Jeffrey D. Sadow
Encyclopedia
Jeffrey Dennis Sadow is an associate professor of political science
at Louisiana State University in Shreveport
known for his Internet
writings on behalf of political conservatism and the Republican Party
in Louisiana
.
as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted six years later to the rank of associate professor. In 1983, he received his bachelor of arts
in political science
and public administration
from the University of Oklahoma
at Norman
. He procured a Master of Business Administration
in 1985 from Vanderbilt University
in Nashville
, Tennessee
, and, in 1990, his Ph.D.
in political science from the University of New Orleans
. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield
from 2000–2001. He has also taught on a temporary basis at Centenary College
and Southern University
in Shreveport.
, such as President
Barack Obama
, Senator
Mary Landrieu
, her brother, former Lieutenant Governor
and now mayor
of New Orleans
Mitch Landrieu
, and Representative
Charles Melancon, the only Democrat in Louisiana's seven-member U.S. House of Representatives delegation and an opponent of Senator David Vitter
in the 2010 election. Of Mitch Landrieu, Sadow says the number-two state official "promotes partisanship over policy" and seeks to undermine the Jindal administration. Of Melancon, Sadow claims the representative "appears to lack the capacity to understand [his hypocrisy] on the issue of government spending. Melancon regularly tries to convey the impression that he is not a tax-and-spend liberal. Yet he voted for the budget-crippling spending package that denies every principle on this score . . ."
He is also a supporter of the reelection in 2010 of Republican U.S. Senator Vitter. In 2009, he endorsed the election of former U.S. Representative Clyde C. Holloway
to the Louisiana Public Service Commission
in a special election held on April 4. Sadow then expressed amazement why State Senator
Joe McPherson
of Pineville
withdrew from the scheduled general election against Holloway though McPherson had trailed in the primary by only 1 percent of the ballots. McPherson's withdrawal "doesn't ring genuinely. . . . whatever the real reasons may be are irrelevant to the fact he opted out, but nonetheless might be fascinating to know."
He has usually defended the administration of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal
, although has been critical of Jindal on matters such as education reform, corporate welfare
, and spending. Indeed as a legislative session opened in April 2009, Sadow accused Democratic lawmakers of trying to embarrass the governor, a rising star in Republican national politics.
Sadow's blog urges irate readers not to contact LSU-S officials to complain about his writings because the ideas presented are his own and are not affiliated with the university; instead, he maintains, they reflect his First Amendment rights.
Sadow has endorsed term limits for all Louisiana elected officials. Now, only the legislature, the governor and some local officials are limited in the number of terms that they can hold office consecutively.
On October 21, 1995, Sadow ran for a Shreveport seat on the Caddo Parish Commission vacated by fellow conservative Lloyd E. Lenard
. However, Sadow lost to another Republican, John P. Escude (born May 16, 1958), 4,697 votes (56.4 percent) to 3,628 (43.6 percent).
graduate of both the University of New Hampshire
and the University of Tennessee
at Knoxville
. Sadow's parents met while they were serving in the United States Air Force
and married on November 11, 1955. His mother, a registered nurse and a graduate of Boston College
, was born in Wellesley
, Massachusetts
, and reared in Needham
. Helen Sadow's parents, Jeff Sadow's maternal grandparents, were Francis Oliver Haddock and the former Helen Frances Callahan. Francis Haddock, a police
office in Needham was killed in the line of duty early in 1934 while he attempted to foil a bank robbery
. Sadow has a twin brother, Jonathan Carl Sadow, a call service representative in Austin
, Texas
.
Sadow is married to the former Deshae Elizabeth Lott, who holds a Ph.D. in English
and is a specialist in spirituality in American
literature. The couple resides in Bossier City
.
FAXNet Update (http://www.faxnetupdate.com), BayouBuzz (http://www.bayoubuzz.com), and PoliticsLa (http://www.politicsla.com). His work also is syndicated in a few Louisiana newspapers such as the Houma Courier (http://www.houmacourier.com).
His daily commentary on Louisiana and local politics is available at http://www.between-lines.com . Sadow's periodic reports on the Louisiana State Legislature
may be accessed at http://www.laleglog.com.
His academic work may be found in several journals. Most recently and most relevant to Louisiana politics was a contribution to the online political science journal The Forum concerning the factors behind the 2003 governor's contest.
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
at Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Louisiana State University in Shreveport is a branch of the Louisiana State University System in Shreveport, Louisiana. Opened in 1967, LSUS is the only public four-year university in the Shreveport-Bossier metro area....
known for his Internet
Internet
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writings on behalf of political conservatism and the Republican Party
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
in Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
.
Academic background
Sadow joined the LSUS faculty in ShreveportShreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted six years later to the rank of associate professor. In 1983, he received his bachelor of arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
and public administration
Public administration
Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
from the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
at Norman
Norman, Oklahoma
Norman is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is located south of downtown Oklahoma City. It is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, Norman was to have 110,925 full-time residents, making it the third-largest city in Oklahoma and the...
. He procured a Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
in 1985 from Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
, and, in 1990, his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in political science from the University of New Orleans
University of New Orleans
The University of New Orleans, often referred to locally as UNO, is a medium-sized public urban university located on the New Orleans Lakefront within New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is a member of the LSU System and the Urban 13 association. Currently UNO is without a proper chancellor...
. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...
from 2000–2001. He has also taught on a temporary basis at Centenary College
Centenary College of Louisiana
Centenary College of Louisiana is a primarily undergraduate, liberal arts and sciences college in Shreveport, Louisiana. The college is one of the founding members of the Associated Colleges of the South, a pedagogical organization consisting of sixteen Southern liberal arts colleges...
and Southern University
Southern University at Shreveport
Southern University at Shreveport, Louisiana or Southern University at Shreveport is a two-year campus of the historically black Southern University System. SUS, pushed to fruition by the administration of Governor John J. McKeithen, opened for instruction on September 19, 1967...
in Shreveport.
Political writings
His blog, named by the Washington Posts "The Fix" blog by Chris Cillizza as one of the best about state political blogs in the nation, is particularly critical of DemocratsDemocratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
, such as President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
, Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu is the senior United States Senator from the State of Louisiana and a member of the Democratic Party.Born in Arlington, Virginia, Landrieu was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana...
, her brother, former Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
The Office of Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana is the second highest state office in Louisiana. The current Lieutenant Governor is Jay Dardenne, a Republican...
and now mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
Mitch Landrieu
Mitch Landrieu
Mitchell Joseph "Mitch" Landrieu is the Mayor of New Orleans, former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, and a member of the Landrieu family. Landrieu is a member of the Democratic Party and a Roman Catholic. He is the son of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of...
, and Representative
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
Charles Melancon, the only Democrat in Louisiana's seven-member U.S. House of Representatives delegation and an opponent of Senator David Vitter
David Vitter
David Vitter is the junior United States Senator from Louisiana and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the suburban Louisiana's 1st congressional district. He served as a member of the Louisiana House of...
in the 2010 election. Of Mitch Landrieu, Sadow says the number-two state official "promotes partisanship over policy" and seeks to undermine the Jindal administration. Of Melancon, Sadow claims the representative "appears to lack the capacity to understand [his hypocrisy] on the issue of government spending. Melancon regularly tries to convey the impression that he is not a tax-and-spend liberal. Yet he voted for the budget-crippling spending package that denies every principle on this score . . ."
He is also a supporter of the reelection in 2010 of Republican U.S. Senator Vitter. In 2009, he endorsed the election of former U.S. Representative Clyde C. Holloway
Clyde C. Holloway
Clyde Cecil Holloway is an American small business owner from Forest Hill in the southern part of Rapides Parish who is one of five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He also served as a conservative Republican member of the U.S...
to the Louisiana Public Service Commission
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Louisiana Public Service Commission is an independent regulatory agency which manages public utilities and motor carriers in Louisiana. The commission has five elected members chosen in single-member districts for staggered six-year terms...
in a special election held on April 4. Sadow then expressed amazement why State Senator
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
Joe McPherson
Joe McPherson
William Joseph "Joe" McPherson, Jr., is a retiring veteran Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from Woodworth, a small community south of Alexandria, Louisiana, the seat of government of Rapides Parish and the largest city in the Central Louisiana region...
of Pineville
Pineville, Louisiana
Pineville is a city in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Alexandria, and is part of that city's Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,829 at the 2000 census....
withdrew from the scheduled general election against Holloway though McPherson had trailed in the primary by only 1 percent of the ballots. McPherson's withdrawal "doesn't ring genuinely. . . . whatever the real reasons may be are irrelevant to the fact he opted out, but nonetheless might be fascinating to know."
He has usually defended the administration of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party....
, although has been critical of Jindal on matters such as education reform, corporate welfare
Corporate welfare
Corporate welfare is a pejorative term describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations. The term compares corporate subsidies and welfare payments to the poor, and implies that corporations are much less...
, and spending. Indeed as a legislative session opened in April 2009, Sadow accused Democratic lawmakers of trying to embarrass the governor, a rising star in Republican national politics.
Sadow's blog urges irate readers not to contact LSU-S officials to complain about his writings because the ideas presented are his own and are not affiliated with the university; instead, he maintains, they reflect his First Amendment rights.
Sadow has endorsed term limits for all Louisiana elected officials. Now, only the legislature, the governor and some local officials are limited in the number of terms that they can hold office consecutively.
On October 21, 1995, Sadow ran for a Shreveport seat on the Caddo Parish Commission vacated by fellow conservative Lloyd E. Lenard
Lloyd E. Lenard
Lloyd Edgar Lenard was an American businessman from Shreveport, and a former Caddo Parish commissioner, author, United States Navy officer, civic leader, and a pioneer in the establishment of the two-party system in his native Louisiana.-Family, education, military:Lenard was born to James Lenard...
. However, Sadow lost to another Republican, John P. Escude (born May 16, 1958), 4,697 votes (56.4 percent) to 3,628 (43.6 percent).
Family background
Sadow was born to Ronald Dennis Sadow (March 30, 1931 – February 22, 2005), formerly of New York. and the former Helen Veronica Haddock (March 31, 1923 – March 17, 2009). His father was an engineeringEngineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
graduate of both the University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...
and the University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
at Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...
. Sadow's parents met while they were serving in the United States Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
and married on November 11, 1955. His mother, a registered nurse and a graduate of Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
, was born in Wellesley
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of Greater Boston. The population was 27,982 at the time of the 2010 census.It is best known as the home of Wellesley College and Babson College...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, and reared in Needham
Needham, Massachusetts
Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, its population was 28,886 at the 2010 census.- History :...
. Helen Sadow's parents, Jeff Sadow's maternal grandparents, were Francis Oliver Haddock and the former Helen Frances Callahan. Francis Haddock, a police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
office in Needham was killed in the line of duty early in 1934 while he attempted to foil a bank robbery
Bank robbery
Bank robbery is the crime of stealing from a bank during opening hours. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, robbery is "the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of...
. Sadow has a twin brother, Jonathan Carl Sadow, a call service representative in Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
.
Sadow is married to the former Deshae Elizabeth Lott, who holds a Ph.D. in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and is a specialist in spirituality in American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
literature. The couple resides in Bossier City
Bossier City, Louisiana
Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 61,315. Bossier City is closely tied to its larger sister city Shreveport, located on the western bank of the Red River. The Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area is the...
.
Accessing Sadow's work
Sadow's work is currently found on the following:FAXNet Update (http://www.faxnetupdate.com), BayouBuzz (http://www.bayoubuzz.com), and PoliticsLa (http://www.politicsla.com). His work also is syndicated in a few Louisiana newspapers such as the Houma Courier (http://www.houmacourier.com).
His daily commentary on Louisiana and local politics is available at http://www.between-lines.com . Sadow's periodic reports on the Louisiana State Legislature
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
may be accessed at http://www.laleglog.com.
His academic work may be found in several journals. Most recently and most relevant to Louisiana politics was a contribution to the online political science journal The Forum concerning the factors behind the 2003 governor's contest.