Ray Nagin must go – can I get a witness?
I went to hear Michael Lewis speak this afternoon as one of many authors here for the Tennessee Williams Festival. He was being interviewed at the Historic New Orleans Collection on Royal Street in the French Quarter. Generally, I don’t care much about hearing authors I enjoy reading, talk, because in the past I’ve found I didn’t really want to know about the author personally, because it has colored my reading of their work afterwards. But I was more interested in what Lewis was going to say about New Orleans and about our state of the union as he saw it from a writer’s eye.
The one thing that came across loud and clear, as he is not one to mince words, is that New Orleans, out of all of the Gulf South that was affected by Katrina and Rita, is having the hardest time getting back on her feet. And it points to one huge problem – one big fucking problem – and that is Ray Nagin. I can’t believe he is still our mayor. I can’t believe I know people who elected him to that position. I can’t believe he has not had the presence of mind to abdicate his role. I can’t believe that everyone doesn’t rise up in arms – none of us, not me, not you, not this city deserve Ray Nagin as our mayor.
Ray Nagin must go
Ray Nagin must go
Ray Nagin must go
Ray Nagin must go
Ray Nagin must go