Ping.
Cajun, do you know about this race?
Huh? McAllister won, right?
“McAllister said repeal had no chance with Democrats leading the Senate, so he said Congress should work on improvements to the law.”
Improvements? This guy will do whatever the GOPe wants. He sounds very, very squishy.
Tea Party win over the GOPe’s favorite.
Well, the article says differently.
Oldplayer
Looks like Moon Griffon endorsed Mcallister. Moon’s no RINO.
District 5 voters win the "full retard" award. Going for the "outsider" even though he ran to the left of the "politician". Epic fail.
Theordore R: McAllister won because Jindal was backing Riser and tried to engineer a rigged outcome for Riser.
Oh? Sounds to me that Jindal was doing the right thing trying to help the BETTER candidate win over some douchebag.
YESSSsss!
The skunk that was caught by an MSM show on ethics, Rodney Alexander, had just been elected SIX MONTHS PRIOR to his announcing his resignation from office. That resignation was voiced one day, after his voting to further fund the NSA.
Before his resignation took effect, we, the people of Louisiana, hear from Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, (anchorbaby American), during an opening of a new business, that he has offered to Alexander a State-post, with a position as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs. Alexander only has a record of serving, as a “weekend warrior”, and not as an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force.
Neil Riser, submitted his election papers, before Alexander had announced that he was going to be vacating his Congressional seat. Yes, Governor Jindal did endorse him, as did Alexander, and the NRA. Yet, in his fervor to seek his being elected, he copped a piece of video from the local PBS network, for one of his own advertisements.
Riser showed on Moon Griffon’s show one day. I heard the broadcast, and there were a few questions that should have a simple yes, or no, but Riser did the political side-step as well as Mary Landrieu does, which got Mr. Moon a little heated.
The Riser radio ads, portrayed him as the man that, by divine right, should have that Congressional seat.
The shenanigans, the false endorsements, being too much a buddy of Jindal, and not of the people of the 5th District - who he is supposed to represent, the refusal to answer a straight question, which was pivotal for his being elected, left him with the GOP-E stink.
Mind you, on controversial Constitutional Bill of Rights issues, Alexander voted on the side of The State, and not on the side of John and Jane Q. Public. His endorsement of Riser displayed that trend would continue, to the further erosion allowed by Statist yes-men.
So, in Rapides Parish, for the interim counting of votes by a total of 14,728 citizens (we show ID here), McAllister took 66.7% of the vote, at the 11pm news story.
This is no Tea Party win. McAllister is a liberal fraud. Disgraceful.
http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20131117/NEWS01/311170027/Cenla-Election-Results
Avoyelles Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 1,657 Neil Riser (R) 1,514
Catahoula Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 724 Neil Riser (R) 913
Concordia Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 1,121 Neil Riser (R) 1,347
Grant Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 1,809 Neil Riser (R) 1,376
LaSalle Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 1,226 Neil Riser (R) 1,408
Rapides Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 9,824 Neil Riser (R) 4,904
Winn Parish 5th Congressional District Vance M. McAllister (R) 1,324 Neil Riser (R) 1,031
Look again: "McAllister ran as a political outsider, capitalizing on voter frustration with politicians and Congress. Riser, a funeral home owner, campaigned on his experience in the Legislature and with the support of tea party groups."
“McAllister, who largely self-funded his campaign, beat establishment candidate Neil Riser, a state senator, in Saturday’s runoff election for the vacant 5th District seat”.
I just read 37 Freeper Posts and, not surprisingly, there was little agreement on whether the right guy won. So, I went back and re-read the article and low and behold there is one sentence in it (copied, cut and pasted above) that, IF ACCURATE, means the Freeper candidate won! So, hooray! Rove and his ilk lost! That’s VERY good news!
Sounds like he was a surrendercrat on Obummercare.