Does anyone know what's happening in LA-02?

[IronLionZion]

I guess there will be a runoff. Any thoughts on who will win it?

[AIJ Alom]

1. A Democrat. Since they are the only candidates. Preferably not

Jefferson (has bundles of money in freezers). Carter will hopefully pull it off. She has the backing of the Democratic Party. Jefferson had the name recognition, which will not help in a two candidate race.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/LA/H/02/index.html

[IronLionZion]

2. So I take it the runoff is between Bill Jefferson and Karen Carter?

So that means Carter will probably win. That's good.

I like her positions on strengthening the levees and restoring the wetlands. She'll make a fine congreswoman.

http://karencarter.us/kc_issues.html

[funkybutt]

4. not so fast

I haven't read any indications or seen any polls that suggest Karen Carter will have an easy win this saturday. I'm pretty nervous about it actually. Harry Lee came out against Mrs. Carter (but not *FOR* Jefferson). I think he's still pissed about what she said about Jefferson Parish turning away people on the bridge on Spike Lee's documentary, "When the Levees Broke". Also, a couple of days ago Jefferson showed up at a HANO meeting about tearing down the projects and made a stump speech in support of opening the projects back up instead of the current plan to revamp the troubled public housing system in NOLA. "It's not a crime to be poor..." he said.

Despite the 90 grand of cash found in his freezer, Jefferson still has a very powerful political machine in New Orleans. Granted, it's not as powerful or effective as it was pre-katrina, it's still a force to be reckoned with.

Voter turn out will be low. That's probably a good thing for Carter. Saturday will be interesting.

[KamaAina]

5. Latest from the T-P

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1165479747162360.xml&coll=1

With his 28-year-political career on the line in Saturday's runoff, Rep. William Jefferson is spending this week urging voters to look beyond the 21-month corruption investigation he says has unfairly dominated campaign news coverage and allowed his opponent to escape scrutiny.

State Rep. Karen Carter, D-New Orleans, meanwhile, wrapped up Wednesday with a late-afternoon rally during which she again hammered home the message that Jefferson can't be effective given the taint of the corruption investigation and the loss of his seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Carter, who has raised more campaign money than the eight-term incumbent, spent much of the day meeting with contributors, preparing for a scheduled debate Friday and giving a pep talk to volunteers at her campaign headquarters. She also collected an endorsement from the New Orleans chapter of the Sierra Club....

Carter and Jefferson will face off in a debate on WWL television Friday at 8 p.m., a match-up rescheduled from Thursday. That prompted yet another squabble between the candidates, with Jefferson contending he couldn't come back to the city because of business in Washington and Carter insisting on a face-to-face debate rather than a video hookup....

He told WWL that he could not give an explanation on why the FBI found $90,000 in his freezer because it could jeopardize his legal defense. Even the smallest "misstatement," Jefferson said, could be used against him by prosecutors, if they indict him.

Guess that depends on what the meaning of the word "bribe" is, eh, Dollar Bill? (Disclaimer: I worked for one of his original opponents back when the seat was last open in 1990.)

I was just wondering "where y'at", funk! I'm roughing out plans to visit the city, at long last, shortly after the first of the year, and am trying to collect DUers, bloggers, the few people I'm still in touch with from the old days, and so forth, to catch up with when I do.

[funkybutt]

6. i'm..

in the heart of new orleans. Just follow the light post banners.

:)

[gasperc]

3. www.mydd.com sent Tim Taggris to cover La-02

been putting up excellant posts on the race. Tim just came off the Lieberman campaign and worked on the Hackett campaign in Ohio.

[funkybutt]

7. I'm so disgusted!

Should I be hoping for an indictment followed by another election?

:(

[KamaAina]

8. Yes you should.

:puke: What we need is someone who can bring some cold, hard cash :P into the district, not into someone's freezer.

The world will little note nor long remember that Dollar Bill won mostly by running up vote totals in the Westbank portion of the 2nd District, where Carter had no time to get organized. Especially in Freeperland, the headlines will read "New Orleans re-elects yet another political assclown", followed by "Why should we give those (censored) another dime of our Mom's hard-earned money?" :P

See you guys in a few weeks... :bounce: