Surprise, surprise: Mitch is in

Fox 8 WVUE among others is reporting that Mitch will officially join the mayor's race tomorrow. Why couldn't he have done this a month ago so we could just deal with 4 or 6 people's commercials instead of 9?

The Economist on the mayor's race

The Economist discusses New Orleans' mayor's race here. One thing I didn't mention the other day was that New Orleans has a rather stringent residency requirement: you have to have lived here five years in order to run. That disqualifies the otherwise good possibilities of James Carville and Brad Pitt. Yes, Brad Pitt. If I don't have to vote tactically in the election, I'll write his name in anyway.

If it's November, Mitch must be running for something, and what I want for the city

Mitch writes on the Chicory is this post that he received a call asking about whether he would consider voting for Mitch Landrieu should he run for mayor. Unless he plans on being lieutenant governor the rest of his career he needs to run for something else now; he can't accomplish anything else where he his. Every Democrat with a pulse is looking at Joseph Cao and saying "open seat", so there will be less competition for this mayor's election than any other in recent memory.

All I want for this city is for the same vendor who has the traffic cameras maintain the crime cameras; at least the former are working.