Posted on 02/07/2010 1:40:08 PM PST by MplsSteve
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has landed himself a ticket to the Super Bowl - and the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Nagin expressed shock last week that as the city's chief executive, he only had been offered the option to buy tickets in a "nosebleed section" of Sun Life Stadium in Miami, where the Saints make their Super Bowl debut Sunday.
But Nagin told a local radio station this morning that his fortunes have changed, though he wasn't specific about where he'll be sitting or with whom he's traveling. "The Saints have come through. I got some good seats," the mayor told WBOK radio.
"I paid for them," Nagin told host Gerod Stevens before correcting himself. "Well, the city paid for them because this is an official visit, a business trip."
Nagin said he consulted City Attorney Penya Moses-Fields about whether he should find "another way to pay for" the trip. Gov. Bobby Jindal, for instance, has said he'll tap his campaign account to finance a one-day jaunt for himself and his wife to the big game. Nagin's latest campaign finance report, filed Saturday with the state Ethics Administration, shows $101,996 in his campaign account.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
As former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards once said (and I paraphrase because I can't remember the exact comment) is the only way he'd be in trouble with voters is if he was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
Sounds like Louisiana politics as usual.
Comments or opinions - anyone?
Didn’t hurt Barney “Pageboy” Frank at all!
His trip will cost millions
But what the heck, his administration is our modern day camellot
As much I want to be aghast at this, it is pretty pro forma to have the mayors of the competing teams at the game, although I think the teams themselves usually pick up the tab for the tickets (I think).
This really is a standard perk and any city that didn’t pay for the mayor to go to the game would look like they are pretty bush league.
But these days it is probably worth it to put some pressure on Nagan just to watch him squirm.
All the more reason to root for the Colts.
Will anything change with Mary Landrieu’s brother who was just elected to replace Nagin?!
Voters elected Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu mayor of New Orleans Saturday, marking the first time the city will have a white mayor in three decades (his father, Moon, the city’s last white mayor).
Moon Landoon?
Or Landoom?
LOL
A chocolate city will have a white mayor?
Holy toledo!
What’s Ray Nagin going to do now, politically? Maybe a chocolate president will give him a job as a chocolate czar in the chocolate cabinet?
“So did Present 0
His trip will cost millions
But what the heck, his administration is our modern day camellot”
Obama is having a (cough) bipartisan Super Bowl party at the White House.
Obamas to host Super Bowl at White House
AP
WASHINGTON - February 7, 2010 — President Barack Obama and the first lady are ready for some football.
The first couple will host a Super Bowl party Sunday for lawmakers, Cabinet members and service members who were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families. That’s if their guests can make it through the aftermath of a storm system Obama dubbed “snowmageddon.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=7263126
I thought he was in town for the Superbowl when he did his infomercial with Katie Calonic
It’s the Chocolate Bowl anyway.
It’s amazing what you can buy with TAXPAYER’S MONEY...As you can see the nut didn’t fall far from the tree.
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(Moon) Landrieu was able to obtain federal funds for the revitalization of New Orleans’s poor neighborhoods, and promoted involvement of minority-owned businesses in the city’s economic life. He was also involved in the planning and construction of the Louisiana Superdome and other projects designed to improve the economy of New Orleans.
In the late 1950s, Landrieu became involved in the youth wing of Mayor deLesseps Morrison’s Crescent City Democratic Organization.
There he was one of the few white legislators who voted against the “hate bills” of the segregationists which the legislature passed in the effort to thwart the desegregation of public facilities and public schools.
Running on a “progressive” platform, Landrieu won an unexpected victory by having assembled a coalition of 90 percent of black voters and 39 percent of whites.
his pro-civil rights stance was rewarded when he received an overwhelming 99 percent support from black voters.
During his tenure as mayor, Landrieu oversaw desegregation of city government and public facilities as well as business and professional organizations. Before Landrieu was elected, there were no high-ranking black employees or officials in City Hall; he worked actively to change this by appointing African Americans to top positions, including his Chief Administrative Officer. When he took office in 1970, African-Americans made up 19 percent of city employees; by 1978, this number had risen to 43 percent. He also appointed Rev. A.L. Davis, a prominent civil rights leader, to fill a temporary vacancy on City Council; Davis thus became the city’s first black city councilor.
After leaving office in 1978, Landrieu served as Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Jimmy Carter.
He should have ridden the bus. Afterall, New Orleans has plenty of UNUSED ones.
“New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin headed to Super Bowl XLIV on taxpayers’ dime”
Normal behavior for a nanny state liberal.
Louisiana is not a nanny state, thanks. As many have pointed out on these boards ad nauseum N.O. is NOT the entire state, nor is the portrayal of the state or that particular city by the MSM accurate. Now you know.
By nanny state I meant New Orleans. “Nanny State” is a term recognized by all. If I had said “Nanny City” it wouldn’t have conveyed much.
Well, if the voters of New Orleans put up with this, they’ve no one to blame but themselves.
But it would have been more accurate. Sorry if I’m over-sensitive but the media hype on N.O. and Katrina and many of the comments here on the board have reflected an inaccurate portrayal of both the city and its inhabitants - as well as the state. And yet this site is supposed to reflect a conservative suspicion of the MSM. I confess it baffles me.
I will try to be more accurate in my statements. I’m aware these Democrat-run cities are nothing like their outstates. I know that’s true in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Illinois and, now, Louisiana.
Maybe it’s true in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, too.
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