Senator Bill Cassidy (R) - Louisiana
Three of Senator Bill Cassidy’s Democratic challengers met for the first candidate forum of the Senate race, a forum Cassidy declined to attend.
Cassidy’s opponents took turns tearing into the Senator for not appearing. Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins took the first shot.
“He is afraid of us. I think that he is afraid and ashamed of his record thus far,” said Perkins. “One of the first things that he did when he was elected to the Senate was try to pass the Graham-Cassidy bill that would have stripped away healthcare from half a million Louisianans.”
Cassidy said he did not attend because all 15 candidates on the ballot had not agreed to go to the forum hosted by the Baton Rouge Press Club.
The candidates took shots at Cassidy’s vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and his support for the 2017 tax reform bill. Baton Rouge activist Antoine Pierce said Cassidy voted for a giveaway to the rich.
“This is not a piece of policy that is made for everyday working Americans when 99 percent of the wealth is concentrated at the top one percent and everyone else is struggling working job to job,” said Pierce.
A common theme from the trio was that Cassidy had grown too detached from Louisiana during his time in D.C. New Orleans school teacher Peter Wenstrup said Cassidy is only thinking about himself.
“When push comes to shove when our communities are in need he serves Wall Street he serves Washington,” said Wenstrup.
The election will be on the November 3rd ballot. Should any candidate not win more than 50 percent of the vote a runoff will be held on December 4th.
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