Oliver North, the former Marine implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal and current Fox News host, says allowing gays to serve openly in the military will lead to same-sex marriages in the military and the admission of pedophiles to the armed forces.
Muck you, Ollie, and muck your slippery-sloped head, you pissant tool! Who gives a crap about your dippy "concerns"? Why don't you sell some more weapons to Iran so Nicaraguan leftists don't invade Tejas-- and launder the funds through Herman Beebe's bank, while you're at it.
Unrelated article from December T-P article, plus comments:
Shelley Midura won her seat on the City Council in a knock-down, drag-out fight with Jay Batt in 2006.Good times.
Now that she's leaving the District A seat and Batt is trying to get it back, Midura's got a parting shot for her old foe.
She's endorsing Susan Guidry, a political outsider who once fought against one of Batt's biggest supporters.
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District A candidate Susan Guidry is a lawyer who, like Midura in 2006, is making her first run at office. Midura said she especially liked that Guidry "single-handedly" used public nuisance laws to shut down the Lyric Cafe, a bar across from the American Can building on Orleans Avenue.
Neighbors were complaining about getting their tires slashed by bar patrons, and about violence in front of the establishment. Guidry organized the neighbors, pressured the city to pull the bar's permit in 2008 and then used state statutes to keep it from reopening under other names. She eventually used her position on the Lake Area Zoning District board to get the parcel rezoned as a two-family residential unit.
Nice job, Susan. you showed real tenacity in shutting down that troublesome establishment, not letting it re-open, and then getting the parcel rezoned. I bet the owners were peeved.
The property is owned by Vincent Marcello Jr.'s Minacore Investments.
Great Caesar's ghost! Susan Guidry has stones the size of Betelgeuse.
Marcello and Minacore combined to give Batt $6,500 for his run against Midura in 2006, and Marcello has already pumped $1,000 into Batt's current campaign.
Minacore... that's the original family name, isn't it?
Batt said he also shut down nuisance bars when he was on the council.
"It was I who shut down Butler's bar, a place of crime and drugs on Leake Avenue, for which I received the Southern Christian Leadership Council's Martin Luther King Jr. award, " he said.
"Crime and drugs" in New Orleans-- heaven forfend! That never used to happen in the good ole days. And yes, I think most of us miss Martin King, and honor his legacy. Too bad he got shot by a drug-runnin' thief who never did anything without a profit motive. I guess lone nuts were in season that year.
Largely unrelated December T-P article:
Taking aim at Batt's promise to rid the district of nuisance properties, Guidry sent reporters photos of Batt signs posted at houses on South Murat and South Hennessey streets owned by Batt friend and investment-firm owner Vincent Marcello Jr., who has given Batt at least $1,000 for his current campaign and $6,500 for his unsuccessful 2006 race.Largely unrelated T-P article from Friday's paper by John Pope titled "Real Estate developer files suit to silence critical duo":
There are at least seven more such properties, said Matt Larson, Guidry's campaign director.
Claiming that he has been "unlawfully ridiculed and derided" during the campaign for the City Council's District A seat, a prominent local real estate developer filed suit Thursday in Civil District Court in an attempt to silence his critics.
Vincent Marcello Jr. sued candidate Virginia Guidry and Keith Hardie, who chairs Anybody But Batt, a political action committee committed to keeping Guidry opponent Jay Batt our of office.
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In his suit, Marcello claims the defendants demeaned his reputation by describing him as an owner of "dozens of blighted properties, many of which bore Batt campaign posters. Moreover, he stated, the defendants alleged that his contributions to Batt bought him special treatment for the properties.
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[Marcello] described himself as a Batt "acquaintance" but said he did not file the lawsuit at the campaign's behest.
Ahh, not a Batt friend, just a Batt "acquaintance". That's good. One must strive to be clear on one's associations, and to defend one's reputation from ridicule. For example, I'm sure not all of Marcello's properties look like this. Some of his mid-city properties are probably in great shape. He might even own a stately house or two on Canal St. for all I know. And who's to say he got "special treatment" for his donations? That would be like saying he got special treatment just because he owns a lot of real estate and was one of the "top donors" to assessor Claude Mauberret, who always runs high-toned campaigns. Plus, Marcello owns restaurants like Maximo's, which are much more convenient to New Orleanians than Mosca's, which is out in the boonies. Bring the whole family, but cash only please.
Largely unrelated T-P item:
Jay Batt, who is campaigning to regain his District A seat on the City Council, has launched an attack on rival Susan Guidry based on the actions of one of her key supporters, City Councilwoman Shelley Midura.
Using what might be considered twisted logic, Batt concludes that Guidry is soft on crime because of her association with Midura, who ousted Batt from the seat four years ago and is not running for re-election.
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Guidry also has accused Batt of having "a criminal record of his own he needs to answer for," claiming Batt was an "aider and abettor" to a bookie with whom he had placed bets. Batt testified at the man's trial, Guidry said, and the bookie was convicted and sentenced to 20 months in prison.
A bookie? I hope it wasn't "Dutz" Murret. Anyway, I'm glad we have crime-fighters like Batt pointing out the softies for us, based on their troubling associations. Batt's a fearless "untouchable", like U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, who always takes down the big fish. Speaking of Letten, isn't it cool that he went out of his way to "set the record straight" in response to claims made by Canal St. Madam Jeanette Maier and her lawyer, Vinny Mosca? Letten didn't add anything substantive at all-- he basically affirmed what Mosca said-- but he did it publicly, at a perilous time for U.S. Senator David Vitter. I wonder: if Jeanette Maier had made some claims about politicians who are currently running for office in elections tomorrow, would Letten have gone out of his way to confirm whether those politicians' names had "surfaced" during the federal investigations of the Canal St. brothel? You know, to set the record straight.
I could go on with these silly tangents forever, it seems. Anyway: though it's nice that we have Jay Batt and Claude Mauberret running to bring rectitude and reform back to New Orleans city government, I'm going to opt for Susan Guidry and Janis Lemle.
Labels: assessors, Canal Street Madam, Carlos Marcello, City Council, Cons, crime, Cronies, Elections and Campaigns, gays, military, MLK, R.E., wet work
