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On Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Harlan Calls For Better Storm Protection

Jim Harlan Makes Lake Pontchartrain Flood Gates Top Priority

"On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it's time that we have real protection." - Jim Harlan

Slidell, La - Aug. 29, 2008-- On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Congressional candidate Jim Harlan made a solemn promise to constituents in devastated parts of the First Congressional District:

Harlan Demands Scalise Release Connections with Felon

Corruption Tarnishes Film Incentive Program

Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 

Metaire, La. - Congressional candidate Jim Harlan demanded today that Steve Scalise release his emails and all meeting notes between him and convicted felon Mark Smith, who was at the center of the LIFT corruption scandal.

Scalise Can't Face Flooded Out Lakeview Residents?

Second Time Scalise Abandons Constituents This Summer

 

New Orleans, La.-- Aug. 25, 2008 -- Congressman Steve Scalise canceled a public event today at the 17th Street Canal to discuss levee reconstruction, claiming the weather was just too much of a threat.

Scalise Poses for Photo-Op on Taxpayer Dime

New Orleans, La -- Aug. 25, 2008 -- Steve Scalise was missing in action last month when his Congressional colleagues visited Louisiana to discuss ongoing hurricane recovery needs - an event that led to a Democratic request for $30 billion in extra federal money for the state.

Today, Scalise is pretending that tour never happened, and he's wasting tax-payer money on a second Congressional trip to New Orleans so he can pose for campaign pictures.




Gambit Endorses Jim Harlan in Democratic Primary

Publication: 
Gambit Weekly

Businessman Jim Harlan is a rarity among Democratic congressional candidates: a successful businessman, a centrist and an experienced policy wonk all at once. A chemical engineer by training, he helped craft federal energy policy while working for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. He then made his fortune in the private sector. He has since sold his businesses and now offers himself for public service again " this time as a candidate for Congress.

Lacombe businessman to challenge Scalise

Publication: 
The Times-Picayune

Jim Harlan, a businessman from Lacombe, announced Tuesday he will challenge U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise for the 1st District congressional seat in November.

Harlan, 56, ran an oil and gas storage company before Hurricane Katrina, campaign spokesman Joel Coon said. Harlan plans to focus on revamping energy policy, improving affordable health care, and creating jobs in the 1st District, Coon said.

Harlan has an immediate advantage over other recent challengers for the 1st District seat: He has accrued a war chest of $554,378, according to his campaign finance report.

Scalise Faces Financial Challenge

Publication: 
New Orleans City News

This fall, 1st District Congressman Steve Scalise, R-Metairie, will be challenged by Democrat Jim Harlan, a Lacombe businessman. Harlan was in the oil and gas business before Katrina and recently switched parties. He already has $554,378 in his campaign war chest. Although most of these funds are his own, it is still a very significant sum for a challenger.

Harlan Launches Web Ads

Publication: 
The Reduct Box

Democrat, Jim Harlan, is also taking advantage of his comparatvely large war chest in his battle for Steve Scalise’s LA-01 seat.

 

Competition for Congress is intense

Publication: 
Houma Today

Every other race has something to distinguish it. Even in the GOP stronghold of the 1st District, where Congressman Steve Scalise, R-Metairie, won a spring election, Democratic businessman Jim Harlan aims to make the race at least financially competitive. He has put up the biggest personal ante of any candidate in the state, $525,000, more than double what Scalise has in his as-yet unreplenished coffers. Because Harlan has only lent his campaign that money, it remains to be seen how much of it he actually spends.

Scalise Has Less Money than Opponent

Publication: 
The Advocate

Scalise, 42, has about $211,000 in campaign cash on hand and $192,000 in debt as he faces another election for a full term in the fall, according to campaign finance reports.

The 1st Congressional District in suburban New Orleans has voted solidly Republican for decades. But St. Tammany Parish businessman Jim Harlan, 56, an independent-turned-Democrat, thinks Scalise's financial situation makes him vulnerable.

"Scalise is dead in the water," Joel Coon, Harlan's campaign manager, said recently.