Just another day in New Orleans

St. Widge said
I'm with you on Nagin. I really thought he was going to bring change to the city. I was wrong. As far as LaToya, I had some amount of contact with her prior to her being elected and I knew she was going to be bad news. She hid it well before the election, but it was always clear to me that she was a step back to the New Orleans politics of old and just a nasty person who treated other people like dirt. She was also way too close to Marlin Gusman and his political machine.

But, I can see how if you were never close to her, you would think she was a good option. I know people who were close to her that didn't realize how bad she would be.

Yeah, totally agree on the Gusman connection. My mom lived in Broadmoor when she was president of the association. My mom usually didn't talk politics when she was alive, but she was not crazy about her at all. That was my first red flag. With Charbonnet, you knew what you were getting if she was elected (she's who I supported), just like with Mitch and Marc and so on. Cantrell hid her issues well, even as some of it started to come to light publicly.