Flashback to 1996: A Day When Buses Were Used in New Orleans

Baton Rouge Advocate | Nov. 10, 1996 | Unknown

[gridlock]

Nice find. Landrieu can find buses for campaign parades, but not for evacuation of the poor. Kind of sums up life on the Democrat Plantation...

[PAMadMax]

All satire aside, reality is funnier than any satire imagined and this is hilarious in a twisted way....

[frogjerk]

For instance, when the management team got word at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday that a GOP tracking poll showed Jenkins ahead, it was time for an instant parade. "Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade," Tucker said. "We found Mary and Marc, got school buses for workers and sound trucks with music and put on a parade to flush out our voters." Landrieu and Morial waved from campaign manager Norma Jane Sabiston's convertible.

This is patently false, since where in the world were they going to find school bus drivers on 45 minutes notice? -sarcasm

[2banana]

Holy cow, this is priceless...paging Rush, paging Bill O, paging Sean H....

[Roux]

This was the election when there was 105 percent turnout at some polling places. Most were in the 90 percent turnout.

I think Mary won Orleans parish by 100,000 votes.

[oyez]

Too bad the day the hurricane hit it wasn't election day.

[The South Texan]

Hello Rush and Sean, this one's for you!

[oyez]

They said school buses weren't good enough for an evacuation, but they were alright for election day.

[half-cajun]

This is too good. You just can't make this stuff up. It's Louisiana, after all.

[netmilsmom]

Unfreakin believable!

[lormand]

That was the last election I voted in Louisiana before I moved to paradise, i.e., Texas.

[meyer]

"Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade," Tucker said. "We found Mary and Marc, got school buses for workers and sound trucks with music and put on a parade to flush out our voters." Landrieu and Morial waved from campaign manager Norma Jane Sabiston's convertible.

This is rich.

[Quilla]

Fabulous find, thanks for posting.

[lysie]

Outrageous! ping.

[sandbar]

>>>Harry Connick

Is this Harry Connick Jr's dad? I know Harry Connick Jr is from NOLA. Just wondering.

[razorback-bert]

I wonder how far I would get if I wanted to rent school buses to get Repubican votes?


On second thought, did they even pay for use?

[dfwgator]

"We found Mary and Marc, got school buses for workers and sound trucks with music and put on a parade to flush out our voters."

According to Mary, they weren't working anyway.

[half-cajun]

Is this Harry Connick Jr's dad? I know Harry Connick Jr is from NOLA. Just wondering.

Yes, it's his dad.

[sandbar]

I don't understand how it is legal to use public school buses to celebrate and/or 'get out the voters' to vote for one person or celebrate one candidate over another. Oh yeah, it was for a democrat. Never mind.