[thegreatbeast]

Posh & nonsense! New Orleans' politics is writ in stone: Corrupt! Gawd, I hope that they've stopped shooting their mayors. If they haven't, you heard it here first: It was the Black Hand that did the mayor!
We try to put a more subtle face on it but NO has no more hope of going straight than my home turf of Taxachusetts. Our guys don't even bother loosening their ties when they want to get down and dirty.
Good luck anyway.

[southerngrit]

New Orleans' politics are an embarrassment to the state of Louisiana - quite an accomplishment in this day and age. I know a lot of really great people who work in NO, but most don't live in the city. They live across the Causeway or upriver. Why? A failed public school system, crime in the streets, breakdown of services, etc. The experts have been telling us for years the whole city's going to float away 'cause the infrastructure is not equipped to handle the next big hurricane. You can smell the reek of corruption (or is that mildew?)