November 29, 2005
Stacey Tallitsch for LA-1
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
What happens when you get displaced because of a hurricane? What happens if you were running for Congress?
Listen in to the tale of Stacey Tallitsch running in LA-1.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at November 29, 2005 07:11 PM
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Last election, the field of Democratic candidates in Louisiana's first was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Here's the candidates from 2004:
Roy Armstrong (D) - David Duke's Spokesperson, Army Veteran & White Supremacist Activst - 19266 votes (7%)
M.V. "Vinny" Mendoza (D) - Ex-Assistant USAF Inspector General - 12779 votes (4%)
Jerry Watts (D) - Surgeon, Attorney & USAF Veteran - 10,034 votes (3%)
Dan Zimmerman (D) - Software Engineer - 12135 votes (4%)
Jindal won the election with 78%, another Republican finished last with 7975 votes.
If this is all foreign to you, read up on Louisiana's "Happy Fun" Primary system.
You can look at the election map here (it'll take going to the November 2004 maps and to the 1st district). Armstrong actually won a few precincts, which is scary.
So yes, I wish Stacey the best, and his website looks pretty good now too.
I was one of those "bottom of the barrel candidates of which you spoke of. Jindal had success for 3 main reasons.
A)The district is the most conservative in the state.
B)This is the district that Jindal did the best in (iirc) in the governors race in 2003. He moved to the District in order to run.
C) The Republican Party was able to raise over a million dollars, making fundraising against him impossible.
Take that plus the lack of interest of the Democratic party in backing anybody in the race and you will see these as being the reasons that Jindal did so well.
I was only able to raise $1000 and spent an additional $2000 of my own funds. Twenty five cents a vote is not bad in my book. That tells me that my message was good and that Jindal was just able to remove any competition eary by forming a monopoly on campaign fundraising.
I just wanted to let you know these things about the 2004 race before you continue to state that candidates where "bottom of the barrel".
(Armstrong also changed to the Democratic party before the race and is clearly a DINO who was hoping to capitalize on the anti-Israel segment of the left wing to gain some votes and promote his twisted ways).
