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Volume 120 · No. 21

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Clinton rallies in Baton Rouge

BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR

Caitlin, Get Your Gun LSU student to compete in Olympic trials for shooting

around the world for competitions, from Egypt to Italy and Australia to Azerbaijan. Its contents tell the story of her accomplishments in women’s shooting, a decade-old passion of Connor’s.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton championed middle-class economics, affordable health care and racial justice at a campaign stop at the Louisiana Leadership Institute in Baton Rouge on Monday. The speech was part of an event to organize and recruit volunteers in Louisiana for Clinton’s presidential campaign, drawing a crowd of more than 1,200 people, said Hyma Moore, communication director for New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Clinton advertised her tenure as Secretary of State for the Obama administration in 2009, following a disastrous recession she said was caused by Republican leadership. “I don’t think President Obama gets the credit he deserves for pulling us out,” Clinton said. She dropped Obama’s name several times to a warm reception from the Baton Rouge crowd and characterized her husband’s presidential tenure as financially successful. She said former president Bill Clinton brought the country a balanced

see CONNOR, page 4

see CLINTON, page 15

[Top] art courtesy of CAITLIN CONNOR / [Bottom] ZOE GEAUTHREAUX / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior political science major Caitlin Connor, ranked No. 2 worldwide in skeet shooting, displays her technique and medals.

BY CAITIE BURKES @BurkesTDR Political science junior Caitlin Connor stuffs her 12-gauge Krieghoff shotgun in her camper-style backpack each afternoon before practice. As it goes in, the gold and silver medals in her bag clinks like windchimes. It’s the same black North Face backpack she lugs POLITICS

Jefferson Parish President gears up for Lt. Gov. election race BY CAITIE BURKES @BurkesTDR Republican Jefferson Parish President John Young marked his map from Bogue Chitto to Tickfaw as he plotted out the trail to visit all 22 of Louisiana’s state parks during his campaign for lieutenant governor. Young personally visited and toured the parks and the Louisiana State Arboretum and saw some problem areas he thought he could fix. “I think the challenge we have

is making sure our state parks are former Plaquemines Parish Presiproperly funded, properly staffed dent Billy Nungesser. Young said he plans to build and have a proper maintenance his platform from the budget because they’re ground up, like he did assets for our state that in his campaign for are deteriorating due to Jefferson Parish Presbudget cuts,” he said. ident. Young faces three Young grew up in other contenders for Jefferson Parish bethe job soon to be vacated by incumbent ELECTIONS 2015: LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR fore graduating from Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne: Loyola University Republican state Sen. with a bachelor’s deElbert Guillory, Democratic East gree in public administration. He Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-Pres- obtained his juris doctorate from ident Kip Holden and Republican the University of New Orleans.

Throughout his collegiate and graduate experience, Young said he paid his way through school by working in the tourism and hospitality industries in roles ranging from fry cook to bartender. Young worked a brief stint as a maritime defense attorney, representing oil and gas service companies in the offshore oil industry. He became a firm partner and started his own practice 10 years later. “I learned the difference between endorsing the back of the check and signing the front of the

check,” Young said. In addition to his private law practice, he also worked as an assistant district attorney and prosecutor in Jefferson Parish for nearly seven years. In 2003, he was elected councilman-at-large and council chairman for the parish and was re-elected in 2007. A corruption scandal plagued the parish in 2010 when its former parish president, former attorney and former chief administrative officer were all indicted

see YOUNG, page 4


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