Thursday, February 23, 2006
New Orleans mayor's race a political gumbo
By Bob Dar
Cox News Service
Published: 2/23/06
Excerpt:
The gumbo of a mayor's race in this slowly
recovering city added another ingredient...as Lt. Gov. Mitch
Landrieu - scion of a politically powerful Louisiana family - jumped
into the pot of candidates seeking to replace Ray Nagin, seen by
critics as the face of post-Katrina failures...
Landrieu, a Democrat whose father, Maurice Edwin "Moon"
Landrieu, was the last white mayor of New Orleans and whose sister,
Mary Landrieu, represents Louisiana in the U.S. Senate...
A Southern city that was nearly 70 percent
African American before the electorate was scattered by Katrina could
vote in its first white mayor in three decades. Most of the displaced
voters are believed to be black.
But it would be wrong to cast this as a racially divided election in
which white voters will support white candidates because they are white
and black voters will support black candidates because they are black,
said Keith Woods, former city editor of The New Orleans Times-Picayune
and now dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, a school for
journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla...
"Katrina is a prism that bends" the political light, he said...
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