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Sixth District Congressional candidate Justin Dewitt talks about his race for 2018. Dewitt, a Democrat, is challenging two-term Republican Garret Graves and is believed to be the first openly gay man to see a U.S. House in Louisiana.
Pam Bordelon of the Advocate reflects on a year of parties she covered for the state’s largest newspaper in 2017.