Running Government Like You Know What
Sep 2nd, 2005 at 12:00 pm by Susie
You know how the wingnuts were falling all over themselves to blame the New Orleans mayor instead of Bush? Read this from Wikipedia:
Before his election, Nagin was a member of the United States Republican Party and had little political experience; he was a vice president and general manager at Cox Communications, a cable communications company and subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. Nagin did give donations periodically to candidates, namely President George W. Bush and former Republican U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin in 1999 and 2000, as well as to Democratic U.S. Senators John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston earlier in the decade.
Days before filing for the New Orleans Mayoral race in February 2002, Nagin switched his party registration to the United States Democratic Party, presumably in order to improve his chances.
Just another Republican, running government like a business.
okay first off I think the criticisms of Nagin are a bunch of bullshit. Mayors are not expected to handle this kind of thing, they are expected to stand aside and let expert crisis management on a federal level handle it. Ever see a movie where some crisis goes down the feds show up and say “we’re taking over” and the mayor says “no, you’re not” and the feds say “okay”? Yeah, me neither.
As to whether he is a republican or a democrate I’m willing to put money down he’s a committed democrat now and forevermore.
The Republican’s don’t care which he is, they care that he is the mayor not the president or anywhere near the president. And if you go off on this tangent you’re just playing into their hands.
Go to Google and type in failure. Don’t hit the Google search button. Instead hit “I’m feeling lucky” button. I think this says it all