Legacy

• Former Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards described being caught in bed with “a live boy or a dead girl” as the only ways to ruin a political career.

• Though never caught in bed with either, Edwards went to prison in 2002 for extortion.

• Maybe “a live boy or a dead girl” aren’t the only two things that can ruin a political career.

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• Rapper and Shreveport native Hurricane Chris’ hit song “She’s Fine” is commonly heard at parties and on the radio. Now, it has even hit the floor of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

• Don’t believe it? Just watch the YouTube video of Hurricane Chris rapping the song in front of lawmakers. Thousands of Americans have viewed the video and much of the response has been negative.

• Democratic Rep. Barbara Norton arranged the performance as a way to show off her godson, Hurricane Chris, whom she describes as a role model to Louisiana’s children.

• She isn’t embarrassed about what her colleagues call an inappropriate performance. She said her actions couldn’t make Louisiana look laughable because the state’s legislature “has always been a joke.”

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• Some politicians have a checkered past of drug and alcohol abuse. Though Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal doesn’t, he did perform exorcisms.

• Jindal wrote an essay in 1994 for the New Oxford Review where he describes taking part in the exorcism on his friend “Susan,” who had become emotional and disgruntled after a recent cancer diagnosis.

• In the article, Jindal recalls Susan cursing and convulsing, similar to someone having a “seizure.”

• After hours of chanting and asking Satan to relinquish his friend, Jindal and his Oxford buddies succeeded in coercing the “demon” to leave her body.

• So, Louisiana residents, if you have a problem, paranormal or political, who ya gonna call?

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• Stormy Daniels, registered Democrat and adult film star, may be known from such films as “Operation: Desert Stormy,” “No Cuntry for Any Men” and “Good Will Humping.” But could this Baton Rouge native’s next role be in “Polidicks?”

• Fans created the Web site draftstormy.com to recruit Daniels to run against Republican Sen. David Vitter in the 2010 election.

• Daniels still hasn’t decided if her name will be on the ballot — whether it be her legal name Stephanie Gregory Clifford or her stage name — but her exploratory campaign has already hit a speed bump.

• Daniels’ political adviser’s car blew up during the same week in July that Daniels was arrested and charged with battery following a domestic dispute with her husband, Mike Moz.

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• Federal agents found $90,000 in Democratic Rep. William “Bill” Jefferson’s freezer in 2005. The money was hidden in several frozen food containers and was part of $100,000 bribe to Atiku Abubakar, vice president of Nigeria at the time.

• After the scandal broke, the eight-term congressman ran again in 2006 … and served his ninth term while in and out of court.

• Jefferson was up for reelection November 2008 against six other democratic contenders. He beat his fellow party members but was defeated by Republican Anh “Joseph” Cao.

• A federal jury found Jefferson guilty of 11 corruption charges last August. Jefferson has yet to be sentenced, but he wouldn’t be the first Louisiana politician to go to prison … or get out of going to prison.