Another black eye for Chocolate City Monday, Jan 23 2006 

I’m not certain that a black eye can be given to a Chocolate City or whether that is politically-correct to say, but the column in Sunday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal is certainly not going to instill confidence in Congress that anyone in New Orleans or LA can be trusted.

Remember Mayor Nagin sending weary police, fire and first responders to Las Vegas for R&R. Who would have thought the offer from Las Vegas would be abused. Here’s a few excerpts from the column:

“The city of New Orleans chose which of its employees would be sent to Las Vegas.”

The majority of seats on the first flight to Vegas, however, were filled by Nagin’s aides, janitors and people who don’t work for New Orleans at all.

Of the 56 people who took the first flight, 12 worked for the Fire Department, two worked for the Police Department and eight for the Health Department.

On the first flight of 56 people, 23 don’t work for the city. Of those, just nine appear to be companions of employees.

Companions were permitted to come on the trips. Malcolm Munster, who is listed as a Fire Department employee, brought five companions. Many others brought three or four companions.

A tip of the hunting cap to Chad Rogers of TheDeadPelican.com for finding this column.

Uncategorized CB 8:00 am

 

Stop the foolishness Thursday, Jan 19 2006 

It seems that some of the elected officials in LA don’t have enough to do with their current jobs or either can’t take their jobs seriously.

Recently, the New Orleans City Council met and chose the next head coach for the New Orleans Saints. Story here. Today, we learn that the Gambling City Council is holding a “special meeting” to urge the ouster of the President of Grambling State University. Story here. What’s next the LA leges meeting to pick the next President of the United States.

During the current disaster recovery period in LA, if elected officials find themselves with too much time on their hands they should join the volunteers helping to gut the flood-ravaged houses in Southeast LA. Otherwise, please stop the foolishness. The eyes of the world are looking at LA to see if we are worthy of being saved. You aren’t helping our cause.

C.B.

Vanilla Refugee from Chocolate City

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Isn’t this how dictators deal with elections? Wednesday, Jan 18 2006 

On December 8, 2005, Governor Blanco called a special election to fill a vacancy in St. Bernard Parish. The election was to be held on April 1, 2006. She caught a lot of flack about it because she has cancelled, indefinitely, the municipal elections in Orleans Parish which was less damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita than St. Bernard.

Friday, the governor cancelled the April 1, 2006 election in St. Bernard Parish and rescheduled it to September 30, 2006. See proclamation here. (Apparently, she failed to follow the law on calling such elections. More bad election advice!) This move begs some questions:

1. If the St. Bernard election can now not be held until September 30 does that mean that the New Orleans elections will also be held then or does it mean that the Orleans elections may be held even later?

2. Why has the governor scheduled elections in St. Bernard Parish twice, but has postponed indefinitely the elections in Orleans Parish?

Isn’t this delaying tactic the same one used by Latin American dictators? The dictators never formally eliminated elections. They merely never held them.

C.B.

Uncategorized CB 8:00 am

 

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