I'm not a Republican, so his party affiliation wouldn't put him on *my* side anyway. Yes, I understand your position, but... He prolly figured there was no way the good people of Norlins would have elected a Republican, so jumping on to the donk plantation was the only way he'd get into office there.
As far as the question of depth... there certainly seems to be a need to be deep in something to be in office in LA. The man needs to climb out that slime. It is the least he can do for his constituents at this point.
I suppose he could have used all of the buses in the city and ditched his population on the border of his jurisdiction, telling them to walk across the line, but beyond that, physically evacuating people in his city would have required Blanco and/or the state's legislators to do more than just put all kinds of power in her hands.
Anyway, I think his political career is dead, so if he switched parties, it would free him up to spill everything he knows about the graft & corruption going on in that state, which is why I think an attempt should be made to lure him off of the plantation.
I'm not a Republican either, but I play one on Free Republic. Every time I give a Republican even mild criticism here I'm accused of being a troll.
Yes, I understand your position, but... He prolly figured there was no way the good people of Norlins would have elected a Republican, so jumping on to the donk plantation was the only way he'd get into office there.
Put a D after his name or an R after his name and he still is an incompetent boob who killed people and tried to shift the blame.
I suppose he could have used all of the buses in the city and ditched his population on the border of his jurisdiction, telling them to walk across the line, but beyond that, physically evacuating people in his city would have required Blanco and/or the state's legislators to do more than just put all kinds of power in her hands.
You don't need a governor's permission to travel through her state. Nagin could've taken that enormous fleet of buses, more than 500 strong, and sent them to 20 or so major cities all across the country. Evacuees could have chosen a bus headed for a destination where they had family or friends or just thought would be a good place to wait out the storm. I bet every one of the people who ended up in the Superdome or the Convention Center would have voluntarily jumped on a deal like that.
Anyway, I think his political career is dead, so if he switched parties, it would free him up to spill everything he knows about the graft & corruption going on in that state, which is why I think an attempt should be made to lure him off of the plantation.
If there really is graft and corruption that he's a part of, switching parties wouldn't free him up to do dick, since he'd be exposing himself to criminal liability. All switching parties would do would be to allow Democrats to blame his staggering incompetence on the GOP -- alleging that Nagin had been a closet Republican all along.