Edwin Edwards: 'Bring your wife, or someone else's wife' to my election party

Edwin Edwards: 'Bring your wife, or someone else's wife' to my election party
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Only, you might have to leave her in the car.

The former Louisiana governor, convicted for corruption in 2001, is running for a seat in the state's sixth congressional district. (Surprisingly, he has a pretty good shot of making it to the runoff, though probably not to Congress itself.)

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Nico Lauricella

Nico Lauricella was editor-in-chief at TheWeek.com. He was formerly the site's deputy editor and an editor at The Huffington Post.