Through Stephanie Grace NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Republican businessman Vance McAllister, a political newcomer who boasts of never having visited Washington, D.C., won a unique election in Louisiana on Saturday to fill the congressional seat formerly held with the aid of fellow Republican Rodney Alexander. In a runoff to fill Louisiana’s vacant 5th Congressional District, McAllister took 60 p.c of the vote against fellow Republican Neil Riser, a state senator. McAllister, running as an outsider, lined up an endorsement from “Duck Dynasty” superstar Phil Robertson, the patriarch within the well-liked reality express, and forged member Willie Robertson seemed in a commercial for the candidate.