Aloha Daze

Ah, to be a Democratic Liberal. Saturday was your day, was it not?

New Orleans: the votes are in, and residents are split. Should they choose a new mayor? Or stay with the wiener that they have now?

Of the 20-plus people that chose to run for Mayor Of New Orleans, 38 percent (41,489 votes) went to Ray “Noodlehead” Nagin, 29 percent (31,499 votes) for Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, and 17 percent (18,734 votes) went to Ron Forman. (I guess the other 19 candidates got about 1 vote each… but whatever they got, they were very far behind the first three.)

While Noodlehead Nagin may have received 38 percent, he didn’t get the majority of the vote, so there will be a May 20th runoff election.

What bothers me – and should bother the residents of New Orleans – is that they’re trying to hire the same guy that so obviously displayed just how inept he was at his job last year.

Got a city that needs help? Get Clueless Noodlehead Nagin! He won’t leave you high and dry! (In fact, just the opposite!)

Some of the math is interesting too… Before Katrina, New Orleans had a population of 455,000. Then Katrina happened, and residents spread out across the States. Of the now-spread-out population, 297,000 of them are registered voters.

Anyone see a math equation that doesn’t add up?

Take 297,000 voters. Subtract the ones that voted for the big three candidates. That leaves 205,278 voters. Which averges about 10,804 voters for each of the remaining 19 candidates. That’s unlikely.

But the percentages coming from the state indicate that 84 percent of the votes went to the first three candidates… but 84 percent of 297,000 registered voters gives us an average of over 83,000 votes per candidate of the first three candidates. Well, that ain’t right either.

I don’t know what this means… only that it don’t add up. But then again, the one thing I can say about New Orleans is that things don’t add up there often.

And no matter what the turnout now, it turns out that Rev. Jesse “Where’s The Camera?” Jackson “plans to challenge the election outcome in court regardless of the winner, arguing displaced voters were disenfranchised because they weren’t allowed to vote in polling places in such adopted cities as Houston, Dallas and Atlanta.”

Certainly good to know that ol’ Jesse has his priorities in order: himself.

Now if only New Orleans could get their prorities in order.

RLR