Patterico's Pontifications

12/6/2008

“Cold Cash” Jefferson Loses

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:58 pm



I have to admit — I’m surprised.

Thanks to Scott Jacobs.

20 Responses to ““Cold Cash” Jefferson Loses”

  1. One seat at a time….

    the bhead (a31060) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:10 pm

  2. Nah-nah,
    nah-nah-nah-nah,
    Hey hey hey,
    Good-bye!

    Damnit. That “nah-nah-nah”s should have been my post’s title. Crud.

    Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:15 pm

  3. Hmm.. Can’t Barry push his Dems across the finish line ? Where’s the change and hope?

    Vermont Neighbor (5ea336) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:23 pm

  4. Unlike Marion Halle Berry, these voters, to their credit, didn’t re-elect the insanely corrupt.

    Vermont Neighbor (5ea336) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:25 pm

  5. didnā€™t re-elect the insanely corrupt.

    Actually, they did. They re-elected him in 2006, after news of the bribery scandal broke.

    Though I don’t think after the cash got found – not sure on that count.

    But after Katrina, LA – and NOLA particularly – has been voting out of office people connected to corruption.

    Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:30 pm

  6. To be more specific, they re-elected him after the scandal broke, but it wasn’t till 2007 that the indictments were handed down.

    Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:33 pm

  7. Finally common sense prevails in Louisiana.

    Its made all the better to read that Cao came to America as a child after Saigon fell, earned three degrees and ends up winning this. What a great success story.

    Dana (79a78b) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:34 pm

  8. I admit I am totally surprised. When Jefferson got 58% of the vote on Nov 4, I couldn’t imagine him losing in the runoff against an unknown Republican, but, again, it proves that turnout wins, and that there are people in Louisiana that actually care about who represents them…

    Congrats to Mr. Cao, and good luck….

    reff (55a10a) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:36 pm

  9. Scott, thanks. All excellent news and results..

    Vermont Neighbor (5ea336) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:40 pm

  10. It’s the Jindal effect! šŸ˜€

    L.N. Smithee (34e392) — 12/6/2008 @ 10:43 pm

  11. Obama couldn’t care less if one single Dem is elected or re-elected. He is soon to be POTUS,and that is all that matters to the narcisistic S0B. However, I don’t understand how it is that Cold Cash was indicted in 2007 and has still to be put on trial. Anybody know what’s up with “speedy” trial?

    TimothyJ (8fb937) — 12/6/2008 @ 11:46 pm

  12. I think it is a combined factor of:

    a) His lawyers are prolonging the time before trial, since he’s pretty much going away when it happens

    b) It’s a matter for a federal court, and they aren’t exactly fully staffed these days.

    Speaking of appointed federal judges, I wonder how long it will be until there are more seats needing to be filled than there are judges actually serving in the federal courts…

    Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 12/7/2008 @ 12:00 am

  13. I finally found it on the NY Times site, buried at the very bottom of the politics section.

    If the Republican seat that was up in LA had gone Dem, it would have been on the main page, of course.

    Kevin Murphy (0b2493) — 12/7/2008 @ 12:22 am

  14. No doubt.

    I suspect the news of his conviction will be findable only in some editor’s trashcan…

    Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 12/7/2008 @ 12:28 am

  15. Amazing, one small step for the nation, one giant leap for Louisianans.

    eaglewingz08 (080c62) — 12/7/2008 @ 5:00 am

  16. I wouldn’t heap too much praise on Louisianians for their common sense. After all, 46 percent of those voting still wanted the scumbag returned to office. They couldn’t all be oblivious to his corruption.

    tmac (f9e092) — 12/7/2008 @ 7:03 am

  17. His trial IIRC is scheduled for March, ’09.

    Another Drew (b4fb11) — 12/7/2008 @ 1:16 pm

  18. reff wrote:

    I admit I am totally surprised. When Jefferson got 58% of the vote on Nov 4, I couldnā€™t imagine him losing in the runoff against an unknown Republican, but, again, it proves that turnout wins, and that there are people in Louisiana that actually care about who represents themā€¦

    It’s easy to understand: in the general election, the polls were swelled by the Obamaniacs. This time, they weren’t.

    However, I question the 58% figure; if Mr Jefferson had received more than 50%, there’d have been no run-off.

    The baffled Dana (556f76) — 12/7/2008 @ 3:11 pm

  19. I think it was an actual primary, as a lot of the electoral process was delayed due to Gustav.

    Scott Jacobs (90ff96) — 12/7/2008 @ 3:15 pm

  20. Dana….Louisiana formerly had an “open primary” system, where everyone ran against each other in the first round, and then the top two in the runoff (unless one gets 50% + 1 in the primary). Recent law changed on that, and there was a Democrat primary, in which Jefferson was second to Moreno, then the two had a runoff, in which Jefferson got 58% or so. Then, Jefferson ran against Cao, who was the only Republican to enter the race, and against two othes, who shared 4% of the vote in the runoff.

    The old system led to the race between convicted former governor Edwin Edwards, and racist David Duke in the runoff. The infamous “vote for the crook; it’s important” campaign slogan came from that one….

    reff (b996d9) — 12/8/2008 @ 9:03 am


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