It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

In 2011, Mary Patricia Wray was a young law student at Loyola University Law School in New Orleans. Just three short years later, she found herself serving as the communications director for a longshot candidate in the Governor s Race, a democratic state Representative from Amite named John Bel Edwards. You know what happened next Edwards made the runoff and went on to beat his Republican challenger David Vitter and become the only Democratic governor in the dark red deep south. Mary Patricia Wray, who goes by M.P., was instantly thrust into the spotlight of state media and today M.P. s political consulting firm, Top Drawer Strategies, represents clients on a variety of policy fronts, at all levels of government. Jill Rigby Garner is a different kind of consultant. Jill s focus is not on electing people to office, but teaching them how to be nicer. Jill is founder and Executive Director of Manners of the Heart, a nonprofit organization that teaches kids about manners and how to treat one another. The organiza