Posted on 08/22/2014 9:37:31 PM PDT by Din Maker
Let me add to my Post of a few minutes ago. Yes, the “Jungle Primary” in LA is on Election Day, Nov. 4. I know it’s crazy but all those Cajuns were drunk the day they instituted that. States control how they do their elections, and that’s how they chose to do it. And.... all candidates are on that one Primary ballot regardless of Party. So, if no one gets 50% of the vote and two Pubbies or two DemocRATS are the top vote getters, they are in the run-off.
Only in Louisiana......
Oh goody, then that must mean Mannes will win. Just like the tea party candidate in Alaska, who just lost his chance for the second. Sarah needs to stay home and help her Alaskan folks. I live in Louisiana. Cassidy is popular here and has a better chance of beating Landreau than Mannes. I contributed to Palin in the her election bid when she was running with McCain. She is less than helpful in these state elections, when we so desperately need to regain the senate.
“I really don’t know where you’re coming from with that question. Are you saying that you don’t like what he says he will do or what?”
Not at all!
As you can see, Cassidy is far from being the conservative he claims to be. Can't really score Maness, as he doesn't have a voting record. But he was interviewed by some popular radio DJs in Louisiana that do compare Maness to a cross between Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. So if he was scored, it'll be in the 90's.
I voted in Louisiana for many years. Without the jungle primary, I would have never been able to vote, except for Presidential elections. The Republican party could hold their conventions in the Baton Rouge Dunkin’ Donut and the top two vote getters were always Democrats. The primary was the general election.
Cassidy was first elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2006 as a Republican. Well before entering politics, he had been a Democrat. He supported Michael Dukakis for President in 1988 and donated money to the 1992 presidential campaign of Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas.[8][9] He also donated to Louisiana Democrats Kathleen Blanco for the 2003 gubernatorial election and Mary Landrieu for her 2002 Senate campaign. In 2013, Cassidy stated that he made the donation to Landrieu before she moved to the left and said that she "got elected and fell into partisan politics... Louisiana hasn't left Mary, Mary has left us."
So the quote "Louisiana hasn't left Mary, Mary has left us." kind of tell me that Cassidy is still a democrat.
Thanks very much for the explanation.
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