Posted on 11/07/2009 8:27:04 PM PST by Gordon Greene
Anh "Joseph" Cao was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. His father, an officer with the South Vietnamese Army, was imprisoned by the Communists.
At the age of eight, Joseph escaped to America with two of his siblings. He learned English, thrived in school, and earned a physics degree from Baylor University before he began studying for the priesthood.
Joseph first arrived in New Orleans in 1992. He left to earn a Master's degree in philosophy from New York's Fordham University, returning to Loyola University to teach philosophy and ethics. As he prepared for priesthood, his faith was strong.
However, his confidence in government's ability to care for those in need weakened by the day. Before long, Joseph ended his quest for priesthood in a personal crusade for social justice.
In Washington, DC, he became an advocate for refugees, future Americans who embody a can-do spirit and strong work ethic. In pursuit of justice for all, he attained a law degree from Loyola Law School. He became the in-house legal counsel for Boat People S.O.S, Inc., an organization helping poor Vietnamese and other minorities. In 2002, he was chosen by Archbishop Alfred Hughes to become a member of the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressing women's rights in the Catholic Church, social justice, child abuse, and the Catholic response to Hurricane Katrina.
Joseph Cao lost both his home and law office to Katrina. With his wife and two daughters, he moved temporarily to Westwego and began rebuilding. Like so many others, Joseph battled insurance companies and government bureaucracy to restore his home and business.
He helped residents of New Orleans East stop plans for a landfill that would have devastated their community. He helped lead the fight to get electricity and telecommunications restored for returning residents.
In 2007, Governor Jindal appointed Joseph Cao to help ensure fair voting as a member of the Board of Elections for Orleans Parish. He was also elected to lead the Louisiana Republican Party both on the parish and state levels. And earlier this year Joseph Cao was elected delegate to the Republican National Convention.
Joseph Cao has lived through war and disaster, never surrendering his determination to make things better. A teacher of ethics, held in the highest regard for his dogged pursuit of truth and justice, he now serves as Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District Representative.
This ahole will be a Democrat before the end of the year. Guaranteed.
I just sent him a very hot e-mail.
“Dede” Cao.
Cao’s vote didn’t matter anyway and it may help him keep his seat, though that is doubtful. It is mainly black, Democrat seat, used to be held by Jefferson, the guy who put money in his freezer.
This very asshole has been sending me multiple letters talking about how conservative he is and asking for money.
Glad I did not send him any.
The guy is in a poor, black majority district. The only way he wins re-election is if he votes like a moderate. You could get a hard right conservative to knock him out in a primary. You’d never get him elected to the House, though.
Cao represents a HEAVILY BLACK Democratic District.
I tried and it asks for your zip code before one can be sent. If you’re not in his district it kicks it out.
What’s his email address?
And people think Bobby Jindal is Presidential Material?
I’m sure Cao will switch to the RAT party soon, after riding Jindals coattails.
Doesn’t matter if he switched parties. Blacks are the majority in his district. They will throw Cao out in favor of putting of their own in.
I am appalled.
Have a solution. DownSize DC.
That will require a total “House Cleaning” but is what has to be done.
He spent the remainder of his childhood and all his adulthood as person imersed in pages from books and off computer screen.
One of the many things wrong with professional education.
The real world is unknown and not part of the equation.
Cao represents a HEAVILY BLACK Democratic District.
So whats the difference between his vote and a democrat vote?
And for almost any other vote it could be forgiven. But there was enormous symbolism in NO Republican voting for this. That is not gone or at least diminished. Especially since this won’t save his seat no matter what.
It was a fluke that he won election in the first place. There was no way he could win re-election in 2010 when he wouldn’t be facing Jefferson. So, either he switches parties or he’s angling for some sort of job for after he leaves. If it looks like a whore, and sounds like a whore . . . .
I don’t care if the entire district is liberal democrats. He has an (R) by his name and voted with the (D)s. We do not gain anything by having a republican voting with the democrats on this issue. He is still a traitor to this country as are the other 219 who voted for the bill.
I don’t think Cao has any chance of keeping that seat anyway. Maybe if he darkens his skin pigment somehow.
I used his New Orleans office address!
It kicked my zip code out originally.
Cao will try to switch to the Dem party ala Specter once he is challenged in next year’s primary. He is a dead man walking.
The guy voted twice against the stimulus bill. He's already faced down a recall effort.
GOP Congressman Joseph Ahn Cao barely won last year in a congressional “district made up of 65% African Americans and 85% Democrats.” And now he is facing the threat of a recall because he voted twice “against President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package as part of the Republican Party attempt to block the passage of bill,” according to the Little Saigon Insider blog.The recall campaign against Cao has already collected over 12,000 signatures in its first week. “Rev. Toris Young, President of the Louisiana Ministerial Alliance of Churches for All Peoples, has joined with his fellow Minister Aubry Wallace to attempt to obtain the verified signatures of more than 101,000 registered voters in the 2nd District, more than a third of the registered electorate, in just 180 days,” according to the Bayou Buzz.
One of the ministers involved in the recall explained why he is opposed to Cao:
Since the 2nd District voted for Obama in a landslide, and Cao openly opposed the President, Young argues that the Congressman should be removed from office immediately, not in two years when the regular elective cycle comes again. “The time for change Is now! We have so many things that still are suffering–such as Education, Health Care, Roads Repair, Flood Protection, Foreclosure, Lending, and the list goes on.” By voting against Obama now, Cao endangered the needs of his district, so the Reverend reasons.Even if this recall fails, it will galvanize voters against Cao. In short, he is toast.
This is like waiting for divine intervention. I won't hold my breath...
It's unlikely he'll win re-election because he's seen as a "right-winger" in the eyes of those liberals. We conservatives may actually do this guy a favor by publically going against him. Best to ignore him but make sure he gets no money from the republican party.
Blacks don't vote for blacks who support conservative positions. It's not just affinity voting - it's specific government programs designed to favor blacks at the expense of everyone else. Most working blacks benefit from affirmative action education, hiring and contracting policies. And the portion of the black population that doesn't want to work benefits from cradle-to-grave welfare policies that provide free housing, medical care, food and spending money. Republicans endanger all of these things. The question isn't why a black person would vote Democratic - it's why wouldn't he?
Cao’s political career in his district is going to be short. He should man up, and do what is right. He may represent people who need government oppression more than they need liberty, but that doesn’t mean he can’t rise above that ignorance. He may even be able to help a few others overcome their dependency on government.
Apparently it's a stench he misses.
Bat dau hien nay, khi toi nghe ten Cao, toi se nghi ve chu “ia dun.” Truoc hien nay, toi da nghi Cao la mot nguoi tot nhu Bobby Jindal nhung bay gio, toi biet Cao la mot nguoi cong san. Bo/Me Con Cao buon lam!
Toi noi, du con Cao!
well, what you say is true. but there are a few blacks who will vote Republican, about 5 percent.
Why would any white male vote Democrat ? You are voting to be discriminated against in terms of Affirmative Action.
Republicans won’t touch this issue. . McCain never mentioned Affirmative Action once. . haven’t heard Sarah Palin raise it either. The word that comes to mind is cowardice, but maybe I am wrong.
He should go back to Vietnam and live entirely with Communists. Screw these people.
My guess is that about 30 percent of blacks voted for michael Steele for Senate in Maryland, and about 51 of whites did as well.
Most South Vietnamese who came here are grateful and patriotic. Mr. Cao must surely have forgotten his history.
Cao is under the delusion that he can somehow retain that seat. it went 75 percent for Obama last year.
A segment of the non-black population also gets welfare benefits, which are persistently threatened by the GOP. No-blacks also benefit from unionization which, again, is continually under GOP assault. The difficulty the GOP faces is the fact that Democrats are the Santa Claus party. Dems will take from the smallest possible constituency to give to the largest possible constituency. And society's indoctrinators - teachers and the media - are mostly in the Democratic camp. How do you fight against that? It's uphill all the way. There are limits though. Past a certain level of taxation and disorder, the people being milked finally vote their interests. But it remains vaguely disreputable to do so thanks to the relentless quasi-religious left-wing propaganda barrage from educators and the self-appointed media elites.
The Santa Claus Party? They are the Scrooge Party when it comes to whites trying to get into a good college or get a good job in industry or academia or government.
When is Sarah going to bring it up ???
I can’t believe that if his was THE swing, decisive vote, that he would have voted for the bill. He obviously waited till the very end, and then got the OK from Boehner and Cantor to vote for the bill, after passage was assured..to hopefully help him in his reelection. This si the problem. That’s why, if and when we do retake the House, Boehner has got to got. I want NEW BLOOD, not the same old deal cutting polls..people willong to stand for something. Letting Cao vote this way makes a travestry of everything that Boehner and Cantor said..Principals do matter,a nd I want to see some from the GOP leadership..
this guy has voted RIGHT an most things.....
College-wise, relative to academic results, whites apparently are about where they should be. The number of Asian American students admitted is being held down so that more members of other ethnicities can be let in:
In the absence of affirmative action laws, admission rates at public universities have risen for Asian-American students, while numbers for white, black and Hispanic students have declined, according to a recent study.Peter Kirsanow noted this in a National Review article:The study, released by the University of California at Los Angeles last week, also found that across all races, the male population drops in schools with blind admissions processes.
The study tracked admission statistics for selective public universities in three of the nation's four most populous states - California, Florida and Texas. These states have not had affirmative action in college admissions since 1999.
"What we were doing was taking a look at three states that had felt the effects of banning affirmative action," said study co-author David Colburn, professor emeritus and provost emeritus at the University of Florida. "We wanted to see how it all played out."
Many college administrators do not hold this truth to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. In the Wonderland that is the campus-diversity industry, individuals from some racial/ethnic groups are more equal than others. And any rational attempt to discern how colleges separate the favored from the disfavored is a lesson in caprice, bias, and subjectivity — the supreme triumvirate of unequal treatment.The racial-preference regime favors some — but not all — minority groups: Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, yes; Asian Americans, no. Indeed, were Asian-American students not discriminated against in the college-admissions process, they would constitute the largest minority group, if not an outright majority, at many schools. As Peter Schmidt noted in the June 6, 2003, Chronicle of Higher Education, the percentage of Asian-American applicants granted admission at the University of Texas-Austin rose from 68 percent to 81 percent immediately after the Hopwood decision struck down race-based admissions policies in the Fifth Circuit. The New York Times reported (February 2, 2003) that after California's Proposition 209 ended race-based admissions, the percentage of Asian-American freshmen at Berkeley rose a full 6 percent.
Asian Americans, though only 4 percent of the nation's population, account for nearly 20 percent of all medical students. Forty-five percent of Berkeley's freshman class, but only 12 percent of California's populace, consists of Asian-Americans. And at UT-Austin, 18 percent of the freshman class is Asian American, compared to 3 percent for the state.
This "over-representation" has produced much consternation among elites who view racial preferences as the best mechanism for ensuring the "proper" racial mix on college campuses. President Clinton worried that, without preferences, "there are universities in California that could fill their entire freshman classes with nothing but Asian-Americans."
His vote wasn’t the deciding vote, and if he had voted against it, his chances of getting re-elected next year would be even slimmer than they are now.
Governor Jindal didn’t show such good judgement here, did he? Oh well, no Republican is perfect.
I also once managed an office for a voluntary benefits insurance company in Silicon Valley and I wanted to recruit Vietnamese agents, since they were a big part of the workforce at that time. I ended up recruiting a wonderful Vietnamese Catholic lady who would introduce me to people but would not support me in public, saying that all Vietnamese just want to “copy Americans” because they know that the American way is successful and theirs was not.
Is this guy a copycat too?
He sold America down the toilet, He can go to hell for all I care. I hope the conservatives in his state throw him out.
Exactly right. In my view Cao is not the problem. The big concern is with the RINOs in the Senate. If Collins or Snowe flips, its all over.
NEVER send any politician money!!!!
While I have some measure of honor for Mr. Cao “representing” the wishes of his district, which is the job of a good Congressman-stand up for the folks no matter what. I consider him and the 219 Democrats who voted for this swill repulsive!! This bill will do the MOST harm to folks like those in Cao’s district as they are FORCED to buy health care before they can even buy food. Just because it’s cheap, worthless, government, illegal healthcare shouldn’t matter. Perfectly healthy 20-year olds trying to find a job in an economy with a real unemployment rate of 17 percent (and a government calculated unemployment of 10.2 percent) and climbing should not be forced to think about what kind of healthcare they are going to buy before they can get bus tokens to go to a job interview!!
There are numerous clinics in the state to of Louisiana and around the country (I know because my company provides their computer systems) that provide sliding fee-or basically free-healthcare to EVERYONE!! No worries about insurance, they don’t expect you to have it. There are also HUGE charity hospital in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge that provide level one trauma care for nothing.
These clinics and hospitals are put at risk by this bill because they will become even more overcrowded as every ear ache and stubbed toe requires a visit to the doctor and every papercut causes a rush to the ER. If you are forced to buy the stupid policy you might as well us it right? In addition with nearly 80%—EIGHTY PERCENT—of doctors saying they will quit practicing medicine or move out of the country if this thing goes all the way states like Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and even Texas will be very doctor poor. Louisiana already has a HUGE shortage of qualified doctors and nurses, they will suffer even greater losses. With surrounding states suffering as well what are they going to do, get on Greyhound with a gunshot wound and ride to Kansas?
This bill does not help Cao’s constituents or anyone else’s. It is going to cost jobs by forcing employers to buy insurance, it’s going to cost doctors who can’t afford to run a practice under these rules, and it’s going to cost patients by having the government (not even doctors working for the government—the decision-making committee is all political appointees) making decisions about what kinds of insurance and services they can recieve and may FORCING—do you understand this is like another income tax—FORCING them to buy insurance or be fined and put in jail. This is an unconstitutional nightmare.
Cao should have considered those things AND how this bill would affect those outside of his district before party line, constituent demands, or anything else. To be such a cowardly pussy and cast this vote AFTER the bill had already passed just shows he’s not thinking about ANYTHING but his re-election. He is the problem with our Congress and he and anyone else with that mindset need to be run out of town on a rail!!
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