This one got re-elected... I guess it's a matter of standards...
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'll take incompetence over evil.
Well said, Laura.
You can tell who knows New Orleans politics and those who don't by some of the comments made about the election.
This is a great example of it.
Maybe he'll equip the school buses with pontoons.
This one got re-elected... I guess it's a matter of standards...
I really wouldn't care, except that billions of our tax dollars are involved - and all that has been done to improve evacuations out of NOLA is to determine that FEMA trailers - get this - can be dangerous in a hurricane.
That's about it.
Your choice was between an honest man who was screwed by his governor, his senators, and who made mistakes, and who has been the most honest and conservative mayor in New Orleans since the early 60s,
or
the people who are drooling over skimming the $$$$$ for reconstruction, who belong to the demoncratic party establishment, and who have been picking the pockets of the people of NO for 30+ years.
Given those choices, who would you vote for?
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New Orleanzeites, used the first election to reduce their choices to the two lowest possible denminations for the second.
It must cloud one's vision living in a city up to their eye brows in mud and dirty politics.
It is as stupid to vote against someone because of their last name, as it is to vote for them for the same reason.
Not when you know more about the person, though...
The voters should have voted in someone other than those two. I'm sorry, but Nagin didn't even have the legalities of ordering a mandatory evacuation worked out in advance - he spent Saturday wasting valuable time chasing down the City Attorney to work out that detail. If NOLA cannot clean its own political house, I do not trust it with my tax dollars.
You didn't get that choice.
These are your two choices: who would you vote for?
People outside of Louisiana don't understand.
But, I still remember when the choice for governor was between:
1. The most corrupt governor in the history of the universe; or
2. A KKKlown who used to dress up in Nazi gear and "seig heil" for pictures.
.... and THAT was my point. There are good and bad in every family. Sort of like when I was young in Texas and you could still vote for some Democrats.
That year, I was burned out by an arsonist.
On one of the local talk shows, they suggested I was burned out either because of my stance against Duke or because of my stance for Edwards.
(I was vehemently anti-Duke, but not yet a organized political activist. A neighbor's kid broke in and set in on fire, we think).
What is that old saying that goes something like: "People get the government that they deserve".
Neither of the Landrieus is politically clean, unfortunately...
And, once again, I said that, since the voters of New Orleans refuse to get rid of the corrupt, incompenent hacks in the primary election, they show they are not serious about reforming their government and using our tax dollars wisely to rebuild. So we should limit federal aid as a result, lest it just get wasted.
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