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Monday, October 13, 2008
HOT TOPICS
6th U.S. Congressional District Race
| 2008-10-06 | |
| State Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, is marching into the final month of his campaign for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional district seat with $476,339 available, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed last week. | |
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| 2008-10-04 | |
| Vice President Dick Cheney will be in Baton Rouge on Monday helping Republican congressional candidate Bill Cassidy raise money for his bid in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race. | |
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| The truth hurts, so it’s no surprise that The Advocate’s incisive editorial cartoon showing Michael Jackson as a pawn of the Republican Party has Jackson flailing about and trying to defend his deceptive and woefully ineffective congressional campaign. | |
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| 2008-10-01 | |
| Yesterday’s editorial cartoon inappropriately suggested that my role in the 6th District congressional race is to give Republicans the upper hand. Let me be clear: I am in this race to win. | |
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| 2008-09-25 | |
| State Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican candidate in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race, is asking television stations to pull an advertisement targeting his stance on Social Security. | |
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| 2008-09-24 | |
| The countdown to elections is on and we're talking politics with many of the candidates. On Wednesday, we sat down with 6th District congressional candidate, Michael Jackson. |
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| 2008-09-22 | |
| Candidates in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race say they are prepared for a possibly smaller income associated with being a congressman. The annual salary for a rank-and-file member of Congress in 2008 is $169,300. | |
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| 2008-08-31 | |
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| Though he is running for Congress and has served the last four years in the state Legislature, state Sen. Don Cravins Jr. said it was an event outside of the political arena that most shaped his life. The Lafayette Democrat considered himself a lucky man seven years ago when he was working as an attorney and just had his second child. | |
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| 2008-08-28 | |
| With two months to go, the amount of cash candidates in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race have on hand falls short as a bellwether on how candidates are faring. | |
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| 2008-08-19 | |
| Candidates in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race share similar views on how to handle illegal immigrants, favoring the expansion of guest worker programs and stricter enforcement on law-breaking employers. | |
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| 2008-08-17 | |
| Candidates in the 6th Congressional District race say their campaigns will be waged mainly on the airwaves. The opening salvos already have begun. | |
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| 2008-08-13 | |
| The first of the candidate-sponsored campaign advertisements in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race aired Tuesday. | |
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| 2008-08-11 | |
| As Republican Party congressional candidates kept the heat on Democrats over energy policies, some residents tried to bring attention to another growing concern — Social Security. | |
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| 2008-08-09 | |
| Radio advertisements countering accusations about U.S. Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-New Roads, and making new ones about his Republican opponent state Sen. Bill Cassidy, started airing Friday. | |
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| 2008-08-06 | |
| If voters in the 6th U.S. Congressional District have forgotten in the last 24 hours how Republicans and self-described conservative groups feel about domestic drilling, prepare to be reminded. | |
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| 2008-08-05 | |
| The debate raging in Washington over domestic oil drilling has become one of the first campaign topics among those vying for congressional seats in Louisiana in the fall. | |
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| 2008-08-03 | |
| Now that qualifying has ended and the latest Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports are in, the fields are set for Louisiana congressional races. The new view shows that the state is going to be one of the most active in the nation when it comes to competitive races. | |
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| 2008-07-20 | |
| Howard Dean capped off two days of zigzagging across Louisiana and Mississippi with a voter registration rally in Baton Rouge Saturday afternoon. Speaking on a raised platform in front of New Hope Baptist Church, the chair of the Democratic National Committee promised voters that the party would be more active in the South this election cycle. | |
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| 2008-07-17 | |
| WASHINGTON — Republican Party and Democratic Party contenders for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District seat have gotten off to a robust start with campaign contributions while stocking their financial war chests, according to newly filed Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports released Wednesday. | |
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| 2008-07-12 | |
| State Rep. Michael Jackson, a longtime Democrat, on Friday dropped his party affiliation to run this fall for the Baton Rouge-based 6th District congressional seat. | |
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| Candidates for U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives will compete in closed-party primaries on Sept. 6 and Oct. 4. The winners of the party primaries will compete in the general election on Nov. 4. Candidates for state and local offices will run in the Oct. 4 primary and, if necessary, the Nov. 4 runoff. | |
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