Archive for the 'Louisiana' Category

Louisiana Looooser

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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The state’s ethics board is charging former Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans with two possible violations. One charge involves gifts to Mr. Nagin paid for by the technology company NetMethods and its owner Mark St. Pierre, who had several city contracts. NetMethods paid for [...]

World’s Worst Mayor

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The mayor of Memphis has just won the “The Worst Mayor in the World” award. The ceremony has a date that has yet to be announced.
W.W. Herenton, aka “Taterhead”, King Willie, Slick Willy, and sometimes just plain “W”, has just put together a team to find out if it is a good idea for him [...]

Ray Nagin stars as “The Big Kahuna”

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Life is so good in New Orleans. Or, at least for the Mayor. Mayor Ray Nagin is now being asked about who paid for an expensive Hawaiian vacation for him and his family.
Mayor Nagin is such a jetsetter that he sometimes doesn’t even know who pays for his trips. Apparently, accepting expensive trips for his [...]

For Greta

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Mandeville, La Mayor Eddie Price

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

It seems Mayor Eddie Price of Mandeville, La tried to write off a trip to New Orleans to attend a friends wedding. He claims that there was city business discussed while at the wedding with Finance Director Milton Stiebing and then-Public Works Director Joe Mistich. The Mayor drove the city owned vehicle to the wedding [...]