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New Orleans Mayor Sees Support Shift
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| Contributor | mtrz |
| Last Edited | mtrz Mar 12, 2006 09:35pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Monday, March 13, 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NEW ORLEANS — Perhaps it did not bode well for C. Ray Nagin, the mayor of this fraught city, that candidates for the upcoming mayoral election were asked to turn in their filing papers at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. After all, the same facility had become a fetid, lawless and ill-equipped shelter after Hurricane Katrina — and a fiasco Nagin's critics have pointed to in questioning his response to the storm.
But it wasn't so much the building that underscored the minefield Nagin will face in the weeks before the April 22 election. It was the people walking in the door: Some of Nagin's friends had turned on him.
Several prominent members of the community who backed Nagin when he ran in 2002 have decided to run themselves this time. It is a reflection, analysts said, of the topsy-turvy world of New Orleans politics six months after the storm.
The black community had never widely trusted or welcomed Nagin, who is black. In his previous race for office, the former cable company executive won about 40% of the black vote, and most of that support came from middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, most of whom remain displaced by the storm. |
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