{"id":6103,"date":"2008-12-07T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/12\/rep-william-jefferson-has-fina.html"},"modified":"2008-12-07T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T08:26:39","slug":"rep-william-jefferson-has-fina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/12\/rep-william-jefferson-has-fina.html","title":{"rendered":"Rep. William Jefferson has finally been defeated!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By a Vietnamese candidate! How cool is that! He’ll be the first Vietnamese representative in Congress: <\/p>\n

Voters in Louisiana ousted indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson on Saturday, instead electing a Republican attorney who will be the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.
\nUnofficial results showed Anh “Joseph” Cao denying Jefferson a 10th term. Republicans made an aggressive push to take the seat from the 61-year-old incumbent, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, laundering money and misusing his congressional office.
\nCao, 41, won a predominantly black and heavily Democratic district that covers most of New Orleans.
\nA barrage of election-day automated telephone calls on Cao’s behalf flooded the district, including a pitch from the national Republican Party.
\nNew Orleans voters had long been loyal to Jefferson, re-electing him in 2006 even after news of the bribery scandal broke. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought for sure he was going to win a second time even though he’s been indicted but the Republicans pushed the fact that he’s tainted and doesn’t have as much clout:<\/p>\n

But Republicans argued the scandal had cost Jefferson his clout in Congress. Election Day brought excitement to the state’s usually low-key Vietnamese-American community, said David Nguyen, 45, a store manager and Cao supporter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure that even a tainted Democrat has a lot more clout than a Republican in the new Congress. They might have made a mistake there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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