Quin Hillyer profiles congressional candidate Joseph Cao, who faces ‘Dollar Bill‘ Jefferson in a Louisiana runoff on December 6. Cao sounds like a singular person — a Vietnamese immigrant who fled to the United States before the fall of Saigon, eventually became a Jesuit novice, then elected to forego the priesthood in favor of the law and charity work. It’s hard to do justice to Cao’s biography in an excerpt, so I encourage you to read the whole piece. Cao eventually elected to run against scandal-tarred Bill Jefferson: