Kissing pol keeps eye on politics

The kissing congressman may have announced his retirement from Congress, but don’t say goodbye to him just yet.” No, I wouldn’t rule it out,” he said in a brief interview about whether he would ever run again. “I just had to see what’s good for me and my family at the time. … In terms of future politics, I don’t know what he has in store, but if there’s a possibility that people want me to occupy another political office, then I might do it.”

After a local newspaper published surveillance footage of the married Louisiana Republican hugging a former aide last month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Pelican State leaders called on him to resign back. McAllister has announced he will not run for re-election, but his comments now suggest he may one day try to borrow a page from other fallen politicians who have bounced back from delicate scandals – a surprisingly achievable goal in an era , where politicians mostly had personal problems. go viral quickly.

He has a strong friend and mentor on the issue in Sen. David Vitter (R), who famously survived a prostitution scandal. Vitter, who hails from the same state and was one of the first lawmakers to visit McAllister in his Capitol digs when he took office last winter, has been an encouragement during McAllister’s recent rough patch.
“We talked on the phone and texted a few times, and [his message] was just supportive: like, ‘Keep your head up,’ ‘Thinking of you and your family,’ ‘I know times are tough.’ it’s not the end of the world,” McAllister told POLITICO.

He got the same support from perhaps his most famous constituents: the superstars of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty,” who live in his district and endorsed him on the campaign trail. It was one of McAllister’s first calls after news of the shooting. Earlier this year, she called Willie Robertson, her State of the Union date, and recounted their conversation with KTVE/KARD, which aired this week: “Put politics in the back seat and take care of your family first… We are friends and we still love you,” Robertson said, according to McAllister.