She said, he said, fingers were pointed, blame was assigned, and in the end it doesn't appear that very few minds were changed. That is a very basic summary of last night's final United States Senate debate between incumbent Mary Landrieu and challenger Bill Cassidy. The televised debate was by far the most tenuous confrontation between the two candidates for the entire campaign.

As expected Mary Landrieu brought up the controversy surrounding Cassidy's work with the LSU Health Science Center.

"A Congressman who has taken over $20,000 a year, in addition to his Congressional salary, without reporting it properly and without turning over any records."

There have been allegations that Cassidy billed LSU for work he did not do. Cassidy responded to those allegations by saying,

"And my direct supervisor and I have made multiple comments regarding this. Whenever they can, the Landrieu camp takes these words and twists them around. I am proud of the work I have done with LSU."

Cassidy said it was not uncommon for him to do work in the Baton Rouge hospital in the morning and then fly to Washington for a vote in the evening.  Cassidy also brought up Landrieu's own admitted misuse of public money for campaign reasons.

"When Senator Landrieu used taxpayer dollars to pay for private charter jets to her campaign events, who did that benefit?"

Landrieu's campaign blamed that faux pas on a bookkeeping error and has since repaid the money used to fund the campaign flight.

Many in the media speculate that Landrieu's attack on Cassidy is a last ditch effort to save her seat in the Senate. Current polls show the incumbent trailing the challenger by double digits in the polls. The race will be decided this Saturday when voters go to the polls.

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