Mitch Landrieu to run for Mayor

[Anita Garcia]

Louisiana Weekly
By Christopher Tidmore, Political Columnist
January 30, 2006


Sources close to the Lieutenant Governor reveal to The Louisiana Weekly that Mitch Landrieu will run for Mayor of New Orleans in the April 22 primary.

With qualifying less than a month away, almost ever political observer views Landrieu as the immediate front runner, as problems continue to mount for incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin.

Landrieu's decision is only the latest development in what is becoming the most eventful election year in recent memory. In a normal election cycle, 2006 would be a somewhat dull election year. But no more. Voters will cast ballots in possibly three statewide elections, a series of "hot" congressional matches, as well as citywide races in New Orleans
<http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060130u>

[blitzen]

1. yee-haw!!!! this means John Breaux will run for Gov...

just to make sure that the slime Vitter doesn't become Gov


that's the rumor in Baton Rouge

[BOSSHOG]

7. Don't count Blanco out just yet

She has said she will run again and whomever runs against her better pack a lunch. She hasn't lost the Katrina issue. And I can't figure out who is slimier, vitter or jindal. Both are disgusting political opportunists; the kind which appeal to the bush base.

[Anita Garcia]

13. Vitter sent me one dollar in campaign fund raiser mail out

Yes, an actual dollar bill. We forwarded to ethics committee but they said it was not a violation because he asked me to "send it back with $399.00 more one dollar bills." Maybe he'll get caught in the Abramoff stuff!
Jindal is very disturbing. He portrays himself as an intellectual for the people, but all he does is cut, cut, cut.
Blanco stepped up to the plate with the NIMBY issue in NOLA.
We need her to do the same in Slidell (Lincoln Park) and other Parishes.

[funkybutt]

14. I've gotten the "dollar bill in the mail" before

thought it was tacky at best.

[Anita Garcia]

15. Tacky - maybe but, I think it is a form of vote buying.

I was raised in a community where you could get $4.00 (called "rent") for putting a political sign in your yard.
Some would consider that good enough reason to vote for the individual whose sign was in their yard.
Getting one dollar in the mail and not having to send it back seems suspect to me.

[funkybutt]

30. I agree...

Why is it not illegal for a politician to send out money (of any amount) to their potential constituents?

[brentspeak]

17. I can't imagine Blanco winning reelection

During Katrina, she looked like a timid, indecisive substitute teacher instead of a take-charge governor.

[Chomskyite]

26. If elections were decided based on how we look in crises . . .

. . . how come we have George W. "My Pet Goat" Bush?

I actually thought while watching her that she reflected the shock so many of us were feeling. And I saw her lash out in real anger in some very appropriate times (when Hastert opened his piehole about not rebuilding the city).

I believe based on her defiant, aggressive, hold feet to the fire performance after Katrina we'll be surprised with her poll numbers. But ultimately she would win or lose by how the economy is doing and whether or not all of her base can turn out.

[msongs]

2. N.O. is being ethnically cleaned -where is the dems outrage?

while the repubs are publicly gloating over the expulsion of blacks from NO the dems
are just...what?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm

[KamaAina]

16. The La. Weekly serves the African American community

leaking this bombshell through them could well be a move on Mitch's part NOT to be seen as simply "the vanilla candidate".

Then again, the story at the bottom of the column, about the levee board, is basically a paean to two repukes, the late party chair -- and present-day mayoral candidate Peggy Wilson, who was a dinosaur when she was my councilcritter 15 years ago! :eyes: Who knows where La. Weekly is coming from?

[Anita Garcia]

20. I like reading the Louisianaweekly

I get a lot of information from them that is not in the TP.

[Halliburton]

3. is he related to mary?

[Anita Garcia]

4. He is Sen. Mary Landrieu's brother

Their father is the former Mayor of New Orleans, Moon Landrieu.

[Coastie for Truth]

5. Moon's son or grand-son

PS - what ever happened to Eddie Sapir, and to "K&B" -

Look on every corner and what do you see - the friendly purple sign of K&B

(I moved out in 1968)

[Anita Garcia]

6. Moon's son and their Mom, Phyllis is NOLA school bd president

[BOSSHOG]

8. Eddie Sapir is still a mover and shaker

in the city. And K&B went out of business. Very sad. The signs became collectors items. Do you recall Bennie Grunch? He does a Christmas song about New Orleans every year and in 2004 his song was called "Ain't there no more!" And K&B was prominently mentioned in the song. Just like Mr Bingle.

[Coastie for Truth]

10. Thanks

I was in the Coast Guard in NOLA - Industrial Canal base --- and my wife taught in the Lower Ninth Ward.

[BOSSHOG]

11. The CG base is still on Poland Avenue

The city had plans to widen the industrial canal which would have meant the Coast Guard Station would be gone but I don't know what the plan is now since the hurricane. I was in the Navy on Dauphine Street and the Coast Guard Station was an outstanding place to eat; seafood buffet on Friday's. The CG station on Lake Pontchartrain got hit pretty hard by the hurricane.

[Anita Garcia]

12. Played video a lot on WWL this Christmas

It was sad because part of the song says "garage on the side and washer in the back"..."ain't there no more".
And the video shows NOLA pre-Katrina.
A sad reminder that now a lot more "ain't there no more".

[pacalo]

29. Also gone: D.H. Holmes, Godchaux's, & Maison Blanche.

:cry:

Schwegmann's is gone, too.

[sundancekid]

9. maybe he could loan his sister Mary a set of cojones to use on Alito vote

I'm sick of her waffles ... nothing short of the fukking GOLD STANDARD OF THE CONSTITUTION is at stake, and she STILL gets crotch rot by riding that fence ... who, me mad??? nah! just casual sunday morning tea and scones stuff here

[KamaAina]

18. (sigh) This is gonna make it awful tough for my old buddy to get in

A published report in the T-P last week indicated that a political figure I worked with when I lived in N.O. in the early '90s was interested in the race.

All week I've been thinking "If Mitch doesn't get in, we can do this..."

:nuke:

It'd be hard to imagine any outcome but a Landrieu-Nagin runoff at this point, with Mitch probably taking it in May. If Mitch does get it, he has the advantage of close ties to both Gov. Blanco (ex-boss) and Sen. Landrieu (duh), something Nagin can't say.

(sigh) There is no telling what my buddy and I might have been able to accomplish for the city. Ever since this happened I had thought that it was time to employ my, shall we say, unique way of thinking of behalf of N.O. in its hour of need...

[Anita Garcia]

19. Nice to meet you

Care to share if your buddy is still thinking about running? Or are you saying that Mitch's announcement means your buddy won't be running?

[KamaAina]

22. I don't know yet. He has a maddening habit of not answering my emails.

which is what makes me think he might be up to something; that, and he just put up his own website, which right now has all the details about his courtroom (oops, that may have let the cat out of the bag!) but, since it's copyrighted to him, could become a "KamaAina's Buddy for Mayor" campaign site overnight if need be.

If he still gets in, he (and everybody else down to the guy who used to sell tamales up at the corner) basically has to run against Nagin and try to bump him out of the runoff. Strangely, private citizen Nagin donated to my man's Democratic congressional campaign back in the day (oops, I did it again!) There must be a campaign spot in there somewhere...

[Anita Garcia]

24. I am so not good at this...

A Democrat Judge who ran for Congress in early 90's who received a campaign contribution from Nagin and he has a website?
:think: I know for some this is easy, but I am not good at this.

[KamaAina]

25. It wouldn't be that easy for many

All in due time, later in the week, perhaps. I have to go to church (still morning out here), then to a DU meetup, anyway.

Funny story: You-Know-Who approached Bill Jefferson after "Jeff" won the race for Congress, trying to get me a job on Jefferson's staff! Had he been successful, it might be me plea-bargaining today instead of this Brent Pfeffer guy! That, or I would have told "Jeff" what he was doing was unethical, and then I'd be the guy selling tamales on the corner...

[jsamuel]

21. Is this why she doesn't want to filibuster?

[Anita Garcia]

23. I started this thread because...

[Pirate Smile]

28. Isn't it because she is worried about the Senate going nuclear?

Republicans go nuclear, Dems will retaliate and she is afraid the Gulf Coast will suffer because any legislation to help them will be stopped or delayed?


I could certainly be wrong but that was what I thought her problem with the filibuster was right now.

edit to add - I really like her brother and hope he lands somewhere prominent in LA.

[Chomskyite]

27. I hate to say it

. . . but I think this is game-set-match for Nagin. I love the guy, but there's just too much inevitability and political skill facing him now.

[pitohui]

31. you love nagin? i kind of just feel sorry for him

i'm sure he was fine in the cable business but i have abt decided he don't have the huevos for politics

no poker face there, i knew we had trouble when he gave the speech telling us to get the hell out of dodge and closed it w. "god help us all"