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  • New Orleans Voters Pick Leader to Oversee Rebuilding (Election Results Live Thread!!)

    05/20/2006 5:32:19 PM PDT · by HHKrepublican_2 · 421 replies · 15,869+ views
    AP, Fox News, Yahoo ^ | May 20, 2006
    AP: "Too Close to Call" NEW ORLEANS — Voters were deciding Saturday whether incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin or challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu should oversee this city's long recovery from Hurricane Katrina — one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history. Whoever wins the too-close-to-call election takes office a day before the June 1 start of the next hurricane season in a city where streets are still strewn with rusting, mud-covered cars and entire neighborhoods consist of homes that are empty shells.