Posted on 05/21/2006 8:38:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion
As FoxNews reports today, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has "narrowly" won re-election to his mayoral office today. This, despite his complete incompetence in both preparing for Hurricane Katrina and in the now-infamous aftermath. (Surely you haven't forgotten the details, like the fleet of school buses sitting useless in standing water.) And then there was his famously racist comment about New Orleans needing to remain "a chocolate city." (As other writers have noted, can anyone seriously contemplate a white guy running for reelection appealing to voters to keep a city "vanilla"?)
What Nagin's reelection ensures, is that New Orleans will remain a predominantly poor and dismally unprepared city.
The only thing Nagin managed to do (and he had LOTS of help here) was to blame the whole thing on the federal government. So when the next big one hits, and New Orleans is devastated once again, it won't be his fault then, either.
Nagin's a joke, but it's the New Orleans voters who are pathetic.
I'm thinking Mitch wanted the mayoralty as a springboard to the governorship, considering how weak Blanco looks. He doesn't wanted to be associated with her as Lt Gov! As Mayor he would have control of the political machinery and financial and power base to ensure his own political fortune, including strong support for any statewide office in the future (think Gov) and the ability to steal as many votes as needed for sister Mary.
The voters of New Orleans clearly did the right thing choosing Nagin over Landrieu.
That must be really humiliating, losing to an incompetent boob like Nagin. :^)
I smell a rat. Could it be the same one which overturned the will of the people on the governor's race of Washington State? A demo-rat?
Geez, "conservatives" voting for "seize all guns" Nagin?!
Talk about a lack of choice. Are the NO voters really that hard up?
NO is sounding like Wash D.C. where after the thoroughly incompetent and corrupt Mayor got out of jail, he was promptly elected back to office.
Seems the Blacks like crooks.
I think that the people of New Orleans had a very bad choice to make. Either one would have been awful. I guess they took the lesser of the two evils.
Don't you mean chocolate milk city? That's what Nagin referred to it as.
The silver lining is all the Dems who say Katrina is going to hurt the Republican party. Sure didn't hurt the guy in the "eye of the storm".
Yeah but their thinking is that because of Nagin, they had free pickings of the area shops, got to leave New Orleans and be well treated elsewhere, given money cards by the government, put up in hotels and cruise ships, be well fed, given trailers and houses etc, etc, etc.
How did the race come between 2 Democrats? Why was there a primary with other Democrats if Nagin is the incumbant?
You haven't been paying political attention, have you. There was a primary, and neither candidate got a high enough percentage to win outright. So there was a run-off election between the top two vote getters, Nagin and Landrieu. And thank goodness Nagin won over the Dem machine candidate, Landrieu. With Nagin, at least what you see is what you get, he's transparent. The Landrieu family dynasty are a bunch of tax raising crooks.
Actually, it is the Democrats who are pathetic, if they would have let the truth be told and let the chips fall where they may, instead of countering a real explanation by just saying "shocking" when the allegations were made, so you know what no matter how bad things get, I am voting Republican, it has everything of the truth of what I believe.
Ranks right up there with the former mayor of D.C. getting elected after his little cocaine film.
Can't believe how utterly stupid the folks of N.O are.
So then why is a lousy dime of my money being routed there???
Moon Landrieu--NOLA mayor 1970-1978
Dutch Morial--NOLA mayor 1978-1986
Man, what a choice!
And maybe a drug addict.
---Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
In all honesty one can say the same thing about the reelection of the majority of the office-holders at all levels of government in this country, regardless of party.
Next time, I am definitely hoping Mother Nature completes the job.
I guess I knew the primary was a bunch of people running against Nagin, but still normally you don't see a candidate of the same party as an incumbant running against the incumbant.
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