Nagin Recruiting Hershey to Rebuild New Orleans

ScrappleFace ^ | 2006-01-17 | Scott Ott

[george76]

In a further clarification of yesterday’s remarks that a rebuilt New Orleans would be a “chocolate” city, Mayor Ray Nagin today said he’s planning to recruit Hershey Foods to establish a candy manufacturing plant in the hurricane-ravaged region.

The Democrat mayor’s latest clarification builds on yesterday’s explanation that his remarks are not racist because chocolate is made with dark chocolate and white milk forming “a delicious drink.”

“We’re in the very, very early stages of discussions with Hershey,” Mr. Nagin said, “It’s still in the pre-meeting, pre-phone call stage. But that’s what this chocolate city concept is all about.

It’s literally chocolate, rather than chocolate as a metaphor for something else. It’s edible chocolate. It really is.”

The mayor said he’s long been intrigued by the possibility of transitioning New Orleans’ economy from one “reliant upon fickle fads in human debauchery” to something more stable, like chocolate.

“Ever since I saw the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’ve thought, ‘That’s New Orleans’,” Mayor Nagin said. “and I thought, ‘I’m Willy Wonka’. ”

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, who yesterday told a group of African-Americans that Republicans have run the House of Representatives like “a plantation”, said she would help Mayor Nagin secure federal funding to turn the Louisiana Gulf coast into “a chocolate version of Silicon Valley.”

[martin_fierro]

[Semper Paratus]

Maybe he can get Hershey to build a highway through NO.

[george76]

[beandog]

I think Nagin's new theme song should be "Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't ..."

[brooklyn dave]

TOO TOO BAAD

[brooklyn dave]

AS LONG AS FOLKS AREN"T IN ANY COMPROMISING POSITIONS ON THE HIGHWAY>

[GaltMeister]

Hershey to the rescue!

[brooklyn dave]

Hey George 76--
Instead of little chocolate kisses decorating the street lamps, they can have little chocolate saxaphones, trombones, and trumpets.

[Unicorn]

Has he said if his family is on the way back from TX.??????????????

[Unicorn]

Has he said if his family is on the way back from TX.??????????????

[KarlInOhio]

I heard that LooterGuy and TouristGuy are planning a two man show on Broadway later this year.

[Hegemony Cricket]

R-e-m-e-m-b-e-r t-o d-r-i-n-k y-o-u-r O-v-a-l-t-i-n-e

[rfreedom4u]

How much white chocolate will be used in the rebuilding process?

[One Proud Dad]

“a chocolate version of Silicon Valley.”

There are many things I could say here but won't.

[george76]

He found a bus...

Hat tip... by maggief

[secret garden]

It looks like Nagin's recalling your dog to duty. ;)

[UglyinLA]

Nagin's got his head up his Hershey highway.

[VictoryGal]

No comment.

[Central Scrutiniser]