Nicholas Foster

Political Strategist | Partner at Flagship Strategies | @GSPMgwu & @LSU Alum

[wdsu @wdsu]

After months of mulling the decision to run, Daniel Seuzeneau officially kicked off his campaign for St. Tammany Parish sheriff. https://t.co/xD81AO1OoS

[Grace Cathedral Park @gracecthdralprk]

This is how College Dropout-era Kanye dressed

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

PUT OLIVE GARDEN IN CHARGE OF OUR ELECTIONS!!!

[Ten Years Ago Today @tenyearsnow]

Hillary Clinton says “Pokemon Go to the Polls” at rally in Annandale, VA

[Piper Hutchinson @ByPiperHutch]

Got a pitch about how Julia Letlow will be Louisiana’s first female senator, presumably from an alternate reality where Mary Landrieu never served three terms, Rose Long never succeeded Huey and Elaine Edwards was never appointed by Edwin #lalege #lagov

[Royal Mail @RoyalMail]

Moving home?

Remember to redirect your mail ✉️ https://t.co/DgDFRfZ1Hk

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

This…is…insane.

[Noble Brown🗡 @NobleBrown]

I've seen enough

Start the GoFundMe for his Trump Gold Card. We're not letting him go back to Germany.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Lives were changed.

[Jim Beam @AmPressJimB]

Louisiana’s first political party closed primary since 2010 turned out to be what one voter called “idiotic” and a court clerk said there was confusion throughout the state Saturday. Here is the rest of the story: https://t.co/IeoiAX9579

[doug @DepatrickOqueef]

“So what are you thinking for your birthday this year?”

[Tom Ruby @bgcts]

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion.

Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales.

We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary.

So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it.

Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me.

So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter.

It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable.

This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive.

This is Cultural Debris.

https://t.co/THgVYIAgcK

cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

[Stephen Caruso @StephenJ_Caruso]

In honor of campaign finance reports this week: What's your birthday super PAC name?

[Louisiana State Senate @louisianasenate]

The Senate paused to recognize and honor the life of Allyce Trapp Alexander, with house numbers in attendance, remembering her service and lasting impact.

#lalege

[scotty @plathiandc]

i know what his george washington university personal statement is gonna be about

[Nicholas Foster @N_A_Foster]

When I was at LSU, we literally built our class schedules around early morning tee times so we could play together. End of an era.

[WAFB @WAFB]

No final decision has been made regarding the future use of the property: https://t.co/QywP3RMJOs

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Say what you want about the guy but he obviously ran an extraordinary campaign

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

You still don’t hate the media enough 🤦‍♂️

[Χριστόφορος @grnpointer]

@kristinatastic Crunchwraps Supreme