Just another day in New Orleans (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Sparkle]

le sigh

Enjoy these pictures of Gregory Joseph's latest trip to France with Mayor LaToya Cantrell

When Mayor LaToya Cantrell left town earlier this week for a city-funded trip to France, a lot of New Orleanians were feeling a touch of the FOMOs. Which was understandable,

www.nola.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Y’all got a fetish

 

[El Caliente]

Yeah, for sheetty politicians.

 

[DaveXA]

Y’all got a fetish

When you have a leader who is anything but...

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

When you have a leader who is anything but...

Like she’s the only one
That’s the issue

 

[DaveXA]

Like she’s the only one
That’s the issue

Sure, but she's the one now...when she's done, it will be someone else. Comes with the territory.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Sure, but she's the one now...when she's done, it will be someone else. Comes with the territory.

Not the ‘only one’ mayor- the only one politician on this non-political board
How is she the only current politician who continually gets scorn heaped on her ?

 

[DaveXA]

Not the ‘only one’ mayor- the only one politician on this non-political board
How is she the only current politician who continually gets scorn heaped on her ?

She happens to be the mayor of the city a lot of posters live in, and the city that most of us here care about. If it wasn't her and someone else doing the same shenanigans, they'd get criticized as well. This thread is about the city and the state she's in, and the leadership has an important role to play. But that lack of leadership isn't helping anything.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

She happens to be the mayor of the city a lot of posters live in, and the city that most of us here care about. If it wasn't her and someone else doing the same shenanigans, they'd get criticized as well. This thread is about the city and the state she's in, and the leadership has an important role to play. But that lack of leadership isn't helping anything.

This. And Nagin and Mitch got their fair share too.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Not the ‘only one’ mayor- the only one politician on this non-political board
How is she the only current politician who continually gets scorn heaped on her ?

My post was a link to a news story about a different person.

Please feel free to share stories about others in the city who are vacationing on our dime, especially anyone who has been caught pilfering public money for political expenses

But if the mayor or her administration is off limits in this thread then yeah it should probably be closed

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

My post was a link to a news story about a different person.

Please feel free to share stories about others in the city who are vacationing on our dime, especially anyone who has been caught pilfering public money for political expenses

But if the mayor or her administration is off limits in this thread then yeah it should probably be closed

This board has a no politics policy- I take a very broad approach to this and feel any discussion of race, gender, religion, et al is halal because there are more sociocultural
And even clowning on a politician caught doing extracurricular (non-governmental) shenanigans also seems fair game
A mayor doing mayor stuff is about as political as you can get - which seems a clear violation of one of the top rules of the board

And to reiterate for the manyth time - I’m not stanning for her in any wayshapeform- she’s bad news
But singling her in a city that is not the worst city but in a state that is the worst state while not acknowledging that many/most city problems are state problems
Well that smells oddly of agenda

 

[DaveXA]

This board has a no politics policy- I take a very broad approach to this and feel any discussion of race, gender, religion, et al is halal

While the board generally has a no politics policy, that doesn't mean there isn't room for discussion of NOLA related issues that are intertwined with politics. Take the Covid threads as an example. That human health topic is loaded with politics, but it still needs to be discussed from a health care perspective, yet it's not a rigid anti-politics approach, but rather recognizing there are some aspects that can be discussed without getting mired in a political back and forth. It gets a bit too political at times and we try to nip that in the bud when it happens.

The same goes for local issues. Crime, policing, the Saints, economy in NOLA are all at least in part affected greatly by public policy and leadership. Notice no one here has said anything really partisan. The discussion has been specifically about the behavior of the city's public servants and imo should be part of the discussion about the health of the city.

I hear you, but I just disagree that we can't have this discussion because of the politics excuse.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

While the board generally has a no politics policy, that doesn't mean there isn't room for discussion of NOLA related issues that are intertwined with politics. Take the Covid threads as an example. That human health topic is loaded with politics, but it still needs to be discussed from a health care perspective, yet it's not a rigid anti-politics approach, but rather recognizing there are some aspects that can be discussed without getting mired in a political back and forth. It gets a bit too political at times and we try to nip that in the bud when it happens.

The same goes for local issues. Crime, policing, the Saints, economy in NOLA are all at least in part affected greatly by public policy and leadership. Notice no one here has said anything really partisan. The discussion has been specifically about the behavior of the city's public servants and imo should be part of the discussion about the health of the city.

I hear you, but I just disagree that we can't have this discussion because of the politics excuse.

And I agree with all of that (and even allowed for it)
What you didn’t address is my contention that if one is addressing NO issues (via Cantrell) and NOT addressing the fact that so many of the city problems are state problems; then it’s hard to take the ‘concerned with the city’ position seriously- it’s clearly way more about taking shots than a discussion of the issues

 

[Nisey55]

If I may, I would like to give a perspective up for thought. This is strictly about this thread and it's purpose. To be clear I don't live in the city but it holds a very special place in my heart. I am heartbroken to see the downfalls.
I don't see this discussion as a political one, I see it as an emotional one.
Just another day in NO - the title itself implies a certain amount of defeat.
Each one of us are human beings with human emotions. When we see injustice, unfairness, suffering we become angry, helpless, sad, indignant, this list goes on.
We have rules here, and should. But the more important matter is that we can come here to express our feelings within reason, it's healthy and crucial to our well-being.
Everyone expresses their emotions in different ways and we should support one another. Just because a politician's name is brought up doesn't make it a political discussion, that would be like saying talking about an oak tree makes it a forest discussion.
I don't know, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if we keep the thread allow it be more like therapy session rather than a give and take my opinion versus your opinion.
People need to let it out, individually we don't have the power to fix a city, but we do have the power of listening, it's one of our greatest and most important gifts.

 

[DaveXA]

And I agree with all of that (and even allowed for it)
What you didn’t address is my contention that if one is addressing NO issues (via Cantrell) and NOT addressing the fact that so many of the city problems are state problems; then it’s hard to take the ‘concerned with the city’ position seriously- it’s clearly way more about taking shots than a discussion of the issues

The relationship between the state and city have been addressed numerous times, so I don't really buy that. There may be some who are not addressing the point, but I think most of the regulars here recognize the state to city issues.

Again, I maintain that Cantrell and other officials are getting the lion's share of the criticism because they represent the city. If it's someone else and they act in embarrassing ways, well, they'll get that same criticism.

And to be sure, blaming the state for the city government's shenanigans doesn't fly. The state isn't going to fix the corruption in the city government.