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Are you tired of William Jefferson* (D) being the Representative for LA-02?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... level? Are you tired of having this man's continued presence in Congress give the lie to all of your pious statements about being for clean government? Do you quietly fume about how the runoff election and his federal trial for bribery and racketeering will happen at about the same time? Are you? Well, talk is cheap. Time for you people to clean your house. There's a guy running against Jefferson in the general. His name's Joseph Cao (you can contribute here). Vietnamese-American, philosophy professor ...

LA-02: Joseph Cao, otherwise known as "Not Bill Jefferson..."
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... 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 ...

Joseph Cao for Congress
RedState: Conservative News and Community — The voters of Louisiana’s Second Congressional District head to the polls tomorrow for the runoff election between incumbent Democrat Bill ‘Cold Cash’ Jefferson, and Republican newcomer Joseph Cao.  While Jefferson’s ethical lapses are well known — and reason enough to defeat him — Cao shows the sort of character that is badly needed in Congress.  He is an immigrant who escaped Vietnam before the fall of Saigon, became a Jesuit novice, then a private practice attorney and respected community leader.  Read more about Cao in this piece by the American ...

LA-2: Why We Need a 435 District Strategy
The Next Right — ... Normally, we wouldn't have a prayer in LA-2. Except for one thing: the incumbent is Wiliam "Freezer Cash" Jefferson. And recent polling shows Republican Joseph Cao actually has a chance to knock off Jefferson. An internal Republican poll shows ...

An Upset in the Making?
California Conservative — ... Normally, we wouldn’t have a prayer in LA-2. Except for one thing: the incumbent is Wiliam “Freezer Cash” Jefferson. And recent polling shows Republican Joseph Cao actually has a chance to knock off Jefferson. An internal Republican poll shows ...

Corruption, Primaries, and Elections
Open Left - Front Page — ... This year, Jefferson lost to a Republican, Joseph Cao.  Had Carter or another Democrat beaten him in the primary, Democrats would have kept that seat.  In fact, with Democrats having achieved fairly dominant majorities in Congress, a constant stream of primaries is the only way to give voters the opportunity to deal with corruption or ossification within the Democratic party itself.  With the current mode of operations that suggests that primaries are a 'circular firing squad' or that only safe seats should be in play, in a sense, voters don't really get to clean ...

Getting To Know Your New Congressmen: Anh Cao
Politics Daily — ... introduces us to one of the fascinating ones: Anh "Joseph" Cao. The Kierkegaard-quoting former seminarian was airlifted out of Vietnam during the war and is today the new representative from New Orleans. Cao is the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress and the first Republican to win Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in over a century. ...

Cao VS Vitter? Really?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Newt Gingrich is right. Republican campaign consultants are probably the dumbest, most short-sighted unimaginative pedestrian minds working in politics today. And, in hindsight, even while acknowledging the great job he did in 2004, I think I’ll lay some of the blame at the feet of Karl Rove as one of the major reasons why in recent years with his 50+1 strategy. On the surface, it sounds smart to “go where the votes are” and write off “unwinnable” districts and demographics, but in the long term, it’s the mark of a dying party. We can’t keep writing off entire regions and ...