Townhall.com :: Nagin's re-election a victory for incompetence

I didn't think I was and glad to see I'm not the only one that feels that way. (see saturday's post below).

I'm upset as a taxpayer that so many of our federal tax dollars are being thrown into the swamp down there to rebuild a city led by total incompetence.

"As FoxNews reports today, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has 'narrowly' won re-election to his mayoral office today. This, despite his complete incompetence in both preparing for Hurricane Katrina and in the now-infamous aftermath. (Surely you haven't forgotten the details, like the fleet of school buses sitting useless in standing water.) And then there was his famously racist comment about New Orleans needing to remain 'a chocolate city.' (As other writers have noted, can anyone seriously contemplate a white guy running for reelection appealing to voters to keep a city 'vanilla'?)

What Nagin's reelection ensures, is that New Orleans will remain a predominantly poor and dismally unprepared city.

The only thing Nagin managed to do (and he had LOTS of help here) was to blame the whole thing on the federal government. So when the next big one hits, and New Orleans is devastated once again, it won't be his fault then, either.

Nagin's a joke, but it's the New Orleans voters who are pathetic."

Speaking of Louisiana corruption, here's another gem. This must be what they mean by "Cold Hard Cash" I guess.

CNN Washington: Federal agents searched the Capitol Hill office of a Louisiana congressman under investigation on bribery charges Sunday, while newly released court papers said agents found $90,000 in cash last year in his Washington home.

n a 95-page affidavit used to obtain a warrant for the office search, investigators stated that an August 2005 search of Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's home turned up the cash sum in a freezer.

The money was divided among various frozen food containers, according to the heavily redacted affidavit.

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