New Orleans' Mayoral Race: The Lack of a "Black" Candidate

[Louisiana1976]

Now that State Senator Ed Murray has withdrawn from the mayor's race, an interesting shift has taken place. There is no "black" candidate running for mayor. Oh, certainly, there are three African-Americans still vying to run City Hall, James Perry, Troy Henry, and Nadine Ramsey, but none of them are part of the pre-storm political establishment. Da Paper dismisses them as lightweights, supporting that dismissal with the fact that Perry and Henry have never run for office and Ramsey has never run a serious campaign.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/3/821518/-NOLA-Mayor:-the-lack-of-a-black-candidate