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Mary Landrieu's aunt is on the orleans parish school board, powerful and supposedly in charge of the use of school buses for emergency evacs.

Really? What is her name and relationship to Mary?

Mary Landrieu/Blanko both hate Nagin.

Why is that? I mean I know that Nagin bad mouthed Blanco into the ground late last week into this, but wasn't Nagin that got the black vote out at the last minute to get Landrieu elected? What was Blanco's beef with him before the flood? This is getting good!

[Dad yer funny]

Phyllis Landrieu , Aunt Phyllis ,... someone on another thread sorta intimated that Phyllis didn't need the position but the power structure did

[gpapa]

Before his election, [Ray] Nagin was a member of the Republican Party and had little political experience; he was a vice president and general manager at Cox Communications, a cable communications company and subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. Nagin did give contributions periodically to candidates, namely President George W. Bush and former Republican U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin in 1999 and 2000, as well as to Democratic U.S. Senators John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston earlier in the decade.

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Phyllis Landreiu, Mary's aunt. The former Mayor Landrieus sister or sister in law. There is a thread on this with minutes from the NO school board.

Nagin voted for Jindal, a repub. And he was going after long time deep corruption in NO at the highest levels. Mary's father was Mayor. Mary is very deep in the dem machine in the state and always has been.

nagin is an outsider who went off the dem plantation. Blanko and Mary both don't like him.