Hot Air in the Big Easy The mayor's racial comments mar his re-election bid.

Newsweek ^ | Jan. 30, 2006 | Arian Campo-Flores

[Klatuu]

Peggy Wilson couldn't believe what she was hearing on the radio. Addressing a crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mayor Ray Nagin was claiming that God wanted New Orleans to remain majority black. "This city will be chocolate at the end of the day," he said. "I don't care what people are saying Uptown," referring to a mostly white area of New Orleans. Nagin also suggested that God unleashed last year's hurricanes because he was "mad at America"—and particularly at the black community, for failing to take better care of itself. "I was shocked," recalls Wilson. A Republican who once headed the city council, she was already planning to challenge Nagin's re-election in the balloting tentatively scheduled for April 22. But Nagin's comments may have boosted her chances. As a friend later told her, "The mayor just sent you a box of chocolates."

[Klatuu]

What re-election bid? The only thing Nagin should be running for is the state line.

[camle]

imagine a whitemayor proclaiming a "Vanilla" city?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I thought he moved to Texas ?

[davisfh]

Efforts are probably under way to engineer an "absentee"
ballot scheme. If successful, this would put a lot of
"chocolate" in Nagin's pocket. In my opinion, this is
the very reason for delaying the election.

[SR 50]

Do you suppose that there ever can be a white mayor of New Orleans?

[Tulsa Brian]

The fact that he did nothing in the face of then on-coming Katrina should be grounds for ever being allowed to run for office again...

[i_dont_chat]

Yes, the citizens realize they need effective leadership. Nagin has showed he is not a leader. Whoever runs under the Republican party has a good chance of winning, in my opinion.

[Klatuu]

The last white mayor of New Orleans was Moon Landrieu. Father of the LTG Mitch Landrieu and Sen. Mary "Babycheeks" Landrieu.

[Moose4]

Do you suppose that there ever can be a white mayor of New Orleans?

If he's a Rat, yeah. They'll be able to reliably turn out the black Democratic plantation vote...and y'all know what I mean.

Ironically, Nagin was apparently a registered Republican who switched parties to run for mayor, because a Republican cannot win that office.

}:-)4

[camle]

excellent study in contrasts between louisiana and misspssippi. the "D" and "R symbols are telling on each...

[saganite]

I thought Blanco had suspended democracy indefinitely in La.

[USS Alaska]

"Ironically, Nagin was apparently a registered Republican who switched parties to run for mayor, because a Republican cannot win that office."

Thank God he left the pubbies, can you imagine the crap that the press would lay on us if this moonbat was still a registered pubbie. We don't want racists in our herd.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

I'll pass this along if you would like a taste of what the locals have to say:

http://www.thedeadpelican.com/

After following them since the hurricane(s), I'd question the intelligence of any elected official in LA who decided to run as a Dim. The primary reason for delaying elections was a fond hope that Nagin, Blanco & Company could spin enough to at least shut down the recall petitions and try to get enough "true believers" back in N'Orleans to neutralize the PO'd vote.

Only problem: Ray has a chronic case of runny mouth, and every time he opens his pie hole he costs the whole party a couple hundred votes.......including, IMHO even from the "true believers".

The Dims in LA are cruising for a worse fall than the Libs up in Canada.

[DM1]

Sad thing is Nagin will probably win.

[Galveston Grl]

I wonder about the shock of a Black Democrat Paty mayor claiming he wants a "choclate" city. That is the way most Democrat party black folks talk. What is Black "pride" if not racism? It is alright for Blacks to say they perfer their own kind in everything.

If suddenly Blacks are to held to the same standard as whites, liberal Black leaders are in big trouble. They talk and act as racists all the time.

[billhilly]

""The mayor just sent you a box of chocolates."

Forrest Nagin. New Orleans is just a box of chocolates.

[CajunConservative]

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[Hank Rearden]

Sad thing is Nagin will probably win.

And Blanco. In both cases, easily. And the Republican Congress will pour over $200 Billion into corrupt LA coffers to put something back into place just in time for the next hurricane to wipe it out all over again.

[Lancer_N3502A]

And here I thought the fact that he was incompetent, corrupt and a thief would mar his reelection bid. I guess being a racist too is just icing on the cake.