Charles Parish Crawfish Cook-Off Festival, a benefit for the Shriners where he would serve as a celebrity judge along with heavyweight boxing great Evander Holyfield and New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, among others. 'I had a police escort, but I wouldn't let them block traffic.' “I’m running for Congress ’cause that’s what I feel like doing.”Įdwards was on his way to the St. 'When I was governor, I wouldn't let them do that,' Edwards said with a shake of his head. 'You don't want anyone to see you?' teased Edwards's wife, Trina, 51 years his junior, from the back seat. 'Look at the governor!' exclaimed Darren Labat, Edwards's neighbor and driver. 03128-095, father of a 10-month-old son, and recently announced candidate for U.S. He was 86-year-old Edwin Washington Edwards: ex-governor of Louisiana, former Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate No. Whenever the motorcade blew through a light, an elderly man in the Escalade's front passenger seat-dressed in a blue-and-white-striped Ralph Lauren button-down and gray slacks-would bend down, hiding beneath his window like a boy playing peek-a-boo. The bikers-scruffy middle-aged guys representing the Shriners Masonic charity organization-paid traffic rules no mind they took up both lanes, weaved in and out of each other's paths, and ushered the Escalade through red lights at 60 mph, sirens blaring.

Thirteen green-and-yellow Harley-Davidsons and a single black Cadillac Escalade roared down the old Airline Highway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, passing the ruins of an abandoned sugar factory and the plumes of still-operating oil refineries.

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