Louisiana Politics

I am so fedup with the current elections in New Orleans. Every candidate is resorting to name calling, half truths, and just outright lies. What happened to running on your record? What happened to running on the issues. It's become some sort of evil popularity contest. There is no possibility to take the high road. The mud slingers that call themselves professional political consultants have made an art of making voters more instrested in the dirt than the issues.

Come on people! Vote for the person you feel can do the best job, period. At this point in New Orleans, nothing else matters. It doesn't matter where they got financed, or who they party with, or who they said hello to on the way home from second grade.

To all the candidates, let me give you my humble opinion. You wasted your campaign's money, and a ton of the voter's time when you hired that overpriced "expert" that is running your campaign. Stop trying to cut down your opponent. Stop the double talk about how the "first day" your going to save the world. The only people that believe that you can make that kind of change are smoking or snorting stuff you don't want or need. Start giving specifics on how you can come into your position if elected, make some positive change for this city. More importantly, how you will bring together all the bickering factions locally and state wide into a unified group effort to put New Orleans and Louisiana back together.

I've seen the polls. Don't let a poll sway your vote. Vote for the person that you think will do the best job, not the one you think is the "less crooked" of the two. Do some research. Check the candidates records of both what they have done as a politician and in the private sector. Be educated, not just listen to the media and the tainted propaganda out there.

Most importantly, VOTE! Take the time to exercise your right.