Jackson Jambalaya

Should it really cost $182,000 to run a race for state senate? I don't think so. Knox Ross likes to play the down home guy but these numbers don't lie. I too think it will go to a runoff between Ross and Harkins. After that, it's anybodys guess as to who turns out their voters in a runoff.

Longwitz needs to raise less, because he needs less in the way of PR. Madison already knows him, and the NE crowd has already seen Chaz in action. I don't think this one will be as close as you think.

The race is a toss-up going into the final weekend before the primary.

Per you?

So, you choose who is in a run off based on how much money they raise? Monies that's left in a candidates' account after race is over, belongs to the candidate, right? He/she just pays taxes on it. All this money tells me these guys will owe someone or lots of someones some favors when they get in the Senate. I don't like that. I vote on qualifications, not money.

8:31, I doubt that anyone believes they're voting based on which candidate raises the most money, but it takes money to get the information out. Voters react to signs, commercials, billboards, etc., so the voter who bases his choice on the candidate with the most signs or cutest commercial is really basing his choice on who has the money to buy the signs and run the commercials. No one would need campaign contributions if voters would take the time you take to look at each candidate's qualifications for the job, but that's not reality. Bill Billingsley

According to the Sec. Of State's website Senator J. Walter Michel is cashing out with well with over 200,000 in his campaign account.

2:36,
A) how much of it was HIS money?

B) how long has he been in Legislature?

He has been in several election cycles without an opponent and also ran statewide.

Knox wants this so bad he is willing to bet the farm, no pun intended, to make sure he gets it. SAD.

It really is sad that voters don't look at a candidate's qualifications. Instead they vote based on how good-looking someone is, if they have nice hair, if they dress nice, etc. I actually heard someone (who was also running for another office) tell a candidate that he would get beat because another candidate was better looking....how stupid is that?

Isn't this special?

Charles Barbour has been telling people that Will Longwitz has cancer and won't live out his Senate term.

And he brags about what a clean campaign he is running. What a joke.

And Longwitz does NOT have cancer...that was a sick tactic, and typical.