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| Â Nagin Wins Re-Election As Big Easy Mayor | |
| 2006-05-21 | |
 Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Nagin had 52.7 percent, or 51,885 votes, to Landrieu's 47.3 percent, or 46,625 votes.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #18 Is anyone seriously surprised? Remember a certain DC mayor caught ON TAPE smoking crack with a whore? Donks have no shame and no morals. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-05-21 20:21 |
| #17 Dear god, please tell me Mother's is up and running. I can't even think about it without my mouth watering. |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-05-21 17:24 |
| #16 I'm not sure how much saner Houston is. It has more ways out than New Orleans, but more people too - I was in their Rita traffic and in New Orleans' Katrina traffic, and I prefer New Orleans. Houston is mostly above sea level, so won't be submerged for weeks at a time, but it is low enough and close enough to the coast that a whole lot of it will submerge for a while. Plus it has even more refineries etc. to contaminate the submerging water. Give Houston a hard whack and it might be an even bigger disaster than New Orleans was (bear in mind New Orleans can still get whacked a lot worse.) Kansas? Sorry, Dorothy, somehow I don't think I'm up for Kansas anymore. (Maybe Tennessee though.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-21 13:23 |
| #15 I think this is what happens when most of the smart people take their FEMA money and get an apartment in a more sane area like Houston or Kansas. |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-05-21 12:38 |
| #14 I fully intend to keep the chicory all to myself, thank you. |
| Posted by: Matt 2006-05-21 12:38 |
| #13 Now I'm wanting some fresh hot jambalaya... And pralines. And beignets. Keep the chickory, though. |
| Posted by: me too 2006-05-21 12:34 |
| #12 I could never do that. The help there scares hell out of me. AOS? WHAT KINDA NAME IS THAT? YOU HIDDIN IN THE BACK? GET YOUR ORDER, I'M KEEPIN THIS BUT ANOTHER MINUTE |
| Posted by: 6 2006-05-21 12:32 |
| #11 6: Mothers? Keep letting folks in front of you till the pan's almost ready for re-filling - you want lots of the 'debris.' |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-21 12:30 |
| #10 Good luck, don't worry about the hurricanes, you're not due for another 80 years. Next year in New Orleans!  Rantapalooza 2007? HEY SOMEBODY FROM THIS RANTBURG ORDER A BEEF? STEP UP TO THE **** COUNTER AND GET IT! HEY WAKE UP OUT THERE, YOU WANNA EAT OR MUMBLE? |
| Posted by: 6 2006-05-21 12:09 |
| #9 Nice analysis. Now I'm wanting some fresh hot jambalaya... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-05-21 11:47 |
| #8 Good analysis, Glenmore. As near as I can tell Nagin got about 20% of the white vote and Landrieu got at least 20% of the black vote. Wish us all good luck this season. |
| Posted by: Matt 2006-05-21 11:02 |
| #7 #5 Glenmore - Y'all really didn't have much of a choice, did you? Good luck- you're gonna need it. #6 2b: "Now when things go wrong, we won't have to listen to Anderson Cooper interviewing Jessie and Al telling us how it's all white people's fault that it's all messed up down there." Sure we will. You don't think a little thing like reelecting Nagin is gonna stop the race-hustlers, do you? :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-21 10:33 |
| #6 good luck to you this season, Glenmore. I'm glad Nagin won if only because it takes the race card away from the race baiters. They now expect Nagin to get the city rebuilt, the garbage picked up, and root out corruption. Ok, maybe not root out corruption - but at least run the city. Now when things go wrong, we won't have to listen to Anderson Cooper interviewing Jessie and Al telling us how it's all white people's fault that it's all messed up down there. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-05-21 10:14 |
| #5 The choice may not have been 'for' incompetence and corruption, but between them. Landrieu is definitely more competent at 'politics' - it's the family business, and all he has ever done. As current Lt. Governor, he was also a 'proxy' for the state efforts and results related to Katrina (I know Lt. Gov. has no real authority, but if he had ideas and leadership he could have injected them and forced authority to smack him down, but he did not; he was just as shell-shocked as everybody else.) Regarding corruption - Nagin's primary focus his first two years was fighting corruption, and he even made some progress for a while until he ran into more powerful political obstacles (note the city voted out the majority of its incumbent councilmen yesterday.) Regarding evacuation and the infamous busses - the city did not evacuate people because it could not find places to take them, not so much because it did not have ways to get them there. They did not have the resources (manpower or communications) to arrange small lots (a few dozen to a church somewhere), and had to work with places that could take refugees in the thousands. That should have been arranged in advance, but never has been. Still isn't. And given the wonderful behavior of so many of our evacuees, probably won't be (would YOU take them in?) This was the least racist election I have seen in New Orleans. Both candidates had substantial support from both races. Sure, they pandered to specific audiences, which is offensive, but they did not do it city-wide. The election results will shut down national sympathy (which was mostly gone by about six months) and the money pipeline (but most of the money was imaginary, or siphoned off elsewhere along the way). And yeah, we know hurricane season is only two weeks away - why do you think I haven't put carpet back down yet? Army Corps of Engineers is trying to restore protection levels to pre-K status, and probably won't make it for a couple more months. We're digging/diking retention ponds to 'buffer' rainwater flow to fit reduced pump capacity due to plans to close canals against storm surge. I'm not sure it is all a battle worth fighting, but Nero is most assuredly not sitting here fiddling. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-21 09:54 |
| #4 It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-05-21 05:08 |
| #3 No choice worth the trouble, unless you're trying to re-establish your graft and kickback income stream... Crook vs. Crook. They chose the racist one. Beautiful. Sad situation. NOLA business as usual. |
| Posted by: random styling 2006-05-21 02:21 |
| #2 "N'Awlins voters get the gummint they deserve..." Ya' beat me to it, Fred. They obviously want incompetence and corruption. Not to mention lots of money from those of us who are NOT incompent and corrupt. Wonder if they noticed that hurricane season is here again? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-21 01:33 |
| #1 I was thinking about this today, Nagin who actually tried to make a difference or Landrieu, whose family's screwed LA for decades. Decisions, decisions...... Does this send a message to Mary? Is her seat secure? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-05-21 00:52 |