New Orleans Mayor May Run For Governor

Yahoo news ^ | September 4, 2007 | John Moreno Gonzales

[Past Your Eyes]

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana — a move many in this stricken city regard as preposterous.

If Nagin runs, he will do so on his stewardship of New Orleans.

[Past Your Eyes]

I bet he says this with a straight face. You just can't make this kind of stuff up.

[HawaiianGecko]

  I swear I must have fallen down a rabbit hole.

[digger48]

Not like it would exactly be a step DOWN from bawlin’ Blanco

[fieldmarshaldj]

Nagin for Governor ?

[enough_idiocy]

“If Nagin runs, he will do so on his stewardship of New Orleans.”

ROTFLMAO.

Number one in crime. Worst in Katrina preparation, response, and recovery.

Sad thing is, he’d have a shot at winning.

[Bean Counter]

Maybe he can get William Jefferson to be AG...

[Kimmers]

I was feeling sorry for NOLA and then they reelected Nagin and my pity faded....if he does run and wins and I could see that happening, all hope is lost for that state.

[Tully Pettigrew 1]

I’ll bet he’ll be elected, too.

[digger48]

And we can now have our very own Chocolate State

[vamoose]

I can hear ol’ Ray now: “I want to do for Louisiana what I did to New Orleans.”

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Thanks, had kind of a tough day, need that! :-)

[Clintonfatigued]

Oh, I SO would like to see him try it.

[ken21]

whatta scum bag.

the newspapers have just completed a two week katrina blitz.

[darkangel82]

He’ll finish 3rd in the primary behind Blanco or Landrieu.

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

classic

[snarks_when_bored]

Regrettably, criminal incompetence is no bar to higher office in Louisiana.

[tioga]

LMAO!!!

[LdSentinal]

46 days to go and Blanco’s reign of terror ends.

[JillValentine]

It’s more of a requirement.

[ErieGeno]

Surely the good people of Louisiana can’t be THAT stupid, can they? Bad enough that this clown was elected mayor, can you even imagine him as a Governor?????

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BTTT

[Ramius]

Is this The Onion?

If he wins can we revoke statehood from Louisiana?

[doc1019]

There may be a lot of dumb ass voters that would elect this idiot back into office in NO, I can’t imagine the whole state being that stupid. Could be wrong … wouldn’t be the first time.

[BunnySlippers]

I’ll bet he’s got a shot ... considering NOLA’s electorate.

[RDTF]

oh boy

[Obie Wan]

Why settle for running a “chocolate” city when you can run a “chocolate” state instead ???

[metmom]

The Peter Principle in overdrive.

[weegee]

He’s shown he can be JUST AS incompetent as the woman who currently holds the job. Why shouldn’t the Peter Principle apply to him as well?

[weegee]

Nagin won’t win if he runs against William Jefferson. Lousiana prefers crooks as governor.

[Kid Shelleen]

Give the guy some credit. He presided over one of the most dysfunctional governments in the industrial world and he managed to get the whole thing blamed on President Bush PLUS he got billions of dollars in pork.. If that is not LA governor material I don’t know what is..

[snarks_when_bored]

So it too often seems...

[weegee]

PLUS he got billions of dollars in pork.. If that is not LA governor material I don’t know what is..

He'd be Louisiana governor material if he or his family were able to pocket about a billion of that money. Anything else and his is below par for the job.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Sad thing is, he’d have a shot at winning."

Nope. He'd split the black vote away from the other Democrats , and absolutely assure a Jindal win.

[LibFreeOrDie]

If he wins can we revoke statehood from Louisiana?

If he wins, give Louisiana back to the French!

(Apologies to Louisiana FReepers.)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Everyone should pray for the people of Biloxi and the rest of Southern Mississippi that don’t get the publicity New Orleans does. Thankfully, they have a decent governor—Haley Barbour, a republican. Mississippi is where Hurricane Katrina actually hit, and it was devastated!

http://www.wlox.com/Global/category.asp?C=63035

[uncitizen]

My son laughed when he saw this headline. He says N.O. is one thing, but the whole state of Louisiana can’t be that stupid.

[uncitizen]

His campaign slogan:

Louisiana: The Chocolate State

[deport]

Nagin is just preparing himself for a move now as he heard the leading Presidential candidate Tancredo wanted to end the Katrina gravy train and he didn’t want to be mayor when Tancredo was sworn in......

[Redbob]

Oh, puhleeeeze run!
Please please please please please!

Let the entire state see again what a flaming idiot you are!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He’ll finish 3rd in the primary behind Blanco or Landrieu.

Louisiana does not have party primaries. They have an open primary with everybody who wants to running in it. If no one gets a majority then there is a runoff. So the Republican candidate Jindal is likely to run first in the Gubernatorial primary.

[M Kehoe]

In Louisiana this makes cents. Replace one incompetent with another, and the incompetent makes millions. I'm sure the cajuns would enjoy another "Kingfisher." Right Huey? [You can here me, can't you?] Huey, you make Teddy Kennedy look like a choir boy.

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[Tully Pettigrew 1]

Look at the governor they have now. I rest my case.

[Desron13]

"Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana..."

This will be like having Zippy the pin head as governor. This retard couldn't manage a lemonade stand let alone a state. Just what kind of drugs are the people of New Orleans on to re-elect this empty suite?

[M Kehoe]

here=hear.

Sheesh.

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[Redbob]

"I was feeling sorry for NOLA and then they reelected Nagin and my pity faded....if he does run and wins and I could see that happening, all hope is lost for that state."

I agree.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who are stupid enough to elect a guy like that.
NO deserves whatever happens.

[Ramius]

If he wins, give Louisiana back to the French!

[Snort] Perfect! Magnifique!

[Redbob]

"If he wins, give Louisiana back to the French! (Apologies to Louisiana FReepers.)"

How about apologizing to the French?
LOL!

[Past Your Eyes]

My oldest brother and his wife are about to make their third “missioinary” trip to the Mississippi coast.

[Dahoser]

If Nagin runs, he will do so on his stewardship of New Orleans.

The voters might want to examine his admiralty of the New Orleans Fleet, first.

[Theodore R.]

In 2003, Nagin endorsed Bobby Jindal for governor, and the people of New Orleans forgave him in 2006. Statewide though, I think “he has a problem.”