93rd House District contest adds fourth candidate
Times-Picayune (excerpt)

The contest to fill the vacant 93rd House District seat from New Orleans picked up a fourth candidate Wednesday when writer and freelance journalist Rhodesia Jackson Douglas signed up for the May 1 special election. Douglas joins businessman and former state Rep. Louis Charbonnet III, former TV news anchor Helena Moreno and Orleans Parish School Board member Thomas Robichaux. Fair-housing executive and recent mayoral also-ran James Perry has announced that he plans to join the field. All five are Democrats. Qualifying for the race, which was scheduled to fill the seat vacated recently by former Speaker Pro Tem Karen Carter Peterson, closes today at 5 p.m. Peterson, who had held the House post since 1999, won a Feb. 6 special election to fill the 5th District state Senate seat vacated by Cheryl Gray Evans, who resigned last year.