Getting the government they want

[Hyunchback]

The voters of New Orleans (at least those permitted to vote) got to put Gun-Grabbin Ray back in for another term.:banghead:

My condolensces to the gun owners of New Orleans.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060521/D8HNTQ8O0.html

 

[Silver Bullet]

I agree with your sentiments.

The people who voted for Nagin will get what they deserve.

Unfortunately, the people who didn't vote for him will also get what the people who did vote for him deserve.

Talk about slow learners.

 

[mountainclmbr]

I don't know what to say. Do they want the same all over again?

 

[Hyunchback]

mountainclmbr wrote:

Do they want the same all over again?

That would seem to be the message. I have to wonder which of the displaced were allowed to vote in this election, though.

You'd have thought Nagin was swimming through the flood with a baby in his teeth by this election result, rather than running away and crying how his city was drowning.

 

[Walter]

It'll be a cold day in hell before I spend a nickel in New Orleans again.

In my opinion, Nagin is an idiot not qualified to be dogcatcher,
much less mayor. But if the citizens of New Orleans want him
for their mayor, good for him, and them.

But everyone who voted for him should be forced to return to
New Orleans and live under his leadership. Or lack thereof.


Walter

 

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In my opinion, Nagin is an idiot not qualified to be dogcatcher,
much less mayor

Wow,tell us how you really feel

The only half-logical explanation I can think of is he's the devil they know.

 

[cropcirclewalker]

Not all that surprising to me.

Do you expect a den of iniquity (I mean a nest of rattlers) to elect an honorable (I meant a bunny rabbit) as mayor?

Qualify the above statement in as much as I don't necessarily think that any politician is a bunny rabbit, unless, of course that it has rabies.

The axiom applies........We get the .gov which we deserve.

 

[Walter]

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http://www.nola.com/frontpage/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137481512176100.xml

Read the text at this link and tell me how wrong I am.

Walter

 

[johnster999]

I knew he'd win. Nagin is perhaps the most successful buckpasser in recent US politics. Gotta give him that.

NO should have elected the teenager who stole the bus and drove a bunch of evacuees to Houston.

999

 

[Diamondback6]

(I mean a nest of rattlers)

HEY HEY HEY!!!! What did we of the cold and scaly set ever do you to to deserve that class of vermin being compared to us?

Be nice, y'all. (Consult signature below.)

And now I have rattled...

 

[Diomed]

Would Landrieu have been much better? Call me crazy, but I tend to assume anyone from a "political family" is about as corrupted as a month-old fish.

NO was screwed either way.

 

[Hyunchback]

Diomed wrote:

Would Landrieu have been much better?

Do I believe that Landrieu would have been BETTER? No, I don't.

What would have been better, though, would be for Gun-Grabbin Ray and his Cheif of Police to be out on their ears without a job for tampering with citizens' Constitutional rights.

What I wanted to see was a loud, clear, simple message from the people of NOLA. "Violate the 2nd Ammendment at the risk of your political carrer."

There's something about the oath I swore once, before they printed Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet on my chest. It went "... defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

Voting for Nagin would have meant violating that oath in my eyes. I don't even know if the Landrieu campaign raised that issue.

Had I been on his campaign I would have used the video of the cops tackling the woman to take away her gun the same way George The First made Willie Horton into a household word when he gave Dukakis a smackdown.

Yes, it would be dirty politics. To defend the Constitution I will fight as dirty as I have to. Those words aren't on my chest now but my oath is still in my heart.

 

[TOADMAN]

Nagin Wins the Big Easy...

What are people thinking??The folks that voted for Marion Berry twice musta moved to the Big Easy..

 

[ken grant]

N.O.

This election will effect us all.^The Mayor will be screaming for more Federal money and more Federal help while most of the people of N.O, sit on their cans and wait for someone to do their work and to pay for it as well.
The Federal Government will go to all extremes and bend over backwards to give them everything they want.
If the Feds. do anything else,the screams of RACISIM will be heard all over the world.
The Mexicans will move in and do all the work and the taxpayers will support the citizens(?) who chose just to set by and collect all the different forms of WELFARE.

 

[cane]

I wonder if he has, or will, move his family back to NO from Dallas?

 

[XavierBreath]

I'll just copy my post from TFL.....flame away.....
"How did that happen?"

Mitch Landrieu comes from a political family dynasty in a state known for political corruption. Think Moon Landrieu. Think Mary Landrieu. Think Huey, Earl, and Russell Long. Think Kennedy. Landrieu did not want the job prior to Katrina. He never ran for the job prior to Katrina. One must ask why he wanted the job post-Katrina.

Ray Nagin is the son of a janitor. He is known as the first mayor of New Orleans who fought against the corruption machine pre-Katrina. the voters of New Orleans knew his pre-Katrina record, the rest of the country did not. I'm posting an example below.

Knowing that billions of federal dollars are poised to flow into New Orleans, the voters who knew the candidates best, voted for who they felt would handle the money most appropriately. I am not a fan of Ray Nagin. I would have preferred that almost anyone get the job instead, but I cannot disagree with the voter's consenus.

Shortly after taking office, Nagin launched an anti-corruption campaign within city government, including crackdowns on the city’s Taxicab Bureau and Utilities Department. Media scenes of corrupt officials being led out of City Hall in handcuffs were received with surprised enthusiasm by much of the public. When an investigation into corruption among city vehicle inspection certification workers (locally known as “brake tag inspection”) suggested that corruption was systemic, Nagin fired the entire department workforce. He declared a month-long hiatus on inspections and a moratorium on ticketing for expired tags while an entirely new force of employees were hired and trained for the city’s brake tag inspection stations. Nagin’s actions were viewed with surprise, given the state’s history of preferential political treatment for people with social or family connections. Indeed, when Nagin was asked what should be done about his cousin, who was implicated in the taxi cab bureau scandals, Nagin said “if he’s guilty, arrest him.” Nagin’s cousin was later arrested.

Nagin is still not out of the woods on the gun confiscation issue..........

 

[Bill T]

I have zero sympathy for anyone living in New Orleans. They deserve exactly what they voted for, NOTHING! Bill T.

 

[XavierBreath]

Duplicate thread

 

[Bigjake]

All hail, Schoolbus Nagan!

Way to elect another dumb, gun grabing racist, Naw'lins! :banghead:

Evoking King, Nagin calls N.O. 'chocolate' city
Speech addresses fear of losing black culture

keep it, moron. If New Orleans is the example of a Chocolate, majority black city, you can have it.

Hell, the only reason the place is still there is money from the feds. If New Orleans were to stand on its own two feet financially.... wait, it couldn't!!

leeches

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I am absolutely dumbfounded that the people of New Orleans would re-elect this foul-mouthed, impotent man as their mayor. The whole world saw how poorly he led NO during and immediately after Katrina, how he failed to carry out pre-made disaster plans, and how all he could do was cuss about how the federal government should come bail him out.

I stupidly donated money to the people in NO after Katrina. No matter what happens to NO now, there is no way they will get any more money voluntarily from me.

The only good news in all this is that hurricane season is only another month away, and maybe God can finish the job he started last year.

 

[mountainclmbr]

Does anyone know the rationale they used for rounding up firearms from law abiding citizens? Is there some "emergency powers clause"? It seemed just crazy to me that the looting was ignored and that LEO would not refuse orders to go after the law abiding. Dr Gray from Colorado State University has noted a pattern of warming of surface waters that oscillates between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and causes more intense hurricane cycles. This pattern has about a 20 year cycle and this is supposed to be the beginning of the strong Atlantic storm cycle. I hope the LEO and politicians learned their lesson if another big storm hits a major city, but I think that I would not bet any money on it.

 

[stevelyn]

I no longer feel sorry for them.:banghead:

 

[Iggy]

Don't be too hard on NO, NY elected Hillary, and I am afraid the sheeple are foolish enough to elect her President.. If that comes to fruition, I'm glad I'm old. I don't wanna be here anymore.

 

[XavierBreath]

Does anyone know the rationale they used for rounding up firearms from law abiding citizens? Is there some "emergency powers clause"?

That is their argument, that it fell under the Emergency Powers Act. It was, of course, unconstitutional. The current line is police officers from out of state used Gov. Kathleen Blanco's emergency declaration as a legal basis to seize firearms. Of course, police officers follow orders. That order came from somewhere. Nagin and New Orleans in general have a long history of anti-gun activity. Before Katrina, they were actively going against gun manufacturers because of their crime rate, just as they had won against cigarette makers because of their cancer rate.

As the NRA releases more and more video testimony of the confiscation victim's stories, a better picture will emerge of what took place in Orleans and St. Tammany parishes. The order apparently came from above Nagin if it affected St. Tammany parish. Unless, of course Ray Nagin and Jack Strain found the time to conspire, unlikely during the aftermath of Katrina.

The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved House Bill 760 on April 25, 2006. House Bill 760 forbids law enforcement from confiscating firearms from law abiding citizens during times of civil disorder.

Senate Bill 93 sponsored by Senator Joe McPherson (D-29), House Bill 36 sponsored by Representative Pete Schneider (R-90), House Bill 136 sponsored by Representative Troy Hebert, House Bill 172 sponsored by Representative Danny Martiny (R-79), and House Bill 760 sponsored by Representative Steve Scalise (R-82), the Emergency Powers Act Amendments, are all legislative initiatives which would prevent the seizure and confiscation of legally-possessed firearms during a state of emergency. Several dozen cases of such activity were documented in New Orleans and neighboring parishes during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. All these bills would prevent similar denial of an individual’s constitutional rights by local officials in the unfortunate event of any future natural disaster in Louisiana.

 

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Walter

Read the text at this link and tell me how wrong I am.

Hey,I totally agree with you. I just found the way you said it to be very amusing .

Iggy:I'm sure there's plenty of other mayors,senators,and governors that are the same as Nagin,they just don't get any press because they've never been in the spotlight during a disasater.