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FS>>> I don't think the New Orleans authorities will *allow* them back
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FS>> That would fit with the Mayor's desire, but, I suppose, he's
FS>> outnumbered by other people's opinions ...
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FS> Only on election day -- and those idiots voted him back in
FS> office!!
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Northshore Politics
Conservative and, on a good day, humorous commentary on
national politics.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Let me try to explain Nagin's re-election
Bloggers, such as Michelle Malkin
<http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005235.htm>, all around the
blogosphere this morning are astonished that Ray Nagin won
re-election. I am going to try to explain how it happened.
The first thing you have to do is go back to the days before
Katrina. Ray Nagin was a conservative businessman who was
actually a very good mayor for New Orleans. He was fighting the
in-grained corruption that has plagued the city for decades. It
was a hard fight, but slowly he was gaining ground.
Then came Katrina. I'm sure that you are all thinking of those
pictures of the flooded buses, right? Well, I don't think the
nation understands how little time we had to put plans into
action. Yes, we had years to prepare, but we only had 2, yes
TWO, days to put those plans into action. In contrast, with
Hurricane Rita, Houston started to evacuate a full week before
the storm was projected to hit land. As of Friday night before
Katrina, we were still being told that the storm was going to
Florida. We woke on Saturday to full panic mode. NO ONE WAS
PREPARED! I think that this fact has been lost in the aftermath.
Nagin delivers on his promise to unite
By TYRA M. VAUGHN <vaughn06.html> NYT Institute
Mayor C. Ray Nagin achieved two victories on May 20.
Not only did he win a highly contested mayoral runoff election,
defeating Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu by a narrow margin, but he
also made good on a promise that no one, not even the president
of the United States , thought he could keep.
?I told the president the last time he was here (in New Orleans
) that we're going to win a race where we're going to bring
together African-Americans and Republicans,? Nagin told a crowd
of parishioners at his church, St. Peter Claver in Treme, just
hours after his victory. ?And we won.?
Local political experts said race was one of the most important
factors in Nagin's election to a second term. The votes cast by
black people and those of white conservatives, who mainly vote
Republican, are what solidified the mayor's victory in the
election, the experts said.
In Louisiana: the Tortoise, the Hare and a Problem for Bubba
Jindal making inroads among black voters
By Adam Nossiter, The Associated Press, Nov 14, 2003
It's Bubba's dilemma: in Louisiana, the choice for governor is
an Indian American or a woman, and it's the woman who has the
hunting license.
Yet in this cultural patchwork, pickup trucks don't travel the
standard Southern road. The shock of what's different is
welcomed. Politics is part of life's show, and voters have
already banished the familiar ? the white male authority figure
? for something else.
So it's either a non-Anglo Saxon immigrant's son with a
gold-plated resume or a Cajun political veteran trumpeting
motherhood.
And this conservative ex-Bush administration official would be
the rare Republican to make inroads into the black vote. After
some high-profile endorsements, including one from New Orleans
Mayor Ray Nagin this week, polls show him with between 12 to 15
percent of the black vote, more than twice the usual Republican
total.
The Weekly's inside political track....
By Christopher Tidmore September 15, 2003
<http://www.louisianaweekly.com/talkback.php?article=
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Will Ewing Feel The Nagin Surge...
Less than two hours before his press conference on Tuesday, Ray
Nagin was still playing coy about his choice for Governor. He
told The Weekly when asked about his intentions, "Me, I'm just
twiddling my thumbs." Promptly at 10:00 am, though, the Mayor
introduced former Senate President Randy Ewing as his candidate
for Louisiana governor saying, "I believe this man has
the vision and will to reform this state...Randy Ewing can
deliver the results and can deliver them quickly."
Whether or not Nagin's backing will be enough to make the
Conservative Democrat from Quitman a front-running contender
remains the million-dollar question. Ewing, who is hopeful that
Nagin's endorsement will do just that, said of he and Nagin, "We
are businessmen. Not only are we businessmen, but we have worked
in business. I think it will be a wonderful team."
TOPIC: Politics
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/politics/index.html>
Online NewsHour <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/> Originally
Aired: May 22, 2006
Nagin Re-elected in Narrow New Orleans Mayoral Race
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin won re-election in a tight run-off
race Saturday, and now faces the challenge of starting the
massive rebuilding effort of the hurricane-battered city. Ray
Suarez provides an update.
Landrieu's father, Moon, was the last white mayor to lead New
Orleans in the '70s. Landrieu won a majority of the white vote
and picked up more local endorsements during the campaign.
But Nagin, a former cable television executive, captured 80
percent of the black vote and convinced enough white
conservatives that his business background would help return the
city to pre-Katrina glory.
RAY SUAREZ: For more, I am joined by Silas Lee, a professor of
sociology at Xavier University, and head of his own public
opinion research company. He is a consultant to the Democratic
National Committee and has worked for Mayor Nagin as a pollster
in this year's campaign. He's done additional work for the mayor
in the past.
And Susan Howell joins us, a professor of political science at
the University of New Orleans. She's not affiliated with any of
the candidates.
Professor Lee, in the first round of the election, Mayor Nagin
got 38 percent. Who did he add to his coalition to get to 50
percent-plus-one?
SILAS LEE, Sociology Professor, Xavier University: Well, it was
a very unusual political marriage here. You had white
conservatives coming together to support Mayor Nagin, because
they were closely aligned in his political philosophy and they
did not like the Landrieu family. Basically, they felt Mitch
Landrieu was too much of a traditional Democrat.
And you had African-Americans supporting the mayor because of
the belief that it was very important to keep him in office,
the symbolic significance of it, as well as many believe that he
was unfairly criticized for his performance after Hurricane
Katrina. And that criticism was shared by African-Americans, as
well as whites.
MSNBC.com
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Nagin retains leadership of New Orleans Incumbent narrowly
fends off challenge from Landrieu in run-off vote The Associated
Press
Updated: 12:30 a.m. ET May 21, 2006
Howard and 250 other evacuees wearing "Displaced Voter"
T-shirts were greeted by a jazz band at a City Hall rally with
Nagin and Landrieu.
Nagin predicted black voters and conservative white voters,
many of whom supported him in 2002 but defected to other
candidates in the April primary, would come together to support
him.
“Weâ€Öre going to have a coalition of African-American voters
and conservative voters that will blow peopleâ€Ös minds,†he
said Friday.
New Orleans Elections: Is Nagin Still The Real Deal?
New Orleans
Author: Jeff Crouere <author.aspx?aid=4> | 4/26/2006
Remember the old Ray Nagin? This was the candidate who
was tagged by his opponents in 2002 as Ray “Reagan†because
he made a contribution to the campaign of George W. Bush. He was
chastised as being insensitive to the Democratic Party when he
endorsed Republican Bobby Jindal in the 2003 Governorâ€Ös race.
This endorsement earned him the perpetual enmity of Jindalâ€Ös
opponent Governor Kathleen Blanco and did not win him any points
with the Landrieu family either. His African-American opponents,
especially aggrieved ministers, claimed that Nagin was a
“white man in black skin†because he was supposedly too
concerned with the business community and not concerned enough
about maintaining city contracts with religious and community
organizations. Eventually, Nagin made amends with the ministers
and except for Rev. Tom Watson and a few others, most supported
Nagin in the primary election. However, he never really patched
up his differences with the Louisiana Democratic Party. Most
party officials are staunchly supporting Lt. Governor Mitch
Landrieu in the run-off election on May 20.
At this point, Nagin is the slight underdog in the run-off
against Landrieu. Although Nagin ran first in the primary
election, as an incumbent with only 38% of the vote, the
majority of the electorate, 62%, voted for change. However,
Nagin may be able to make a serious claim for those white,
conservative, Republican voters who cast ballots for Ron Forman,
Rob Couhig and Peggy Wilson in the primary. Nagin is comfortable
talking about pro-business, conservative economic theory and he
understands the value of incentives and the bottom line. Nagin
will remind conservative voters that Landrieu has a very
anti-business voting record in the Louisiana Legislature and is
perceived as “liberal.â€
Jeff Crouere is a native of New Orleans, LA and he is the host
of a Louisiana based program, “Ringside Politics,†which
airs at 8:30 p.m. Fri. and 10:00 p.m. Sun. on WLAE-TV 32, a PBS
station, and Noon till 2 p.m. weekdays on several Louisiana
radio stations. For more information, visit his web site at
www.ringsidepolitics.com. E-mail him at
jeff@ringsidepolitics.com.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Wins Re-Election
Fox News Sunday , May 21, 2006
Nagin, a former cable television executive, was able to win
back some of the conservative white voters who supported him
four years ago but then abandoned him during the primary.
Many had sought new leadership after complaining of the slow
rate of rebuilding and the national controversy caused by
Nagin's tearful plea for the federal government to "get off
their (behinds) and do something" in the aftermath of Katrina.
His remark on Martin Luther King Day that God intended New
Orleans to be a "chocolate" city sparked outrage ? and then an
apology from Nagin.
But during the run-off campaign, Nagin actively courted
conservative white voters by emphasizing his business background
in contrast to Landrieu, a longtime politician and a member of
Louisiana's equivalent to the Kennedy family. He would have been
the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father, Moon, in
the 1970s.
"After the Martin Luther King comments and his post-Katrina
comments, his political obituary had been written," Lee said.
But Nagin won with "an unusual political shotgun marriage
between conservative whites and progressive African-Americans,"
Lee said.
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