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Its tough to be Mayor of New Orleans in late 2005. After Katrina, after
the Garland Robinette interview, after Eddie Compass, Ray Nagin is
still the Mayor.
Nagin has been to Baton Rouge, Houston, Memphis, Atlanta and even New Orleans to
find the citizens of his city. He is consistently
upbeat even when confronted with the most outrageous statements. He has
presented a meaningful agenda and soldiered on when it was dismissed.
Sometime you can't win for nothing. On November 29th the press reported
he was too accommodating after he listened patiently as citizen after
citizen subjected him to fanciful tirades. The press wanted to see him
react with a little
more fire. If he had, you can be sure they would have flayed him alive.
PS: what about those buses? And just why are you encouraging people to
return while there is no place for them to live. Isn't it time to
coordinate the trailer placements a bit better.
As
I watch the video of some of these meetings they make me think of an
audience with a feudal monarch. Nagin sits at the head of a U shaped
table. His advisers sit at the table like courtiers of old. Citizens
approach and are heard. Nagin directs them to the appropriate
assistant.
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