By Selwyn Duke

“If you early voted, go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.” So said Opelousas, Louisiana, mayor Don Cravins, Sr. (shown) in a video now making the rounds. In the footage, shot November 3 at a private event, the Democrat politician can also be heard reassuring the audience he was addressing, “Tomorrow we’re gonna elect Earl Taylor as the D.A., so he won’t prosecute you if you vote twice.” Taylor is a fellow Democrat who did, in fact, win reelection on November 4.

Cravins, along with embattled Senator Mary Landrieu, faces a Louisiana run-off election November 6; he goes up against another Democrat in his contest, unlike Landrieu, who is polling well behind Republican opponent Representative Bill Cassidy. She certainly is polling well in the Cravins household, however: The mayor’s son, Don Cravins, Jr., is Landrieu’s chief of staff.

And Cravins certainly was not craven about issuing his get-out-the-(illegal)vote appeal.

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