12.06.07
So…. who will succeed Bobby Jindal in Congress?
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Jockeying Underway for Jindal’s Seat in the U.S. House
Enveloping St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington parishes as well as swaths of Jefferson, St. Charles and Orleans parishes on the south shore [read: suburban New Orleans - ed.], the 1st Congressional District holds a unique spot in Louisiana. More than one in every four people holds a college degree, and the median household income is more than $40,000, according to the Census Bureau.
“It’s the wealthiest, most prosperous, and most educated district in the state,” University of New Orleans political analyst Ed Chervenak said.
Read on . . .
It is also decidedly conservative. While 40 percent of registered voters are Democrats and only 37 percent are Republicans, GOP candidates have taken 80 percent of the vote in every election since 1990, Chervenak said. Jindal, for instance, won 78 percent in 2004. Even conservative Democrats tend to vote for Republicans there, Chervenak said.
Jindal was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after his failed 2003 gubernatorial bid against Democrat Kathleen Blanco. He succeeded David Vitter, R-Metairie, who went on to the Senate. In 2006, Jindal was reelected with 88 percent of the vote.
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Any names?
One is Steve Scalise, a term-limited state representative who on Saturday defeated two candidates for the 9th District seat in the state Senate. While emphasizing his commitment to winning the Senate seat, Scalise also has outwardly flirted with the idea of running for Jindal’s job. He first registered for a possible congressional bid in 1999, the year Vitter won the seat, and still has more than $103,000 in his federal war chest, according to campaign finance reports.
Also named in the article are Jefferson Parish Councilmen John Young and Tom Capella, St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis, Slidell Mayor Ben Morris, State Sen. Tom Schedler of Mandeville and state Rep. Tim Burns of Mandeville.
The article also mentions several Democrats, but none will have a chance in this reddest of red districts.
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