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NAGIN THE NOAH NOTHING

posted Sunday, 10 August 2008
C Ray is used to making flip remarks about his administration's chronic incomptence and getting away with it. This approach has worked in the past but now he's (temporarily at least) lost Picayune columnist Jarvis DeBerry. DeBerry wrote a tough column today and here's de money quote: 

"Demonstrating that he, too, knows how to sell wolf tickets, Nagin on live television threatened to "cold cock" a WWL-TV reporter researching a story about the mayor's official calendar -- a story that, ironically enough, challenged the bogus claims that Nagin was secretly living in Dallas.

Now faced with evidence that he and his administration were asleep at the wheel as a nonprofit whose board serves at the pleasure of the mayor billed for housing rehabilitation work it didn't do, Nagin is responding in what appears to be the only way he knows how: with swagger and nothing but swagger.

By angrily responding to TV reporter Lee Zurik's inquiries without bothering to see if they were true, Nagin embarrassed himself at every turn. He has repeatedly challenged the veracity of news reports that contractors hired by New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp. pretended to gut and board houses done by others."

Jarvis has actually blown de raspberry at the Mayor. He's been making excuses for him for years so this is an interesting development as is the Naginite's finally admitting that something *may* be rotten at NOAH. LINK. Will DeBerry's new found deviation from the Times-Pravda line last? Probably not but it's refreshing whenever someone at the Picayune pulls their head out of the sand as DeBerry's fellow columnist Stephanie Grace did quite some time ago. Stephanie, too, chimes in on de latest wrinkle in de NOAH mess. LINK. Okay, I'll stop doing the de thing now; sometimes I just can't help myself...

Schroeder and E have more on Nagin's pouty and petulant appearance before the City Council. 

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