FrumForum
Tim Mak
August 12th, 2010

“…Files obtained by FrumForum show that Cedric Richmond, currently a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, was charged with a misdemeanor after a fistfight with a patron at a Louisiana bar in 2007. According to a police report obtained by FrumForum, Richmond got into a fight over a pool table in Uncle Earl’s Bar in Baton Rouge.

The police report says that a verbal altercation between Richmond and the other patron turned violent, resulting in a ‘shoving match’. Richmond and the other man were then both charged with a misdemeanor: ‘Disturbing the Peace by Fistic Encounter’. The police report adds that ‘it did appear that alcohol did play a large part in the incident’…

Richmond also had his law license suspended for falsifying an official document in which he claimed residency in a district in order to run for a City Council seat.

In 2005, Richmond filed papers to run for New Orleans City Council, identifying his ‘domicile address’ as within New Orleans District D. One week later, a voter in the district filed a suit to challenge his candidacy on the grounds that he had not lived in the district for the required two years…

The Supreme Court of Louisiana later ruled that he had violated rules of professional conduct and suspended his law license for six months…”

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Cedric Richmond is currently running for Democrat nomination in Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District and was recently endorsed by the D.C. based Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu.