State senatorial candidate Dave Wallace has been asked to exit the district 22 race after a wrongful death lawsuit was filed in connection with a deadly bus crash August 28 near Laplace, La.
Wallace’s company, Wallace, Rush, and Schmidt Inc. was hired on a government contract to remediate homes and buildings destroyed by flood waters in Louisiana in August. A bus, traveling at high speeds and filled with illegal immigrants, was on its way to a WRS job site in Baton Rouge when it struck multiple vehicles on Interstate 10 near Laplace. Three people were killed in the collision, and more were injured, according to the Louisiana State Police.
The Craighead Democratic Party Central Committee issued a letter Wednesday afternoon asking Wallace to remove himself from the race. A defiant Wallace, R-Leachville, told Talk Business & Politics the letter is nothing more than gamesmanship from his opponent incumbent Sen. David Burnett, D-Osceola.
The letter was written and distributed by Brian Richardson, a member of the Craighead County Democratic Party and an advisor to Burnett.