Flooding the zone

Columbus remarks here that there sure are a lot of people running for seats on the state and parish party executive committees this year.  How grass rootsy!

By the time qualifying closed last Friday, a surprising number of candidates had qualified for parish and state Democratic and Republican committees. “There was obviously a feel in the community that new faces were needed at the grassroots level,” said a former elected official.

But when you look through the list of names qualified in each district (and Columbus lists some of them) you'll see that there are more than enough familiar folks in there to load the committees up with insiders and crowd out whatever grass roots insurgency might be brewing. Stacy Head and Seth Bloom are here to help guide the Democrats into the future. How exciting.