elections

Uptown resident Caroline Fayard running for Secretary of State

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Uptown resident Caroline Fayard announced this week that she is organizing a campaign for Secretary of State, her second bid for state office after her strong second-place showing in the lieutenant governor’s race last year. Though she said supporters had urged her to run for governor and other offices, the Democratic lawyer “decided Secretary of State was the best fit,” she said on her campaign website. In a special election for lieutenant governor last year, Fayard emerged from a large field of more experienced contenders to force then-Secretary of State Jay Dardenne into a runoff, where she garnered 43 percent of the vote. Other announced candidates include Carrollton-based state Rep. Walker Hines, a Republican who decided earlier this year to give up his seat to seek the job of Secretary of State, and Tom Schedler, a Republican appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal to fill the remainder of Dardenne’s term now seeking a term of his own. The fall elections will fill statewide offices and the state legislature.

city government

Uptown ballots bolster two residents’ runoff bids

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Voters in Uptown wards were instrumental in lifting two residents – lieutenant governor hopeful Caroline Fayard and judicial candidate Jennifer Eagan – from crowded fields in their respective races Saturday into the Nov. 2 runoff election, according to an analysis of precinct-by-precinct results released Sunday. Uptown voters also would have preferred a runoff between Candice Bates-Anderson and Richard Exnicios for the juvenile court post, rather than Bates-Anderson’s outright win, the results show. Also on the ballot, support for restructuring the recreation department was even stronger in the Uptown than it was in the city as a whole. Statewide impact
Republican Secretary of State Jay Dardenne led the eight-candidate field for lieutenant governor in statewide voting on Saturday, garnering 28 percent of the vote.