New Orleans Elects White Mayor

New Orleans Elects White Mayor

english.aljazeera.net

…New Orleans, which is predominantly African American, has elected its first white mayor in 32 years.

Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat, ...won the elections with 66.5 per cent of the vote as his closest competitor Troy Henry, a black Democrat with extensive corporate experience, finished with only 12.8 per cent in Saturday's vote.

Landrieu has become the city's first white mayor since his father Moon Landrieu left the position in 1978.

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Al-Jazeera goes on to report the obstacles facing Landrieu.

The new mayor must manage billions of dollars in federal reconstruction aid and a depleted city treasury.

Moreover, city hall and the police department are rife with scandals.

According to the state treasurer, violence remains high, which is repelling potential investors from the city that has a lot more rebuilding to do.

The Wall Street Journal focuses more on the positive.

He won more than 65% of votes with 96% of precincts reporting, despite the fact he was just one of 11 candidates in the race.

Mr. Landrieu will succeed term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin, whose popularity has fallen in recent years as he struggled to revive New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

...He didn't explicitly address race in his talk, but spoke of the city overcoming its divisions to focus on its similarities. "The people of the city of New Orleans did a very extraordinary thing today," he said. "We decided that we were going to stick the pole in the ground and strike a blow for unity, strike a blow for a city that decided to be unified rather than divided."

NPR looks a bit more closely at the city's frustrations with rebuilding after Katrina, and with Nagin's leadership..

Frustrated by term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin's leadership of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, voters elected Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu to succeed him Saturday, turning to a political scion to speed up the city's recovery.

...Though he won re-election as he courted black voters in the 2006 campaign, Nagin notoriously pledged after the hurricane that New Orleans would be a "chocolate city" again, offending many whites.

Landrieu did not address race explicitly in his victory speech. Instead, he said, "The people of the city of New Orleans did a very extraordinary thing today. We decided that we were going to stick the pole in the ground and strike a blow for unity, strike a blow for a city that decided to be unified rather than divided."

In a TV interview after his victory speech, Landrieu admitted that race was a big issue.

"People that say that race isn't an issue are either blind or deaf," he said. "But you can't go around it. You can't go over it. You have to go through it and deal with it."

Landrieu won 66% of the vote against 10 other candidates. And now, he carries the city's hopes.


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It doesn't matter if they are white or black.

They are all corrupt which is how they get their positions in the first place.

Stop making it a race issue. It's an ideology issue and the Bankers NWO is the greatest tyranny on Earth.

It doesn't matter if they are white or black.

They are all corrupt which is how they get their positions in the first place.

Stop making it a race issue. It's an ideology issue and the Bankers NWO is the greatest tyranny on Earth.

I never thought i'd see this day, now I don't have to worry about putting gas in my car, paying my mortgage, i'll leave messages on bill collectors voicemails telling them it's over we got the first white mayor!!!


Oh who cares anymore... the Colts lost.... I need like a billion zoloft now.

Originally posted by soficrow

Landrieu won 66% of the vote against 10 other candidates. And now, he carries the city's hopes.

Good news all around ... and just goes to show us, that despite many people's efforts to further racially divide the US, the people are smarter than that.

President and mayor are a shining example that we are progressing beyond skin tone.

No matter his heritage, let us hope for the sake of nola, that he does a good job.
That city really needs it.

QUESTION: is the Senator that just had a break in , in her office, Mary Landrieu related to the new mayor or is that a coincidence?

Originally posted by wiseone11
QUESTION: is the Senator that just had a break in , in her office, Mary Landrieu related to the new mayor or is that a coincidence?

Mary is (mayor) Landrieu's sister as I recall.

PS. Thanks SD. And I'm with you here, hoping:

President and mayor are a shining example that we are progressing beyond skin tone.

-sofi



Ed to add wrd for clarity


[edit on 7-2-2010 by soficrow]

Originally posted by wiseone11
QUESTION: is the Senator that just had a break in , in her office, Mary Landrieu related to the new mayor or is that a coincidence?

As Landrieu, 49, a four-term state lawmaker from Broadmoor who has served as Louisiana's No. 2 official for six years, prepares to assume what is arguably the most powerful political job in the New Orleans region, his sister, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, begins her 13th year in the U.S. Senate. Another sister, Madeleine, sits on the Civil District Court bench.www.nola.com...

Suspecting that google is as available to you as it is to me, I presume your question was rhetorical ...

reply to post by wiseone11


Edited: because I was too slow!

[edit on 7-2-2010 by WTFover]

Originally posted by Jinni
They are all corrupt which is how they get their positions in the first place.

Especially true in Louisiana, an oil-rich state that has suffered from corrupt Democrat control since the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

It's still a corrupt state.

All Hurricane Katrina did was expose the corruption, as when the governmental infrastructure of New Orleans essentially collapsed at the height of the storm, the police department walked off the job when they were needed most, and the police who returned to their jobs in the days that followed were seen and videotaped looting right alongside the thousands of other vandals.

New Orleans government is sickeningly corrupt, and Mayor Ray Nagin was one of the most inept and corrupt and racist officials that ever graced the mayor's office in that city.

Seriously, if a white mayor of any other American city ever went on the record saying, "It's time for us to rebuild our city — the one that should be a sugary white city. This city will be a majority White Caucasian city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have this city no other way..... This city will be sugary white at the end of the day," you can bet your ass that such a racist would be tarred and feathered, if not brought up on charges.

Yet, Ray Nagin said exactly that — that New Orleans is and would be a "chocolate city" because "God wants it" that way — and that racist sonofabitch was hailed for his corrupt "leadership"... Disgusting.

When FEMA moved into Louisiana after the storm, they should have removed every major politician from office and instituted permanent martial law in that state — or at least until the corruption was rooted out, which could have taken years. Not only that, but Louisiana should have paid out restitution to the other states who kindly accepted New Orleans storm refugees, only to be rewarded with a spike in violent crime thereafter.


— Doc Velocity

Originally posted by schrodingers dog

Originally posted by wiseone11
QUESTION: is the Senator that just had a break in , in her office, Mary Landrieu related to the new mayor or is that a coincidence?

As Landrieu, 49, a four-term state lawmaker from Broadmoor who has served as Louisiana's No. 2 official for six years, prepares to assume what is arguably the most powerful political job in the New Orleans region, his sister, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, begins her 13th year in the U.S. Senate. Another sister, Madeleine, sits on the Civil District Court bench.www.nola.com...

Suspecting that google is as available to you as it is to me, I presume your question was rhetorical ...

I heard that much of funding to rebuild New Orleans wasn't getting to the city because it was so corrupt. But Greg Palast did reports on that city and you have to go to his site to see but I will post a link to one. But I think that corruption is being set with his sister the US Senator and his other sister a sitting judge and him the mayor of the city. I have a strange feeling that this was pushed and pushed hard for him to win.

www.gregpalast.com...'n-word's-out-of-there%E2%80%9D/

Nagin/Landrieu No difference whatsoever.

Landrieu was handed the win when his sister, Katrina Mary, was bribed into voting for the doomed Health Care deal.

Louisiana overall is a Conservative state, with New Orleans being the main exception.

Oh and "Who Dat, say they gonna beat them Saints, Who Dat?"

Woo hooooooooooo! Super Bowl Champions!

Originally posted by Carseller4
Louisiana overall is a Conservative state, with New Orleans being the main exception.

I'm from Houston, Texas originally, a scant 90 miles from the Sabine River, and I spent a lot of time in Louisiana in my life, visiting, touring and working there. I know a lot of people in Louisiana and have kin there, and I can tell you straight away that it's not a "conservative" state — the overwhelming majority of governors and high elected officials and appointed judges over the decades have been Democrats, and socialist Democrats, at that.

Which accounts for the extreme corruption all over the state for many, many decades, not merely in New Orleans.

While a very rich oil-producing and oil-refining state, Louisiana has an appalling dependence on the Welfare system, which is perpetuated by liberals in high office — that's why they're voted into office time and again. The entire state of Louisiana would riot if you tried to cut off their fraudulently-obtained Welfare checks.

And I'm not pointing at lower-class blacks, either, but at ALL the Welfare frauds in Louisiana, including the whites and Cajuns who defraud the system.

Louisiana is a state of frauds who elect frauds with regularity, and the elected frauds reward the Welfare frauds by looking the other way. See the way their Democrat senator accepted bribes to support the weak-ass Healthcare Reform debacle — the Dems had to bribe their own members to support it, and she boasted about taking the money with a smile.

Originally posted by Carseller4
Oh and "Who Dat, say they gonna beat them Saints, Who Dat?" Woo hooooooooooo!

Super Bowl Champions!

C'mon, 31 to 17 is like amateur football. A decent Superbowl score is in the single digits and low double-digits.

An on-sides kick that early in the game? What the hell was that? A high school football strategy??

— Doc Velocity

Originally posted by Doc Velocity
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While a very rich oil-producing and oil-refining state, Louisiana has an appalling dependence on the Welfare system, which is perpetuated by liberals in high office — that's why they're voted into office time and again. The entire state of Louisiana would riot if you tried to cut off their fraudulently-obtained Welfare checks.

And I'm not pointing at lower-class blacks, either, but at ALL the Welfare frauds in Louisiana, including the whites and Cajuns who defraud the system.

Can we assume you also include CORPORATE wealth-fare bums?

Poised to Profit from Katrina: Halliburton, Houston Head the List

As predicted, Halliburton got a big chunk of the Katrina clean up contract, starting with a $500 million U.S. Navy contract for emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and marine facilities. In July 2005, Halliburton subsidiary KBR won the contract to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters. Clean up in New Orleans will proceed "when it's safe to do so." The trend of businesses moving from New Orleans to Houston "abruptly accelerated," and business is booming in everything from real estate to hardware. Texas got a major labor grant from the federal government to "help Katrina evacuees." And it turns out that FEMA outsourced hurricane recovery planning to a consulting firm called Innovative Emergency Management (IEM).

If Louisiana is such " a very rich oil-producing and oil-refining state," then why do its residents have to depend on the Welfare system, so appallingly, just to eat?

Could it be that the "very rich oil-producing and oil-refining" barons don't like to share? Anything?

...Not to take away from your main thesis - which I tend to support - Louisiana is rife with corruption (just like our other corporate governments).

We only differ slightly here - I blame the corporate wealth-fare bums for draining the trough; you blame poor people.

- sofi

Who cares what color the mayor is? what the F*** is wrong with you people. Will he help the city? Will he stop municipal corruption? I thought we were supposed to look past color of skin.
Great Western Nation my ass. A giant melting pot of Sh** is more like it.

Originally posted by Le Colonel

Who cares what color the mayor is? ... I thought we were supposed to look past color of skin.

On the surface, a good pointed question. But as Schrodingers Dog pointed out:

...just goes to show us, that despite many people's efforts to further racially divide the US, the people are smarter than that.

President and mayor are a shining example that we are progressing beyond skin tone.

No matter his heritage, let us hope for the sake of nola, that he does a good job.
That city really needs it.

-sofi