You’re on your own, New Orleans
New Orleans re-elected Ray Nagin as Mayor. Ray “what busses?” Nagin. Unbelievable. Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin. Viva l’incompétence.
In his victory speech, Nagin said “folks who went to the other side, who went to the red-light district, I forgive you.” Apparently if you don’t vote for him, you’re a prostitute. He later explained that he only meant it as a metaphor. Sort of how I’d like to see Ray Nagin tarred and feathered… metaphorically.
With this election, I wash my hands of this stupid, underwater city. Rub-a-dub-dub. Have fun in the “tub.”
[...] But I can explain it easily: Nagin was the lesser of two evils. As a moderate Democrat, Nagin frightened the business owners a lot less than Landrieu, whom they perceived as a corrupt liberal wacko with too many of his family members in high places, despite being widely criticized for incompetence in his handling of Hurricane Katrina. “Some people were seeing a vote for Nagin as a way of stopping Mary Landrieu when she runs for re-election in 2008,” said Errol Laborde, editor of New Orleans Magazine and producer of a weekly television news roundtable. [...]
LOL. Word!
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