I believe this was an instance of the Democrats being totally out of touch with the majority of their (probably mostly silent) constituency and acted from that easy political standpoint of having nothing to lose and maybe a tad to gain by being anti-demolition. I will personally sort of miss the Lafitte projects, but I will get over that. There were not but a very small handful of actual project residents at the city hall protest yesterday. Not a single project resident is without a housing voucher since Katrina. People are not just being thrown out into the street. It is unfortunate for some that they can't move back into the same building they've grown up in, raised families etc., but in New Orleans the boo hoo of that is a hard sell. People from all strata of the demographic map have suffered and are suffering in the post-k. That Republicans are sometimes right might be a bitter pill for some, but hopefully that is not the only pill in your medicine cabinet. Looks like a d*m*rol over in the corner there.
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- jimlouis 12-21-2007 5:15 pm