Most depressing council race ever

Well... most depressing since the last one... or until the next one... anyway.

In one corner we have State Representative Austin Badon.

Badon, who was briefly a candidate for Mayor during the last election, is known for the following.

1) Last year Badon recommended we have the National Guard occupy New Orleans until the murder rate gets under control.

2) Similarly, during his short Mayoral campaign, Badon promised an audience they could expect to see NOPD "kicking in at least four doors a day" should he be elected.

3) Badon also signed onto this neo-prohibitionist manifesto.

4) Last, but not least, Badon apparently has some sort of problem with my well-honed ability to tweet while driving.

Standing with Mr. Badon in his corner are the following fine entities.

1) The so-called "Alliance for Good Government" whatever that may mean.

The Alliance is one of countless groups that gets involved in local races, but polls show that its stamp of approval impresses voters, who consider it something of a political "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval."

2) The organization known as the Greater New Orleans Republicans. You might remember GNOR from such famously "strategic" maneuvers such as having worked very hard to re-elect Ray Nagin in 2006.

3) Political consultant Cheron Brylski, who, we are given to understand is partially behind an astroturfy effort to shut down a lot of live music in New Orleans. Jan Ramsey discusses this problem in a recent Offbeat editorial but makes such a mess of it that it needs further clarification.

In the other corner we have District B Councilwoman Stacy Head.

Stacy is famous for all sorts of awful things I don't even feel like going into.

Most recently we learned she has been pushing to have lower Magazine Street converted to two-way traffic which can't be good for anyone except real estate speculators. Here she is telling us that litterers are murderers or something like that. Here she is telling us how much she would like to have your car towed. In this article she tells us that poor people don't pay enough in taxes. There's more but you get the idea.

Anyway here's a list of Ms. Head's illustrious backers, in case you're looking for something to throw on one of our still-burning marsh fires this weekend.

The notable donors listed on the invitation included lawyers Herschel Abbott and Joe Bruno; businesswoman and education reform leader Leslie Jacobs; businessmen Coleman Adler, Tommy Coleman and John Georges, Bill Goldring and Boatner Reily; shipbuilder Boysie Bollinger, restaurateur Ralph Brennan;, developers Brian Gibbs and Elie Khoury; and venture capitalists David Voelker and Gary Solomon.

So this will be fun. Here's how fun it will be. I can, at the bottom of this post, type the phrase, Cynthia Willard-Lewis is also running, and not have it be the worst thing you read.