Updated below — In the comments section of this post Richard notes: Interesting in that Andrew Gressett played the hidden doctor in the Dwight McKenna commercial against Minyard. Yup the same Andrew Gressett that Mauberret threw in the race to try and take votes away from Lemle. Indeed, I hadn’t realized it the few dozen […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Most consequential race flying under radar
While the mayoral campaign grabs most of the headlines, the result of the first election for the new unified tax assessor’s office could be just as consequential. For more than a century, the city had seven assessors, and each became something of a kingmaker. Without computerized records, assessors had free rein to suppress the assessed […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
That’s what he said
Plagiarize — intransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source A candidate forum for Council District C was held Wednesday night at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, sponsored by The Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates, along with a […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Rep. Maxine Waters threatens to pull federal funding
A recent hearing led by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., of the housing subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee, included a testy exchange between the madame chair and John Trasvina, an assistant secretary for U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department over discrimination in St. Bernard Parish. For about five minutes, Waters pressed Trasvina for answers […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Nagin on Nagin
Undoubtedly, Mayor Ray Nagin will go down in New Orleans history as a leader who speaks his mind. Exhibit A, of course, is his 2006 remark that the city will be “chocolate at the end of the day.” Likewise, it’s impossible to forget the mayor’s Sept. 2, 2005, command to “get every doggone Greyhound bus […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
No worse fate
Lil’ Liddy ordered to stay in New Jersey Recent reports indicate the four men accused of tampering with the phones in U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office were not attempting to place a wiretap but instead may have been attempting to elaborately prove her staff’s disinterest in answering constituent phone calls. I have a […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
What is the 'shadow government?'
In a joint appearance on WBOK-AM radio today, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley alluded once again to a conspiratorial “shadow government” that has aligned to tarnish their reputations. A caller asked them to name names. Nagin and Riley demurred, saying it would be “un-P.C.” — never mind that they’d just […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Faking out the feds
Tuesday, we posted the FBI affidavit detailing why four suspects were arrested “for the purpose of interfering with the phone system” at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. The details of their outfits caught my attention. “Flanagan and Basel entered the Hale Boggs Federal Building, each dressed in blue denim pants, a blue work shirt, a […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
O'Keefe: Neither pimp nor journalist
Since four men were arrested by the FBI for illegally entering U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office, many news media outlets have been quick to identify one of them, James O’Keefe, as a journalist – often an “investigative journalist.” They’ve also identified O’Keefe as a guy who dressed as a pimp and entered ACORN […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Louisiana Liddys dial-a-felony
Tuesday’s news that four men have been charged with attempting to commit a felony after an attempt to tamper with the phones in U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans has become a big national story. Talking Points Memo has been out in front, reporting on the backgrounds of the four men involved with […]