SD- Don't you think the same thing happens in conservative districts when THEY are caught in a web of corruption?
If Sen Stevens was acquitted and young enough to run in 2014 he would win back his Senate seat in a landslide.
You should be congratulating N.O. residents in a black liberal district for looking beyond race and ideology.
superdestroyer
· 1 year ago
Mr. Cao will end up being a one term rep. who will quickly be voted out of office in two years when the Democrats can find themselves a black candidate who was not caught with $90K in his refrigerator. If Jefferson is acquited in the next year or two, he will certainly be returned to office in two years.
If it was not for LA odd voting laws and are meant to keep blacks from winning so many elections, Rep. Jefferson could have been returned to office.
Tigerclaw1
· 1 year ago
Louisiana's "odd voting laws"? The guy flat out LOST, and you're blaming racism? If it weren't for racism, the presidential election would have been McCain defeating Clinton. The main thing that differentiates LA voting rules is the runoff on elections that don't provide a 50%+ winner. That is more fair than having a Nader or Perot skew the election. Besides, while there is racsim in Louisiana (as there is everywhere), the current trend in LA in the past decade has shown far more abuse of power among black politicians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jordan_(atto...) http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl1001... So whine and complain and blame racism, but it is more demeaning to blacks to say that they're so pathetically racist that they will vote for a black crook over any non-black.
superdestroyer
· 1 year ago
tigerclaw
A majority of blacks did vote for the black crook. It was the 25% of the district that is not black that showed up for a run off election and voted out the black crook by a very slim margin. The other Congressional run off election in LA had over 4 times the voter turn out.
Tigerclaw1
· 1 year ago
Regardless, that doesn't make La's laws odd or biased against blacks. Besides, shame on anyone who values a person's skin color over their integrity. New Orleans is a political anarchy due to that mentality.
mikkel
· 1 year ago
"The prospect of a serious general election in the majority African-American and heavily Democratic 2nd district was all the more startling in that the last Republican to represent the district was Hamilton D. Coleman, who left the office in 1891."
Tha'ts pretty amazing.
Also race, religion and corruption is pretty weird in Louisiana and whenever people comment on it nationally they normally miss the boat completely. Even political affiliation there is very fluid.
Look at his bio he's a civil rights attorney and "community organizer" for gosh sakes. The governor Jindal is pretty similar and really the binding thread between the two and why they can get elected as Republicans is that they are extremely religious. Otherwise on policy they are pretty much like the DLC.
DLS
· 1 year ago
Note the loonier lefty critics -- "choice" [sic] instead of "abortion."
Because this guy is a Republican and isn't textbook loyal-Dem-minority material, he'll be ignored by most of the Left and hated (as we already see) by the loonier fringe. He's not a _real_ minority because he's not a _Democrat_ and he isn't properly liberal.
Of course the "racism" claim will be made if the Dem loses, even if he took some money out of his freezer and gave it to people to get them to vote in the traditional Dem multiple-vote tradition to make up for those who didn't make it to the polls.
Jim_Satterfield
· 1 year ago
OK...I admit that this news made me happy.
kritt11
· 1 year ago
Look the major thing is that this shows blacks will vote against one of their own if he's seen as corrupt and unable to adequately represent his district. I see that as progress.
Doesn't anyone remember that the congressional GOP wanted Foley to run again even after it was known that there were concerns about his relationship with underage pages? That Tom DeLay was re-elected even after it was evident he was mired in corruption? That is just politics as usual. I am partisan, but not enough to vote for a corrupt official--- so this makes me happy too.
All Comments
If Sen Stevens was acquitted and young enough to run in 2014 he would win back his Senate seat in a landslide.
You should be congratulating N.O. residents in a black liberal district for looking beyond race and ideology.
If it was not for LA odd voting laws and are meant to keep blacks from winning so many elections, Rep. Jefferson could have been returned to office.
The main thing that differentiates LA voting rules is the runoff on elections that don't provide a 50%+ winner. That is more fair than having a Nader or Perot skew the election.
Besides, while there is racsim in Louisiana (as there is everywhere), the current trend in LA in the past decade has shown far more abuse of power among black politicians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jordan_(atto...)
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl1001...
So whine and complain and blame racism, but it is more demeaning to blacks to say that they're so pathetically racist that they will vote for a black crook over any non-black.
A majority of blacks did vote for the black crook. It was the 25% of the district that is not black that showed up for a run off election and voted out the black crook by a very slim margin. The other Congressional run off election in LA had over 4 times the voter turn out.
Tha'ts pretty amazing.
Also race, religion and corruption is pretty weird in Louisiana and whenever people comment on it nationally they normally miss the boat completely. Even political affiliation there is very fluid.
Look at his bio he's a civil rights attorney and "community organizer" for gosh sakes. The governor Jindal is pretty similar and really the binding thread between the two and why they can get elected as Republicans is that they are extremely religious. Otherwise on policy they are pretty much like the DLC.
Because this guy is a Republican and isn't textbook loyal-Dem-minority material, he'll be ignored by most of the Left and hated (as we already see) by the loonier fringe. He's not a _real_ minority because he's not a _Democrat_ and he isn't properly liberal.
Of course the "racism" claim will be made if the Dem loses, even if he took some money out of his freezer and gave it to people to get them to vote in the traditional Dem multiple-vote tradition to make up for those who didn't make it to the polls.
Doesn't anyone remember that the congressional GOP wanted Foley to run again even after it was known that there were concerns about his relationship with underage pages? That Tom DeLay was re-elected even after it was evident he was mired in corruption? That is just politics as usual. I am partisan, but not enough to vote for a corrupt official--- so this makes me happy too.