josephcaoforcongress.com - 12/3/2008
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Joseph Cao Anh "Joseph" Quang Cao, 41, was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, the fifth of eight children. He grew up in Vietnam during the most turbulent years of the Vietnamese Civil War and can vividly remember bombs exploding next to his elementary school. After the fall of ...
thenextright.com - 12/7/2008
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thenextright.com —
There were two elections in Louisiana tonight, and
it's fair to say that before tonight, what became...
John Fleming's squeaker in the 4th attracted 99% of the attention from the political class. After tonight, that figure should be reversed. In the ...
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Joseph Cao and the 435 District Strategy
theamericanscene.com - 12/9/2008
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theamericanscene.com —
We all know that Cao will have a
very hard time, i.e., an impossible time, holding William...
Jefferson’s seat — Dan Rostenkowski was defeated by Republican Michael Patrick Flanagan , and he was soundly defeated by the squeaky-clean Rod ...
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Joseph Cao
newshoggers.com - 11/26/2008
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newshoggers.com —
By Cernig The unholy triumverate of Pentagon deskwarriors,
arms manufacturers and conservative fans of defense pork are...
ramping up a pressure campaign right now designed to inflate the military's budget requirements and thus provide a cushion for ...
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You And What 44 Other Armies?
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LA-02: Joseph Cao, otherwise known as "Not Bill Jefferson..."
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
...in his freezer.
I would like to reassure our Republican readers that my
mentioning of Joseph
Cao's alternate name in the title is in no way intended to
diminish his quite
impressive accomplishments in the community. You can volunteer
to his campaign here, by the way - or, again, contact the
LA GOP. No, I'm fully confident
that any Republican reading this understands the stakes. The title
is simply there to remind our Democratic readers
that there will be a clear and stark moral choice going on in
Saturday's ...
Joseph Cao and the 435 District Strategy
The Next Right —
There were two elections in Louisiana tonight, and it's fair to say that before tonight, what became John Fleming's squeaker in the 4th attracted 99% of the attention from the political class. After tonight, that figure should be reversed.
In the heart of New Orleans, in a district that is 28 points more Democrat than the national average, Joseph Cao sent Bill Jefferson packing. As Swing State Project notes, Cao now represents the district with the most lopsided voting patterns favoring the other party, outstripping the R+26 margin in Jim Matheson's UT-3.
As I noted yesterday and reiterate tonight, there ...
Shameful Silence on Vietnam
Maggie's Farm —
This from Bruce Kesler, who has a long history of writing about Vietnam: The election of Vietnamese refugee Joseph Cao as a Republican in the most heavily Democrat congressional district in America (11% Republican), drawn to elect a Black (2/3rds Black population), comes as a surprise to ...
The Shameful Silence on Vietnam
Maggie's Farm —
This from our guest poster Bruce Kesler, who has a long history of writing about Vietnam: The election of Vietnamese refugee Joseph Cao as a Republican in the most heavily Democrat congressional district in America (11% Republican), drawn to elect a Black (2/3rds Black population), comes ...
2008: The Year of Great Humility
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... and Joseph Cao. Dr. Fleming is replacing a personal friend of our’s and great Congressman, Jim McCrery, who is retiring this year, while Congressman-elect Cao is replacing another humbled and disgraced politician, William Jefferson who lost amidst fighting federal corruption and bribery charges. ...
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