Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Looking forward to this 2004 US Senate campaign the Louisiana Democrats are running

Shreveport mayor Adrian Perkins qualified last week to run for Senate. Several observers were immediately and simultaneously impressed with his "sterling resume"




It was immediately predicted that he would "excite" Democrats




Because, apparently, the things that most excite and "compel" Democrats are Ivy League credentials and being a troop.


 

At least that seemed to be the script everyone was reading from.  Uncanny?  Maybe. Maybe not. I mean, they did tell us who emailed it to them.


 

Can he win?  Well, reading between the lines here, it doesn't seem likely that is even the point.  See, while the Senate very well may be in play this year, the pros who run the Democratic Party juggernaut do not really expect Louisiana to be a part of that.  BUT since there's likely to be a ton of money flowing their way this fall, it's a good idea to throw as many vessels for receiving and then distributing that money down to professional campaign staff into the mix as possible.  And when Democrats need a placeholder-money sponge to fit into a race like that, well, meritocratic-neoliberal-millitary is the type they prefer.

But, hey don't take it from me...


 





Sounds very exciting and compelling, right?  Can't you just imagine him facing down some Republican nonsense in the Senate right now?  Wouldn't you like to see a guy like that stand up and ask Mitch McConnell or Tom Cotton if they have "no sense of decency sir?"   What if he had been there on the Senate floor during this term? What might that have looked like?
On Aug. 29th, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Diane Feistein received a letter from eight recent or current members of Harvard Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA), including Shreveport mayoral candidate Adrian Perkins, in support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court.

The Bayou Brief contacted Perkins, both directly and through his campaign, and, as of the time of publication, has yet to receive a response.

The letter praises Kavanaugh, a staunchly pro-life conservative who is now confronting credible allegations of sexual assault, for meeting with African-American students in March and providing them “his insights and advice” on how to secure a judicial clerkship. “The students who have signed below write to express appreciation for the Judge’s enthusiasm on this issue and hope that his efforts will be taken into consideration,” the letter reads.
Oh dear.

Well, to contextualize this a bit, the young Harvard men are often asked to sign letters like this on behalf of fellow Harvard men seeking advancement in various arenas.  It's a think Harvard men are expected to do for one another.  And at the time of this letter, the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh were not widely known so it's probable that Perkins just signed the thing because that's part of what it means to be in the club of Harvard men. Kavanaugh had shared with them some of his own "insights and advice" on how to get ahead themselves and so they would want to pay it back in whatever way they can.

Does that make signing your name to a letter supporting the installation of a right wing ideologue to the Supreme Court any better?  Probably if you are the sort of Democrat who is "excited" by a resume like Perkins's it does.  Not really sure who else it is supposed to impress, though.

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