La.'s voters are either masochists or just stupid for re-electing JeffersonBy Tonyaa Weathersbee, Guest Columnist December 18, 2006 It's official: The people in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional That has to be the reason why they voted to send Rep. William J. Jefferson, a man with legal woes the size of the federal deficit, back to Washington recently. I'd prefer to believe that there's a psychological reason behind their choice rather than another one: That they're just straight-up stupid. This past Saturday, Jefferson, Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction, overwhelmingly defeated state Rep. Karen Carter, who is also black, in a runoff...