 1987 to 1993. He has stayed busy since then, winning election to the state's Public Service Commission but losing bids for governor, lieutenant governor and Congress.Holloway called for tougher immigration policies. "We ought to know every person who's crossing our border," he said, "whether they're Hispanic or whether they're Muslims or whatever."
"I'm not politically correct," he said, lest anyone miss his point.