Posted on 04/29/2006 7:32:40 PM PDT by Theodore R.
Special elections returns from three Louisiana parishes Saturday:
La Salle Parish: 2204 R 1230 D Winn Parish: 1163 R 1240 D Grant Parish: 806 R 2495 D Rapides (1 precinct) 61 R 69 D
Totals: 4,234 R 5,034 D
Owens (R) failed to take this seat held by Tommy Wright (D), who resigned in a sex scandal. The Louisiana Democratic Party worked for the successful party nominee, Billy Chandler.
However its not a bad showing for a Republican in that district. The numbers he got out of Winn were better than I would expect for a Repub. The Dem must have been from Grant to get such good numbers as that.
Louisiana is the state where the lines between the two parties is the most blurred.
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The media didn't have a word about this race.
If it had been a prior republican seat, I'm sure the media would have been touting the "opportunity" for a democrat for months, thus driving up the democrat turnout.
But nothing for a democrat seat.
Hey, nothing even about the guy driven out in the "sex scandal". That's another democrat in the party of corruption.
Like this sex scandal...
http://www.la3circuit.org/opinions/2006/03/030106/05-0425opi.pdf
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/NEWS01/604300308/1002
The above is the newspaper link for the story on this election. It turns out that Tony K. Owens, 45, moved from Jena to Winnfield and had also lost to the previous occupant of the seat, Tommy Wright, D-Winnfield. Wright resigned in a sex scandal, but the paper noted that the matter was a "misdemeanor." The victorious candidate, Billy Chandler, 67, is from Dry Prong in Grant Parish, where he won his victory margin in the race.
Also a Democrat was elected mayor of Leesville in often Republican Vernon Parish, home of Fort Polk. He defeated a Republican candidate. Republican candidates rarely even make general election ballots in Louisiana.
It's clear yet blurred. Their expressed beliefs aren't too different but a Dem is dead set certain that the Dem nominee is the right one.
Of course I meant this in connection with municipal elections, in which few LA Republicans even bother to run.
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