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Sunday, May 21, 2006

How stupid is New Orleans?

They just re-elected Ray Nagin. Are you serious?

Even Bush played nice with him.
The president called to congratulate Nagin and said he would rather finish rebuilding with the mayor because the two men had weathered Hurricane Katrina together....
If I were Bush, I'd rather have Nagin too. It gives Bush someone on whom to blame the incompetence of the handling of New Orleans. (And honestly, Nagin should be shouldering most of the blame.)

Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu likely would have used his podium as mayor to rip into the President and run for higher office.

UPDATE: Nagin says that he'll "bet anyone in this room a buck" that New Orleans will have 300,000 people by the end of the year.

A buck? That's all the confidence he has? I'll fork over a dollar!

UPDATE II: CNN is on in the background (I go off the deep end every once in a while), and Nagin was asked why clean-up operations have been so messy and slow. He responded by saying that government isn't very efficient. No kidding! Did it take Katrina for him to realize that?

posted by Joey at 5/21/2006 05:31:00 PM

5 Comments:

Blogger Laura declared,

Saw your CAII update and dropped in... I have to tell you, you don't have all the facts on this election or about what really happened here in New Orleans.

The reason so many of us wanted Nagin is because from his first week in office, he was anti-corruption. He walked the walk, even to the point of having his own cousin arrested. We've never had a more honest mayor. Did he blow it big time with Katrina? Of course, but far less than the MSM would have you believe. Nagin endorsed Republican Bobby Jindal, and the Democrats and the MSM have had the knives out for him ever since.

I find it interesting that bloggers who wouldn't dream of taking the MSM at face value on most issues are only too happy to pile on about New Orleans and Nagin. Nagin is a DINO, and he is anti-illegal immigration. He's the man you want in charge, if that federal aid ever starts arriving down here en masse.

Not Mitch Landrieu, who's never had a "real" job, whose main qualification for the political jobs he's held is his last name, who pissed away almost a million taxpayer dollars redecorating his office, and who stated publicly that he intended to bring in Marc Morial, the former Mayor, to help advise him how to spend all the federal relief... (Nagin spent a fair chunk of his first term dismantling the entrenched corruption of the Morials and the Landrieus.)

Landrieu outspent Nagin on this campaign by a factor of eight. That money was coming in, not as donations, but as INVESTMENTS because the good ol' boy network is firmly in place, and you'd better believe that Landreiu would have given out contracts accordingly.

So how stupid are we? We chose a man who is flawed, who played the race card. But we chose him over someone who was far, far worse. For once in our lives, New Orleanians chose honesty over corruption. You should be congratulating us, not insulting us.

5/21/2006 7:10 PM  
Blogger Joey declared,

Fair enough...

But in all fairness, I didn't say that because of the MSM. I said that because of comments like "New Orleans will be a chocolate city" and other factors independent of the MSM. I don't trust the MSM for much, and that includes their opinion of Ray Nagin.

Still, thanks for the input.

5/22/2006 8:21 AM  
Blogger kristi noser declared,

Joey, you continue to impress. I read this and thought, "Oh, Joey just got spanked!" And yet you are gracious with your response to Laura. Nice.

5/22/2006 10:00 AM  
Blogger Joey declared,

Thanks Kristi. If there's one thing I can't stand it's tempers flaring. People seem to flare up more often on blogs than in "real life," because no one can hear them and see them. When you don't have to worry about an actual relationship with the person, you say things you wouldn't otherwise say. It's wrong, and is one thing that can be very frustrating with the blogosphere.

5/22/2006 4:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous declared,

My stepson had 20 people sheltering in his Baton Rouge apartment. My wife was in Algiers went I met her and has many friends who have moved back.

When will people who once lived in New Orleans and may never come back be able to cancel the votes of people who actualy live there?

Perhaps Nagin will actually be able to pick up trash piled up outside houses, provide water and gas and provide other leadership.

5/23/2006 10:53 AM  

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