Posted on 12/09/2006 8:16:52 PM PST by LdSentinal
Congressman William Jefferson has been re-elected to Congress, according to WWL-TV election analyst Greg Rigamer.
With two-thirds of the vote counted, Jefferson had a 6,000-vote lead over challenger Karen Carter.
"I'm a little worried about what this is going to say to the nation," said City Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, a Carter supporter.
Jefferson was forced into the runoff against a fellow Democrat when he failed to win 50 percent of the vote in a crowded open multiparty primary. His opponent, state Rep. Karen Carter, is seeking to become the first black woman from Louisiana elected to Congress.
Jefferson, 59, has been handicapped by a wide-ranging investigation into allegations that he took bribes – including $90,000 allegedly found in his freezer during an FBI raid -- from a company seeking lucrative contracts in the Nigerian telecommunications market. He has not been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing.
The scandal turned the race into a debate largely divided along racial lines, an age-old dynamic in this city that has intensified since Hurricane Katrina displaced large numbers of blacks and upended their demographic and political dominance.
Whites, who overwhelmingly voted for Carter in the primary and have been her most enthusiastic financial backers, believe a Jefferson win would confirm this city's image as corrupt and untrustworthy as it asks the nation to fund its recovery from Katrina.
Obviously enough of us are....
They win, we lose.
I think we just found our new Ethics committee chairman!
I wonder if Congressmen are allowed to run their congessional office from a federal prison visiting room.
Oh...and it was revealed yesterday, that Rahm Emmanuel, one of the House Dem leaders, KNEW about the Foley e-mails a YEAR ago!!
He said/did nothing...until right before the election.
Sooooo..if any "kids" were hurt...he could have stopped it, but didn't...so he could USE the information at the most opportune time.
Surely nobody is surprised by this.
Democrats couldn't care less about corruption, lawlessness, deviate perversion or anything else - - for the Democrat "base" of parasites, malcontents, and losers it's all about the "free stuff" that their politicians confiscate from normal, hard-working, taxpaying traditional American families (Republicans) and "redistribute" to them.
Nothing else is on their radar screen.
Not one more cent to New Orleans.
Sure. It's Louisiana politics. But, hell's bells. I feel like we are climbing a sand dune any more.
Yeppers...he will be the HERO of the 110th Congress in Jan.
Probably get a standing O!
Perhaps she'll make him chair of the ''ethics'' committee! "
LOL,,,He Gunna Be "Da GUVINER",,,;0)
Sounds like the Texas Governor's race.
These are the same idiots who did't seem to understand "Big Hurricane Coming! Head for high ground." Like the OJ Jury this is their chance to stick it to the man; George Bush, FEMA, Rich Crackers, and the PoPo.
You mean Rahm "Rodham" Emmanuel"
Ummmm ... I don't think so
They can't
That'd be bigotry, silly.
No No..I have every confidence the msm will inform their readers and viewers of the scandal of re-electing an obvious corrupt congressman..they will not rest a second until william jefferson (D) Louisiana is outed as the crook that he is..right?????..they are not biased are they????????
Why would this surprise anyone? Ethics is just a by-word to the left to fool the masses to vote for them.
Are you serious??
I bet Jefferson is LHAO at how stupid his constituents are.
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