Democratic candidate endorses Boustany in runoff

This should speak volumes about what kind of representation that Boustany will bring to Washington if re-elected.

Democrat Ron Richard, a lawyer who received 22 percent of the vote in the election, announced Friday that he was backing Boustany over his GOP challenger Jeff Landry.

Richard said, "After having been in a race with both of them and finding them both to be interesting and nice gentlemen, Charles’ ideology and politics — while very different than mine — are closer to mine than Jeff’s."

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