Somebody wrote that five years ago. Or something to that effect
Again, Irvin Mayfield, himself, isn't the actual problem. He is a symptom of the problem, though. The problem is the post-Katrina ascendance of neoliberal "volunteer entrepreneurism" in rebuilding the "ultimate libertarian city" prescribed by Glassman. The club members who've worked so hard to bring the Glassman vision to life are hard-pressed to admit it, though.
Instead they're quick to offer up scapegoats from among their own number whenever one of them fails too stupidly or publicly. Ray Nagin himself is the prime example here. Meffert is another. Mayfield is only the latest. There will be more eventually.
And when, eventually, there are more, we will wash our hands of those individuals as well and go on pretending everything is fine.
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