Shawn Wilson is not a household name in Louisiana, so the Democrat gubernatorial candidate has been dropping his name on the doorsteps of as many households as possible in a frantic final sprint to the state’s Oct. 14 primary.
A former Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development Secretary, Mr. Wilson is staging a “45,000-mile campaign,” barnstorming parishes, churches, community centers, and homes across the state’s byways and bayous to spur lagging turnout for an off-year election that has not generated much excitement among voters, especially black Democrat voters.
