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| Monday, May 22, 2006 |
| Misunderestimating Ray Nagin |
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Ray Nagin won reelection in New Orleans over the weekend. (Despite, what Drudge is claiming was a c-o-n-spiracy to oust Nagin at the DNC.)
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) secretly placed political operatives in the city of New Orleans to work against the reelection efforts of incumbent Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean made the decision himself to back mayoral candidate and sitting Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu (D-LA), sources reveal.
Dean came to the decision to back the white challenger, over the African-American incumbent Nagin, despite concerns amongst senior black officials in the Party that the DNC should stay neutral.
The DNC teams actively worked to defeat Nagin under the auspice of the committee's voting rights program.
The party's field efforts also coincided with a national effort by Democrat contributors to support Landrieu.
Landrieu had outraised Nagin by a wide margin - $3.3 million to $541,980.
Preliminary campaign finance reports indicate many of Landrieu’s contributions came from out of state white Democrat leaders and financiers, including a $1,000 contribution from Sen. Ben Nelson's (D-NE) PAC.
The defeat of Mitch Landrieu is the latest setback for Dean's often criticized field operation. Drudge also quotes from Nagin's victory speech Saturday night, in which he supposedly praised President Bush, and said he and Dubya were "the most villified politicians in country."
Paul at Wizbang (who's from New Orleans) says ... well duh ... and he's been saying since before the vote that the Black candidate was going to win no matter which candidate actually takes office ...
NOLA breaks down the numbers, and finds that Nagin's win came down to two things: the Black vote, and the white vote...
People Get Ready has a handy precinct map...
Malkin's minions declare the reelection to be actually insane.
Tags: Ray Nagin, New Orleans, ray-nagin, fema, Katrina, elections |
posted by JReid @ 9:37 AM   |
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