New Orleans Krewe Kast
Today I read from a Wall Journal Article that gives an interesting take on what might be going on in New Orleans. Prominent “big easy” business leaders met here in Dallas to discuss how to divide up the Crescent city and rebuild it differently. Demographically, Geographically and Politically. Before the flood the city was poor burdened by the underclass bad schools and high crime. Thomas Westfeldt New Orleans Board of Trade. Richard Freeman city’s Coco-Cola bottling plant. William Boatner Reily coffee owner and James Reiss the benefactors met with Mayor Roy Nagin here in Dallas to cut up the king kake. Mr Reiss helicoptered in an Israeli security company to guard Audubon Place. He says the city must do something different and to attract more corporate head-quarters with better services and fewer poor people. Is Nagin the Mayor nimble enough to hold on to power if his voting block is living all over Texas? Or will he start to want for refugees to go back to the “big easy” Speaking of “big easy” Shelia Jackson Lee said that many of the people that stayed behind in the storm might have been waiting for the first of the month when Government Assistance checks are issued ( remember Katrina hit on the 29th). Will New Orleans turn Republican from a Democratic stronghold? Keep talking about the FEMA deer Mike Brown that was picked out of the herd. Ha! Show time about 15min
Sheila Jackson Lee is making sense? Has she been drinking, or have I?
Comment by Graham — September 12, 2005 @ 8:22 pm
While the local rich white elite might dream of a better demographic in the new New Orleans, the fact remains that this little southern honky-tonk town is only tolerated by weekend drinkers, sharecropper decedents and rich rednecks. Unless you were unlucky enough to be born there, or immigrated because you had the aspiration to be a lifelong criminal, no ones wants to live in a place that was really nothing more than a dirty convention stop and a two week a year piss fest; throw in a good Super Bowl every few years and the whole USA now thinks this was a real American City.
A Bayou with an airport doesn’t make it a place worth rebuilding. Oh, and while I’m on it, another brilliant legacy of the French to build this hamlet below sea level in the first place, and what did they do to help; a few hundred army cots.
Even 10 feet of flooding can’t remove the stench of urine that 75 years of Marti Gras has indelibly left in more than just the French Quarter. Leave it the way it is as a testimony to an ill prepared local government who ignored their responsibility to look after their own. The Federal government didn’t launch a hurricane from the shores of Africa to then wait weeks to ignore its people. Mother Nature took care of that.
This town was smitten. Plain and simple.
Comment by Guvork — September 13, 2005 @ 7:18 am
Guvork, You’ve never been there, have you? N.O. was like no other. Such a mix of culture, fantastic music, food, and more interestingly, a hub of spiritual warfare. All of the sin of the Quarter crossed with the highly religious community.
Comment by Whine Broker — September 13, 2005 @ 9:52 pm
Honkey Tonk? I don’t think so!
Comment by Mellencamper — September 13, 2005 @ 9:54 pm
Ahem,
3 Marti Gras
4 Conventions
1 Super Bowl
and countless business meetings.
Beleive me when I tell you, I know what I’m talking about.
Comment by Guvork — September 14, 2005 @ 3:28 pm
You WMF’s are trying to get rid of us.
Why do you think they call them floats?
Zulu Tribe..
Comment by Zulu parade — September 15, 2005 @ 10:15 am
They don’t want us since we’re poor & we leech off of the tax payers. Our contribution to crime makes us a valuable commondity, but whites don’t appreciate that.
Comment by Sambo — September 15, 2005 @ 11:18 pm