Remember this is Dollar Bill Cold Cash Jefferson's old seat. The D in the race is right up there as far as corrupt goes. Cao on the other hand isn't corrupt. He will not vote lock step with the D's either.
Posted on 10/25/2010 6:34:25 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Here is the situation on the ground. Before the campaign really heated up, Cao actually led the polls by a wide margin, because his hard work and sincerity have made him very popular among all races and ethnicities in the New Orleans area. Once the campaign heated up and he was re-identified in the black community as a Republican, he dropped behind. But internal polls -- and my own anecdotal sources, as a native New Orleanian and veteran of New Orleans politics -- show him now within a typical survey's margin of error.
He also has momentum. National Democrats, thinking Cao a goner, have withdrawn campaign aid for Democratic opponent, state Rep. Cedric Richmond. But Richmond has a checkered past that the local media finally is starting to really focus on. Amidst other official ethics problems, Richmond lost his law license for lying in election qualifying papers in 2005. He's also under fire, or under investigation, for alleged financial shenanigans involving a non-profit with which he has been closely associated.
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You are wrong. I am rooting for conservatives. You can cheer for RINOs, but I cannot join you.
I am filing this post under wishful thinking. Cao is there because the former Congressman Jefferson was indicted for not defrosting his $90,000 and removing it from his Maytag and burying it in the yard. He is a fluke. There is no way an overwhelmingly black district is going to reelect an Asian Republican vs a black Democrat that has less three felony convictions.Can you name an overwhelmingly black distict that has elected a non black Republican or for that matter black Republican in the last 30 years other than Cao’s fluke the last time.
I bet he voted for odumbocare. The only one no? So you can have him
You can keep cao, spector,graham, snowes in planet rhino
Remember this is Dollar Bill Cold Cash Jefferson's old seat. The D in the race is right up there as far as corrupt goes. Cao on the other hand isn't corrupt. He will not vote lock step with the D's either.
It’s not going to happen in that district. Cao is as conservative as it will get. The demographics are kind of like the same as Rangell’s, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, etc.
Bad votes? You man the vote that moved Obamacare foward I would say that was a really Bad vote and if he was in my district I would not vote for him. “Republican opposition has been virtually unanimous in both houses - only Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao of Louisiana among GOP lawmakers has voted for the bill”
You are totally clueless.
Cao voted against both the stimulus bill and the obamacare bill.
Cao did not vote for the healthcare bill.
Wow you really dont know what your talking about on odumbocare but maybe that is why you support him. Search is your friend
If being the only (R) to vote for 0bamacare is as conservative as it gets in that district, I say let the dems have it. Like Demint said, "I’d rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters..."
If a marxist New Orleans RAT gets that seat, you better believe they'd vote YES.
Cao isn't as conservative as I'd like, but he's far better than any RAT in that area. Nor is a Republican In Name Only. There are many things he voted for that a Dem wouldn't be caught dead supporting.
Cao is not an Arlen Specter, the two disagree on many issues. For example, Specter has always been pro-abortion while Cao is proudly pro-life.
I am sorry I cannot agree. That Stupak agreement was not worth the paper it was written on. I respect your opinion but mine does not change
The stupak AMENDMENT to the bill (the amendment Cao and all other Republicans voted in favor of) was well-written and had universal support from pro-life groups. They were ready to give him an award for it.
After the Senate stripped the amendment from the bill, the Stupak COMPROMISE with Obama to have an "executive order" not to fund abortion was announced. That was something totally different and wasn't worth the paper it was written on. Stupak sold us down the river on that, pro-life groups decried it, and Cao (and every other Republican Congressman was well) voted NO on the FINAL PASSAGE of the bill AFTER the phony "compromise" was reached.
Obviously you do not set the bar very high. Did Cao vote for 0bamacare?
The Obamacare bill that is now law? No, he did not.
thnx for the info
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