Melancon makes final swing through Shreveport

    Diners this morning at Strawns Eat Shop on East Kings in Shreveport got more than bacon and eggs for breakfast when U.S. Senate hopeful Charlie Melancon and his wife Peachy stopped in for coffee and conversation. The Melancons, along with campaign officials and supporters, drove through soupy early-morning fog from their Napoleonville home to kick off an all-day five city election-eve tour that began in Shreveport.

     Tuesday, Melancon, a Democrat who represents Louisiana’s third  U.S. Congressional District,  will square off  in a state-wide election against incumbent Sen. David Vitter (R-New Orleans).  Vitter, whose first term in office has been riddled with scandal involving call girls in both Washington D.C. and New Orleans. 

     “Jobs, jobs, jobs, are the issue,” Melancon told supporters. “David Vitter closed down the GM plant here,” Melancon said. “We want to create jobs.

   “I’m running for Senate because Louisiana deserves better,” he said. “We need a different approach—more independent, more bipartisan, more honest and with a lot more common sense. That’s why I’ve traveled the state for 18 months talking with Louisianians about how to create jobs, grow the economy and bring fiscal responsibility back to Washington.”

     Traveling in tandem with the Melancons were Devan Purdue, Springfield LA attorney, who broughta flat-bed trailer full of Melancon yard signs that will be distributed throughout Caddo and Bossier Parishes to aid in the Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) effort that will be ongoing from the time polls open Tuesday until they close Tuesday evening.

     “We’re trying to organize the GOTV,” said Jeff Rogers, president of Southern Host Hospitality in Bossier, who along with David Newsom of Haughton, is helping with the effort. “This is the third load of signs Devan has brought up here.”

     Following the Shreveport stop, the Melancons and supporters were planning stops at Claire Chennalt Military Museum, lunch at Outlaw’s Barbeque in Alexandria, Southern University in Baton Rouge, and then on to his campaign headquarters in New Orleans where he will meet U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu to rally volunteers and supporters in advance of election day.