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Flashback to 1996: A Day When Buses Were Used in New Orleans
Baton Rouge Advocate | Nov. 10, 1996 | Unknown

Posted on 09/14/2005 11:18:36 AM PDT by pkajj

Political Machine Turned Out Votes N.O. Style 10 November 1996 The Baton Rouge Advocate

NEW ORLEANS - Red beans, parades and a thousand people all were part of the push that got nearly 186,000 voters to New Orleans polls on Election Day and gave Democrat Mary Landrieu a U.S. Senate victory.

Republican Louis "Woody" Jenkins has refused to concede defeat to Landrieu, who had an unofficial 5,899-vote lead after voting machines were opened Friday. The statewide tally released by the secretary of state on Friday was Landrieu 853,076, Jenkins 847,177, the closest Senate election in Louisiana history. Campaign manager Tony Perkins said volunteers will be working all weekend, checking out hundreds of complaints - especially in New Orleans, where Landrieu led Jenkins 143,050 to 42,653.

Bob Tucker, a businessman and close advisor to New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, said it was Morial's get-out-the-vote teams that won the day for Landrieu, President Clinton and Orleans Parish Leader Harry Connick. "All elections begin and end in the streets on election day. That's where the Clinton, Landrieu and Connick team won Tuesday," Tucker said.

For instance, when the management team got word at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday that a GOP tracking poll showed Jenkins ahead, it was time for an instant parade. "Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade," Tucker said. "We found Mary and Marc, got school buses for workers and sound trucks with music and put on a parade to flush out our voters." Landrieu and Morial waved from campaign manager Norma Jane Sabiston's convertible.

"We moved them into the major housing project areas blowing horns and playing New Orleans music," Tucker said. "We were doing what we do best in New Orleans, having a parade." There were more parades in key areas during "surge time" - late afternoon and evening, when people get off work.

Tucker's teams tracked the turnout all day in target precincts. If the vote was slow compared to past elections, some of the 1,000 street workers were sent there to knock on doors and ask people to vote. A phone bank worked all day, asking voters to go to the polls.

The street workers were divided into two groups of 500 -one for the morning, and one for the afternoon. Those were split into four groups: One to work polling places; one to wave signs at intersections; one to go door-to-door; and one to go to shopping centers and employment centers.

The one time all were together was at lunch, when all 1,000 got a lunch of red beans and rice.


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To: Presby Conservative

It's in the Baton Rouge Advocate's archives...


41 posted on 09/14/2005 11:48:31 AM PDT by danneskjold
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To: oyez

"Too bad the day the hurricane hit it wasn't election day."

Bump!


42 posted on 09/14/2005 11:50:21 AM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: listenhillary
Here is the abridged version. You have to pay to see the whole thing.
43 posted on 09/14/2005 11:50:48 AM PDT by danneskjold
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To: danneskjold

Cool

We've been burned before.


44 posted on 09/14/2005 11:52:21 AM PDT by listenhillary (The MAINSTREAM MEDIA is NOT a branch of government)
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To: pkajj
"Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade," Tucker said.

So the Dems can organize for important things.

/sarcasm

45 posted on 09/14/2005 11:52:45 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: danneskjold

"Partly true for Blanco. She picked up a good many votes in the more ignorant rural parts of Northern LA, because they didn't want a "foreigner" (Jindal) for governor. She also did fairly well in SouthWest LA, where she is from."

That is true. The morning after the election, my brother in La. overheard some ladies at a store exclaiming how excited they were that Blanco had won over that foreigner. They actually believed that Jindal had recently immigrated. My brother politely explained that he had been born in B.R. and had more intelligence in his pinky than Blanco. Seems kind of prophetic now.


46 posted on 09/14/2005 11:52:52 AM PDT by half-cajun
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To: pkajj
Q: How many heads have to roll before we have a chance of getting a constitutional government we pay for?

A: 435 Members of the House of Representatives, 100 Members of the Senate, 9 Members of the United States Supreme Court and at least 3 members of the Executive branch starting at the TOP. 

47 posted on 09/14/2005 11:53:37 AM PDT by sinclair (It's probably a good thing I'm not in charge of stuff.)
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To: PissAndVinegar

>>>It's been reported he's done alot for the area post-Katrina since it is his family home. I don't think it's been covered much because he's interested only in helping - only the finger pointers, race baiters and hypocrites apparently deserve air time.>>>

Well, that is what struck me. I heard he was helping, really helping. No screeching at Bush, etc... Which is even more impressive when you learn his father was a NOLA Democrat for crying out loud. I like his music anyway and he's a hottie.


48 posted on 09/14/2005 11:54:45 AM PDT by sandbar
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To: half-cajun
That is true. The morning after the election, my brother in La. overheard some ladies at a store exclaiming how excited they were that Blanco had won over that foreigner. They actually believed that Jindal had recently immigrated. My brother politely explained that he had been born in B.R. and had more intelligence in his pinky than Blanco. Seems kind of prophetic now.

Yep. I heard someone say he didn't vote for Jindal because he didn't want to have to wear a red dot on his forehead.

49 posted on 09/14/2005 11:55:16 AM PDT by danneskjold
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To: pkajj

If somebody had told Nagin they needed the buses to schlep his myrmidon followers around so they could each cast a dozen votes for him, he would have gotten it arranged within an hour.


50 posted on 09/14/2005 11:55:55 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: pkajj

I found a link in the archives

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/theadvocate/26266127.html?did=26266127&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Nov+10%2C+1996&author=&pub=Advocate&desc=Political+machine+turned+out+votes+N.O.+style


51 posted on 09/14/2005 11:56:10 AM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: gridlock

Great find. The corrupt Landrieu machine should be embarassed.


52 posted on 09/14/2005 11:56:20 AM PDT by Rosemont
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To: gridlock

Great find. The corrupt Landrieu machine should be embarassed.


53 posted on 09/14/2005 11:56:24 AM PDT by Rosemont
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To: Republican Red

Sorry that link is the excerpted version. Costs $$$ for the whole article


54 posted on 09/14/2005 11:57:23 AM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: pkajj

I knew and met with Woody Jenkins several times during his run for the Senate and the disgraceful aftermath of a brazen theft of his seat.

There is no question in my mind that he had the goods on the NO Demoncrats FRaudelent vote buying, multiple voting scheme. But the Republican Party refused to press his case in the Senate and they seated Moon's daughter despite overwhelming evidence of massive FRaud in NOLA.

I'll guarandamtee you that if Woody Jenkins was the Senior Senator FRom LA today, there would be a different story coming out of NO!

What goes around, comes around. If the Pubbies had not bent over backwards to "accomodate" a corrupt and corrupting Demoncrat female know nothing, they would not be in as much trouble politically as they are.


55 posted on 09/14/2005 11:57:54 AM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: pkajj

Where did you find this, or, can you get a link for an electronic copy. We need to tie this to the source, otherwise it may as well be a prank.


56 posted on 09/14/2005 12:01:00 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: The South Texan

Alot of us already had it figured out without Rush and Hannity, et al.......but it helps to broadcast it to the world through them. *~*


57 posted on 09/14/2005 12:02:36 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: pkajj

They made so much noise in that parade, they woke the dead so they could vote.


58 posted on 09/14/2005 12:14:13 PM PDT by chemicalman (Finally an answer for the prisoner problem at Abu Ghraib: Don't take any.)
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To: pkajj

Good find, pkajj.

Wasn't it Blanco who said they can't even get people to work when the sun is shining?

This is hysterical!


59 posted on 09/14/2005 12:20:57 PM PDT by kitkat ("We're not going to let anybody frighten us from our great love of freedom." GWB, 7/22/05))
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To: pkajj
What a quote !

"Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade, We found Mary and Marc, got school buses"

60 posted on 09/14/2005 12:23:40 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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