Children No children Spouse Elizabeth Sadow Role Professor | Name Jeffrey Sadow Religion Roman Catholic Political party Republican Party | |
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Born June 24, 1962 (age 61)
Place of birth missing ( 1962-06-24 ) Parents Ronald Dennis and Helen Veronica Haddock Sadow Alma mater University of Oklahoma
Vanderbilt University
University of New Orleans Occupation Professor, Louisiana State University in Shreveport Residence Bossier City, Louisiana, United States Education Vanderbilt University, University of Oklahoma, University of New Orleans | ||
Jeffrey Dennis Sadow (born June 24, 1962) 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.
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Academic background
Sadow holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and the University of New Orleans.
After a stint at the University of Illinois at Springfield, he joined the LSUS faculty in Shreveport in 1991.
Political writings
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).
In 2009, Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post's "The Fix" blog described Sadow's blog as "one of the best state political blogs in the nation." Sadow has been particularly critical of Democrats, such as former President Barack Obama, former Senator Mary Landrieu, her brother, former Lieutenant Governor and now mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu. Sadow said that Mitch Landrieu "promotes partisanship over policy" and seeks to undermine the Jindal administration.
Sadow supported the reelection of Senator David Vitter in 2010 and Vitter's unsuccessful gubernatorial candidacy in 2015. He has often defended the administration of Republican former Governor Bobby Jindal, although has been critical of Jindal on matters such as education reform, corporate welfare, and spending.
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 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.
In June 2017, Sadow wrote an article critical of two Moderate Republicans in the state legislature: Rob Shadoin, a representative from Ruston, and John Alario of Westwego, the President of the Louisiana State Senate. Alario, he contends, sends conservative legislation, such as protection for Confederate monuments, to hostile committees with Democrat majorities. This works to the advantage of Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards, as he seeks a second term in 2019 because Edwards does not have to veto popular measures to please his liberal base.
In July 2017, Sadow questioned how Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler maintains faith in the integrity of elections held outside of Louisiana because Scedler's role as chief election officer applies only in his own state. Sadow suggested that Schedler considers any challenge to election integrity, no matter how potentially valid, as ultimately a loss of faith in elections officials. He urged Schedler to cooperate with the federal voter integrity probe of the Trump administration because "ensuring untainted elections is too important to politicize."
Family background
Sadow was born to Ronald Dennis Sadow, formerly of New York. and the former Helen Veronica Haddock. His father was an engineering 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 American literature. The couple resides in Bossier City.
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 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.