Midnight Mike
2008-12-07, 12:30 AM
NEW ORLEANS – Voters in Louisiana have ousted indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson and sent a little-known Republican to Congress.
Unofficial results showed Republican attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao denying Jefferson a 10th term.
Republicans made an aggressive push to get rid of the 61-year-old incumbent, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, laundering money and misusing his congressional office.
Cao won a predominantly black and heavily Democratic district that covers most of New Orleans. He will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_ ... a_congress (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_on_el_ho/louisiana_congress)
Unofficial results showed Republican attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao denying Jefferson a 10th term.
Republicans made an aggressive push to get rid of the 61-year-old incumbent, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, laundering money and misusing his congressional office.
Cao won a predominantly black and heavily Democratic district that covers most of New Orleans. He will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_ ... a_congress (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_on_el_ho/louisiana_congress)