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December 11, 2006
Culture of Corruption Reelected in New Orleans
Posted by Dave Blount at December 11, 2006 7:43 AM
It's not easy to stand out as conspicuously corrupt among Democratic Congressmen, but Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) certainly manages. He's the guy who diverted rescue helicopters to retrieve a suspicious package from his house after Katrina. The FBI later found $90,000 in his freezer. Proving that it will take more than a hurricane to wash away the cesspool of corruption that is New Orleans politics, Jefferson has now been reelected.
He faced a runoff against fellow black Democrat Karen Carter, but was apparently able to portray her to his constituents as a tool of the white establishment, despite her being enough of a race-baiting moonbat to appear in a Spike Lee documentary, in which she accused Jefferson Parish of keeping out black refugees after the hurricane.
Carter raised almost five times as much cash, but Jefferson got key endorsements from the local establishment, including from the famously clueless Mayor Ray Nagin.
In her concession speech, Carter observed:
I guess the people are happy with the status quo.
A term Nancy Pelosi might once have used for this "status quo" is "culture of corruption." Meanwhile, the federal government continues to pour our money down this sinkhole.
On a tip from Wiggins.
