Leslie Jacobs
Speaking with Sandy Rosenthal of Levees.org, Kevin Allman of Gambit and Leigh Checkman of Liprap's Lament
~Editilla Counsuellas~Again, Big Whoa Thanks Youz to Kevin Allman of Gambit for fielding this blogger's question to the Candidate. Unfortunately, Mrs Jacobs' uncool, pragmatically nuanced, faux position on Re-Opening Charity dropped her platform a few rungs down the ladder, as it reflects directly on Karen's hard work on the Post-Flood Housing Crisis, Liprap's extensive coverage of City Schools and the fate of A Place for all the other Actual Human Beings who made up the greater population of the city before the Flood and who will never live on "Da'Sliva by Da'Riva" much less afford such uptown gold-plated health care. This was no Progressive Sunrise.
I wouldn't like Joe Lieberman even if he put on a wig and started wearing a dress any more than I like the idea of any conservative Democrat who would try to paint lips on New Orleans with a Baton Rouge, who might expediently misunderestimate Charity as nuance for "Indigent Care", rather than the fulcrum of affordable health care in New Orleans. But even deeper than that for me is the question: is she coming from Baton Rouge or New Orleans?
Is this Live or is it Memorex?
We really don't need Baton Rouge in New Orleans, supporting LSU and the flattening of an entire neighborhood of Returnees to facilitate the school's Medical Industry real estate land grab.
Her "Focus Response" of "Indigent Care/Charity" was a "polled" dance to the left of an answer, and frankly left Editilla flatter than a lap-dance in a Clown Car. Such calculated bourgeois naivete bespeaks to me of an ignorance of Charity Hospital as not only the Capstone of Affordable Health Care for most of the City's Citizens, but of Charity's pre-Flood place as the #1 Trauma Center in the south and Top 3 in the entire nation.
To put it bluntly, Charity Hospital has always (200 years) confronted the devastation and stitched up the victims of both Nature and Bad Government in New Orleans.
For this latent, virtually recordless candidate to simply equate that with "indigent care" is to ignore how Charity stood Bravely (much braver than me or Leslie Jacobs) during the flood --yet is, like so many of us from that horrid time, in danger of falling through the aftermath like rats into a carpet bag.
Jus'sayin... To demure is NOT to lead.
The Mayor's Race as Sitcom
~Adrastos as Laugh Button
EPA head to visit New Orleans ~WXVT~Jackson is expected to spend two days in New Orleans, where she will speak at the EPA's National Brownfields Conference, tour the Lower 9th Ward and speak at Southern University at New Orleans and Tulane University, her alma mater.
Can't Do Katrina Shorthand Jive
~Sandy Rosenthal
N.O. contractor to pay $40K fine for dumping waste
Louisiana passed up for Corps' Katrina Lie Machine contract
~Dion Roberts
TUCLA Conference
~The Huck Upchuck
And I Am To Vanish Into the Mists?~Gentilly Girl
Serve America, Place Your Child in Foster Care!~Soldier single-mom refuses deployment to care for baby
SAVANNAH, Ga. — An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.
Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, 21, claims she had no choice but to refuse deployment orders because the only family she had to care for her 10-month-old son — her mother — was overwhelmed by the task, already caring for three other relatives with health problems.
Her civilian attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Monday that one of Hutchinson's superiors told her she would have to deploy anyway and place the child in foster care.
Kevin Larson, a spokesman for Hunter Army Airfield, said he didn't know what Hutchinson was told by her commanders, but he said the Army would not deploy a single parent who had nobody to care for his or her child. "Spc. Hutchinson's deployment is halted," Larson said. "There will be no deployment while this situation is ongoing."
Aung San Suu Kyi, Omar Khadr, and Barack Obama: A Dreadful Tale of What America Has Become~CJO's Avenger212
Sunday! New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival
~Ride the St. Charles street car to Stop #46.The 2009 New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival will be held 11am to 6pm, Sun Nov 22 on the newly renovated Oak Street between Carrollton and Eagle.
Jenny LeBlanc demonstrates art with New Orleans tamale-making ~Doug MacCash
Randy Newman Talks New Orleans and the 'Princess and the Frog' with Variety
John Prine, John Mayer bound for New Orleans~Keith Spera
2 comments:
I didn't make it to the Jacobs/blogger meet up last night. Also came in late to the Tweets which were very sparse anyway and didn't really tell us much. I've looked this morning and cannot find a single word about how it went. Do you know if anyone's going to blog it? Frankly, I'm a bit frustrated by the lack of info on this lady other than education-related issues.
Indeed, you can see my thoughts on the one question I did get in that she didn't answer: the fate of Charity Hospital.
Bear in mind, we have to see what Kevin Allman reports in the Gambit. There may have been lots of other questions on issues of our bent that just didn't register on the Gambit Twit, considering as well that Allman was also there to Pay Attention to the candidate and not Twitter.
Still, while I do honestly find it incredible that this Mayoral Candidate deliberately sought out Nola Bloggers --the night before her Official Announcement-- speaks well of efforts toward Online Access and Transparency... though they may be misunderestimating the maw of the rising tide.
Yes the scheduling of the event pissed me off too, no time to prepare, as if her Social Networking "People" are only old enough for the "Networking" part and not the "Proper Dinner Invitation" part.
I was still gratified by the turn-out despite the lack of clear due notice.
Heavy hitters came through, so I'm hope they have a few dimes to drop on this still virtually unknown latent candidate? They are much better at stuffing the Trunk of this Clown Car than me.
My concerns for New Orleans recovery are pretty simple actually.
I call it the 2~Step Program:
Levees and Charity
...and not necessarily in that order.
We'll see if Leslie Jacobs knows anything about levees and the Corps of Engineers' relationship to the city they flooded.
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