Vacueuum Landrieu Case Study Louisiana

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State: Louisiana
Population of District (if House) or State (if Senate): 4,625,407 (2012) Demographic Profile of State: % White: 63.5% % Black: 32.4% % Hispanic: 4.7% % Asian: 1.7% % College educated: 22.4%
Major corporations, industries, employers: Major Corporations: The following is a list of the 10 major corporations in Louisiana: 1) CenturyLink: Telephone Communications 2) Community Coffee: Coffee Producer 3) Copeland’s: Restaurant Chain 4) Entergy: Energy Services 5) Freeport-McMoran: Copper and Metal Mining 6) Hibernia National Bank: Banking 7) Hornbeck Offshore Services: Freight Transportation and Petroleum 8) Lamar Advertising Company: Advertising 9) Mcllhenny Company: Food Products 10) Oreck Corporation: Vacuum …show more content…

Particularly, Landrieu has made affordability for college education and creating easier access to the middle class her major campaign theme. Her solution to this is to create easier access to post-secondary education. Landrieu has focused on two viable options to create an easier path to the middle class. The first option is to increase the purchasing power of the Federal Pell Grant for college students. The second option is a loan refinancing option that will help lower the amount of student debts accumulated during the college years. Coastal issues are also a major theme in Landrieu’s campaign, as she says she will fight for the coastal communities. Hurricane protection, wetland restoration, navigation, commercial fisheries and even future land use are all areas that Landrieu advocated as major issues she will combat if reelected. Landrieu has also made energy reform as a major aspect of her campaign. Landrieu’s goal is to make the U.S. energy independent. Landrieu has supported the Keystone XL pipeline from the beginning …show more content…

Senate seat. Maness was a careerist in the U.S. Air Force and retired in 2011. Since 2011, Maness has been serving as the director in the utility industry in his hometown of Madisonville, Louisiana. Maness has never held an elected position in any level of the government. However, he has an extensive educational background. Maness received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tampa and then went on to receive multiple master’s degrees from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the Air Command and Staff College and the U.S. College of Naval Warfare. Maness is married to the previous Candy Smith and had five children with her, two of which are serving in the U.S. military. Maness has made a campaign promise that if he is elected he will only serve for two terms. Maness believes that both Landrieu and Cassidy are career politicians and that is not what he believes will better this country. Therefore, after two terms, Maness will step down and let someone else take his

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