Karen Carter is in a run-off with William Jefferson for Louisiana's Second CD. Last Tuesday, Jefferson, of $90,000 in the freezer infamy, secured 30% of the vote, while Carter came in second with 21% in a 13 candidate race. Let's just say, for an incumbent to get only 30% of the vote doesn't bode well. Under Lousiana's election law, the top two finishers will compete for the seat on December 9th.
Carter, the endorsed candidate of the Democratic party, has to win. To defeat the culture of corruption and keep it's taint from the Dems., Jefferson has to lose.
Friday, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, wrote a piece in his magazine titled, "The Culture of Corruption Loses: A corpulent Congress reaps what it sowed." Lowry wrote,
The “culture of corruption” was real. That phrase was a much-contested talking point during the past two years, with Democrats touting it as an accurate description of the degraded ethical state of the congressional GOP and Republicans dismissing it as a smear.I rarely, if ever, link to the National Review. But it's clear, the GOP owns the culture of corruption. Defeating Jefferson keeps it that way.
Democrats were much closer to the truth. Voters took a good whiff of the odor emanating from Washington and some of their Republican representatives, and recoiled. One-third of Republican losses in the House came in congressional districts where the party had been tainted, to varying degrees, by scandal.
Karen Carter's web site is here. If you live in New Orleans, vote Carter for change.
