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  • New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin headed to Super Bowl XLIV on taxpayers' dime

    02/07/2010 1:40:08 PM PST · by MplsSteve · 18 replies · 431+ views
    New Orleans Times-Picayune ^ | 2/07/10 | Michelle Krupa - Staff Reporter
    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,"...