Rep. William Jefferson has finally been defeated!

Looks like a good guy.

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=30662

Jefferson is not an indicted felon, he has been indicted on felony charges. To say one is an indicted felon means he is already a felon and is now indicted on new charges.

This may not seem important but it is. Gaining an indictment is easier than using the McD's drive-through. It does not make one guilty nor a felon by any stretch, those only occur after a plea or verdict of guilt. However, in the case of Jefferson, the public knowledge of the details of his alleged misdeeds and suspicious behavior are what heaped upon him his discredit, not merely the indictments.

In any case though...how grand another LEFTY LIB bites the dust!

Next Please!

The Times-Picayune endorsed Cao and pushed his candidacy relentlessly -- and in a town where the TP is now the center of civic life after Katrina, that may have made a difference over partisanship. (Cao only joined the Republicans this year; he was previously an independent.)

So did Bobby Jindal's prominent endorsement -- and, of course, the fact there is a small but politically active Vietnamese-American community in New Orleans (and throughout the Gulf Coast) mobilized for Cao.

Not to mention the fact that white voters turned out at twice the rate of black voters (which means more whites than blacks may have voted in the district, despite its overall population) -- and the fact that Jefferson's favorable rating among whites was 4%. (4 as in "four" -- not a misprint.)

It's about time the people looked at the evidence and not the color of the persons skin. The new Rep. is an American. Too many people think that American's are just Blank & White, there not. We are all Americans. Now, it the new Rep. really represents the people that elected him and not the party line, the people will see that the Republican party can be a good, honest party. After all, the Republican party is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Enough said.

"the Republican party can be a good, honest party. After all, the Republican party is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Enough said."

Even the Lefty Attack Hamster prefers Cao over the congressman who kept $80,000 in bribe money in his freezer, but it's premature to be pronouncing the Republicans either good or honest. But I'm an optimist, maybe there will be a day they will be.