Happy Incarceration Mayor Nagin

[gnadfly]

Convicted on 20 counts. And to think I had to drive around Houston for 3 month looking at his re-election billboards while many of his thieving citizens (that I helped BTW) took advantage of the hosting city.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...verage_10.html

[IIFFOFRDB]

Never once does Wolfie mention Ray Nagin is a demorat... Hummm...what if?

[IIFFOFRDB]

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[BJerk]

Clearly, if he were white, this would have never gone to trial. The system is racist.

[CuteOldGuy]

BJesus, you are always good for a laugh!

I don't think he should go to prison. He should get 20 years community service at minimum wage - no gifts allowed - cleaning up the poorer areas of New Orleans. Those are the people he primarily ripped off. Let him live with them, and live like them, and clean up after them. Better than putting him in storage for 20 years.

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by BJerk

Clearly, if he were white, this would have never gone to trial. The system is racist.

Do you think they will put him in a "chocolate" prison. BJerk?

Actually, he is just a typical Lousiana politician. They are almost ALL corrupt - white or black.

But here is a question for you, BJerkoff: If you believe he would never have gone to jail if he was white, how do you explain the fact that Edwin Edwards - who was Louisiana GOVERNOR - did EIGHT years in prison for corruption?

Or do you not let inconvenient facts cloud your little brain?

[Mr MojoRisin]

Originally Posted by BJerk

Clearly, if he were white, this would have never gone to trial. The system is racist.

With every post you prove more and more what a true dumb fuck you are. Nagin's race has nothing to do with being convicted on multiple corruption charges. The last four out of seven Governors of Illinois were all convicted on corruption charges and they were all white, the last of course was Rod Blagojevich. If you think that if Nagin were white he would have dodged the legal bullet for his crimes then you need your head examined for missing parts.


Jim

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

...then you need your head examined for missing parts.

With BJerk, it is not really a case of missing parts in his head.

It is that there were no parts in there to being with. So he isn't really "missing" any.

[JD Barleycorn]

Originally Posted by BJerk

Clearly, if he were white, this would have never gone to trial. The system is racist.

You do realize that the majority population is black right? I suppose Filthy Filner walked and Rosty Rostenkowski of Illinois. Has anyone mentioned how people died in Katrina because Nagin could not get around to ordering the buses to roll according to the action plan.



All it took was for him to issue the order...which he never did.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by BJerk

Clearly, if he were white, this would have never gone to trial. The system is racist.

Hell, BJerk, Louisiana was founded on corruption! Have you never heard of the "Mississippi Bubble"? It was a spot of 18th century speculative corruption that brought on a financial crisis in France that ultimately led to a regicide and the French Revolution. You really need to read up on what can happen when a nation uses inflation to cover its debts, BJerk.

Furthermore, political corruption in Louisiana has been elevated to the level of a spectator sport second only to football! Edwards wasn't the only Louisiana governor to go to prison: Governor Leche was the first. Louisiana was also notoriously involved in the corrupt election of Hayes (R) in 1876, and, rumor has it, FDR had Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long shot to keep him out of the 1936 presidential race!

However, BJerk, Mr. Nagin does have the dubious distinction of being "the first New Orleans mayor to be charged, tried and convicted of corruption" in New Orleans' three hundred year history. Maybe Mr. Nagin can reflect on his crimes at that place in Louisiana not named for any "old white guy", like King Louis XIV or the Duc d'Orléans, but rather is named especially for the Africans who were settled there: Angola.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/us...dict.html?_r=0

Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

Never once does Wolfie mention Ray Nagin is a demorat... Hummm...what if?

+1 Does make one wonder.

[Jackie S]

In Louisianna, a good campaign slogan is, "indicted, tried, but never convicted"

[Old-T]

The best (and probably most honest) one I saw was in the late 70s in Alabama. Billboards and TV ads showing a candidate and convicted fellon saying, "Vote for me. You KNOW i'm a crook". And later, talking with some Alabama friends of mine, finding out he won the election.

[Texas Contrarian]

This does seem to be the "Louisiana way."

Remember William "cold cash" Jefferson? He's the former NOLA-area Congressman who got caught with about $90K hidden in the freezer of his home, thus lending new meaning to the term "cold cash."

When former governor Edwin Edwards ran (and won) again in 1991, he already had a well-chronicled history of corruption. His opponent that year was white supremacist and former Klan leader David Duke, an embarrassment that made Edwards's image problems pale in comparison. His supporters didn't even make the faintest pretense of denying his corrupt past as they stressed that it was of paramount importance to "elect the crook."

A popular bumper sticker at the time said something like, "Vote for the crook: It's Important!"

Even then-president George H. W. Bush jumped into the fray, urging Louisianans to vote for the Democrat rather than the Klansman.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by Jackie S

In Louisianna, a good campaign slogan is, "indicted, tried, but never convicted"

[trident60]

Ray Nagin is but the latest corrupt, big city mayor to run aground. His downfall is particularly noteworthy in that his rise to national prominence was leveraged on George Bush's demonizing by the press. Recall that Nagin dawdled until the day before Katrina hit, failing to mobilize an evacuation until it was too late, stranding people and resources. Neither did he and Governor Blanco make a timely disaster declaration which would have mobilized federal aid earlier. Nobody remembers this malfeasance, only the newsreels of George gazing out the window of Air Force One at the flooding below. Pure image making without substance. Nagin fled to a high rise hotel where he literally whimpered for days because he didn't have running water, while his subjects starved and drowned on the streets below. Nagin barricaded himself in the shower of Air Force One for hours to escape the hot hardship of Katrina's aftermath when Bush visited. He was never indicted for any of his mayoral negligence, but bears responsibility for many civilian deaths for his incompetence.

Nagin's misdeeds are not unique to his generation in New Orleans. The wise city fathers had the levees dynamited in 1927, flooding Plaquemine Parrish, to ease flooding concerns in New Orleans. They cut a deal with parish officials to repay them for damages. Not a cent ever changed hands. And let's not forget the corrupt levee building and maintenance by the Corps of Engineers, New Orleans city government, levee boards, and other assorted miscreants, taking the money and not worrying about the rainy day to come.

Rot in jail, Ray. Maybe they'll pair you with Kwame Kilpatrick and you can exchange fraud schemes.