Posted: 2/6/2010 9:39:34 PM EDT
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Nagin loses his chocolate city.
http://kdka.com/politics/New.Orleans.mayor.2.1476752.html |
Nagin Loses Bid: New Orleans Elects New MayorLouisiana's Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu In With Landslide VictoryNEW ORLEANS (AP) ―Frustrated by term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin's leadership of New Orleans since HurricaneKatrina, voters elected Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu to succeed him Saturday, turning to a political scion to speed up the city's recovery. Landrieu, 49, became the majority-black city's first white mayor since 1979, the year his father Moon left the office. The mayor-elect, a moderate Democrat, won in a landslide over a field of 10 opponents in a campaign that also focused on the city's violent crime and slumping finances. Flanked by family members including his father and his sister, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., Landrieu said the victory showed voters had decided to "strike a blow for unity." Voting came amid Carnival celebrations and preparations for the New Orleans Saints' appearance in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Landrieu's victory party was a nod to both: the ballroom of a the Roosevelt hotel — recently reopened after a post-Katrina restoration — was festooned with Saints-themed black and gold balloons. A roving brass band played Mardi Gras tunes and he prefaced his victory speech by leading the crowd in the Saints' "Who Dat" cheer. With 85 percent of precincts reporting, Landrieu had 67 percent of the vote. Landrieu, who lost to Nagin in a runoff four years ago, was a welcome change for some voters who grew frustrated with the city's current mayor. Little known outside New Orleans before Katrina, Nagin became a central, and sometimes controversial figure, in the city's struggle to recover. Though he won re-election as he courted black voters in the 2006 campaign. Nagin notoriously pledged after the hurricane that New Orleans would be a "chocolate city" again, offending many whites. Polls showed his popularity fell sharply in the years after the storm. "I certainly don't want another Ray Nagin — a businessman," said Charlotte Ford, a 76-year-old semi-retiree and registered Republican who voted for Landrieu. "They balk instead of finding out what works, how the system works." Ursula Murphy and her husband, Bill, voted early so they could avoid traffic caused by the parades. Both cast votes for Landrieu. "After eight years of negative, we're going to see some positive," Bill Murphy said. |
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Wonderful, replaced Nagin with a Landrieu  Yeah, I thought the same. But maybe there's hope that the voters are starting to think rather than simply voting based on race. Not this election but the last election there, they let people vote who were no longer residents of LA let alone N.O. not that should surprise anyone. |
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Wonderful, replaced Nagin with a Landrieu Yeah, I thought the same. But maybe there's hope that the voters are starting to think rather than simply voting based on race. Clearly the vote was based on race! 
seriously though, this guy will likely be as big a tool as the tool he's replacing, so how exactly will that play out for citizens of NOLA? hopefully theres not another Katrina on the horizon! |
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landreu sucks. the only reason he won was because there were honestly no prominent blacks running, and he is a fucking jackass too. I'm not sure how, but he managed to sound more insincere in his campaign promises this year compared to the last time he ran. ETA: just to say we are just as fucked as we were yesterday, and yes, he is related to mary. |
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Here is an old email I saved referring to an article about Reverand Jesse Lee Peterson talking about Nagan, Jackson, Farrakhan... This artice tells the truth and can be found here:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46440 Here is the text of the article. He says things here that no white man could ever write and keep his job as a author, and he speaks the truth: Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Let's say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in . Two questions: What would you do? What would you do if you were black? Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer. To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like. For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, you'll probably wait for the government to save you. This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in. No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results. Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up. Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one . Responsibility to perform legally and practically fell first on the Mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city." One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin? Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center . We know how that plan turned out. About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder. President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves. All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty not their material poverty that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so. The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America." 
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Here is an old email I saved referring to an article about Reverand Jesse Lee Peterson talking about Nagan, Jackson, Farrakhan... This artice tells the truth and can be found here: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46440 Wow, this guy doesn't hold back. |
