\n\t\tLake Charles attorney Hunter Lundy announces candidacy for Louisiana governor\t<\/a>
\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\nHe also comes into the race as Attorney General Jeff Landry is reportedly raising millions of dollars for his campaign nearly a year out from the election. Nelson said he is not discouraged by that and aims to set himself apart from those already in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that there’s a lot of things in this current cycle that will favor a younger candidate and especially the younger candidate that’s not divisive and is really focused on the solutions. So I think it’s an election, not an auction,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n
In running for governor, he will forgo his ability to seek re-election to his current seat.<\/p>\n
The primary election for the gubernatorial race is October 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mandeville, LA (BRPROUD) – State Rep. Richard Nelson (R- Mandeville) announced his candidacy for governor of Louisiana. Nelson is an engineer, attorney and former diplomat who was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2019. At 36, he is the youngest declared candidate currently in the race. \u201cLouisiana has everything going for it, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/nelson.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11209,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/11209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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