Big Sleazy Sobers Up

National Review ^ | 7-31-02

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When Lilliam Regan, the director of the city agency that oversees the Taxicab Bureau, called a press conference that afternoon to defend her workers, Nagin's men walked in front of the TV cameras, told Regan to pack up her things and get out of city hall. She was fired, and later arrested.

I don’t know much about this situation, but that’s just classic.

Should have had Sandman chase her off stage with his broom.

[mikenola]

dig this. david tyree's goin' on about it

[gcruse]

Wow. An 1)uncorrupt Democrat 2)willing to ignore race, 3)carrying out his campaign promises, and 4)busting 'em as he sees 'em. I am impressed. I don't know which asset is the most suprising.

[Alberta's Child]

Some are grumbling that Nagin, who is himself African American, is picking on poor black folks to score points with his white supporters, particularly in the business community.

Last I heard, there's a black woman from New Orleans on death row in Louisiana, awaiting execution for the murder of a black New Orleans cop during a botched holdup at a restaurant where the cop was moonlighting as a security guard.

Oh yeah -- the perpetrator on death row was an off-duty cop at the time of the murder, too. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about New Orleans . . .

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Not only that, but that off-duty cop had the friggin' nerve to show up and "investigate" her own crime. The cop she killed was her partner. She shot and killed him along with five (I think) workers in the Chinese restaurant.

Unfortunately for her, she didn't know there was a girl hiding in the freezer who identified her as the shooter.

They can't kill her fast enough for me.

[razorback-bert]

What is happening to the city of my childhood, when a person can't fill his rice bowl?

[alnick]

Some are grumbling that Nagin, who is himself African American, is picking on poor black folks to score points with his white supporters

Well, what do they expect? Most of the city employees are black, so it stands to reason that most of those nailed for corruption are going to be black as well.

[alnick]

Last I heard, there's a black woman from New Orleans on death row in Louisiana, awaiting execution for the murder of a black New Orleans cop during a botched holdup at a restaurant where the cop was moonlighting as a security guard.

I'm going on memory here, so it might be a bit shaky, but that's Antoinette Frank.

The part I'm having trouble with is that I seem to remember that during the murder investigation, Frank's father was discovered buried in her yard, and they found out that she murdered him too. I can't find any reference to that incident on Google, so I may be mistaken.

Does anyone else remember that?

[dtel]

Unbelievable!
This is good news, for some reason, I love that city so.

[Mugwumps]

Behind the dramatic headlines lies a fascinating, and indeed hopeful, sign of bedrock political change: the emergence of the black middle class as a distinct power player in municipal politics. New Orleans is a majority-black city, with African-Americans making up 64 percent of the electorate. Nagin was elected with 58 percent of the total vote in the April runoff, which amounted to about 80 percent of the white vote, and 44 percent of the black vote.

"If you look at the areas where Nagin did very well in the black community, it was in those middle-class areas," says Joe Walker, the mayor's pollster. "The black middle class has been developing for some time. This is probably the first time where they've been a principal force in the election of candidates."

Ping - for your list.

[trad_anglican]

Big Sleazy Sobers Up

Oops, I thought this was going to be an article about Teddy Kennedy. My bad!

[lsucat]

You're not mistaken. I remember that also.

[alnick]

Thanks.

[Plummz]

Yep, all true. The restaurant family was Vietnamese, though, not Chinee. The tv sereis Homicide did a good episode based in the Antoinette Frank case.

[mlocher]

Not everybody in New Orleans is pleased. Nearly all of those arrested in last week's sweep are black. Some are grumbling that Nagin, who is himself African American, is picking on poor black folks to score points with his white supporters, particularly in the business community

someone always has to play the race card...

[Bogey78O]

Don't get too giddy. Nagin's benn dubbed "Ray Reagan" by the liberal blacks in New Orleans. They consider him conservative.

[Bogey78O]

Not quite. Her partner was a white guy. She killed 2 Vietnamese kids who worked in the restaurant as well.

Don't forget a few years back the cop who hired a hitman to take out a lady who filed a complaint against him.

[Bogey78O]

Play it...they dealt it left and right. They're comparing it to slavery and how blacks were chained and humiliated. All because they were cuffed and lined up.

[Plummz]

Who is "they"? Avery Alexander? Who?