Posts with the tag Louisiana

Obama Cuts Radio Ad for Carmouche [LA-4th]

Mike W, Tulsa+ — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:34:37 EST

Obama Cuts Radio Ad for Carmouche
By Chris Cillizza | December 2, 2008; 12:30 PM ET
Washington Post, Politics blog
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/12/obama_cuts_radio_ad_for_carmou.html

President-elect Barack Obama has recorded a radio ad that will hit the airwaves today in support of the Democratic House candidate in a Louisiana runoff, a sign, his advisers argue, that he is using his political power to help expand the party's majority in Congress.

In the ad, a copy of which was obtained by The Fix, Obama urges a vote for Caddo Parish District Attorney Paul Carmouche who is facing off against physician John Fleming in a runoff this Saturday for the Shreveport-area seat vacated by Rep. Jim McCrery (R).

"To change America and to get Louisiana's economy back on track -- I need leaders like Paul Carmouche working with me in Washington," Obama says. "Paul Carmouche is the kind of leader we need in Washington...to make a difference for the people of Northwest Louisiana." (Full script is after the jump.)

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Bill Clinton and George HW Bush partner for Hurricane Ike relief

Mike W, Tulsa+ — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:59 EDT

Bill Clinton and George HW Bush just announced in New York City that they will again partner together, this time for Hurricane Ike relief.

More later today at
http://www.BushClintonCoastalFund.com

Big WIN in Mississippi 1st CD (3rd CD WIN in a row)

Jim Callahan — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:50:28 EDT

Democrats are on a roll with three Congressional wins. The latest win in in northern Mississippi's first Congressional District which is across the state line from Memphis, TN.

According to Congressional Quarterly (CQ):

Democrat Travis W. Childers won the House special election runoff Tuesday in Mississippi’s 1st District, defeating Republican Greg Davis by a sound 54 percent to 46 percent with all precincts reporting. * * * The win by Childers (CHILL-derrs) also boosted the Democrats to a 236-seat majority to 199 Republicans.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002838030

* * * President Bush was favored by 62 percent of 1st District voters in 2004, and Republican Roger Wicker â€" who in January vacated the seat to accept a U.S. Senate appointment â€" won a seventh and final House victory with 66 percent in 2006.

The 3 Democratic Congressional victories are:

1. March 8, 2008,
Illinois, 8th Congressional District,
Bill Foster(D)
- seat previously held by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert(R)

2. May 3, 2008,
Louisiana, 6th Congressional District,
Don Cazayoux(D)

3. May 13, 2008
Mississippi, 1st Congressional District,
Travis Childers(D)

Victory! Victory! Victory!

Go DCCC!

And it dealt another stinging psychological as well as tangible blow to the Republican Party, which poured well more than $1 million into its unsuccessful effort to salvage the seat and now looks far more likely to suffer further losses in the November general elections than to score the 19-seat net gain it needs to reclaim the majority. * * * The national GOP went even further to try to save the Mississippi seat, with Vice President Dick Cheney shuttling in for an election-eve rally for GOP nominee Davis in a futile effort to pump up turnout among the district’s typically dominant Republican base. * * * The DCCC’s $2 million in independent expenditures aimed at capturing the 1st District seat actually were much greater than the NRCC’s spending, but the Democratic committee is much better funded and could better afford the spending spree. The Republican committee’s wasted seven-figure expenditures on its three special election defeats have left it with little remaining cash to put into bids to take over Democratic seats in this fall’s election and to play defense against other strong Democratic takeover bids.

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

THE SOUL PURPOSE OF THE NEO-CONVERSATIVE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

funkfresh01 — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:16:19 EDT

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Two Great Ladies, Two First Districts: Victory Edition!!

RDillon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:57:14 EDT

I live in Kentucky's First Congressional District. This year, we have a great Democratic Lady running for our Congressional seat, Heather Ryan. Well, we are not the only first district in the south that has an awesome Democratic lady running for their Congressional seat. In the First Congressional District of Louisiana another stellar Democratic woman is running to expand our Congressional majorities. Her name is Gilda Reed.

Hurrican Jindal hits Louisiana

Kevin Crouch — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:38:29 EDT

A Republican has been elected Governor of Louisiana.

Bobby Jindal won the election against 5 Democrats with 54 % of the vote.

I don't have much to say about this except...a Republican has been elected in a state where the situations require the dedication, attention, and strength of a Democrat.

Looks like Louisiana just put a roadblock on all the Progress they were making.

Oh well...

Louisiana's Republican Majority and the Vitters

Annie Spell — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:31:43 EDT

From email I received:
This week, hundreds of our friends and neighbors will qualify as Democrats to seek election to the Louisiana Legislature. They will carry with them our best wishes, our hopes. They will have the support of the people on this list as well as the people in their communities as they formally take the step of offering themselves as candidates for public service.

There are, however, 25 individuals and companies who are preparing to spend about $1.5 million to see that those Democrats don't succeed.

The Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority (LCRM) was concocted by Senator David Vitter and his wife Wendy in late 2005 or early 2006 when the rest of Louisiana was trying to figure out how to recover from the twin disasters of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the collapse of the levees in New Orleans.

The Vitters convened some of their biggest fund-raisers to put together this organization, which is modeled and named after Tom DeLay's "Texans for a Republican Majority" which engaged in money laundering as a means of gaining Republican control of the Texas Legislature in 2002.