Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) refused to denounce a blog post at a conservative website that featured a picture of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) head superimposed on Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s body.
The blog post with the image was tweeted out by the campaign manager for Cassidy’s Senate campaign against Landrieu.
“You know, someone told me about that, but what is important about that is the article in which Senator Landrieu voted to give … dictatorial powers to the Democratic party in the U.S. Senate, and in that now, after 200 and something years of our republic, Democrats in the Senate have the ability to appoint judges among other races to D.C circuit without having any sort of buy-in from Republicans,” Cassidy told Louisiana’s KPLCtv.com “The importance of that is (the) D.C. Circuit court is what approves these EPA [regulations] that threaten to hurt oil and gas and the jobs that are connected with oil and gas.”
Democrats were quick to pounce on the tweet by Joel DiGrado, Cassidy’s campaign manager. The Landrieu campaign quickly called for Cassidy to issue an apology.
“Louisiana politics is colorful and spicy, but this picture is downright despicable and disrespectful,” Landrieu campaign manager Adam Sullivan said Friday.
