Posted on 11/15/2014 5:43:12 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Do you remember the Louisiana Senate runoff election of December 1996?
Conservative Woody Jenkins sure does. He was the Republican Senate candidate who got mugged out of a Senate seat by Mary Landrieu.
Flashback to 18 years ago — reporting in the December 23, 1996, and February 10, 1997, issues of National Review — Rich Lowry tells the story of how Mary Landrieu won ‘The Big Sleazy’ Senate runoff election of 1996.
Now just 2 1/2 weeks away from the the 2014 Louisiana Senate runoff, Lowry’s investigative reports from nearly two decades ago are a sober reminder of what can happen on any given election day down in the Bayou with the Democrats.
Please read these excerpts from Rich Lowry’s timeless National Review articles, “The Big Sleazy: Politics in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Republican U.S. Senate candidate Woody Jenkins alleges a series of irregularities that tipped his contest to Democrat Mary Landrieu by 5,788 votes.
His campaign has yet to produce hard evidence of fraud. What’s clear is that on November 5 a political machine not noted for its scruples… pulled out all the stops to win in an environment flush with gambling money, in a state where corruption is endemic, in a blitzkrieg fashion that makes Ralph Reed look like an organizational amateur…
“Down here,” explains [Bob Tucker, a long-time friend of then New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial], “we can tell by about three o’clock whether we won or lost an election.”
By early afternoon on November 5 exit polls showed Mary Landrieu trailing Woody Jenkins by about 4 points. So, Miss Landrieu piled into the back of a red convertible with Morial for a final push through the New Orleans projects. “We hooked up a motorcade to go through those areas where we knew there ...
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They’re leftists; they cheat; it’s who they are.
Frankly, though, I did not remember this episode from 1996.
This should be a big caveat to the Cassidy campaign and he should get his team of poll watchers and elections lawyers in action pronto.
People need to follow these vans / buses that take loads of democrats to polling places and make sure they’re not taking them to other polling places. They need to be videoing it. Everyone of them and the driver that is taking them to different polling places needs to be arrested.
It wouldn’t be difficult. If a van or bus shows up for one stop, follow them.
Bttt
I also recall that casino interests brought bus loads of ‘voters’ to the polls. Same deal, jump to the front of the line, vote and get back on the bus. Most were from Mississippi, as I recall. All got a free lunch and $20.00. I don’t remember how many polling places they stopped at, but I believe it was more than one. LA politics at it’s best.
Mary should be asked if obamacare should be turned back since we now know that it was passed because of a lack of transparency and the stupid American voters as Jonathan Gruber says.
Very different circumstances this time around. The 1996 election was in a presidential year where the Republicans punted with another “my turn” hopeless candidate (Bob Dole) and Democrats had their own little wave election. This time Louisiana is far more firmly balanced if not Republican and Miss Piggy has the weight of 18 years in the Senate tied round her neck.
Ya, Cassidy is going to need that 16% margin to overcome Dem vote fraud.
I don’t live in LA but if I did and I saw a busload of “democrats” go into a polling place to vote, I would follow and secretly video.
If I found them going into more than one polling place, I would go to the media and then law enforcement to expose it. I would do everything I could to make sure they all end up in jail for voter fraud.
We need to start catching them and making examples of them. They need to learn they can go to prison for voter fraud.
and Obamacare.
Oh, yeah. Indeed, I remembered that the issue was ridiculously settled when a Republican Senate ultimately decided not to exercise its constitutional prerogative in determining the eligibility of its own membership, when the leadership determined not to challenge her seating. A great outrage, at the time, that might not have happened had the Internet been more mature.
You’d be doing good, but the media and law enforcement is even more corrupt down there!!!!
I remember it. I met Woody Jenkins. I knew the election was stolen. IIRC there was not enough proof but every indication of proof.
Katrina washed out Landrieu supporters, squeezed by 09 because
Obola was at top of ticket
This year with Obola toxic so is done
AMF Landrieu (Thats Adios Mother F********”
Several circumstances argue against a repeat of Landrieu’s miracle this time around. Most importantly, in 1996 Louisiana still had a considerable block of white voters who would vote for the Democrat, especially when fed a very careful stream of promises. This is where the term “Blue Dog” Democrat comes from. These people are now Republicans and reliably vote Republican, they won’t vote Landrieu in the runoff.
Secondly, Hurricane Katrina altered forever the New Orleans landscape. The Lower 9th Ward is still largely a ghost town. The projects have been torn down and replaced with new onew. The residents of these new projects have a different make up than the old crowd. The old crowd left, to Houston and beyond. Louisiana has changed from a Blue State that voted Republican in Presidential contests, but Democrat in all other races, to a solid red state. Landrieu is the last of the old Democrat bulls and she will soon be gone.
Substitute “begich” for Landrieu and “villages” for projects and you have the reason we are still counting votes up in Alaska for the senate race last week. This is also the reason I am one of the few people that have real concern about Begich stealing another election.
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