George Soros is spending $256k on a Louisiana political race

Billionaire George Soros has injected $256,000 into a Louisiana political race through a Super PAC based in Bossier City.

The Super PAC, Louisiana Safety & Justice PAC, has produced an ad benefiting James E. Stewart, a Democratic candidate and former judge in a six-way race for district attorney in Caddo Parish in north Louisiana. Soros has historically supported Democratic candidates and liberal causes.

The amount Soros donated to the Super PAC dwarfs the nearly $119,000 Stewart raised during the last campaign finance reporting period. It represents a huge amount of money poured into a race that has no statewide impact.

But the election of a black district attorney with judicial experience who would oversee criminal prosecutions in a parish known as the nation's leader in death penalty sentences would be seen as a major shakeup. Caddo Parish has been dogged by questions about whether the death penalty has been unfairly applied to black defendants.

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