Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Ex-Con Ex-Governor Running for Congress

Edwin Edwards, the most colorful Louisiana politician since Huey Long is running for Congress.

February 19, 2014 at 7:10 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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You're wrong if you think politics couldn't get saucier in Louisiana, where the ex-Democratic mayor of New Orleans was just convicted for bribery and the religious-right-supporting senator who got caught with hookers is a favorite to win the governorship: Edwin Edwards, the most colorful Louisiana politician since Huey Long, is running for Congress.

"I'm just figuring out all the legalities and how to set up a super PAC, and then I'm going," Edwards said in a telephone interview today. He is running in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District, where the Republican incumbent, Representative Bill Cassidy, is vacating his seat to run for the U.S. Senate.