Election Recommendations

As a rule, this site generally does not endorse candidates for public office because

1. Such persons rarely if ever deserve anyone's tolerance much less approval.
2. Nobody in their right mind cares what this site thinks anyway.

However, this weekend provides us with a (perhaps one-time only) exception to these rules (at least to the first one). If you are a Democrat and choose to vote for any of the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee seats in District A or B, please consider the following individuals.

District A

Karen Gadbois has been active City wide in Recovery Issues, serves on the Board of the Urban Conservancy and Silence is Violence and is Executive Director of Common Knowledge

I'll only add to this short resume that it is "common knowledge" that if post-flood New Orleans has anything close to a superhero, it is Ms. Gadbois.

Dr. Michael Homan is an Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University of Louisiana, Chair of MCNO Education Committee 2005-07,and author of several articles and books about the Bible

Dr. Homan also sports a bad-ass Elvis tatoo. The photo is borrowed from howieluvzus. You can still write captions for it here.

Kimberly Marshall is a law school graduate and organizer of the Rising Tide Conference, a community-building gathering of New Orleans area bloggers which is going into its 3rd year. She also blogs under the name Dangerblond.

Ms. Marshall is also the only candidate in this race who has personally sprayed whipped cream into my mouth.

District B

Mark Moseley is best known for his career as a placekicker in the National Football League during the 1970s and 80s. Over 16 seasons (mostly spent with the Washington Redskins) Moseley was famous for being one of the last fooball players to wear a single-bar facemask and was the last kicker to employ the straight-ahead kicking style which was gradually outmoded during his career by the introduction of the "soccer style" side-on method. During the strike-shortened 1982 season, Moseley became the first and only placekicker to win the league's Most Valuable Player award. He is the Redskins' career scoring leader.

Presidential Primary
This site recommends that, upon being confronted with this ballot, citizens immediately set fire to the polling place as well as any condos within a three block radius.