Nawlins Mayoral Debate

This Q&A with the Mitch Landrieu and Ray Nagin, the two mayoral candidates for mayor of New Orleans, illuminates some of the issues with which that poor city is still wrestling (mowing parks, throwing out big appliances, balancing its African-American heritage with the influx of Hispanic migrants) and offers some awfully funny insight into the two candidates:

Question: In the end, which Bush will wind up helping New Orleans more -- George or Reggie?

Landrieu: Reggie, absolutely. I mean, is it too much to hope that we go to the Super Bowl in the next four years?

Nagin: Reggie.

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Last question: There's another flood. You are in a rescue boat. You arrive at a rooftop to find Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. There's only room for one in the boat. Who do you take?

Landrieu: They both get left.

Nagin: I give them the boat and get on the roof and wait for the helicopter.

(Via Boing Boing.)