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stocking the house with alcohol?

You've been sober for 16 years.

I think we're safe.

Besides, we can't all

get high on Diet Coke.

You remember our first legislature run?

Planting posters at 2:00 a.m.

on the median of Highway 90?

Two kids, fresh out of law school.

Colin...

I want you to see someone with me.

I know you don't want to,

but we don't have a choice.

Did you have a choice

when you slept with that

27-year-old cheerleader coach?

Frank told you.

Who f***ing cares who told me?

I'm sorry.

I was trying, Deb.

Believe me, I really was.

Do you expect me to congratulate you

because you tried to keep

your dick in your pants?

What is it you want to hear?

That I'm fine you keep risking

everything we've worked for?

Not everything is about our career.

I wish that were true.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

All right, good job, girls. Good job.

Lucy Hall?

- Kara, take over for a couple minutes, okay?

- Okay. No problem.

I'm a reporter for the Lafitte Gazette.

As uncomfortable as this is,

I got to ask about your relationship

with Congressman Pryce.

There must be some mistake.

Honestly, I have no idea

who you're talking about.

You've been elected twice in a district

that is 60 percent African-American

and one that has historically elected

black officials since the Seventies.

What do you think that says about you?

Well, I think it says

a lot about the city.

I took office in 2006

straight after Katrina.

People were rightfully craving change.

Folks don't care what color your skin is

anymore, what your economic standing is.

What people want, what they need

is a leader to produce.

I spent eight years in the state

legislature, I did a term in city council.

My wife is a well-respected attorney

around here.

So I think it's a matter of trust.

- You grew up in a political family.

- Yes, sir.

Your father, Rayne Pryce,

was mayor during the Seventies.

He created numerous opportunities

for the city's black population.

I'd imagine folk down here

still love your daddy, don't they?

Yes, they do. Very much.

Needless to say,

the Civil Rights Movement

wasn't popular in the South back then.

What he did, it took guts.

Talk to me about

his post-mayoral career.

It's no secret that Rayne

lost three consecutive Senate elections

and was involved

in a number of incidents.

What happened to him?

My father is an alcoholic, Byron.

No one is available to take your call.

Please leave a mess...

Come on, Colin. Come on.

Let's focus on the fact

that for the first time

since the storm,

people are moving back into the city.

Which makes the spill

that much more devastating.

Right. And that's precisely

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