Don Cazayoux

Democratic hero now clinging to seat

Top Stories (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

Don Cazayoux (D-La.) won his seat in a special election, now he's hanging on by a thread.

LA State Rep. Michael Jackson joins 6th Congressional race

BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008

Caroline Moses, WAFB - There’s been a late development in the race for the 6th District Congressional seat. What was a race between incumbent Democrat Don Cazayoux and Republican Bill Cassidy grew Friday to include another local Democrat, state Representative Michael Jackson, who has decided to run without a party. Representative Jackson has said for weeks he [...]

LA-06: Michael Jackson Files [Swing State Project]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

This just in : State Rep. Michael Jackson (D-Baton Rouge) has filed to run against Democrat Don Cazayoux as an independent. For more thoughts on what this means for Cazayoux, see our discussion from yesterday. In light of this development, SSP has shifted its rating of this race from "Leans Democratic" to Tossup .

LA-06: Michael Jackson says "Party Unity, My Ass"

Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

Democratic State Rep. Michael Jackson, who lost the Democratic special-election primary in Louisiana's 6th District to now-Rep Don Cazayoux, says it's "very likely" that he'll challenge Cazayoux as an independent this year. He's not planning on challenging in the Democratic primary. He is waging an independent, spoiler campaign against a Democratic incumbent. This is not insignificant. Cazayoux won...

• LA-06: Jackson "Very Likely" to Run as an Independent [Swing State Project] - The Liberal Blog Network

LA-06: Jenkins Won't Run [Swing State Project]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008

Well, well. With the qualifying period for state and federal elections beginning today, the GOP has finally caught a break in Louisiana this year, as unpopular Republican Woody Jenkins is pulling out of the November election against recently-elected Democratic Rep. Don Cazayoux: "It's a very critical time in America and very important that our party unifies," Jenkins said. "It's probably the only way...

STORIES OF THE DAY- HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Louisiana Political News Service (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

. . Tight Races Seen In Louisiana Fall Elections- "Senate Race Leans Democratic" GROUPS OPPOSE BILL- JINDAL URGED TO USE VETO Utility Regulators' (Public Service Commissioners) Pay Raises Vetoed Second Jindal Recall Effort Withdrawn DON CAZAYOUX ENERGY POLICY VIDEO: "We're Not Laughing" Jindal Signs Bills On Hate Crimes, Text Messaging, (Workforce Commission) Governor Jindal Signs Dozens Of Bills...

A new post-partisan mood?

<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008

Newly elected House Democrats characterize budget as tax hike : Two newly elected conservative Democrats have called the Democratic budget a tax increase on the middle class, giving even more election-year ammunition to grateful House Republicans.Reps. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) and Don Cazayoux (D-La.), who both won election earlier this year in districts held for years by the GOP, explained their votes...

LA-06: Cazayoux Gets Another Challenger [Swing State Project]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008

Will the GOP be able to mount a competent challenge to recently-elected Rep. Don Cazayoux? That entirely depends on candidate recruitment, and Republicans have one new name in the mix. Bill Cassidy , a state senator and physician from Baton Rouge, told the Republican State Central Committee in Louisiana earlier today that he's definitely in the race against Cazayoux. Cassidy was first elected to the...

New Rep. Cazayoux Hires Press Secretary

Potomac Flacks (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008

Lewis Lowe has been hired as Press Secretary for Rep. Don Cazayoux (D-LA), who was sworn in May 6. Lowe worked on the primary campaign of Democrat Walter Dalton, a candidate for lieutenant governor in North Carolina. Before that Lowe served as Press Secretary for Rep. Charlie Melancon’s (D-LA) 2006 re-election campaign. (CQ’s “People on the Move” column)

LA-06: Jenkins, Calongne Lean Towards Reruns

Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008

Only weeks after the special election, the Republican field to take on freshly-minted Democratic Rep. Don Cazayoux is still in flux. The Advocate reports that Chas Roemer (son of former Gov. Buddy Roemer) has taken his name out of consideration. In his place, it seems likely that perennial loser Woody Jenkins will take another kick at the can: Jenkins said in a phone interview Tuesday Roemer's decision...

2008 GOP Prospects - Or the Lack Thereof

Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008

How, in this caustic political climate, does the Republican Party make headway? While I largely dismissed the purported significance of Democrat Don Cazayoux's win here in a Republican-leaning Louisiana congressional seat a few weeks back, the trendlines, no surprise, aren't looking good for the GOP nationally. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for the party to re-brand. I don't know if that's

MS-01: Which Is It? [Swing State Project]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008

Stuart Rothenberg, May 19, 2008 : According to a post-primary survey by Anzalone-Liszt Research, which polled for Childers (and Democrat Don Cazayoux, who won the special election recently in Louisiana's 6th district), Davis came out of the GOP primary runoff with a 65 percent favorable and 10 percent unfavorable rating among self-identified Republicans, and leading Childers 73 percent to 13 percent...

Barack Obama Has a Majority of Pledged Delegates [MyDD]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

Barack Obama is perhaps 70-90 delegates away from hitting the magic number of 2,026 (now that Travis Childers and Don Cazayoux are now in Congress). However, NBC News and CNN report that Obama has now clinched a majority of the pledged delegates, surpassing the 1,627 mark. What's more, assuming Obama is able to secure 30 delegates out of Oregon (which seems likely at this juncture given the spread...

The Ron Paul Revolution And Republican Renewal

Wright County Republican (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

By James William Smith There may be a disaster coming in the 2008 election in November for the Republican Party. The recent defeat in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District where Republican Woody Jenkins lost to Democrat Don Cazayoux is just the latest confirmation of how precarious the situation has become. Consider that Louisiana's sixth Congressional district had been...

GOP played 'Wright' card in Mississippi, and lost

UncommonSense (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

One wonders if the Republicans are smart enough to discern a pattern here: in two blood-red, deep south congressional districts, they tried to defend "safe" GOP House seats by tying the Democratic challenger to Barack Obama. In both elections, the tactic failed. On May 3, Democrat Don Cazayoux beat Republican Woody Jenkins for the 6th District seat in Louisiana, formerly held by GOP House