Posted on 12/06/2008 9:50:43 PM PST by flattorney
LA-2 , Orleans, Jefferson Parish: In a huge upset win, little known Republican attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao beat nine term and criminally indicted William Jefferson(D). Jefferson had been expected to easily win. Cao becomes the first Vietnamese member of U.S. Congress. LA-4, Shreveport-Bossier City, Sabine Parish, et. al., Western LA, TX/AR border: Republican Dr. John Fleming wins. Fleming was trailing by about 3% early in the election results but came on strong in the end to beat Carmouche(D) by 356 votes. Carmouche has not conceded election – recount probably pending. With these results, the 111th U.S. House of Representatives currently stands at 255 Democrats, 178 Republicans, and two elections still officially pending = VA-5: Perriello(D) wins, Goode(R) filed recount - will take 2-4 weeks. OH-15: Provisional ballots Ohio Supreme Court challenge. - FlA
NEWS ARTICLES
Anh 'Joseph' Cao beats Rep. William Jefferson in 2nd Congressional District
The Times-Picayune, December 06, 2008, 10:34 PM
Fleming tapped for 4th District seat. (Carmouche won't concede)
Shreveport Times, December 6, 2008 10:34 pm
If I’m not mistaken, the next stop is taking back the Governor’s Mansion in VA.
They are saying probable recount in 4th—356 votes.
Most excellent news :)
Margin is more than 1%. All the recounts that I heard about should have a margin of less than 1%.
Good news....Now Willie can clean out his freezer in peace !......:o)
margin is 38 basis points in the 4th JV
2nd could not have happened without Miss Katrina
As a former New Orleanian, I gotta say, Yay! Hurrah!
Wait for it. Someone will undoubtedly cry racism.
In upsets, Republicans win both Districts 2 & 4Obama remorse already?
“...Wait for it. Someone will undoubtedly cry racism....”
Racism!
How dare those voters in Louisiana elect the first American of Vietnamese decent to congress....and a REPUBLICAN to boot!
Just when you start to lose complete faith in voters, they up and do the right thing. Maybe there is hope after all.
I had to drive by Jefferson’s election (loss) party and honk my horn at them about ten times before a cop started walking over to my car and I took off.
Racism?
An corrupt African American politian is replaced by an American who came from Vietnam as a refugee and loves his adopted country?
I don’t get it...
Louisiana voters have now elected the first people of Vietnamese and Indian descent to major elected office in the U.S.
Yes, I was looking at the 2nd.
Katrina changed the demographics....big help
Better to have "fag" Lindsey Graham in that seat that Islamofacist sympathizer Bob Conley. Unless you're one of those Ron Paulites who believe surrender in Iraq is the "true conservative" viewpoint.
It also depends upon what part of the country that people are talking about. It’s very difficult for conservatives to win in most major U.S. cities, in the northeastern states, and in much of the west coast states. In many of these areas that I have mentioned, the final choices, at most political levels, are usually between a Democrat and a RINO. RINOs are usually better than Democrats, unless the Democratic candidate happens to really be more conservative than the RINO. In the 1990 Massachusetts election, the Governor’s race was between RINO Bill Weld and conservative Democrat John Silber, and one of many reasons why Weld won is because Weld is “more leftist” on most issues compared to Silber. Silber also had problems with proving to the majority of Massachusetts voters that he really had the temperament for the job of Governor, and Silber’s “Silber Shockers” harmed his chances of successfully defeating Weld.
How ironic it is that the reputedly racist coon-@sses from Louisiana are the first in the nation to elect 2 distinct Asian ethnic groups to Congress. And elected from the reputedly racist political party to boot.
I can't wait until the vermin in the msm acknowledge this.
Crickets chirping...
YEAH FOR OUR TEAM......IS CAO THE FIRST VIETNAMESE CONGRESSMAN?......THIS IS FANTASTIC NEWS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH MEN.....
I just think this is great.....the great American story...rags to riches....immigrant to congressman.....
I don’t care if a person is hetero, homo, inbetween, or asexual.......frankly, I don’t want to know too much.....just do your job and represent your constituency in an honest way, and nothing else matters...
God bless America.
A couple of hours ago, Jefferson was announced the winner on the radio; this is much better news!
For a totally biased downplay of the first Vietnamese-American to become a U.S. Representative, http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/stephanie_grace_story_is_loser.html
The author is the loser in that story.
Great news!!!
The republicans are 3 for 3 since Obama won.
Apparently the big thing on FR now is that Charlie Crist is "secretly gay". Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle (also a RINO) has been subject to lesbian rumors for years... but they're too busy rant and raving and Crist to notice.
Yes, he is the first Vietnamese congressman.
CHRISTMAS
I bet Pelosi is going to have a CAO ...
Congrats to Mr. Cao, however Republicans should realize that this is a one-termer, no doubt about it. Similar to Nick Lampson in TX-22, there is no way that a GOP congressman can hang on to this seat. In 2010, it will go back to the Dems. However, this is not to take away the great accomplishment of Cao. Congrats to the new Rep congressman from LA-02. It will be nice to have him for 1.5 years, I guess.
John Fleming should hold this for as long as he wants. Screw you Carmouche. He’ll probably sue and ask for recount after recount after recount until he wins. Get f**ked d-bag. You lost!!
What does that say about Jefferson Parish?
yitbos
So Cold Cash Jefferson goes down in defeat.
Hallelujah. There is justice after all.
Congratulations to Congressman Cao!
“Louisiana voters have now elected the first people of Vietnamese and Indian descent to major elected office in the U.S.”
Great news and they did it without writing phony books about their lives and they didn’t hide their Birth certificates.
It says, as Jefferson himself said when he spoke at the after-party, that very few people in Orleans Parish bothered to vote. He won easily in the primary, when mass numbers of people turned out (which was also the Presidential election on Nov. 4th). But this was a tiny ballot, people were burned out on voting, and they got complacent and didn’t bother to vote. So he lost.
I agree, I’m surprised the dems actually had enough conscience to ditch Jefferson.
No, if that were the case Helena Moreno would have beat him in the democratic runoff election. Just more republicans turned out then democrats is more likely the case.
By 2010....you will see more Latinos in congress as well. I think the day of one-minority concepts are pretty much finished. For the Democrats...this is going to require a complete re-tool of their master strategy.
Oh man you beat me to it. LOL
Any one on a conservative forum like FR who defends Lindsey Gang of 14 Graham friend of any illegal over American laws
is suspect as a RINO or better yet a liberal hiding here.
Yes, Cao will lose in 2010 no matter how well he may perform. Cao will be like the one-termer in Chicago who retired the once invincible Rostenkowski in 1994. As Walter Judd once wrote “tyrants seem invincible until the last five minutes, and then they fall apart.”
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