[HostileTerritory]

Novak's registration (which is due to living in a one-party precinct where only Democrats have contested primaries and a chance of winning) has nothing to do with it.

Obviously, Rep. Richard Baker wants more $$$ from the federal government and unloaded on Novak because he hasn't gotten everything he's asked for. His own home city of Baton Rouge is overflowing with refugees, which has made traffic worse and displaced many people in rental homes. They're not in bad shape like New Orleans but his constituents are unhappy. The implications that the roof will collapse on the Republican party in Louisiana because of this is hyperbole. All it measures is Baker's own unhappiness with fielding dozens or hundreds of calls every day from constituents bitching about their problems six months after landfall.

[peyton randolph]

Novak's registration (which is due to living in a one-party precinct where only Democrats have contested primaries and a chance of winning) has nothing to do with it.

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Ahh...the political expediency argument for being a Democrat. When in Rome...or Sodom for that matter. Under that theory, Novak would become a homosexual if he lived in San Francisco.

[Beagle8U]

"Obviously, Rep. Richard Baker wants more $$$ from the federal government and unloaded on Novak because he hasn't gotten everything he's asked for. His own home city of Baton Rouge is overflowing with refugees, which has made traffic worse and displaced many people in rental homes."

If everyone would read the article carefully( even between the lines) you would see that what Baker is bitching about is having the N.O. residents in his district.
It hasn't a damn thing to do with the hurricane, those new residents to his district will vote Demonrat until the day they die, and Bakers elections have been by close margins.

Pointing out the fact that blacks tend to vote 90% Dem. isn't racist, but if says he doesn't want those new Dem. voters in his district, he will be viewed as one.