North shore voters likely to decide congressional race (Louisiana)

The New Orleans Times Picayune ^ | December 22, 2007 | Cindy Chang

[Clintonfatigued]

Treen, who lives near Mandeville, has declared his candidacy, joining state Rep. Tim Burns of Mandeville and Slidell Mayor Ben Morris, all Republicans. St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis, another Republican and considered the most formidable of the potential north shore names, is contemplating a run but has not yet announced his plans.

At this juncture, their GOP opposition from the south shore consists of state Rep. Steve Scalise of Jefferson, a senator-elect who has assembled a heavyweight team of Republicans to back his candidacy, and Jefferson Parish Councilman John Young of Metairie.

Leaning to the right

The 1st District includes all or part of six parishes, with about 70 percent of its voters residing in either St. Tammany or Jefferson parishes. Less than 2 percent of voters comes from the chunk of St. Charles Parish that belongs to the district, and Washington Parish and a small section of New Orleans each comprise about 6 percent.

The terrain ranges from rural, heavily wooded swaths of Tangipahoa Parish across the well-heeled subdivisions of western St. Tammany to the post-World War II suburbs of Metairie and parts of Uptown New Orleans. A bit of West Jefferson also lies in the district.

[Clintonfatigued]

Hopefully, this seat will be filled quickly. Looks like more than one good conservative running.

[deport]

Treen?..... Gov. David Treen? Isn’t he about 80 yrs old or somewhere near that? Not that age is a disqualifier but you’d think he wouldn’t want the stress of D.C., etc. Didn’t Vitter defeat him for this seat back in 99 or or?

[deport]

or or?

s/b

or so?

[sefarkas]

LA-1st is old Bob Livingston district. Succeeded by Vitter upon Livingston retirement. This slice of LA had been home base and electorial support for David Duke.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

LA-1st is old Bob Livingston district. Succeeded by Vitter upon Livingston retirement. This slice of LA had been home base and electorial support for David Duke.

He did live in Metairie and the Northshore at times, but success for him in his statewide races proved to be spotty. In his gubantorial run, he lost Jefferson Parish to Edwards 59%-41% and St. Tammany 56%-41%. In his Senate run just a year prior, he did carry both parishes but not by great margins. His only electoral success was narrowly capturing a Metairie-area house seat over Treen's brother. Region-wise, Duke did better in North Louisiana than anywhere else.

[sefarkas]

See above. All true.

[GreenLanternCorps]

It takes awhile in the articvle to find it, but this is Bobby Jindal’s old seat.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Treen turns 80 in July. And, yes, Vitter beat him narrowly for the seat almost a decade ago. He has little chance of winning this time.