Early voting begins Tuesday at 15 locations in New Orleans area

Early voting begins Tuesday at local registrars of voters offices and selected sites for the Nov. 2 elections that feature congressional and U.S. Senate races, a statewide special election for lieutenant governor, 10 proposed constitutional amendments and a spate of local races.


The early voting period continues through Oct. 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. No voting is conducted Sunday.

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Mayor Mitch Landrieu plans three community meetings on city spending priorities

Landrieu will be joined by Councilwomen Susan Guidry in District A and Kristin Gisleson Palmer in District C, plus his deputy mayors, Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, Fire Superintendent Charles Parent and other department heads.

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District D Community Meeting on Safe Neighborhoods, Safe Streets

District "D" Councilmember Cynthia Hedge-Morrell will host a joint community meeting from 6 p.m.
- 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 5, 2010. The topic of discussion will focus on promoting "Safe
Neighborhoods, Safe Streets." There will be remarks from New Orleans Police Department (NOPD)
Superintendent Ronal Serpas, Deputy Superintendents Marlon Defillo and Kirk Bouyelas, Captains
Greg Elder and Bernadine Kelly of the Third and Fifth Districts, their Quality of Life Officers and
Community Coordinators and the Crime Stoppers organization.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Franklin Avenue Baptist Church
2515 Franklin Avenue

Policy Pitch launches new website supporting state bill tracking

In Post Katrina
New Orleans, we’ve seen a rise in the importance of understanding local
government and citizens asking for engagement. New Orleanians are searching for venues to
share their ideas with elected officials.
New Orleans citizen, Zach Kupperman created a program that gives citizens
an opportunity to know what’s going on in their state in everyday language, as
well as pitch ideas that would benefit their communities. He created a new website called Policy Pitch.

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Landrieu names 14 to transition panels

Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu today announced the co-chairs of 14 panels to assist the transition of his administration as he prepares to take office May 3.

The panels will provide input on a range of topics, from blight to contracting to housing and health care.

“The idea is bring together a diverse group of citizens, the best and the brightest, to make recommendations on how to move our city forward,” Landrieu said. “We’re not going to fix everything overnight, but the task forces will make concrete recommendations on how to deliver results for the people of New Orleans, whether we’re talking about eradicating blight, providing accessible health care or improving costumer service at City Hall.”

In addition to previously announced task forces on the New Orleans Police Department, economic development and education, Landrieu announced the following panels and co-chairs:

Blight: Ellen Lee, senior vice president of programs, Greater New Orleans Foundation; David Marcello, executive director, Tulane University School of Law’s Public Law Center;

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Mayoral Candidates Websites

1. Jonah Bascle
2. 'Manny' Chevrolet-Bruno
3. Robert 'Rob' Couhig 
4. John Georges
5. Troy Henry
6. 'Jerry' Jacobs
7. Thomas A. Lambert
8. Mitchell 'Mitch' Landrieu
9. James Perry
10. Nadine Ramsey
11. Norbert P. Rome

Vice President Joe Biden to visit New Orleans on Friday

ice President Joe Biden is planning to visit New Orleans on Friday, along with a stop in western Louisiana, probably Lake Charles, congressional sources said Wednesday.

Details are expected to be announced Thursday, but his visit is to include  an event at the St. Bernard Recreation Center.

Biden promised last year to visit Louisiana to survey the status of hurricane rebuilding efforts, but said his trip would come after President Barack Obama's visit. Obama came to New Orleans in October, answering questions at a town hall meeting.

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Last Day to Register To Vote in Primary Jan 6th.

If you want to register to vote in the primary, you need to register by this Wednesday, January 6th.  You Can Do It ONLINE NOW.... RIGHT HERE

Want to Know Everyone Running for each position???? Click Here

If You Were Mayor

Hello friends and colleagues,
What do you want in your next Mayor? Better yet, If You Were Mayor how would you lead the city, what choices would you make?Here is your chance to let everyone know. Share your thoughts on the problems and challenges we face and your ideas and solutions. All submissions will be open to the public and voted upon. In time, with your participation, we will have OUR blueprint for the perfect Mayor for New Orleans.
We are about ready to release the first barometer on HumidBeings.com, "If I were Mayor".
We are wrapping up the video section and adding the final touches to the barometer page but we want to share the submissions page with some of our colleagues and hopefully get some of y'all to contribute so we can launch publicly with a few submissions in the next day or two.

Thanks in advance for your participation!
Follow this link to submit.
http://nola.humidbeings.com/questionnaires/detail/1/If-I-Were-Mayor
You can choose any of the 9 platform topics you wish. Each entry needs to consist of aProblem/Challenge the city faces and your Solution/Idea for how to solve them.Once submitted the entry is final and can then be commented and voted upon.  Each entry is limited to 500 characters.

New Orleans Citizens All Abuzz On Twitter Over Mayoral Debate

Town hall meetings, television coverage, and even radio broadcasts are not uncommon when a mayoral debate is taking place. But New Orleans citizens had twitter all abuzz with no holds bar conversations on Twitter during the recent mayoral debate. A variety of questions from public blight to crime was raised during the debate with the use of the #nolamayor and #NOLAMayoralDebate hashtags.

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Mayoral Candidates Debate; Watch It Again

Reducing crime, addressing blighted properties and developing the local economy were among the topics debated Tuesday in the city's first televised mayoral debate.

Twelve of the 13 candidates for mayor participated Tuesday in the first debate since they all qualified to run for office last week.

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Mitch Landrieu poised to announce mayoral candidacy at morning news conference

Throwing a wrench into a crowded New Orleans mayoral contest that seemed to be all but set on the eve of qualifying, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu appears poised to enter the race for the open seat today, reversing a midsummer announcement that he would opt out.

Sources close to Landrieu, who lost a tight runoff to Mayor Ray Nagin in 2006, said the lieutenant governor will attend a morning news conference at Cafe Reconcile and urged reporters to be on hand. Landrieu could not be reached for comment.

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Businesswoman Leslie Jacobs to launch ad blitz in New Orleans mayoral race

Supporters of businesswoman Leslie Jacobs hinted last week that her entry into the mayor's race would be a bit unconventional.

Jacobs will make good on that prediction Wednesday when she rolls out a saturation television buy and a multimedia Web site featuring all manner of Internet campaigning, from Facebook to Twitter to blog blasts.

Jacobs spokeswomanCheron Brylski said the heavy dose of TV advertising and social networking will take the place of the traditional kickoff in a hotel ballroom packed with family and friends.

Nola.com

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Mayor's race officially underway in New Orleans

 It seems like it has taken forever, but tonight the race for mayor of New Orleans is officially underway.

Seven candidates squared off in front of the Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership today, and there's a new candidate in the mix. They came from all corners of the city - seven candidates who want to run a city in need of transparency in government.

Fox8live.com

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Troy Henry says he would set 'a higher standard' for New Orleans as mayor

The New Orleans mayor's race got more crowded Wednesday when business consultant Troy Henry joined a growing list of hopefuls seeking to succeed Ray Nagin.

Henry, 48, the managing partner of Henry Consulting Inc., will be making his first bid for elected office.

"My vision for New Orleans is that it can become the most desired city in America in which to live," Henry said in a written statement announcing his candidacy.

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Details of President Obama's New Orleans visit and ticket information

President Barack Obama has released details of the plans for his visit to New Orleans Thursday.  It includes a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans.

"Demonstrating his strong commitment to Gulf Coast rebuilding and recovery, President Barack Obama will travel to New Orleans on Thursday, October 15 to get a firsthand look at progress on the ground and hear directly from the people of Louisiana,"  The White House Press Office said in a news release.  "President Obama's trip will include a visit to a local charter school and a  town hall event."

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Use clout in New Orleans, young voters told

As the countdown to the New Orleans' 2010 mayoral race continues, Beltway-turned-Crescent City political power couple James Carville and Mary Matalin this week encouraged a room full of young professionals to harness their influence to elect a candidate who can best lead a city poised for greatness.

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PeopleMeter: Chris Rose's Top 10 Celebrity Mayoral Candidates

Actors Brad Pitt and Carl Weathers have been drafted to run for mayor of New Orleans, but why stop there? Here are my top 10 celebrity candidates.

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Culture and Race in New Orleans

Cheryl asks for comments on rebuilding the culture of the city. My experience here, knowing a lot of musicians, some writers, an artist or two, and some filmmakers, is that the culture of this place is rebuilding itself even better than the economy, and far better than, say, the political culture. Any city with the remotest claim to a culture will have responded to an event like Katrina with a flood of work, and New Orleans has complied. Aside from Cheryl's book, there have been literally dozens of novels and non-fiction accounts, poetry, and an impassioned polemic ("Why New Orleans Matters") arguing for the city's continued existence. There have also been songs, paintings, photographic exhibitions, and screenplays galore.

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