Word: nagin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...love you, Ray Nagin," yells the lady in the Chevy Blazer, honking her horn and waving to the mayor of New Orleans. "God bless you, Mayor," shouts a guy in a busted pickup. It is a little after 7 a.m. and the mayor is standing in a grassy median, ignoring fumes from three lanes of rush-hour traffic to glad-hand voters in hopes of getting reelected in the city that Hurricane Katrina battered and left for dead. "Thank you, baby, need your help!" Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops...
...Sumpin? is indeed up. The open primary for New Orleans mayor is April 22 and the big surprise - to outsiders, at least - is that Mayor Ray Nagin is in the race and expected to easily win a spot for the May runoff. Ever since victims of Hurricane Katrina languished for days at the Superdome without food, water or buses to evacuate, politicians from the Louisiana statehouse to the White House have seen their poll numbers slump to new lows. Nagin, who took the brunt of verbal abuse from evacuees, tried to win them back in January by championing New Orleans...
...Nagin isn’t reelected, some Broadmoor residents speculated, the Bring New Orleans Back Commission could be swept aside and the work of the volunteers voided since the commission is his brainchild...
...Many residents said that Hurricane Katrina changed any goodwill Nagin had won for efforts to kill corruption in the city. Nagin was conspicuously absent from the public eye right when New Orleanians needed reassurance after the storm...
...speech in January meant to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Nagin called New Orleans a “chocolate” city. “This city will be a majority African-American city,” he said, according to The Times-Picayune, the city’s newspaper. “It’s the way God wants...