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6th U.S. Congressional District Race
2008-11-06
Congressman-elect Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, said Wednesday his conservative values mirror that of constituents in the 6th U.S. Congressional District. But the atmosphere on Capitol Hill these days is not as favorable to Republicans, who lack a majority in the U.S. House and Senate, and lost the presidential election on Tuesday.

Relying on local community leaders throughout his campaign for the U.S. Congress, state Rep. Michael Jackson’s last efforts to get out the vote Tuesday were hopeful.

2008-11-05
State Sen. Bill Cassidy ousted U.S. Rep. Don Cazayoux on Tuesday night in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race. Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, had 150,226 votes to Cazayoux’s 125,716 votes according to complete but unofficial results from all 520 precincts.

2008-11-04
The day before the final votes are cast in two federal races, candidates were busy meeting the last-minute demands of their campaigns — reinforcing their staff with fliers and signs, shaking hands with as many potential voters as possible and thanking those who have already given their support.

2008-11-03
The presidential election is now playing a role in the final days of the campaigns of three candidates for the Baton Rouge-based 6th U.S. Congressional District.

2008-11-02
Candidates often spend the Sunday before Election Day in churches, but Saturday’s campaigning for those running in two federal races included communing with a congregation of about 90,000.

2008-10-30
video There are five days and counting until Election Day, and three candidates are in a heated battle for Congress in the Baton Rouge area. Incumbent Don Cazayoux faces two challengers in Bill Cassidy and Michael Jackson in the race of the 6th Congressional District. Cassidy joined us on 2une In Thursday morning.

video There are five days and counting until Election Day, and three candidates are in a heated battle for Congress in the Baton Rouge area. Incumbent Don Cazayoux faces two challengers in Bill Cassidy and Michael Jackson in the race of the 6th Congressional District. Jackson joined us on 2une In Thursday morning.

2008-10-29
video U.S. Representative Don Cazayoux is running for re-election, and he joined us on 2une In Wednesday with his plans for Washington.

2008-10-27
With the Nov. 4 election approaching, there are nearly 140,000 fewer registered Democrats in Louisiana than at the beginning of the decade. Voters aligning with the Republican Party increased since 2000 but not nearly as much as those of other parties, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

2008-10-26
Secretary of State Jay Dardenne discovered Friday that he would be acting governor this weekend. Gov. Bobby Jindal is out-of-state doing campaign fundraising events in Washington, D.C., and Greenwich, Conn.

Congressional No Party candidate Michael Jackson has received nearly half his campaign funds from a widely known Baton Rouge family which typically supports Republicans.

2008-10-25
Early voting across Louisiana for the Nov. 4 election is on a record-setting pace, Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said Friday. With four days down and three to go, 137,223 people voted in advance of the election, Dardenne’s accounting shows.

2008-10-23
Although the Baton Rouge students are not old enough to vote, their choice will be counted as part of a Louisiana Secretary of State and Cox Communications mock election for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

The two candidates running against incumbent U.S. Rep. Don Cazayoux are questioning the congressman’s absence from public forums, some of which were canceled because Cazayoux did not attend.

2008-10-22
Candidates in local and statewide races this year have embraced the Internet as a way to get their messages past mainstream media and directly to potential voters.

The two state legislators in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race said Tuesday they would make changes to the federal education program and other learning initiatives in the state if elected.

2008-10-21
As Election Day closes in, the three candidates running for the 6th U.S. Congressional District say the economy will be weighing on voters as they consider new leadership for the coming years.

2008-10-19
First lady Supriya Jindal plans to campaign with Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Monday and Tuesday. Jindal and Cindy McCain are scheduled to attend campaign rallies in Pennsylvania, including stops in Bucks County and Philadelphia.

2008-10-17
WASHINGTON — Taxes, Wall Street and war are some of the issues that the winner of the Nov. 4 election for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District will face.

2008-10-14
The three 6th U.S. Congressional District candidates’ views on raising taxes, limiting federal spending and saving the economy overlapped some during a forum Monday.

2008-10-12
Gov. Bobby Jindal is traveling to Texas on Monday to raise campaign cash. Jindal is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for congressional candidate Pete Olson in Houston on Monday afternoon followed by a gubernatorial campaign fundraiser for himself later that day.

2008-10-11
All three candidates in the closely contested 6th U.S. Congressional District race say they have a solid base of support among the more than 400,000 registered voters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2008-08-31

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.

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.

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.

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.

2008-08-13
The first of the candidate-sponsored campaign advertisements in the 6th U.S. Congressional District race aired Tuesday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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