Nagin's constituency tends to show up to the polls late at night. When the moon is full...
Posted on 05/20/2006 5:32:19 PM PDT by HHKrepublican_2
AP: "Too Close to Call"
NEW ORLEANS — Voters were deciding Saturday whether incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin or challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu should oversee this city's long recovery from Hurricane Katrina — one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history.
Whoever wins the too-close-to-call election takes office a day before the June 1 start of the next hurricane season in a city where streets are still strewn with rusting, mud-covered cars and entire neighborhoods consist of homes that are empty shells.
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guess you would know. Hope you are right.
I'm going to be hiding and watching.
Nagin's constituency tends to show up to the polls late at night. When the moon is full...
Yup!!! (ROTFLMAO)
The only thing I thought Bush screwed up with was saying, " I take responsibility."
New Orleans re-elects the articulagte Nagin, King of Ebonics, and Street Crime.
Ops4 God Bless America!
Neither ... it's New Orleans/Louisiana.
You are quite right....
I'm holding out for Ernie K Doe. The dead candidate who wrote "Mother-In-Law" and has a bar run by his family in the Big Easy.
I would think after a year on the streets (if not sooner) those cars could be declared ABANDONED.
It didn't take anywhere near that log to claim a car in Boston.
What you are missing is that the same MSM that deliberately paints a false picture of the "war" in Iraq (we are NOT fighting against Iraqis, we are fighting jihadists who flooded into Iraq AFTER the war) and refuses to report on ANY progress there is anti-Bush and will not report on Louisiana as those who live there see it.
People I have spoken with from Lousiana (in Louisiana and in Texas) all blame Blanco.
"IS IT STUPIDITY, OR AMNESIA?
Neither ... it's New Orleans/Louisiana."
I know, but that was a rhetorical question to a poster who called it stupidity. Louisiana has provided me with a lot of political amusement, and personal satisfaction for much of my life. I love the state and it's people. Well, I'll make an exception for James Carville.
Is Nagin a republican or democrat?
"People I have spoken with from Lousiana (in Louisiana and in Texas) all blame Blanco."
Except for Brinkley - he wrote a book praising Blanco and bashing Bush.
I love the bit where he criticizes the city for being racist because they will not let the evacuees cross the bridge.
Then goes essentially quiet when Blanco does the same thing to all the other bridges the next day.
"Is Nagin a republican or democrat?"
Nagin is a democrat - but a conservative democrat.
When the election was between Marc Morial's replacement and Nagin, the conservatives endorsed Nagin.
There is a reason why the Democratic party is pushing Landrieu so hard.
All results:
Clerk, Criminal District Court
442 of 442 precincts reporting
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60,828 58% Arthur A. Morrell, D -
43,960 42% Nick Varrecchio, D -
Assessor, 1st Municipal District
25 of 25 precincts reporting
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1,581 38% Maria Elliott, D -
2,529 62% Darren Mire, D -
Assessor, 4th Municipal District
26 of 26 precincts reporting
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2,894 56% Betty Jefferson, D -
2,259 44% Chase Jones, D -
Mayor, City of New Orleans
442 of 442 precincts reporting
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54,131 48% "Mitch" Landrieu, D -
59,460 52% C. Ray Nagin, D -
Councilmember(s) at Large
442 of 442 precincts reporting
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47,324 44% Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson, D -
61,420 56% Arnie Fielkow, D -
Councilmember, District A
106 of 106 precincts reporting
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13,670 48% John A. "Jay" Batt, Jr., R -
14,552 52% Shelley Stephenson Midura, D -
Councilmember, District B
91 of 91 precincts reporting
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10,214 54% Stacy Head, D -
8,694 46% Renee' Gill Pratt, D -
Councilmember, District C
79 of 79 precincts reporting
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12,112 53% James Carter, D -
10,815 47% Kristin Gisleson Palmer, D -
Twinbrook Security Dist., $500.00 Annual Fee - BOC - 7 Yrs.
6 of 6 precincts reporting
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415 66% YES -
218 34% NO
Life just got better have you seen the Drudge report headline that just went up
**Exclusive**
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) secretly placed political operatives in the city of New Orleans to work against the reelection efforts of incumbent Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean made the decision himself to back mayoral candidate and sitting Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu (D-LA), sources reveal.
Dean came to the decision to back the white challenger, over the African-American incumbent Nagin, despite concerns amongst senior black officials in the Party that the DNC should stay neutral.
The DNC teams actively worked to defeat Nagin under the auspice of the committee's voting rights program.
The party's field efforts also coincided with a national effort by Democrat contributors to support Landrieu.
Landrieu had outraised Nagin by a wide margin - $3.3 million to $541,980.
Preliminary campaign finance reports indicate many of Landrieu’s contributions came from out of state white Democrat leaders and financiers, including a $1,000 contribution from Sen. Ben Nelson's (D-NE) PAC.
The defeat of Mitch Landrieu is the latest setback for Dean's often criticized field operation.
In his victory speech late Saturday night, Nagin praised President Bush.
"You and I have probably been the most vilified politicians in the country. But I want to thank you for moving that promise that you made in Jackson Square forward," Nagin said.
Developing...
I wouldn't know which crook to vote for. Nagin is a crook and is incompetent Landrieu, on the other hand is a member of an organized crime family with long time Mob connections.
I suppose Nagin, the incompetent one is the less dangerous of the two.
And that's it in a nutshell!
The choice was incompetence or corruption.
The choice was 4 years of Nagin or 8 years+ of Landrieu and his cronies.
Nagin can hardly do any more harm. He is now the equivalent of the Captain of the Titanic. Both it, and New Orleans, are sunk.
In a way, it's justice. The man whose incomptence contributed to the demise of the city SHOULD be forced to go down with the ship.
As a native New Orleanian, I don't see any hope. It's over. New Orleans is an aged boxer who got smashed to his knees. One more storm will finish it. It's too old, too poor, and too cursed by geography to recover and survive. Nothing is forever.
The Gulf is reclaiming the coast. Nature will win. New Orleans, and everything south of I-10 will BE the wetlands we need. The next time we evacuate will be the last time,IMO- no coming back.
If they can keep the 'important' New Orleans( the Quarter and Garden District) dry for awhile longer, it will just be a resort area-safe for only 6 months of the year.
We're all just Temporary Residents now.
Nagin is just the last politico sucking the last bit of blood out of a dying city. He is the Mayor of Mold and Misery.
One more hurricane, and New Orleans will be history.
New Orleans had a choice between a Black racist and a White Liberal racist, they choose the former.
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