to get nominated

so a while ago i wrote a blog that did a little roastin' of our Vietnamese Congressman.

however, yesterday a colleague of mine from new orleans shared with us a one on one conversation he had with cao about how things are going.

cao basically told him that because the district is so heavily democractic, the primary election is fierce. Also, since the district is so heavily black, in order to even get nominated through the democratic party in louisiana's second district, you needed to be from the black community.

this implied that cao may have run for office under the republican party because it was simply easier to win that nomination.

explains why the the GOP didn't really support him very much during the campaign.

reminds me student politics and how in order to be nominated through calserve was actually a really difficult process.

i wonder if this is true.

cao is actually really good on a few things like immigration and human rights. the only thing i'm concerned about is reproductive rights. Also, his vote on the stimulus package wasn't so great (he argues he didn't have enough time to read over).

so what does this mean for us and for our community?

is this strategic?

is this selling out?


any thoughts?