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WOODY JENKINS (R) SENATE (OPEN SEAT...
MARY LANDRIEU (D) SENATE (OPEN SEAT...
Like many Louisiana politicians, McCrery flirted with the idea of running for the Senate seat Bennett Johnston is giving up. He opted instead for the security of a sure congressional victory--which he now has. He will return to the House to begin two more fiscally conservative years, trying to lower taxes, slash the budget and cut the deficit...
...Sept. 21 primary guaranteed that a Democrat would fill the seat of Republican incumbent Jim Hayes, who failed this year in his bid for the Senate. John, who beat fellow Democrat Hunter Lundy, might be called the more moderate of the two conservatives. But like Lundy, he is antiabortion, supports a balanced budget and less government interference. And John hopes to ride his primary victory to a general-election win to become the revamped Seventh's first representative...
When Seventh District Representative Kweisi Mfume resigned in February to become president of the NAACP, Cummings easily won an April special election to fill that seat, and he's running now for his first full term. The son of sharecroppers, he vows to follow Mfume's path of liberalism and support for blacks and the urban poor. In his six months in office, Cummings has kept his vow, supporting economic development and affirmative action in black communities and sponsoring funding for urban teen centers to serve as alternatives to street gangs...