Louisiana SoS wants Feb election postponed (video link)

[SoCalDem]

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[...of J.Temperance]

1. I agree with the postponement 100% and I'll tell you why

Tens of thousands of black NOLA voters are scattered across 40 plus states. The Repuke pigshits DO NOT want these people to even be allowed to vote by Absentee ballot.

NOLA right now is 60% white and 40% black...down from pre-Katrina of 67% black and 33% white. So, I DON'T want that Repuke swine Peggy Wilson becoming Mayor.

So I would rather the NOLA February election postponed until as many as NOLA blacks as possible are given the right to vote in their own cities election for Mayor.

[SoCalDem]

2. and like the piece said, the equipment was all ruined

and people are not in place to run it.. I think everyone who voted last time shoud be able to use an absentee ballot, regardless of where they are now,. they did not "move"..they WERE MOVED..

[...of J.Temperance]

5. Yeah...the Repukes see this as their opportunity for the FIRST time

In I don't know how long...pre-1920s, as their ONLY chance to get a Repuke elected Mayor of New Orleans. The last Repuke Mayor I'm sure was sometime between 1900-1920, anyhow, it was a VERY long time ago.

Luckily, Governor Blanco and Secretary of State Alter are onto the Repukes shit.

The NOLA blacks, as you said, they didn't move by CHOICE, they were moved by FORCE...and en masse too. A diaspora.

We cannot allow this to stand, they must be returned home as soon as is humanly possible...and they MUST be given the right to vote in their own city, these people are registered to vote in Orleans Parish, and in Orleans Parish they must be permitted to vote, even if they're living in Houston or Atlanta or wherever.

On Edit: Corrected subject title.

[KingFlorez]

3. Waiting is best

They need to let people get settled and allow more of the population to return to the city.

[EFerrari]

4. We have to get in these mofos' face.

They are trying to turn CA as we type.

They are trying to dismantle NO.

They have also jumped the shark as of 11/18 and the asinine attack on Murtha.

We're in a race, folks.

[bluestateguy]

6. I don't know

A VERY dangerous precedent could be set if the election is postponed.

If a terrorist attack takes place on US soil in 2008, devastating a certain metropolitan area, then the Bush "Homeland Security" crowd could delay or even cancel the 2008 election and stay in power even longer.

I have no use for Nagin, but a Republican mayor would just sell out the whole city to the Chamber of Commerce.

[Swamp Rat]

7. GOD!!! I GOTTA GET HOME!!!

NO PEGGY WILSON!!! :puke:

[kliljedahl]

8. Here's one I found a while back

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=9061

Its bittersweet being back in New Orleans. Although the architecture is the same, and its a relief to walk the streets and reunite with old friends, already this is a very different city from the one I love. Its a city where some areas are quickly rebuilding and other parts are being left far behind. A city where people who have lived here for generations are now unwelcome in a hundred different ways.

White New Orleans is steadily coming back, and Black New Orleans is moving out. A grassroots organizer with New Orleans Network tells me she has been speaking to people in every moving truck she sees. She reports that in every case, “they’re Black, they are renters, they’re moving out of New Orleans, and they say they would stay, if they had a choice.”

Inequality continues through the cleanup of New Orleans. Some areas have electricity, gas, and clean streets, and some areas are untouched. Medical volunteer Catherine Jones reports that driving the streets of New Orleans at night, “ I felt like I was in the middle of a checkerboard. The Quarter lit up like Disneyworld; poor black neighborhoods a few blocks over so dark I couldn't even see the street in front of me.”

The Washington Post reports that although both the overwhelmingly White Lakeview neighborhood and Black Ninth Ward neighborhood were devastated by flooding, “It now appears that long-standing neighborhood differences in income and opportunity...are shaping the stalled repopulation of this mostly empty city.”