Jesse Jackson backs Landrieu for Senate

The Slimes-Pukeayune(New Orleans's liberal rag) ^ | 11/24/02 | Bill Walsh

[no dems]

Yea, but remember two things: 1) This is a run-off election which traditionally means low turn-out and 2) The election is on a Saturday. Conservatives will turn out while the New Orleans welfare queens and absentee fathers whose bastard children are being supported by the taxpayers are sleeping off their Friday night drunk or laying up in a crack house. New Orleans "voters" are not a threat in this election.

[ncpastor]

Jesse Jackson - the kiss of death.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

This runoff should be a no brainer for all of La., that is, do we elect a voice to the minority or majority party in the senate?

Ideology is not an issue, having a voice in the majority party for La. is.

[Theodore R.]

Actually, this is not technically "a runoff," but the senatorial and congressional general election under LA's unique "jungle primary" law. Most LA elections ARE held on Saturday. The only exception to the LA Saturday election is the presidential general election and congressional primaries held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday ever other November. People mistakenly call this Dec. 7 election a "runoff," including candidates Landrieu and Terrell themselves. It is "the" general election in LA. All of this is according to the 1975 law (modified later by the U.S. Justice Department) pushed by then popular LA Democrat Governor Edwin Washington Edwards. LA gubernatorial and legislative elections (both primary and general election) are held on Saturday. So Saturday is the customary election day in LA. The Longs encouraged Saturday elections to get the same kinds of voters to the polls that you are now thinking might not bother to show up.

[AmishDude]

I wonder if Jesse said to Landrieu: "Give me what I want or else I'll endorse you." She must not have paid up.

[Victor]

Un bacio di morte.... Translation please.

Italian; literally "kiss of death"....traditionally, before a Mafia boss gives the kill order, he embraces and kisses the one who betrayed him/or the family. And he does it openly so that everyone knows his intentions.

The tradition probably goes back to the time of the Caesars.

[AmishDude]

Giving his own rousing endorsement to Mary Landrieu, Bill Clinton said, "Yeah, I'd do her."

[hchutch]

If Jackson and Clinton "go stealth" in their approach to support Landrieu, it could get close. Cooksey's not on board yet, and that worries me. The only good news is that we don't need this seat to win the Senate.

[stand watie]

FIGURES!

free dixie,sw

[newguy357]

LOL

[NC Conservative]

Nonetheless, Jackson did his part to help endear her to black voters. He said that a "New South" is emerging in which old racial divisions are giving way to a more harmonious relationship between blacks and whites.

Correct me but wasn't the "Old South" run by Democraps.

[Sparta]

That would be correct. The Republican party for all intents and purposes was banned from the end of Reconstruction to the late 1960s.

[connectthedots]

How much did Jackson get paid for this endorsement?