Eli has the video. Trying to shore up his Dem bona fides to win an endorsement, mayoral candidate John Georges introduces a new campaign position: he wants U.S. Attorney Jim Letten removed. Huh? If you live in Uptown or Lakeview, please spread the word: Georges wants to replace Jim Letten from office, purely out of partisanship. "It's a Democrat thing", he says.
Odd that he didn't mention this newsworthy preference during his interview with T-P columnist Stephanie Grace.
(The obvious angle here is to redirect African-American voters and Democratic insiders away from Mitch Landrieu, because his sister supports keeping Letten in office.)
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Update: Now Georges claims it was all a joke, in the name of endorsement strategery. He says he supports Letten, but was doing a comedic "routine" in front of an audience full of African American Democrats in order to damage Mitch Landrieu, and make sure Landrieu didn't get the OPDEC endorsement. (Troy Henry received the endorsement.) Good gravy. Can Georges get more ridiculous?
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Georges wants Letten replaced because he's Republican
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I'm almost tempted to friend Rush Radio 99.5 and John Osterlind just to post this on their facebook
i double dawg dare ya ,sr.
By 
GENTILLY YARD ART, at
9:56 PM
Wow. I'm speechless. I was actually thinking that Georges was preferable to Landrieu; now I'm thinking the opposite. This was unhinged pandering.
Pandering from a politician? Noooooooo That would never happen not from a benighted benobled enlightened politician.
By 
, at
7:07 PM
Pandering is Not a city in China.
Georges has got to be one of the most foolish looking people I have ever run across in any capacity. Doubtless many here surmise that ain't no mean feat.
By Editilla the Pun, at
8:24 PM
Didn't Georges used to BE a Republican?
Georges is absolutely trying to do this to win over voters who are black and it is a losing strategy because it will alienate all the voters from the right who Georges needed to make the runoff and/or win the election.
Now I believe there is no possibility for Georges to win this race.
I bet Landrieu is jumping for joy at this.
SR: Osterlind is the only show worth listening to on WRNO... besides, it is fun to comment on his facebook page and rile all the extreme right wingers up. The mere suggestion that the Constitutional protections of due process would not be restricted to only citizens gave many of them aneurysms.
To Cade: I posted this on the Gambit blog...
if i’m doing this right and reading this correctly: I click follow your link to Huffington Post; I click on John Georges CEO of Imperial Trading’s address “23 Audubon Pl” and it says:
$33,600 given by this address.
$33,600 to Republicans $0 to Democrats
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=loc&addr=23+AUDUBON+PL&zip=70118
Dan Z.:
>Georges is absolutely trying to do this to win over voters who are black and it is a losing strategy because it will alienate all the voters from the right who Georges needed to make the runoff and/or win the election.
Now I believe there is no possibility for Georges to win this race.
I bet Landrieu is jumping for joy at this.<
Yeah, and so is Troy Henry, who walks right through this door.
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