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Elbert Guillory has big coconuts, will run for Congress

The former state senator announced his bid Thursday in the most Elbert of ways.

The enigma that is Elbert Guillory is running for Louisiana's 4th Congressional District seat currently held by U.S. Rep. John Fleming of Minden. Fleming is seeking to replace David Vitter in the Senate. The 4th CD hugs western Louisiana from Shreveport to just north of Lake Charles and surrounds much of Opelousas where Guillory has a law practice.

The former state senator, who made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor last fall, announced his bid Thursday in the most Elbert of ways: with a video on YouTube in which he hoists a symbolic representation on his testicles. Or something.

Behold: