Finally, the end of the road for scandalized Democratic Congressman William Jefferson, who just lost a special election, 50% to 47%, to a Vietnamese-American named Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Republican. Jefferson was the Congressman infamously caught with $90,000 in bribe money stashed in his freezer. His gerrymandered district was designed to support a black Democrat, including large portions of New Orleans, but apparently the reek of corruption was just too much for some voters, just like in Alaska with Ted Stevens. The election had been delayed because of Hurricane Gustav, which probably was the only reason Cao had a shot. Cao is the first Vietnamese-American in Congress. He fled Vietnam after spending 7 years in a communist prison, arriving in America in 1975.