GOP Senator Guillory Takes On Mary Landrieu For Louisiana Governorship

Elbert Guillory, a black senator from Louisiana, was Republican before he became a Democrat in 2007, then switched back to the Republican party in 2013. Last year, in a powerful video addressing his "brothers and sisters in the black community" he explained what motivated him to make the switch.

Guillory has his sights set on the Louisiana governorship in 2105, and he is taking on current Governor Mary Landrieu with another powerful video ad by FreeAtLast PAC. Filmed in Opelousas, Louisiana, on a street a few blocks from where he grew up, Guillory talks about how Landrieu promised to be a champion for the black community 18 years ago when she first ran for senate in 1996, and yet nothing has changed. In fact, he believes they are worse.

Here are snippets from the campaign ad, once again targeting the black voter.

“Our communities are poorer than they were in 1996. Our schools continue to fail children." “And our jails are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers.”
 “Meanwhile Mary Landrieu lives in a $2 million mansion on Capitol Hill.”
“While you scrounge together food stamps to buy kool aid, she sips champagne at cocktail parties. While you dig through the couch looking for gas money, she flies around in private jets funded by taxpayer dollars.”

“But Mary Landrieu knows that she doesn’t have to do anything for our community, because no matter what she does, 95 percent of us will line up to vote for her. Every. Single. Time.”

Watch the video on YouTube here.

If I lived there, I know who I would be voting for.

Good luck Senator Guillory!

H/T Legal Insurrection

Video: "Why I am A Republican" - La Sen Elbert Guillory Explains His Switch

Louisiana Senator Elbert Guillory, former Democrat, explains why he switched back to being a Republican.

He has some powerful words for his "brothers and sisters in the black community", and everyone else.



H/T The Blaze

Sen Guillory, D-La Switches Back To Republican Party

I was surprised when Louisiana Democratic Senator Elbert Guillory criticized fellow Senator Karen Carter Peterson for claiming Republicans were racist for opposing Obamacare. But it turns out he was actually a Republican prior to switching parties in 2007, although he continued to vote conservatively as a Democrat.  However, fed up after 6 years, he just announced he was rejoining the Republican party. At a conference in Baton Rouge, where he was given the Frederick Douglass Award, he said:

As of this day, I join Frederick Douglass as a Republican. Today the party of disappointment has moved away from the majority of Louisiana. They have moved away from traditional values of most Americans. They have left us behind on crucial issues like abortion, vouchers, Second Amendment rights, union control of public jobs, school prayer, family issues.

Their support of dependency over self-reliance, of everything but traditional marriage, of abortion on demand, their policies have encouraged the high teen birth rates, high school drop out rates, high incarceration rates and very high unemployment rates.

Our self-initiative and self-reliance are sacrificed in exchange for votes for the party of disappointment.

The list of disappointments is long…the lies and cover-up at Benghazi, the IRS harassing the tea party and wiretapping and spying on reporters.

Louisiana has not had a black Republican senator since the Reconstruction Era years (1865 to 1877).

Apparently, Karen Carter Peterson's comments were a catalyst for his decision to part ways.

"The accusations of racism this week certainly helped push me over the edge. I thought that they were over the edge." "It just showed me just how far out of tune I was, I am, with the Democrat Party."

He filed his papers to switch the same day of Peterson's comments.

Naturally, the Democratic Party lashed out, calling it political opportunism.

"This move isn't surprising given Guillory's record of saying one thing to his constituents and then voting another way," Stephen Handwerk, executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party, said in a statement Friday.

"He should do the right thing and step down from his seat immediately since he has chosen to abandon the Democratic Party values that the voters elected him to represent."

He will remain a "full-fledged member" of  the Legislative Black Caucus, although he will now be the only Republican.

Welcome back Senator Guillory, although with his conservative voting record he was actually a DINO.

La Senator Refuses To Address Her Claims Of Republican Racism Over Obamacare

Democratic Senator Karen Carter Peterson from Louisiana claimed, on the Senate floor, that Republican opposition to Obamacare is because Barack Obama is black. But when a local TV station reporter tried to get her to talk about her accusations of racism, she refused to speak.

Sen. Elbert Guillory, who also happens to be black and a Democrat and also opposes Obamacare, said of Peterson's comments:

"some decks only have one card in it, and that's the race card. And I'm so sick of hearing it..."

I think we all are. But good for Guillory.