Challenger Presses New Orleans Mayor in Debate
It is a great service that MSNBC is telecasting the debates in New Orleans. This one, as with the others, got pretty heated. Focusing on New Orleans’ slow recovery from Hurricane Katrina, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu repeatedly went after Mayor C. Ray Nagin Monday night in a series of sharp, pointed exchanges. This was the first debate after the primary election before the May 20 mayoral runoff.
Landrieu, who finished second in the primary vote, criticized Mr. Nagin for failing to remove trash and flooded cars from the streets of the city. He also said New Orleans had been "crippled nationally" because Nagin’s outbursts had lost him "credibility" in the eyes of decision-makers throughout the United States. Nagin portrayed his opponent as too tied to his famous political family—Landrieu’s sister is a United States senator and his father was the last white mayor of New Orleans—and to what he called "the politics of the past." Can’t we all just get a long?
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