Mirrors

Things can change, but it won’t come with the current attitude of Louisiana’s people. I’m tired of blaming our elected officials; they are simply a mirror image of us. They are a reflection of our state’s values, hopes, and dreams. They’re us; we’re them. Louisiana is the way it is because we want it that way. When we don’t want it anymore, it will stop.
Chad E. Rogers

The above is excerpted from a commentary by the publisher of TheDeadPelican.com It is not only dead-on accurate, but poetic and prophetic.

Every day we read stories, letters, editorials and opinions blaming elected and appointed officials from the members of the Orleans Levee Board to our Congressional delegation to the Governor for the failure to address the problems we face in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In each case, either we elected the officials at fault or we elect the person who appointed the officials at fault.

Not only can we vote against each of those at fault at the next election, but we have a mechanism for recalling each one and having an election now. The fact that one-third (number needed for a recall election) of the voters in LA don’t choose to exercise that right is evidence that at least a majority of us are either satisfied with the status quo or apathetic.

What LA needs more than FEMA trailers and levees are more mirrors.

C.B.