Posted on 02/01/2011 6:10:36 PM PST by LdSentinal
BATON ROUGE -- Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell plans to switch his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican this week, according to multiple sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Caldwell, who is up for re-election this year, becomes the latest in a long line of conservative Louisiana Democrats to leave the party. His departure will leave U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu as the lone Democratic statewide elected official.
As recently as 2004, Democrats held both Louisiana's U.S. Senate seats, as well as six of the seven statewide constitutional offices.
First elected in 2007, Caldwell was the only Democrat to join a federal suit challenging the constitutionality of the new federal health-care law, which was overturned earlier this week by a judge in Florida. A former district attorney in the 6th Judicial District, which encompasses East Carroll, Madison and Tensas parishes, Caldwell has been leading the state's legal efforts in connection with the BP oil spill.
His move follows recent switches by state Sens. John Alario of Westwego and Fred Mills of Parks, and state Reps. Simone Champagne of Jeanerette, Noble Ellington of Winnsboro and Walker Hines of New Orleans.
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What’s Louisiana’s status re legal action against zerocare? Seems like they’ll get in on it now if they haven’t yet since they have a Republican Governor and now a Republican AG.
Actually, he was already against Obamacare. The only Democrat Attorney General filing a lawsuit.
Ronald Reagan too?
Sounds like good news to me. Actually, when Mary Landrieu first ran she pretended to be pro-life and reasonably conservative. That proved not to be true, of course, and Obama bought her with the Louisiana purchase.
But Louisiana can’t be too very happy about the way Obama has deliberately killed all business on the Gulf.
Keep his sorry ass... we do not want him in the Republican party.
How about simply inscribing a T in the flesh of his forehead, as was done similarly to Natzis in the movie Inglorious Bastards. Then, we’ll always know.
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