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...This week, however, Louisiana's lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu-a Democrat whose father served two terms as mayor of New Orleans-told supporters privately that he would return home from Baton Rouge to contest Nagin. That's bad news for Nagin because the Landrieus-including both Mitch and his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu-have built a formidable political dynasty in Orleans Parish since the 1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho...
...Mitch Landrieu, who ran an unsuccessful primary race for the mayor's office in 1994 against another former Mayor's son, Marc Morial, has since piled up a resume as a state legislator and No. 2 to the governor. He was widely rumored to be thinking about a gubernatorial run, but he and his sister-no doubt coached by dad, who still lives in the New Orleans area-know the chance of the Dems winning statewide in 2007 and 2008 is "out the window", says Stonecipher...
...should be sufficiently repaired by the next hurricane season. Still, no matter how often Nagin pleads his town's case in Washington, it's clear that "New Orleans needs help inside the Beltway with Republicans," says Stonecipher, and the Landrieus know it. When President Bush visited New Orleans recently, Mitch Landrieu was constantly at his shoulder, not Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, notes Stonecipher. Mary Landrieu, for her part, last month named a Republican as her chief of staff...
...decades since Bono entered the world stage as a mullet-haired front man, he commands attention like no other cultural figure alive. When he visits Capitol Hill, his movement through the halls is split-timed. His lobbyists feed him tips so he knows, for instance, that Kentucky's Mitch McConnell has a thing for Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who inspired U2's song Walk On. The rest is intuitive. Bono arrives with no security, takes gifts (a leather-bound volume of Seamus Heaney for Patrick Leahy, a framed copy of the Marshall Plan...
...EVER TALK SHOP WITH YOUR HUSBAND [KENTUCKY SENATOR AND MAJORITY WHIP MITCH MCCONNELL]? No, we're much too busy. We both love what we're doing. When we have time together, we talk about college football, about getting together with our friends--the usual kind of stuff--[like] who takes out the garbage...