On November 19, 2007, Hilburn published a column in ''The Shreveport Times'' which purports that former Louisiana [[Governor]] [[Kathleen Blanco]] would be judged much kinder by history than the difficult circumstances which followed [[Hurricane Katrina]]. It was those problems that prompted Blanco , a Democrat who died in 2019, not to seek a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. Victory instead went to Blanco's 2003 opponent, Republican [[Bobby Jindal]]. Wiley Hilburn attended a bipartisan reception for Blanco at the Squire Creek Country Club near his home in Choudrant in Lincoln Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS0804/711190316/1060/NEWS01|title=Wiley Hilburn: History to be kinder to Blanco than her storm-tossed administration|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 19, 2007|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref> | On November 19, 2007, Hilburn published a column in ''The Shreveport Times'' which purports that former Louisiana [[Governor]] [[Kathleen Blanco]] would be judged much kinder by history than the difficult circumstances which followed [[Hurricane Katrina]]. It was those problems that prompted Blanco , a Democrat who died in 2019, not to seek a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. Victory instead went to Blanco's 2003 opponent, Republican [[Bobby Jindal]]. Wiley Hilburn attended a bipartisan reception for Blanco at the Squire Creek Country Club near his home in Choudrant in Lincoln Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS0804/711190316/1060/NEWS01|title=Wiley Hilburn: History to be kinder to Blanco than her storm-tossed administration|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 19, 2007|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref> |