[Leica] Re: New Orleans, Katrina and Gustav

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

That is because God builds things like pipelines - what good can earthly
mortals do?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Geoff Hopkinson 
<hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>wrote:

> 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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