New Orleans Escorts: Dems aim for US House
August 28, 2010
NEW ORLEANS Four black Democrats will vie Saturday for a chance to reclaim a U.S. House seat in a mostly black, mostly Democratic district won two years ago by a soft-spoken Vietnamese-American Republican.
Anh “Joseph” Cao is unopposed for the GOP nomination, leaving him free to prepare for a November general election and prove his 2008 defeat of scandal-hobbled Democrat William Jefferson was no fluke.
The four Democrats hoping to face Cao in November are state Rep. Cedric Richmond, who leads in money raising and has the endorsement of Mayor Mitch Landrieu; state Rep. Juan Lafonta; Gary Johnson, a young political newcomer; and Eugene Green, who was an aide to Jefferson, the once-powerful congressman who is appealing a conviction on federal corruption charges.
Other primary contests include U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s first electoral test since his 2007 prostitution scandal and new questions about his employment of an aide with a criminal past.
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