Which one is the white guy?

This morning's T-P looks at the race for Louisiana Secretary of State between incumbent Tom Schedler who inherited the office when Jay Dardenne became Lieutenant Governor in 2010 and Louisiana House Speaker Jim Tucker. Like most of what appears on this fall's statewide ballot, it's a dismal race. Both men are Republicans although it's worth noting that Tucker is on Senator David Vitter's slate of endorsed candidates.

The Vitty ticket also includes Billy Nungesser in the Lt. Governor's race as well as Attorney General Buddy Caldwell and Gov. Jindal, although Jindal and Vitter enjoy an uneasy relationship at best. The generally agreed upon point is that Vitter will be using his endorsements as well as his PAC money in this year's elections to both purge the state of insufficiently conservative so-called "RINOs" and, of course, beef up his own power within the LA GOP.

Beyond that, there isn't much substantive disagreement between these two candidates. Tucker criticizes Schedler for being too unhappy with the state's already shoestring museum budget. Schedler attacks Tucker for the now three year old non-issue of legislative pay raises. You'll forgive us if we pause to yawn.

The good news is, thanks to Schedler's (for the moment) Secretary of State website's Candidate Database, voters should have no difficulty discovering the race or gender of any of the candidates in this fall's elections as that information is prominently displayed.