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Subject: [Leica] Re: New Orleans, Katrina and Gustav
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Sep 4 14:04:31 2008
References: <95973A61A741455FB54B31BDD5653BA6@Bigguy> <001c01c90e93$95cc8600$80f510ac@chris0436b6050>

Chris, here we have compulsory voting which some find an annoyance. However
if 80% of your voters don't participate they will get what the active 20%
decides they want. I'm really surprised, when you clearly have very large
issues at stake that so few make the effort to have their say.

Cheers
Geoff
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-----Original Message-----
Subject: [Leica] Re: New Orlens, Katrina and Gustav

This belongs on the LUGforum, but I will just say this -

Nagin was re-elected with only 20% of the NOLA pop voting. The super 
rich(and without sounding too racist, it was the super rich white folks) 
voted him back in as well as the folks strung out all over the country who 
have yet to go back to live in New Orleans. Basically, Nagin got a bunch of 
folks who no longer live here to vote him back him. Doesn't sound too 
illegal does it?

Within the next 2 yrs, hopefully we'll get someone willing to actually help 
this city. We already have a semi-strong presence now in the City Council. 
If it was not for them, I may still be sitting on the side of the road 
trying to get into New Orleans.

Nagin's getting ready for whatever campaign is going to be in 2 yrs from 
now. We can't really wait 2 more yrs to get rid of him but with Louisians 
politics, anything can happen.

But here in New Orleans, we take care of ourselves and do not listen to Ray 
Ray.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com>
To: "LUG" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:21 AM
Subject: [Leica] New Orlens, Katrina and Gustav


Sonny

I'm sure everything you said about  problems caused by the Corps of 
Engineers is right on the money. What I find shocking is the sheer stupidity

of the city's residents in reelecting Nagin. After Gustav's recent brush 
with N.O. the airways were. once again, inundated with talking heads.

Yet here  was Nagin, telling everyone to stay put. Meanwhile, the Superdome 
gets readied for Sunday's game. Jesus H, don't they have any ballot boxes in

that part of the country? Over the years the NOPD and local politicians have

had disgustingly bad reps. Crooked, inefficient and generally without merit.

Still yet, someone's putting those people in office.

The neglect and mistreatment of N.O.'s citizens following Katrina was damn 
near heartbreaking. And now. it's d?j? vu all over again. Time to tell those

folks to shush up... Time to say when you get what you ask for you might 
have it coming.

Walt

p.s. Loved the cornfield image, had a quality about it to die for

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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Re: New Orleans, Katrina and Gustav)
In reply to: Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] New Orlens, Katrina and Gustav)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Re: New Orlens, Katrina and Gustav)