Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins
A state appeals court upholds the disqualification of incumbent Mayor Adrian Perkins from running for re-election this fall. Perkins was found to have used an incorrect address on his qualifying papers, and a local judge ruled that a violation of election law. Perkins’ lawyers argued it was just a clerical error, but the three judges on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal didn’t see it that way.
Judge Shonda Stone said Perkins’ Ivy League education made it hard to believe he’d simply made a mistake.
“There is certainly some disbelief that how someone who is a West Point graduate, a Harvard Law School graduate, who could apparently follow the rules on one thing, would suddenly totally overlook it on another, so they didn’t find his excused very convincing,” said LSU-Shreveport Political Science Professor Jeff Sadow.
For his part, Perkins claims he’s been targeted by political foes, who wish to suppress the vote of his supporters. Perkins will take his appeal further, to the state Supreme Court.
“He’s got the money in the bank, so he’s going to do it, after all he has to you, he’s not going to be re-elected any other way and that’s what he wants,” said Sadow.
Sadow says he doesn’t expect Perkins outcome in the High Court to change.
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