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NEW IBERIA — On Sept. 2, 2025, just before 6 a.m., Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop I began investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash on US Highway 90 near its intersection with Neco Town Road.
The crash ultimately claimed the life of 58-year-old Waddell Mulmore of Lake Charles.
The preliminary investigation revealed that Mulmore was driving a 2000 GMC Sierra westbound on US 90.
At the same time, a 2020 Nissan Murano was traveling east in the left lane. For reasons still under investigation, the GMC exited the roadway to the right before overcorrecting and crossing both lanes of US 90 West. The pickup then entered the median, continued across, entered the eastbound lanes of US 90 and struck the Nissan.
Mulmore, who was unrestrained at the time of the crash, sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver of the Nissan was restrained, sustained serious injures, and was transported to a nearby hospital.
Routine toxicology samples were collected from both drivers for analysis.

Since the day Donald Trump descended the golden escalator to launch his first presidential campaign, Democrats have hated him. Previously, he was the celebrated real estate mogul and reality television star; however, once he launched his presidential campaign, he became political enemy number one.
Thereafter, Democrats, joined by establishment Republicans, members of the Deep State, and left-wing journalists have tried untold dishonest tactics to stop Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) agenda.
Trump has survived more dirty political tricks than any politician in American history. He also suffered through unfair media interviews and coverage and biased presidential debate moderators.
Through it all, Trump has remained energetic and committed to his MAGA agenda. He is an inspiration to his followers and is the driving force in American politics today. Through seven ½ months of his presidency, Trump has kept an extremely fast pace, accomplishing a tremendous number of goals in only 223 days.
Anyone with this schedule needs a vacation. Thus, President Trump had set aside time during this holiday weekend to relax, play golf, and be with family members.
Incredibly, hateful Democrats used this relaxation period to start vicious Internet rumors that “Trump is dead.” This phrase was a popular trend on social media. According to Newsweek, “Grok, X’s AI powered chatbot, posts speculating about Trump had acquired over 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning…was the sixth most popular trending topic on X in the United States.”
Of course, this outrageous speculation was not based on any facts, just dreadful dreams from Democrats and disgraced Republicans like Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project who despise Trump with every fiber of their being.
In response to the President’s social media post about the ongoing crime crisis in Chicago and the possibility that the National Guard would be sent to the Windy City, the incompetent Democrat Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker tweeted “Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first?”
In fact, the President did send “proof of life” and is very much alive. On Saturday, he was spotted leaving the White House to play golf in Virginia with two of his grandchildren.
In response to the hateful speculation, online supporters stated that the President is alive and “just getting started” and the entire episode proves that he is “living rent free” in the “empty heads” of his political enemies.
Trump haters act morbidly if the President does not have a full schedule every day. They have been conditioned to constant action from this administration since Inauguration Day.
In contrast, President Joe Biden did almost nothing during his entire presidency, spent an inordinate amount of time on vacation and was mentally absent for four years and the left-wing media and Democrats raised no questions. They would shut down legitimate questions about Biden’s physical or mental condition and claim he was “sharp as a tack.”
Biden had no idea about the names or duties of his cabinet members and did not sign important documents such as presidential pardons. Thus, the “autopen” presidency is rightfully being investigated by House Republicans to see what documents were illegitimately signed and what White House personnel were culpable in potential misdeeds.
Not surprisingly, none of these actions triggered any questions from “Lamestream Media” members or his Democratic Party supporters. It was only after Biden’s pitiful debate performance against President Trump that Democrats and the media had to admit the truth about his deteriorating mental condition.
For Biden, the 25th Amendment should have been exercised early in his presidential term. Ludicrously, corrupt U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) who was silent as Biden declined during his term, now has concerns about the health of President Trump.
In an interview on MSNBC, Waters blasted Trump for his decision to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Waters said, “It is time to call for Article (Amendment) 25 of the Constitution of the United States of America to determine his unfitness, to determine that something is wrong with this President. And I would suggest that we move very aggressively to talk about the danger to this country and to our democracy and not play around with this because this is absolutely one of the most destructive things that this President could do.”
These comments are utterly foolish as Waters does not even know the difference between an “article” and an “amendment” of the U.S. Constitution. She has beclowned herself throughout her pathetic congressional career, regularly championing the impeachment of President Trump and urging her supporters to threaten members of his administration.
At a 2018 rally, Waters infamously implored her supporters that “if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
In response, President Trump has often called Waters “an extraordinarily low IQ person.” This label also applies to all the Trump haters questioning the health of our remarkably capable 47th President.

Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com

Democrat favorability has plunged among swing voters since 2017, the year before the 2018 midterm election cycle when Democrats won a net gain of 41 seats in the House of Representatives, taking back control of the House for the first time in eight years. Democrats are hoping to repeat that strategy in 2026, but the political landscape has changed — a lot.
While Congressional Democrats cling to a narrow lead of 3.6 percentage points in the latest generic Congressional ballot average, there is reason to believe that edge may not materialize in the election next year, considering how rock-bottom the party’s favorability is among swing voters.
Democrats are sitting at a historic low in favorability among the general public, and their numbers have absolutely cratered compared to where they sat in 2017 among swing voters, notably, young, independent, and Hispanic voters. College-educated voters, a group which supported Democrats by double digits in 2018, are also increasingly critical of the Democrat Party.
According to the latest YouGov survey, Democrats in Sep. of 2017, the Autumn before the 2018 midterm cycle sat at a 47.6 percent favorable rating of voters under age 30 y, while slightly fewer, 41.2 percent, held a negative view. The Democrat Party’s net favorable rating was 6.4 points in Sep. 2017. That positive view of the party has evaporated and reversed over the past eight years, pushing Democrats into territory the party has never faced with young people.
The latest YouGov survey from Aug. 24 shows Democrats sitting at a net favorable rating of -35.1 points, with over two-thirds (64.8 percent) of young voters holding an unfavorable view of the party, while 29.7 percent hold a positive view. This amounts to a staggering 41.5 percentage point decline in net favorability for Democrats over just eight years.
Hispanic favorability for Democrats has also declined substantially since 2017, but not to the degree that it has for young voters. Democrats sat at a net favorability of 8.8 points in Sep. 2017, with 50.1 percent of Hispanics holding a favorable view of the party while 41.3 percent held an unfavorable view. Those numbers have reversed today, with Democrats sitting at a net approval rating of -11.1 points. 51.2 percent of Hispanics now have an unfavorable view of the Democrat Party, and 40.1 percent have a favorable view. This amounts to a 19.9 percentage-point decline in net favorability for Democrats since Sep. 2017.
The Democrat Party has also suffered a significant blow among Black voters, a group which overwhelmingly supports Democrats, but is showing one of the largest declines in support compared to 2017. In Sep. 2017, the Democrat Party enjoyed a net approval rating of 51.5 percentage points, with a full 71.5 of Black voters holding a favorable view of the party while 20 percent held an unfavorable view. Today, the Democratic Party sits at a net approval rating of 24.2 percentage points, with less than two-thirds (60 percent) of Black voters approving of the party and 35.8 percent disapproving. This amounts to a 27.3 percentage-point plunge in net approval for Democrats.
College educated voters, a group which voted for Democrats by a 23-point margin in the 2018 midterms, are also moving away from the Democratic Party at an accelerated pace. In the fall of 2017, college educated voters were lukewarm about the Democratic Party and offered the party a net approval rating of -13.2 percentage points. It wasn’t a high approval rating, but it was enough to lock in the college educated in the 2018 midterms. That may not be the case in 2026. Democrats currently sit at a net approval rating of -28.5 points, with 62.8 percent of college-educated voters disapproving of the party while 34.3 percent approve.
These bleak favorability ratings are stark when measured against the Democratic Party’s favorability among swing voters just eight years ago. The steep, double-digit declines in favorability for a party that has been labeled “weak and woke” by voters is not a surprise. What is a surprise, is that the Democratic Party has the audacity to criticize conservatives for implementing real solutions to inflation, joblessness, crime, and the border, and then expects these voters to line up to support them at the ballot box.

Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

He crossed the Sabine in 1852 and wandered through what is now Calcasieu Parish for several months, “ending with a visit to Lake Charles and its three Catholic families.” He said in his autobiography that he was the first priest to come to the area in at least 20 years. (The Reminiscences of a Texas Missionary, San Antonio, 1899)
“After crossing the Sabine River, I visited Calcasieu Parish, an immense district … [where] crossing bayous and bottoms, marshes and bogs … and getting lost on the pathless prairies were of frequent occurrence,” he wrote. There were no bridges in those days, and the bayous were “numerous and deep.” His method of crossing them was to “hold my horse by the tail with one hand and paddle with the other.”
Somewhere in the Calcasieu area he visited a small settlement of Caranchua Indians. He baptized 11 children there, when “a Creole gentlemen who spoke the dialect of the tribe stood as sponsor.” He also baptized the daughter of the chief, who was then in her fifties and came “a considerable distance” with her two children, who were also baptized.
The chief, “a stout man of 85, who knew a little broken English,” told the priest that “a long time ago he was owner of all the country around.” That was when his tribe was “plenty, plenty.” The old chief was also the doctor for his settlement, with a “pharmacy consisting of herbs, flowers, and roots of the forest of his kingdom.”
Father Parisot was heading back toward Texas when he had a chance encounter scary enough to make him say what he thought might be his final prayers.
“Turning toward the Sabine River, I met a crowd of Indians in the woods who nearly frightened the life out of me,” he wrote. “Were they gentle or wild? I said my Act of Contrition, and when they drew near, I tried to look pleasant and bade them good evening. They muttered a few words and passed by. My fear abated and my heart beat more regularly.”
He may have been unduly alarmed because he was a newcomer to the “wild west.” He left France in March 1852 as part of a group of “six Oblate Fathers and one Lay Brother, accompanied by four Nuns of the Incarnate Word, two Ursuline Sisters, four Brothers of Mary, and eighteen seminarians.” They made the two-month voyage to New Orleans and then to Galveston in response to a plea for missionaries by Jean-Marie Odin, newly appointed bishop in the Galveston diocese, which then included all of Texas. (Odin was later named Archbishop of New Orleans.)
Father Parisot made at least two more trips to Calcasieu Parish. On the second trip he was helped by “a French gentleman named Pujo” who was about to sail down the Calcasieu in a small boat. The priest went with him and “baptized on both sides of the river while the captain sold his goods.”
This was almost certainly Paul Rose Pujo, who came to Louisiana from France and who moved from New Orleans in the 1840s to Rose Bluff, a little settlement on the Calcasieu, and who later opened a store and saloon on the Lake Charles lakefront at the foot of Pujo Street, which is named for him.
Father Andre Borias came with Father Parisot on his third trip to Calcasieu, probably in 1854. Both priests were then stationed in Galveston, but Father Borias later became pastor at Beaumont and regularly visited the Calcasieu area from there. The registers of the Galveston Diocese show 129 baptisms were recorded in Calcasieu Parish during those missionary years.
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