Let's get ready to hear some of DU say "How can you people vote for him?"

[RB TexLa]

By KEVIN McGILL
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 28-year political career was on the line Saturday for indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, who is fighting bribery charges as he tries to fend off six Democrats in the primary for his New Orleans-based congressional seat.

With about 35 percent of the vote counted, Jefferson was leading with 26 percent of the vote and appeared headed toward a runoff.

Jefferson supporters gathered at a restaurant in eastern New Orleans, an area still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina. Campaign manager Eugene Green expected only about 50 to 75 people to attend. Lit by bare fluorescent tubes, bare-walled except for Jefferson posters, it was a far cry from the usual downtown hotel ballrooms often favored by candidates on election night.

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Analysts were reluctant to count Jefferson out. Longtime New Orleans pollster Silas Lee said Jefferson, the first black elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction, remains popular among a strong core of supporters in the district.

"He comes across as someone who the ordinary citizen can relate to," Lee said.




http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/122317584785860.xml&storylist=louisiana

[RB TexLa]

1. Updated. Jefferson leads field goes in runoff with airhead druggie

Jefferson - Moreno in runoff

11:32 PM CDT on Saturday, October 4, 2008

Associated Press

U.S. Representative William Jefferson overcame the stigma of a federal bribery indictment in Louisiana's Democratic primary on Saturday, garnering enough votes in his New Orleans-based congressional district to secure a spot in a November 4th runoff.

Jefferson, seeking his 10th term in Congress, faces a December trial on charges that he took bribes, laundered money and misused his congressional office for business dealings in Africa.

With about 72 percent of the vote counted, Jefferson was leading with 25 percent of the vote and was headed toward a runoff with former broadcaster Helena Moreno.

[FLAprogressive]

2. Airhead druggie??

That's quite the claim....I hope you can back it up.

And you're right...I don't know how anyone could vote for him.

[scarletwoman]

3. "you people"? I would hope most DUers are too smart to use bigot code words. (nt)