Just add water
1st December 2007
Just add water to an inflated resume, and a little City Council pixie dust, and watch Mr. Fantastic Blakely grow to several times his real proportions.
Sure, someone should be watching the store while No-C. Ray Nagin’s visiting his herb doctor in Jamaica or whatever at the same time that the City Council holds hearings on the largest budget in New Orleans history, containing hundreds of millions of dollars in funds needed to rebuild the city.
Who knows — I’m not hoping for another flood, but maybe with a little water, we might “grow a Mr. Fantastic”, and Blakely might actually expand to meet the challenge if he can stay seated at his desk for more than a few days a month.
I just wish the Council had asked Mr. Fantastic (more assertively) what his plan is, now that all of the grandiose talk hasn’t materialized into cranes on the skyline, before they crowned him surrogate mayor.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 am
This is TOO FUNNY!
“Then, with dramatic flair, Cerasoli presented his final bouquet to Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell. Admiring her “sage advice and guidance” and her “gracious aplomb,” Cerasoli noted that Hedge-Morrell, a cancer survivor who had her thyroid removed 22 years ago, has presided over seemingly endless hours of budget hearings less than a month after returning to work after surgery to remove a tissue growth in her neck.”"
“I want all to know that you are the keystone, you are the chairwoman of the budget committee,” he said. “Your support is essential.”"
Posted by lestat504 on 12/01/07 at 12:44AM
Taken from surveillance at The Herb Import Company November 21, 2007. He’s around…he’s just in the places you don’t expect. ;)
http://www.perceptionmedianetwork.com/RayNagin/raynaginattheherb.jpg
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