Round Robineer

This would have never happened back in the day. The Daily Advertiser reports that Candy Edwards, former wife of former Gov. Edwin Edwards, was pulled over in Port Barre Friday night for speeding and driving with a suspended license. She was arrested and booked into jail after telling the officer she would not be arrested, that she would have the officer's job, walking away from the officer while being handcuffed, and trying to make a call on a cell phone while in the back seat of the cruiser, though the article doesn't exactly explain how that was attempted. Driving on Highway 190 west through the speed traps of Port Barre, she had to be headed to visit Mr. Innocence himself in the federal pen in Oakdale, less than an hour up the same highway.
The Port Barre police chief threw down the gauntlet, but saying he is going to back his officer on this arrest.
We'll find out now how much stroke the ex-governor still has left in him after he finds out about this. I'm sure Edwins friend, attorney Mike Fawer will come to her aide. But at some point, you gotta believe a legislator, a councilman or some state bureaucrat is going to try to withhold funding from the police department, or misplace a grant application. The officer might not get fired, but remember this is Louisiana, the town police department is going to suffer somehow.
Look for the Free Candy bumper stickers now alongside the Free Edwin stickers.