With less than 10 days before the run-off election, candidates for Louisiana State Senate District 16 are making a last push to claim the seat.The candidates, Lee Domingue and Dan Claitor, are running on the Republican ticket in the April 4 run-off election for the seat vacated by recently elected U.S. Congressman Bill Cassidy. Domingue received an endorsement from Gov. Bobby Jindal.In the primary election March 7, Claitor received 38.79 percent of the vote while Domingue received 34.33. Roy Fletcher, Claitor’s media director, said among Claitor’s assets as a candidate are his Baton Rouge roots, his education and his business background.”When we have budget problems in Louisiana, health care and education always get hit,” Fletcher said of the lawyer and University alumnus’ plans. “And that’s something that we’re going to have to get away from.”Fletcher said the campaign is trying to “raise money and spend money.” A television advertisement from the Claitor campaign premiered Wednesday, and a radio advertisement is set to premiere Monday.The biggest problem for the Claitor campaign has been associated with available funds, Claitor told The Daily Reveille after the March 7 primary election.”We were outspent four or five to one,” Claitor said. “But our message and our presentation resonates with the voters.”The Representatives from Domingue’s campaign did not return phone calls for comment by press time.Leonardo Alcivar, Domingue’s campaign manager, told The Daily Reveille after the primary election that the campaign would continue to spread its message of “change and reform” in the days preceding the April 4 election.”In 30 days, Lee Domingue is going to win this race,” Alcivar said. “We ran a campaign that was validated on the part of voters considering we won round one.”If elected Domingue plans to “fight for strong families in Louisiana and to protect the constitutional rights bestowed upon us by our Founding Fathers,” according to his Web site.District 16 stretches east from the LSU lakes. To encourage students to turnout for the April 4 election, Fletcher said the Claitor campaign has been coordinating through the University’s fraternities and sororities.”Being an LSU grad, I wish that the LSU student body would turn out more aggressively in these campaigns,” Fletcher said. “When I was there 30 years ago, people were talking about the same thing.”—-Contact Lindsey Meaux [email protected]