Lee Zurik vs. Ray Nagin

[Gourmondo]

It's been an ongoing snit since C-Ray got his panties in a wad because WWL wouldn't kiss his a**. Everyone should turn on Cox 15 tonite and watch the exchange between Zurik and Nagin that leads tonight's news. It shows better than I can describe what an total friggin a-hole Nagin is. I can't believe we have to endure two more years of this farce. Isn't there some sort of spray we can use on him? Jeez!!!:mad::mad:

[dragongrrl]

I'm out of town. Can you say what happened?

[peychaud]

Not gonna lie. I'm enjoying it.

[justagirl]

Since Nagin is so "over New Orleans" as he put it, why doesn't he just leave, resign and let us have someone in office who actually cares and wants to do a good job for the city and it's people?

Nagin's a damn waste. He and Riley need to go.

[edible complex]

I'm out of town. Can you say what happened?

http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl073008mlleenoah.1b2e43e5.html

for the story and video

[Alex]

I saw it when I got home from work. Nagin is an idiot and/or crook. I wish I had time to give a more detailed post, but that sums it up rather well.

[GuySajerForgottenSoldier]

Nagin will be gone soon enough. Then the real recovery can begin. If Mitch Landrieu had won, nothing would be happening now and you'd have another 4 years of Mitch to come.

[peychaud]

Nagin will be gone soon enough. Then the real recovery can begin. If Mitch Landrieu had won, nothing would be happening now and you'd have another 4 years of Mitch to come.

You are 100 percent wrong.

The fact that Republicans voted for Nagin using your ridiculous rationale is why he was elected. If you did not vote for Landrieu, you deserve C. Ray and everything he has--and has not--done. Enjoy your Chocolate City.

[Pelican Six]

Nice analysis while being completely factually incorrect, peychaud. The reason Nagin was elected to his first term was by running as a conservative, tough-on-crime friend of business. He got 85% of the white vote and a 40% of the black vote BECAUSE HE RAN AS A CONSERVATIVE.

In his re-election bid, he ran as a paranoid, racist, whitey-hatin', evacuation and recovery bungling nincompoop who gets midnight visits from Martin Luther King ala Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. His demographics were completely reversed: 80% of the black vote and 20% of the white vote.

Further complicating matters was the sheer number of candidates splitting the conservative vote: Ron Forman, Rob Couhig, Virginia Boulet and Peggy Wilson. Plus, our stupid open primary system which results in two Democrats in the runoff.

I'm not going to mention the national movement by professional grievance-mongers like the ACLU and NAACP to set up "satellite" voting stations for displaced (black) voters in other states and the resulting bus drives to support the black candidate, or the preponderance of idiots like "Mama D" claiming that "they" blew up the levees to kill and/or flood out black people, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE RACIST TO EVEN MENTION IT.

But yes, peychaud, other than that, Ray Nagin was elected by Republicans.

[peychaud]

Nagin won the runoff by 5,329 votes. In the primary, Couhig, a Republican, picked up 10,287 and Foreman, a conservative Democrat, picked up 18,734.

Had just 1/5 of those Republican and/or conservative-leaning voters supported Landrieu, he would have won. They didn't, and the embarrassment that is Mayor Ray Nagin is the result.

If you did not vote for Landrieu, you deserve Nagin.

Who did you vote for?

[Pelican Six]

Who did you vote for?


Manny "Chevrolet" Bruno. Satisfied, you smarmy little man?

If you did not vote for Landrieu, you deserve Nagin.


So, if I don't support the furtherance of yet ANOTHER Louisiana family political dynasty, I deserve a paranoid racial separatist?

Or put another way, if I didn't vote for David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, I deserved Edwin Edwards, the convicted felon?

According to your (il)logic, Landrieu was the conservatives' clear choice. Go take a nap, peychaud. Obviously this attempt at adult conversation has overtaxed your mental faculties.

[LauraMc]

I never understood why Landrieu ran for mayor. What has he ever done as Lt. Gov. that helped with the recovery?

[GuySajerForgottenSoldier]

You are 100 percent wrong.

The fact that Republicans voted for Nagin using your ridiculous rationale is why he was elected. If you did not vote for Landrieu, you deserve C. Ray and everything he has--and has not--done. Enjoy your Chocolate City.

You're entitled to your opinion. I did not vote in the election as I no longer live in NO. But I understand exactly why many people voted for Nagin (and against Moon Landrieu's spawn) after the storm. None of the ones I know are Repubs, so I don't get your point.

[Vargbazum]

That was some serious ownage. Poor Peychaud.

[Blue Cross Sux]

I understand exactly why many people voted for Nagin (and against Moon Landrieu's spawn) after the storm.

Elucidate us on what exactly you understand.

[Blue Cross Sux]

So, if I don't support the furtherance of yet ANOTHER Louisiana family political dynasty, I deserve a paranoid racial separatist?

Or put another way, if I didn't vote for David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, I deserved Edwin Edwards, the convicted felon?

According to your (il)logic, Landrieu was the conservatives' clear choice.

This has to be one of your most incoherent posts yet. And coming from you, that's saying a lot.

Let me try to break this down for you. If you and your klan vote for Nagin, Nagin is what you get and Nagin is what you deserve, in all his steaming glory. Understand, cupcake?

This was a close election between two candidates with stark contrasts. One, Landrieu, was calm, sober, collected, intimately involved with the levers of government and fully prepared to proceed with renewal in an organized, methodical fashion. On the other pole, you had Nagin, a jabbering baboon, a burned out husk of a man who, by all accounts and all appearances, was utterly broken by Katrina. He was spent, shot, reeling. Toast on wheels. Or didn't you notice?

The choice was clear. But only for the clear-headed, it would seem. You want Nagin, you got him. Unfortunately, so do the rest of us.

I hope I've made things simple enough for you. I know beyond arrogance and pugnacity you bring little to the table. Certainly not much in the way of brain power.

[Suzy Wong]

I wonder how mnay native New Orleanians voted for Landrieu, I can't stand that family.
I NEVER jumped on the Nagin band wagon way back when almost everyone else was....

that said, I am curious who here (discussing this topic) actually resides and is able to vote in Orleans parish?:confused:

[GuySajerForgottenSoldier]

I see no need to explain myself to the likes of you.

[flyinbayou]

This has to be one of your most incoherent posts yet. And coming from you, that's saying a lot.

Let me try to break this down for you. If you and your klan vote for Nagin, Nagin is what you get and Nagin is what you deserve, in all his steaming glory. Understand, cupcake?

This was a close election between two candidates with stark contrasts. One, Landrieu, was calm, sober, collected, intimately involved with the levers of government and fully prepared to proceed with renewal in an organized, methodical fashion. On the other pole, you had Nagin, a jabbering baboon, a burned out husk of a man who, by all accounts and all appearances, was utterly broken by Katrina. He was spent, shot, reeling. Toast on wheels. Or didn't you notice?

The choice was clear. But only for the clear-headed, it would seem. You want Nagin, you got him. Unfortunately, so do the rest of us.

I hope I've made things simple enough for you. I know beyond arrogance and pugnacity you bring little to the table. Certainly not much in the way of brain power.

I'm guessing you are either not as educated as you or your PAL Peychaud may think you are or you don't live here.

Pick one.

[Pelican Six]

On the other pole, you had Nagin, a jabbering baboon,


Nicely done, racist.


If I wanted to irritate you further, I'd point out that:

You should really absorb what you've just read before replying to it, lest you make a fool of yourself,

The parallel between the runoff in the mayor's race and the runoff between Edwards and Duke is that they both left conservatives with equally unacceptable choices,

And that, your tongue-bath of Mitch Landrieu notwithstanding, there is not a whit of difference between him and any other member of the Louisiana Democratic machine.

But I'm trying to cut down on my pugnacity, so I'll just let it slide.

Have a special day! :)

[BTG]

Can we all just agree that Nagin is a nutt nibler and we need to start thinking about who is going to take his place?
It seems we have some people on the city council who want to do good and they are headed down the right path. You N.O. people need to work together to keep the light on the cock roaches and not let the race baiters creep into this crap to mess it all up.

[Pelican Six]

I wonder how mnay native New Orleanians voted for Landrieu, I can't stand that family.
I NEVER jumped on the Nagin band wagon way back when almost everyone else was....

that said, I am curious who here (discussing this topic) actually resides and is able to vote in Orleans parish?:confused:

I was living in Lakeview in 2002 and voted for Nagin. See above for the reasons why he appealed to me then.

By the time of the 2006 runoff, I was living in Kenner. However, since many of Nagin's voters hadn't lived in the state for eight months, I felt I was more than qualified to cast a vote. :)

[PNG]

Since Nagin is so "over New Orleans" as he put it, why doesn't he just leave, resign and let us have someone in office who actually cares and wants to do a good job for the city and it's people?

Nagin's a damn waste. He and Riley need to go.

NO NO NO! What kind of boring dump would New Orleans be without these two wonders? I want them to stay forever. They have done very well so far. New Orleans may lose it's pro-crime majority paradise status if some idiot comes in and starts making changes. Nagin was elected to his office due to his remarkable abilities and the great aptitude he showed for running the city in his first term. Stop trying to deny the people what they truly want in the city of New Orleans. So there! Do not make me play the race card on you..............

[cstoehr]

To nullify the race card, Kathleen Blanco should run for office again and that would make it a trifecta! Nagin, Riley and Blanco....:p

[GuySajerForgottenSoldier]

Man, that is not even funny. But I'm sure Peychaud and his friend would also nominate EWE to that list.

[PNG]

Personal sentiment has clouded our judgement here. The one person who cares enough for New Orleans to be the mayor is that chick that went to speak to congress on the telly. What was her name? The one who said the pro-crime majority should be moved back into the paradise that is public housing in the city and who let everyone know that the levies were blown with dynamite by the hand of the so called white man. I vote for her. She truly cares about the city. I can think of nobody else who will bring New Orleans back to it's prestorm glory of love and kindness.

[PNG]

First Nagin steals from the city for his kids, and now for his brother in law. How stupid can you sheep be? He must stay in control of the city. Do you want the Morials back? They would steal from the city to benefit their family members. Stop being so stupid!

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/new_orleans_suspends_home_reha.html

"The program has fallen far short of those goals, and the mayor has since attempted to distance himself from the program -- though it emerged this week that his brother-in-law was one of NOAH's highest-paid contractors. In addition, under its bylaws, NOAH's board members all serve at the pleasure of the mayor."

[GuySajerForgottenSoldier]

Personal sentiment has clouded our judgement here. The one person who cares enough for New Orleans to be the mayor is that chick that went to speak to congress on the telly. What was her name? The one who said the pro-crime majority should be moved back into the paradise that is public housing in the city and who let everyone know that the levies were blown with dynamite by the hand of the so called white man. I vote for her. She truly cares about the city. I can think of nobody else who will bring New Orleans back to it's prestorm glory of love and kindness.


Mama... something'. Mama D???

[Turbodog]

That's it, Guy, Mama D.

What a joke.

[PNG]

Yes! That is she. How could she be worse than what is in place now?