May he rest in peace.
DJ, wasn’t Mayor Melton initially viewed as a DINO with great promise, similar to intial views about Ray Nagin?
I think Frank was viewed with great promise, yes...
Of course I think a large part of that went to his head in later years...
>> wasn’t Mayor Melton initially viewed as a DINO with great promise, similar to intial views about Ray Nagin? <<
He was elected — with the support of probably 99.99% of the city’s white voters — because of his “tough on crime stance,” which had been made famous by his frequent anti-drug, anti-crime editorials on the leading local TV station.
But he was a disaster in office. Crime rates went up, city services went down, numerous other municipal problems popped up like mushrooms after a rain — all while old Frank was engaged in various forms of lawbreaking and was indulging in a “Michael Jackson tendency” by keeping scores of teenaged boy criminals at his palatial home.
In the end, at least it can be said of Frank that he outfoxed the Federal prosecutors by dying before they could send him to prison.
R. I. P.