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Ex-Rep. Joseph Cao says he'll seek Caldwell's job
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| News Date | Wednesday, April 13, 2011 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Republican U.S. Rep. Joseph Cao (Gow) said Tuesday he will run for statewide office this fall against Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, a recent Republican convert.
One campaign point is likely to be state's reaction to last year's BP oil spill. Caldwell's campaign website says Caldwell hasn't been afraid to stand up to the oil giant, but Cao says he will be more aggressive in protecting the state's economic, environmental and health interests.
In an interview, the Vietnamese-American Republican who won, then lost a mostly black and Democratic congressional district in New Orleans said the state needs a principled leader in the attorney general's office. He accused Caldwell of switching from the Democratic to the Republican party out of political expediency and said he thinks party leaders feel the same way. "They don't believe that he is a Republican. They simply think that he made the switch for political survival," Cao said.
A Caldwell campaign spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday afternoon. State GOP chairman Roger Villere made it clear that the party was far from deciding whether it will back one Republican over another.
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