More Changes in Our Government

In the 2nd Congressional District of Louisiana, which includes most of New Orleans, Republican attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao won 50 percent of the vote to Jefferson's 47 percent and will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.

Cao came to the United States as a child after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and went on to earn degrees in philosophy, physics and law.

He ousted Indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson who became Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction when he took office in 1991, and is currently under indictment for bribery and money laundering. (I wonder if I had any contact with any of the new Congressman's relatives a few decades back?)