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.
You still misunderstand my meaning which has nothing to do with the current problem in Louisiana. It is a general statement that I vote for the best person, without regard to their last name.
They split the conservative vote by having too many candidates. It's an open primary, top 2 winners go. The dems set that up years and years ago.
Turning your back because you don't like the choices isn't going to change anything. Saying they should have done something different is pretending reality is something other than it is.
You are in a city that has been controlled by a dem oligarchy, part black, part white for forever. Two men in my lifetime have beat it: Morrison and Nagin.
The press ripped him to shreds. He was undercut by attorneys, government officials, and the MSM constantly.
Even with that, he's still been the first non-machine candidate to win since Chip Morrison. And the fact that they voted him in twice even with all that says something.
You and me both!
Get this straight - NOLA and Louisiana are going hat in hand to the rest of the country. Their corrupt and incompetent politicians are the primary reason Katrina was such a fiasco. And we should keep sending billions down there, even though the voters keep re-electing the same nimrods who helped create this mess in the first place? I don't think so.
Once again, Nagin should have had the evacuation legalities worked out well before hurricance season, instead of doing it the Saturday prior to Katrina's imminent arrival.
The press ripped him to shreds. He was undercut by attorneys, government officials, and the MSM constantly.
And for damn good reason.
No, they did it to make Bush look bad and get more glory for the Dems.
Why not? Nero had his fire to make room for his urban projects. Ray has his flood... and a much larger selection of mind-altering substances. To top it off, Ray had enough chutzpah to compare himself with Bush, then honored Bush as a man of his word!
It's been said that Looziana is "addicted to mediocrity." The whole culture seems to consider incompetance a virtue.
Was interesting to hear the head of the Democrat party had placed operatives to work against Nagin in the election.
Can't imagine why?
Having worked Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina recovery projects, I can say that my sympathy for NOLA has dried up and blown away.
Not only that, but with this election, I'll not even make the long weekend excursions that I'd planned, but will spend my money in Biloxi or Destin or PCB instead.
I know people who are still out of their homes after the Ivan/Dennis punch.
But Hollywood and the rest forgot about them after 3 days.
The press on New Orleans hasn't exactly been a good thing for the city. Sometimes, I wish the liberal media would forget about us.
Nonetheless, on your visit to Destin, Biloxi, whereever, drive over and see some of the destruction for yourself. TV doesn't do it justice.
I worked Katrina relief in Mississipi, so I saw what happened as far west as the MS/LA state line.
They got blasted, too, but they have had a whole different attitude about it.
And they didn't re-elect Nagin.
I'm not the only one on the Gulf Coast with NOLA Katrina fatigue.
We're pretty tired of it here in NOLA too.
My office is in Midcity, New Orleans. This area gets zero press but was just as devastated as the 9th Ward. I have been back here since eary November. When we got back, there were no working street lights, no power, no nothing. The place was a ghost town.
On May 22 2006, there are still remanants of the storm here, but on the whole the area is coming back big time. Mostly, we did it ourselves.
The people of St. Bernard had their entire Parish leveled. Everytime I head over there, I am impressed with the progress.
If you didn't allow the news media to play to your biases, you might realize the majority of people here are attempting to improve the situation.
I've seen a lot of people working hard to improve life for a lot of people.
A Florida panhandle county actually refused some FEMA/CoE assistance because they decided to suck it up and do for themselves.
That same area was hit by Ivan, Dennis, and yes, even Katrina. Had that area not already had Ivan and Dennis clear out the weak trees, Katrina would have caused significant damage in the western counties of the Florida panhandle.
No cruise ships or credit cards for those folks, however.
So I'll spend my money elsewhere on the Gulf coast.
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