Landry won a nearly 14-point margin of victory in Louisiana Primary Election balloting on Saturday night.  He came within less than 1% of securing the party nomination outright and avoiding a Louisiana runoff by receiving more than 49% of the vote.  Landry’s closest competitor, Hunt Downer, received only 36% of the vote.  Kristian Magar, who received more than 14% on Saturday was touted as a Tea Party candidate.  Now with the Tea Party’s official endorsement, they are throwing their support to Jeff Landry.

Tea Party of Louisiana spokesman Bob Reid stated, “Jeff has earned our endorsement and support with a real grassroots ‘we the people’ type campaign and his proven record of standing behind conservative principles,” Bob Reid, spokesman for TPoL, stated. “We feel that he speaks for us on many issues like fighting to repeal ‘Obamacare’, reducing the size of government, fighting deficits & wasteful spending, ending bailouts & stimulus plans, opposing ‘Cap & Trade’ type legislation & taxes, getting the government off the backs of small business, and out of the lives of everyday citizens,” said Bob Reid, “and therefore it’s time for us to speak up for him in our joint efforts to help bring about a Government governed by the people instead of this current ruling class government led by the President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.”

“One vote in Congress could make the critical difference and the Tea Party of Louisiana wants that vote to be in the hands of Jeff Landry for the 3rd Congressional District,” the Tea Party stated in their release.

“I am looking for the votes and support of every person in South Louisiana who feels that this country is heading in the wrong direction,” said Jeff Landry, “As the next Member of Congress representing South Louisiana I will put the people first, not politics.”

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General Catalano said the following: “This is retired Major General Frank Catalano. I urge you to vote Saturday for a veteran I know and trust: Jeff Landry. I served with both Mr. Landry and Mr. Downer.

I can assure you that Mr. Jeff Landry served honorably and will fight for veterans and to protect our nation.

Jeff Landry spent over ten years in uniform. Jeff Landry is the candidate I trust. Vote for a trustworthy veteran. Vote Jeff Landry on Saturday.”

Major General Catalano’s record of service is exemplary. He holds the following decorations and badges: Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal (with 1 bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal (with 3 bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), National Defense Service Medal (with 1 bronze Service Star), Humanitarian Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with 1 Silver Hourglass Device and “M” Device), Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon, Expert Infantryman Badge, Air Assault Badge, and the Ranger Tab.

Jeff shares your concern that we have the most ethical and honest person possible representing us in Washington. 

Jeff Landry has been a successful small businessman in the oil and gas industry who employed dozens. He is running for Congress to create jobs for the people of South Louisiana.

The only time Jeff faced tough business negotiations involving the courts was years ago in a case that Jeff ultimately won after previous  decisions were reversed and the company that attacked Jeff admitted fault and paid Jeff’s company – not the other way around as liberal Hunt Downer would have you believe.

Jeff Landry’s business attorneys chose to countersue the other company in a different jurisdiction – Jeff won and the false lawsuit from the Jones Bros company was dropped and they settled.

Mr. Hunt Downer is a trial lawyer. He has multiple lawsuits under his belt, including lawsuits against the state. Mr. Downer knows his attacks are baseless, but he continues anyway. He cannot defend his liberal record so he is attacking based on nothing.

Mr. Downer has encouraged the voters to check the courthouse to learn the facts. So we encourage you to check the courthouse – below.  Jeff wants you to have ALL of the relevant documents.  We have placed a link to the court documents below. Mr. Downer does not want you to see the full documents that prove Jeff Landry won the legal battle.

LETTERS FROM JONES BROS ATTORNEYS ASKING LANDRY TO SETTLE AND ADMITTING THAT THE $30,000+ THAT HUNT DOWNER CLAIMS JEFF TOOK WRONGLY, WAS NOT ILLEGALLY TAKEN.  THEY ACTUALLY INCLUDE IT AS A BARGAINING CHIP TO TRY AND FORCE JEFF TO GIVE UP AND NOT TAKE THEM TO COURT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY ARE WRONG.

LETTER ASKING JEFF TO SETTLE FOR MORE THAN $100,000, AFTER JONES BROS ADMITTED FAULT

SETTLEMENT CHECK PAID TO JEFF’S COMPANY FROM JONES BROS FOR THEIR FALSE LAWSUIT AND JEFF’S COUNTERSUIT

JUDGE DISMISSED JUDGMENT AND LAWSUIT AGAINST JEFF 

Mr. Downer – we have provided the documents.

Jeff Landry NEVER had his personal or business belongings taken for payment of this false lawsuit.  Resorting to false, personal attacks to cover up a broken liberal record may be something that is o.k. for liberal Democrat politicians but when it comes to these attacks these documents prove, that dog don’t hunt.

To read the Lafourche Republican Committee’s news release go here:
http://www.landryforlouisiana.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LafourcheGOPEndorsementPressReleaseJeffLandry.pdf

“My opponent may claim he is a conservative after spending almost 30 years in Baton Rouge as an elected Democrat State Legislator voting for tax increases and liberal values.  However these endorsements are proof that I am the real conservative in the race,” said Jeff Landry, “While he may have endorsements from politicians and lobbyists, I have endorsements from conservatives concerned about the future of our District and our country.”

Again, to read the Lafourche Republican Committee’s news release go here:
http://www.landryforlouisiana.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LafourcheGOPEndorsementPressReleaseJeffLandry.pdf

Contact information for the committee is on their release.

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The American Conservative Union – on the web at www.conservative.org is the nation’s oldest and largest conservative organization – best known for its Foundation’s annual meeting CPAC.  ACU also issues the annual Ratings of Congress tracking whether Congressmen and Senators are truly conservative.  ACU announced the endorsement on their website, Facebook and Twitter feeds.

So far 85% of all endorsements have gone to Landry as conservative and Republican leaders unite behind the best choice for Congress in the 3rd Congressional District.

Landry has a proven record of standing behind conservative principles, as a lifelong conservative Republican.

“Landry is Louisiana….Jeff Landry is the clear conservative choice for the U.S. Congress in Louisiana’s 3^rd Congressional District,” said Bill Murphy, Founder of Conservatives of America. A former Louisiana National Guardsmen who served in Operation Desert Storm and a former Deputy Sherriff, Jeff Landry is also a small businessman who will bring much needed common sense, conservative principles to the U.S. Congress.  As the Obama Administration continues to try and nationalize industry after industry, it is important to send proven conservatives like Jeff Landry to the U.S. House of Representatives to halt the Obama Administration’s march towards socialism.  Now is the time for conservatives in Louisiana to rally behind Jeff Landry and send a strong conservative voice to the U.S. Congress.

Conservatives of America has endorsed several other strong conservative candidates for the U.S. Senate in 2010 including Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, JD Hayworth of Arizona, and Sharron Angle of Nevada.

Conservatives of America is a national, grassroots conservative organization dedicated to reducing the size of government, lowering taxes, promoting fiscal sanity, protecting the right to life for the unborn, preserving the right to keep and bear arms, having a strong national defense, staying on the offense in the “War on Terror,” and securing America’s borders.  Recently, Conservatives of America has emerged as America’s leading conservative organization dedicated to training grassroots conservative activists and the conservative movement.

Find out more at www.conservativesofamerica.com.

“Does the President want to destroy South Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast? Does the President not have any respect for the Courts? Does this President have any desire other than to cripple our economy,” said Jeff Landry.

“This is another disaster, what he is trying to do, and the hard working people of the Gulf Coast have had enough. He is spitting in our face and pouring salt into our wounds,” Landry said.

The Administration announced today that despite the ruling from the courts on the first Moratorium, they would issue a new Moratorium on deep water drilling. Governor Jindal and countless state and local officials across the Gulf Coast have continually stated how such a ban would cost thousands of jobs and destroy the economy.

“I cannot believe the arrogance of this President. This is not a dictatorship, this is a free country that has a structure founded in the Constitution,” said Landry. “The Executive Branch is limited in their power and the Judicial Branch already decided that the Administration has over stepped its boundaries. It is clear that the President gives little respect to the document that he was sworn to protect,” Landry said.

“While the American People have been screaming for sound legislation that leads our economy out of this recession, the President has only been promoting policies that are destroying the economy of South Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast,” said Jeff Landry.

Landry reported close to $400,000 cash on hand.

Former Democrat Speaker of the House Hunt Downer reported less than $250,000.   Democrat Ravi Sangisetty reported less than $300,000 and Republican Kristian Magar reported under $20,000.

Landry’s impressive leading total of nearly a half-million dollars brought in for the campaign and $400,000 on-hand matches his lead in the polls and in Republican committee endorsements.  Landry also received the conservative Family Research Council PAC endorsement last week.

Jeff Landry, the leading Republican candidate for Louisiana’s 3^rd Congressional District, has received a major endorsement from the Family Research Council Action PAC, the nation’s leading pro-life and pro-family group.

“I am honored to be endorsed by the leading organization working for right-to-life and common sense pro-family policies,” said Landry, “I have repeatedly said that I am pro-life because I believe life is a gift from God.  I will stand up for the right-to-life and to reduce wasteful government spending, debt and higher taxes that put a strain on family budgets and endanger our children’s future.”

FRC Action PAC is one of the most well respected organizations dedicated to pro-family values and conservative principles.  This endorsement makes it clear that Jeff Landry is the true pro-life, pro-family, conservative candidate in the 3^rd District.

“It was the thought of my son’s future, and the future of children across Louisiana, which led me to enter this race.  Our children should not have to face the burden of the radical policies of this Administration and the liberal Congress. I am committed to fight for our children and their future as South Louisiana’s next Congressman,” said Landry.

See the official release from FRC Action PAC below.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2010

CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Darin Miller, (866) FRC-NEWS

FRC Action PAC Endorses Jeff Landry for Congress

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today FRC Action PAC endorses Jeff Landry for Congress representing Louisiana’s 3rd District.

“Jeff Landry is a true defender and protector of the family. He served his country honorably in the Louisiana National Guard and now desires to serve the citizens of Louisiana’s 3rd District,” said Tony Perkins, Chairman of FRC Action PAC. “We need representatives who will fight to defend the family against the radical leadership in the House of Representatives, as they attempt to place an overwhelming debt burden on our children and grandchildren.”

“I am convinced Mr. Landry will be a dedicated leader for life and the family in Congress,” Tony Perkins added.

“Jeff Landry’s commitment to life and fiscal responsibility is what this district needs. As a business attorney, police officer and founder of a small business, Jeff has a strong background that will allow him to stand up for the conservative principles that made this country great. His strength on life and family issues will be critical at a time when Representatives in Congress have caved to the special interests of the Left’s agenda,” said Tony Perkins

“FRC Action PAC believes that Jeff Landry will be a true advocate for the issues that best uphold and strengthen families. We are honored to support his candidacy,” said Tony Perkins.

A Republican House candidate is calling on President Obama to lift the administration’s six-month moratorium on 33 deepwater rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, saying it will affect thousands of jobs.

Jeff Landry, running in the GOP primary for Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District seat, told HUMAN EVENTS that he’s getting feedback from people involved in the local oil industry that the President’s ban, issued a week ago, is hurting their business. And a shipbuilder told him that he had a $20 million order canceled for three boats.

The Associated Press reported Thursday that it obtained an email from the Minerals Management Services’ Gulf Coast offices that said the offshore drilling moratorium now includes new shallow-water drilling in the Gulf. A spokesperson for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar denied the claim.

Landry said increasing the moratorium’s scope to shallow-water drilling will have dire consequences.

“If they would do that, then it would basically be like pulling Louisiana and Texas’ economy off of life support,” Landry said. “When he takes the … Outer Continental Shelf drilling away from us, he cripples our economy. If he increases the moratorium, he pulls the plug on our life support.” Landry said the economy in the 3rd district, much of which is on Louisiana’s shoreline, relies on four things: agriculture, the commercial fishing industry, the oil and gas industry, and tourism.

Landry said the spill has already taken out the tourism and commercial fishing industries. Now, Landry said, the President is knocking out the third support of the district’s economy. The moratorium affects 33 rigs, and according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, it could affect 3,000 to 6,000 jobs in the short term, with that number likely to increase.

“This is typical of Washington and its bureaucracy… everything’s a knee-jerk reaction,” Landry said. “The President doesn’t know the difference between a water well to an oil well.”

Landry’s campaign asked Obama to rescind his moratorium on deep-water drilling in a statement today.

“I was trying to see if the President would come to his senses,” Landry said.

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