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Nagin's re-election a victory for incompetence
Townhall ^ | May 21, 2006 | LauraHollis

Posted on 05/21/2006 8:38:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion

As FoxNews reports today, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has "narrowly" won re-election to his mayoral office today. This, despite his complete incompetence in both preparing for Hurricane Katrina and in the now-infamous aftermath. (Surely you haven't forgotten the details, like the fleet of school buses sitting useless in standing water.) And then there was his famously racist comment about New Orleans needing to remain "a chocolate city." (As other writers have noted, can anyone seriously contemplate a white guy running for reelection appealing to voters to keep a city "vanilla"?)

What Nagin's reelection ensures, is that New Orleans will remain a predominantly poor and dismally unprepared city.

The only thing Nagin managed to do (and he had LOTS of help here) was to blame the whole thing on the federal government. So when the next big one hits, and New Orleans is devastated once again, it won't be his fault then, either.

Nagin's a joke, but it's the New Orleans voters who are pathetic.


TOPICS: Editorial; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina; nagin; neworleans; thepeterprinciple
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To: FairOpinion

I'll take incompetence over evil.


61 posted on 05/22/2006 7:37:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: FairOpinion

Well said, Laura.


62 posted on 05/22/2006 7:39:10 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: FairOpinion

You can tell who knows New Orleans politics and those who don't by some of the comments made about the election.

This is a great example of it.


63 posted on 05/22/2006 7:39:57 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: FairOpinion

Maybe he'll equip the school buses with pontoons.


64 posted on 05/22/2006 7:43:37 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (A government that will not enforce the laws of the land, is a government standing on quicksand.)
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To: FairOpinion
Hmmmm No surprise really! :)

This one got re-elected... I guess it's a matter of standards...

65 posted on 05/22/2006 7:46:59 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
You can tell who knows New Orleans politics and those who don't by some of the comments made about the election. This is a great example of it.

I really wouldn't care, except that billions of our tax dollars are involved - and all that has been done to improve evacuations out of NOLA is to determine that FEMA trailers - get this - can be dangerous in a hurricane.

That's about it.

66 posted on 05/22/2006 7:47:42 AM PDT by dirtboy (When Bush is on the same side as Ted the Swimmer on an issue, you know he's up to no good...)
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To: Joe Boucher

Your choice was between an honest man who was screwed by his governor, his senators, and who made mistakes, and who has been the most honest and conservative mayor in New Orleans since the early 60s,

or

the people who are drooling over skimming the $$$$$ for reconstruction, who belong to the demoncratic party establishment, and who have been picking the pockets of the people of NO for 30+ years.

Given those choices, who would you vote for?


67 posted on 05/22/2006 7:51:50 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: dirtboy

See message 67


68 posted on 05/22/2006 7:52:28 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: dfwgator

New Orleanzeites, used the first election to reduce their choices to the two lowest possible denminations for the second.

It must cloud one's vision living in a city up to their eye brows in mud and dirty politics.


69 posted on 05/22/2006 7:53:49 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (A government that will not enforce the laws of the land, is a government standing on quicksand.)
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To: harpo11
Hey, I was pulling for Nagin. Truly, because isn't it time for Americans to say NO to political family dynasty's.

It is as stupid to vote against someone because of their last name, as it is to vote for them for the same reason.

70 posted on 05/22/2006 7:54:30 AM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (Justice and "The Law" are not always the same thing.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

Not when you know more about the person, though...


71 posted on 05/22/2006 7:55:51 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Your choice was

The voters should have voted in someone other than those two. I'm sorry, but Nagin didn't even have the legalities of ordering a mandatory evacuation worked out in advance - he spent Saturday wasting valuable time chasing down the City Attorney to work out that detail. If NOLA cannot clean its own political house, I do not trust it with my tax dollars.

72 posted on 05/22/2006 7:56:37 AM PDT by dirtboy (When Bush is on the same side as Ted the Swimmer on an issue, you know he's up to no good...)
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To: dirtboy

You didn't get that choice.

These are your two choices: who would you vote for?


73 posted on 05/22/2006 7:58:06 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

People outside of Louisiana don't understand.

But, I still remember when the choice for governor was between:

1. The most corrupt governor in the history of the universe; or

2. A KKKlown who used to dress up in Nazi gear and "seig heil" for pictures.


74 posted on 05/22/2006 7:58:51 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Not when you know more about the person, though...

.... and THAT was my point. There are good and bad in every family. Sort of like when I was young in Texas and you could still vote for some Democrats.

75 posted on 05/22/2006 8:01:09 AM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (Justice and "The Law" are not always the same thing.)
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To: Skooz

That year, I was burned out by an arsonist.

On one of the local talk shows, they suggested I was burned out either because of my stance against Duke or because of my stance for Edwards.

(I was vehemently anti-Duke, but not yet a organized political activist. A neighbor's kid broke in and set in on fire, we think).


76 posted on 05/22/2006 8:01:26 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: FairOpinion

What is that old saying that goes something like: "People get the government that they deserve".


77 posted on 05/22/2006 8:02:29 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

Neither of the Landrieus is politically clean, unfortunately...


78 posted on 05/22/2006 8:02:44 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: dirtboy
However they spend our tax dollars, rebuilding that city in the swamp, it's a lose lose situation , except for those doing the rebuilding.

The experts at successfully stealing land from the seas, is the NetherLands. If some firm from Holland should win the contract for replacing the levees, our tax dollars may be more effectively spent.
79 posted on 05/22/2006 8:06:37 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (A government that will not enforce the laws of the land, is a government standing on quicksand.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
These are your two choices: who would you vote for?

And, once again, I said that, since the voters of New Orleans refuse to get rid of the corrupt, incompenent hacks in the primary election, they show they are not serious about reforming their government and using our tax dollars wisely to rebuild. So we should limit federal aid as a result, lest it just get wasted.

80 posted on 05/22/2006 8:06:41 AM PDT by dirtboy (When Bush is on the same side as Ted the Swimmer on an issue, you know he's up to no good...)
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