Do you ever get the feeling that, down in Louisiana, they just decide to have an election because everyone's bored and needs a new excuse to throw a party? They're now in the middle of electing a governor who is going to have to build something out of the rubble left behind by the misrule of "Bobby" Jindal, who still thinks he's going to be president. The primary is on October 24. The protagonists are an interesting passel of eight various sublets. There are reputed to be four major contestants. David Vitter is leaving the Senate to run for governor. Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne is in the mix, and so is the Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle, and a state representative named John Bel Edwards, who is rumored to be a Democratic candidate. And, this being the United States in 2015, and this being Louisiana at any time in its long history, the money is the noisiest story in the race.

The Fund for Louisiana's Future has about $3.5 million to spend in support of Senator David Vitter. Scott Angelle and Jay Dardenne have their own PACs. One super PAC called Louisiana Water Coalition which has yet to identify with any candidate, started running anti-Vitter ads last week. While political action committees are supposed to be independent, Vitter U.S. Senate campaign gave Fund for Louisiana's Future $850,000. "The Fund for Louisiana's Future is basically Vitter's attack dog," said WWL-TV Political Analyst Clancy DuBos. "Now, all the candidates have their attack dogs. It's just that Vitter's is the biggest and probably the meanest in terms of having the most money." Galliano Marine, Cajun Industries, Lane Grigsby and Bollinger Shipyards are among Fund for Louisiana's Future, $100,000 donors. James Flores from Houston reportedly donated $250,000 to Angelle's Louisiana Rising PAC. Jay Dardenne's Now or Never-Louisiana PAC has its own major contributors, including $10,000 from Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand.

Vitter alone has $4 million in the bank for the stretch drive towards the primary. He also has a, ahem, record.

Vitter and his wife, Wendy, arrived to find a man wearing a diaper outside the entrance to the Secretary of State's office in Baton Rouge. The diaper is a reference to Vitter's prostitution scandal. Rumors have swirled -- though they have not been confirmed -- that the Senator apparently asked a prostitute to incorporate diapers into her services.

Yeah, it's Louisiana. Meanwhile, Dardenne is seen as enjoying the job of lieutenant-governor just a tad too much. After all, you can't spell "junket" without junk.

Dardenne's protesters held up a fake passport and implied that he traveled too much outside of the country as lieutenant governor. Dardenne defended his travel to France and other places -- saying it helped boost tourism in Louisiana.

And Edwards is about what you get from white Louisiana Democrats.

Edwards also mentioned bipartisanship several times during his remarks. He said having a "D" after his name shouldn't be a hindrance in this election because people wouldn't be voting along party lines. "The people in Louisiana aren't going to be voting party this year," he said.

In such a tangled ball of snakes, who can we turn to for analysis besides former Governor – and former guest of the federal penal system – Edwin Edwards, who is still alive and taking speaker's fees.

Edwin Edwards, a Democrat, says he'll vote for John Bel Edwards. They're distantly related, he said, but he also likes that John Bel Edwards was a critic of Gov. Bobby Jindal long before many others. Edwin Edwards told the crowd his advice to John Bel Edwards: "I told him, 'If you find people (who) like you, then tell them we're cousins...'' But while Edwin Edwards said he has no plans to run for office, it doesn't mean there won't be another EWE eventually on some ballot. He said he and his wife, Trina, named their son Eli Wallace Edwards, so he could have his dad's famous initials. Trina, he said, had shirts made for their son that say "EWE for governor in 2045.''

I'll bet he already has a SuperPAC, too.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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