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
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.
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.
They made so much noise in that parade, they woke the dead so they could vote.
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!
"Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade, We found Mary and Marc, got school buses"
Great post.
Fact: The DemonRats are hideous, foul little creatures from the backed up sewers of hell.
Bus Bump!
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That's what that woman said on Rush's show, "I'll bet those buses were running on election day".
Mary Landrieu is totally involved in a campaign to distract attention from the incompetence of the State Democratic machine. No scruples, no shame.
Well, it's all been just a simple mistake then.
Mayor Nagin should have tasked the Louisiana Democrat Party apparatus for the response instead of her Office of Homeland Security.
Had he done so, within 15 minutes they'd have had buses out gathering those people from those overpasses.
They would have been festooned with leftover Gore bumperstickers, but they would have been alive.
Where every did they get the bus drivers in 45 minutes? I thought you couldn't get people to work in Naw'lins even on a sunny day?
How can she stand to look at herself in the mirror?
Mary Landrieu still has some of her baby fat.
Thank you for finding this. I searched quite a bit last week to see if I could find pictures of the busses being used, but ....
Now, if the MSM would pick up on this.....
(I can dream, can't I??)
I was active and worked for Woody Jenkins in that campaign. There were several stories about the GOTV (get out the vote) effort. Here's one I archived.
"The Times-Picayune" - New Orleans, LA - Saturday, November 9, 1996
OTHER OPINIONS/Columns
Getting voters to the polls
By Iris Kelso
NEW ORLEANS - “All elections begin and end in the streets on election day,” Bob Tucker says. “That’s where the Clinton, Landrieu and Connick team won Tuesday.”
Tucker, a businessman who is a close advisor to New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, was talking about the GOTV, or get-out-the-vote effort, for which Morial has become known in political circles all over the country.
It was in place for President Clinton, Mary Landrieu for the U. S. Senate and Harry Connick for district attorney. All three won the day in New Orleans.
This is no helter-skelter effort to create interest in the election, distribute sample ballots and campaign materials. Here’s how Tucker describes it: “It’s sophisticated, surgical and solid, whether for a candidate or an issue. And most importantly, it delivers. I don’t think there’s a better organized election day effort anywhere in the country, including Chicago,” he said.
This is the kind of organization that won for Morial in the 1994 mayor’s election. I thas been put into place in every election in which he has had an interest since. And the plan has been improved for every election.
“We get together after the election and go over every detail,” Tucker says. “What did we do well? What could be refined? Did the red beans we served our workers have too much garlic? We critique everything.”
Tuesday’s work to get African-American voters to the polls began at the True Gospel of Jesus Christ Church on North Broad Street before the polling places opened. About 1,000 wokers would hit the streets that day, 500 in the morning operation and 500 that afternoon.
Gathering in the church’s large courtyard, members of the first crew of the street workers got colored stickers that told them their assignments. All this was carefully planned, down to where each team would meet in the courtyard. Those with green stickers worked the polling places. Blues waved signs and asked for votes at street intersections. Reds went door to door in neighborhoods. And the orange team worked shopping centers and employment centers. Each team equipped with a cellular phone so it could be contacted from headquarters.
Team leaders met with their workers in the church’s fellowship hall, making sure their team members knew their assignments and had their materials, including extra batteries for their cell phones.
Morning and afternoon crews ate their red beans and rice together at lunchtime at the church, then the afternoon crews went out.
The teams included unclassified workers from City Hall and the Regional Transit Authority and workers - paid and volunteer - for Clinton, Landrieu and Connick. Members of small political organizations backing those candidates also were on the teams.
Every election day headquarters is Crisis City. At 3:15 that afternoon, the management team got word that Republicans had a tracking poll showing Landrieu behind in the vote.
“Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade,” Tucker says. “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. Mary and Marc were in Norma Jane Sabiston’s little red convertible. (Sabiston was Landrieu’s campaign manager.) It was a tight fit for Marc, big as he is, but they were both up there waving. We moved them into the major housing project areas blowing horns and playing New Orleans music. We were doing what we do best in New Orleans, having a parade.”
All day long and by the hour at campaign headquarters, the team headed by Tucker got reports from target precincts. Voter turnout in those precincts was compared to computerized data from previous elections. When voting was slow at one precinct compared to past elections, troops were shifted in school buses to work that neighborhood, asking people to vote.
Meanwhile, a phone bank was operating at another location with workers calling voters asking them to go to the polls.
At “surge time,” from 4:30 to 7:30 p. m., when large numbers of voters get off work and go to the polling places, there were more parades in key areas.
None of this works, says Tucker, without planning, coordination and direction. Among those running the show from the church headquarters were Tucker, the mayor’s brother, Jacques Morial, Steve Hand, Vincent Sylvain, Henry Dillon and Angelo Wilson. Anthony Mumphreys, a professional planner and businessman who organized Morial’s 1992 election day effort, was working at another location, heading the GOTV campaign for white voters.
“There is only one thing you can control in politics, and that’s your election day effort,” says Tucker. “That’s why we emphasize it. If you plan it right and execute it right, you’re going to get a better result. We couldn’t have asked for a better result for the Clinton, Landrieu, Connick teams on Tuesday.”
CALMING THE WATERS:
City Councilman Oliver Thomas says Sabiston, on loan to Landrieu’s campaign from Sen. John Breaux’s office, did a masterful job mending fences with black leaders who were concerned about Landrieu’s failure to endorse African-American Congressman Cleo Fields in the governor’s race. “She held a lot of private meetings with black leaders,” he said. “There were a lot of angry words, but she was cool. She told them, ‘Do what you gotta do, but keep your eyes on the prize.’” The prize was the U. S. Senate seat.
Iris Kelso is a staff writer.
Where you the one that sent this to Rush? He just mentioned the article on his show and he will do some more research on it.... LOL!!!
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