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Originally Posted by janelle
I was shocked when Nagin got reelected but at least Blanco got thrown out.
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Blanco dropped out rather then run for her second term. Her biggest mistakes were that she trusted the local goverments to act on the evacuation plans that had writen down. They didn't ... they were in as much denial as their constituants. NOT just Nagin ... although he was the worst for not following his own plans and they whining and crying about the results. The flooded buses were abaobdoned because he ordered the drivers to evacuate, The pump operators were also ordered to leave, so no one was there to man the pumps when the power failed.
To make matters worse, she was bracketed by incompetance ... this time by Fema's Brown ... who was more interested in how he looked on tv press conferences then actually doing his JOB. Firefighting equipment sat in Houston while the warehouses and docks of Port Orleans burned on national TV because Brown refused to release them until the proper forms were filled out.
At one point a few years ago, Brown was offfered a post in Rebuild St Bernard ... ( remember Chalmette ? ) rumor has it they were trying to lure him down there ... and he would have suffered a mysterious fishing accident.
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I have heard LA is a corrupt state so he may have a big machine behind him. ?????
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Think Chicogl politics in the 20's but with better food.
Nagin was re elected because he does have a powerful machine behind him, and his main opponent was Mitch Landriue, brother to Sentator Mary Landriue and all part of the powerful and corrupt Moriel Machine whom no one wanted back in power.