Posted on 05/03/2008 9:38:21 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Democrat Don Cazayoux has won a special congressional election, bolstering his party's majority status on Capitol Hill and taking a seat held by Republicans since 1974.
Cazayoux, a state lawmaker, beat Republican Woody Jenkins to cap a campaign that drew attention and cash from the national parties and from interest groups in Washington. The seat opened when Republican Richard Baker, a 20-year incumbent, resigned to take a lobbying job.
With all precincts reporting, Cazayoux had 49 percent to 46 percent for Jenkins, a community newspaper publisher.
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“Doesnt this race go to a run-off, since nobody got at least 50 percent?”
No, Louisiana recently repealed the non-partisan, all-candidate primaries.
the strange thing is, Paul Sawyer was Baker’s right hand man in his DC office, and was in the race early, but even Baker would not endorse him.
Something had to be bad behind the scenes with that guy, otherwise the Republican party would have been been all over him.
Another issue is that Cazayoux was in the running for Speaker of the La House but was strongly opposed by Jindal and didn’t get it, so he jumped in the Congressional race. Nobody else on the Democrat side remotely had his positives. If Cazayoux had won the Speakership, Jenkins-or whomever else the GOP could have gotten in the race-would have been the congresscritter-elect this morning
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