Saturday, August 18, 2007

Tribes

The ever-quotable Mayor Nagin:

Nagin then offered a provocative take on U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's frequent use of plea agreements, which give defendants a chance to reduce their jail time if they cooperate.

"The interesting thing that the feds are doing that I think is very smart on their part is that they're capturing certain tribes, if you will," Nagin said, referring to the city's political organizations that use catchy acronyms. "They'll capture the LIFE tribe, then they'll capture the BOLD tribe.

"And then they'll get them talking about each other. So I think you're going to see a lot of activity come over the next month or so."


Last week on Moldy City, Oyster wrote:
However, I think as LIFE members like Pampy turn on BOLD members like OT, there will be increased tit for tat as the federal investigation expands. I'm sure OT will be more inclined to give up people in rival political factions (like LIFE) rather than friendlies (in BOLD).

Right now, to me, it seems much more likely that more revelations will expose members of the "old guard", and will remind us of how utterly corrupt things were under Morial, rather than expose Nagin;'s current shenanigans.


Just so you know those two men are thinking along the same lines.. although Nagin a little more hopefully, I imagine.

Also in the politics column this week we learn that Scott Domke of Imagine Software has secured the domain name Naginforgovernor.com "as a lark" in case it should become useful at some point.

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