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Saturday, October 14, 2006
AP: La. Democrats snub 8-term Rep. Jefferson, endorse challenger
BATON ROUGE, La. -- An eight-term Democratic Louisiana congressman whose Capitol Hill office was raided earlier this year as part of a bribery investigation failed Saturday to win the
endorsement of the state's Democratic Party. Rep. William Jefferson was passed over by the party's State Central Committee in favor of state Rep. Karen Carter. The committee voted 69-53 to endorse Carter in the Nov. 7 election. "I am absolutely humbled," she said. Jefferson, who has denied the bribery allegations and has not been charged, will still appear on the ballot as a Democrat and will not lose campaign funds because of the vote. But it marks the first time in recent memory that an incumbent failed to win the state party's endorsement, said party member Elsie Burkhalter. |
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