How did Nagin get re-elected?

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How in God's name did the folks from New Orleans decide a completely incompetent moron, as intellectually vapid as Ray Nagin, should be re-elected after his pitiful lack of ability to do anything but complain about everyone on earth but himself during Katrina?

Did they have some type of 'hanging chad" problem with the ballot or something? Was it done by electronic ballot, and someone planted a virus?
 
The same reason Marion Barry keeps getting reelected, the same reason OJ Simpson was found not guilty, and the same reason the Rodney King riots happened.
 
What played out as shocking and outrageous on the national level worked successfully at the local level.

Hurricane season approches...... I hope the Hyatt Hotel has stocked up for his next stay.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/chapter4.html

In fact, the New Orleans Mayor’s Office operated out of a Hyatt Hotel for several days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, unable to establish reliable communications with anyone outside the hotel for nearly forty-eight hours. This meant that the Mayor was neither able to effectively command the local efforts, nor was he able to guide the State and Federal support for two days following the storm.
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on another site i go on someone was talking about how the other guy running was very corrupt, and from a very corrupt new orleans family. i say, whatever. i figure the black community there was responding favorably to his call for a chocolate city. and i guess, who could blame them?....corrupt white guy or guy who's proud to be black? personally, i vote that the state orders mandatory evacuations so as to avoid any unnecessary loss of life, and we use my weather machine to ensure that there's a hurricane this season that finishes the job. letting that city limp forward is like letting a horse with a broken leg try to finish a race.
 
-Inbreeding in more prevelant in some parts of the country more than others; ever heard of the Grafts & Corruptions?

-Some of the dead folks been voting the same way for decades!

-Money talks and Ballot Stuffing walks to the podium for acceptance speech.
 
The answer to this question should be as clear as black and white.
 
Louisiana has always ALWAYS been home to political corruption.

Look at Rep. William Jefferson, who is up on charges by the FBI. T

he former governor of Louisiana, Edwin Edwards, who went to prison, who bragged "The only way I won't get re-elected is if I am caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy." is another example of the type of politician Louisiana has produced.

Of course, the icon of Louisiana politics was Governor Huey Long, who didn't believe in defeating political opponents, but in destroying them. Ironically, Long was later killed, most likely by his own overzealous bodyguards who shot Long's assailant 60 times.

We need to see if we can swap Kurdistan for Louisiana. The Kurds would fit in nicely with the rest of America, and Louisiana would fit in nicely with the Sunnis and Shiites of Iraq, and the political landscape.:p
 
Well guys, I was just thinking that since he wouldn't go into the Superdome to talk with, or personally see his victims of neglect, they would figure out he wasn't actually "leading them throuth the nations worst natuaral disaster" as the leading sentence of the Houston Chronicle characterized him this past Sunday.

Surely they could figure out, he was responsible personally for not ordering those buses to be loaded, that sat there until and got flooded.

I cannot understand how racial preference, would over-ride one's individual wish for survival. Surely they know there is at least a 20 percent chance it can happen again, as soon as within one month?

What a bunch of morons to re-elect a guy that hasn't the first clue how to run a damned Burger King, much less run a municipality.
 
The Landrieu family has a long History of corruption in La. The folks there figured an incompetent who was at least honest would be better than an incompetent political hack from way back, who would rob them blind for every cent of the rebuilding money.

The choice was really bad or even worse so folks voted for really bad.
 
Herds of morons filing into a polling place of course.......though Landrieu is no better than Nagin. Except Nagin has no idea what he is doing. Landrieu knows what he is doing and perhaps makes him all the more dangerous as there is a plan.....Anyways those fools get the government they deserve for voting as they do. I advise all decent people in New Orleans to head North....
 
Sadly, like many American elections, he won because the alternative was worse. :rolleyes:

I still think that the best system of government would be the "Abductocratic Republic"... That's where the best qualified people for office are dragged, kicking and screaming, into public office.

I think it would make a great SF short-story or novella. The protagonist is a brilliant, pragmatic, and honest individual, and for that, the government hunts him/her mercilessly. A futuristic manhunt, reminiscent of "Logan's Run", or the end of "Fahrenheit 451" ensues, and when the protagonist is finally cornered, captured, and submits, is given the oath of office...
 
New Orleans voters

Here's as good an answer as any:

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=7132

"Nagin´s New Orleans: A Chocolate City With A Vanilla Twist"

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Why did so many white voters return to Nagin, allowing him to triple his showing among this key segment of the electorate in the run-off? The explanation for the increased white vote and to the election itself was Rob Couhig’s endorsement of Nagin. Couhig, a Republican businessman who ran a strong 4th in the primary, gave Republicans and conservative white voters the security they needed to vote for Nagin. Republicans clearly saw that President Bush favored Nagin to win, as evidenced by his warm embrace of the Mayor during his visits to New Orleans. In addition, many Republicans were uncomfortable voting for a Landrieu and continuing what they saw as a political dynasty. Mitch’s father was mayor, his sister is U.S. Senator, another sister is a judge and his aunt is President of the School Board. It was all too much for many GOP voters. On Friday before the election, I spoke to a meeting of Republican women in New Orleans. Many were wearing buttons that read, “Another vanilla sister for our chocolate brother.” At that meeting, there was a strong sentiment that Nagin was the better alternative and that “President Bush supports him.” At that point, I knew Landrieu was history.
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Landrieu represented the National old-line Democrat machine, and would probably have been even worse. Nagin, as incompetent as he is, doesn't play ball with the machine.
 
I cannot understand how racial preference, would over-ride one's individual wish for survival
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This sounds like a typical vanilla viewpoint . . . :rolleyes:

My theory? People consider Nagin to be an incompetent, corrupt, crook. His opponent was viewed as just as corrupt and crooked, but hadn't demonstrated the complete ineptitude of Nagin.

And a competent crook can do even MORE damage . . .

Best thing that could happen is another levee breech while the city is still deserted . . . then MAYBE we wouldn't be spending untold billions to build below sea level again.
 
Art, unlike most politicians this one has made DIRECT threats and actions against lawful gun owners so it seems to me to be High Road material.

This isn't just some run of the mill corrupt politician, this is one that gave direct orders to law enforcement that the Second Amendment be violated, and has continued to ignore court orders that he fix that problem.

He's a direct enemy of those that believe in the 2A, not just another dirtbag politician.
 
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