New Orleans Rejected for Presidential Debate
This sucks. From the New Orleans Times Picayune:
New Orleans lost out in the competition to host one of the 2008 presidential debates Monday after the commission that selects the sites decided that the city has not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina to handle such a major event. Backers of the New Orleans debate, who had won the support of seven presidential candidates and three of the nation’s leading newspapers, reacted with indignation and disputed the debate commission’s assertion that New Orleans has not recovered its touch for staging national events.
New Orleans has not recovered enough to host a presidential debate? I mean they host professional football games with 50,000 plus folks just about every other week. Jazz Fest and Mardi Gras went off without any major problems. These people are shit-all-stupid.
Memo to the Senators running for president. If you agree with this and think New Orleans doesn’t have the ability to "stage national events" then maybe you ought to do something in your role as elected officials.
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Why don’t they do it elsewhere on the Gulf Coast then? From my vantagepoint, people outside of New Orleans tend to get ignored anyway and it would be a good chance for them to highlight the fact that the entire Gulf Coast is trying to get back on its feet.