Insinuations of the past

James Perry press release this afternoon:

I decided to run for Mayor because I believed that New Orleans' best days are ahead of her," said Perry. "But for us to realize that future, we must seize the opportunity to break free from the politicians and the politics of the past that have held our city back for so long. We must look forward, not backward for the leadership our city so desperately needs.

Ray Nagin in 2006:

That Monday night at the debate, Mr. Nagin made a veiled reference to what is at the back of some whites' minds here: the Landrieu and Morial clans are too close to each other. "I don't come from a political family or organization," he said. "Do we want to go back to the politics of the past?" The old Morial political organization has endorsed Mr. Landrieu.

Because, you see, Ray Nagin offered us a style of leadership which represented a break with "the politics of the past". James Perry liked it so much that he now "must seize the opportunity" to offer it to us again. Well done, Perry.