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After Katrina, you challenged Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu about what officials were doing. Did you step over the line? I don't think I did. I'd been on Larry King several nights that week, hearing politicians thank one another and talk about how this was an unpredictable and unprecedented disaster. And you know what? It might have been unprecedented, but it was certainly predicted. There was a lot of anger out there. People were desperate for answers. The least our elected representatives can do is try to provide those answers...
...Less than half the city's population has returned. Congress is still debating when, or even if, it will unleash $4.2 billion in community development block grants allocated for the city's rebuilding. And the candidates Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu had largely managed to sidestep the most troublesome questions facing the city: whether it is realistic to rebuild New Orleans' entire pre-Hurricane Katrina footprint - a daunting prospect for a city hard-pressed to provide basic services for its drastically reduced populace - and how it will handle things if another major hurricane hit the city. Most...
...With a 52%-48% margin, Nagin, a pro-business Democrat who cobbled together enough conservative white support to give him the edge, cast himself as the underdog, a non- politician who had performed admirably under the unprecedented pressure of Katrina. Landrieu, who comes from a powerful Democratic political family (his sister is U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and his father was the city's last white mayor), ran a cautious campaign that was long on money but short on specifics...
...been dropping the names of two of the city's most prominent white businessmen - Joe Canizaro and Donald "Boysie" Bollinger - who are close to the White House, but neither has come out publicly for him so far. If Nagin can't match the third of the white vote that Landrieu received, then, the pollster Pinsonat says, "stick a fork in [him], he's done...
...Both Landrieu and Nagin have been criticized for dodging politically contentious rebuilding issues, such as proposals to declare some of the areas most devastated by Katrina's floodwaters off-limits for redevelopment. Landrieu said the next few weeks will give voters a clearer picture of where each of the candidates would lead the city. "I would suspect that whatever debates we have, and I'm sure there will be some, will be a little bit broader and more in depth," he said...