While he stopped just short of delivering a formal announcement Friday, John Georges couldn't have made it any clearer that he intends to run for mayor.
I haven't been this excited since I chain-smoked a pack of Camels while spending a hundy in a video poker stall. Finally, an outsider businessman who's not afraid to call it like he sees it.
Asked [in an interview with WBOK radio] to assess the performance of Mayor Ray Nagin, who cannot seek re-election because of term limits, Georges took a pass.
"I don't believe in going backward, I believe in going forward, " he said. "Until you walk in the shoes of a mayor of New Orleans, you really don't understand what's going on in this city. There's a lot of people pulling in the wrong direction, a lot of people fixated on the wrong things, and there's a lot of people with hidden agendas."
You can't assess Nagin's performance until you've walked in his shoes? Are you serious!? Gracious! You mean you can't use your own shoes to walk to the gym and then to a lunch date at Lillette's? Throw in some bullshit lip service about "transparency" in the afternoon, and you got a pretty good idea of Nagin's basic mayoral routine. Are we to infer from Georges' limpdick refusal to "assess" (read: criticize on a black radio station) Nagin's record that he might not aspire to be a big improvement over Nagin? Perhaps once Georges gets into the mayoral shoes, he'll decide that Nagin did a pretty dadgum good job; perhaps he will decide that the best he can do is to try and preserve and enhance the Nagin legacy for future generations. Right?
Georges is not even willing to risk a lukewarm, "on the one hand/on the other" assessment of Nagin on a black talk radio station, for fear of alienating black voters. This guy is such a spineless putz. He has no political talent. He makes me want to vomit. I loathe his "if I don't offend them, maybe I can buy them later" mentality.
So, we're only looking "forward" are we? Phew, that's a relief, because I was worried Georges was going to repeat his wild claims about Bobby Jindal having "orchestrated" his child's home birth, and how Bobby intentionally put his son "at risk" so that he could play "midwife". I'm sure the Governor and his merry men have forgotten all about that zinger, among others.
And if we're looking "forward", we won't be reviewing how Georges teamed up with the odious Derrick Shepherd back in 2005 to remove Shawn Barney from the State Senate race. And if we're looking "forward" we won't be calculating how Georges tripled the going rate in street money to secure Orleans parish during the Governor's race. "Politics of the past" and all that...
See, we're so busy looking forward, we can't assess the past.
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Update: Thx to Adrastos for the kind link. As you may know, he's also a featured contributor at First Draft. We Could Be Famous has more on the prospect of Georges.
Labels: Elections and Campaigns, Georges
