Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Bernardo needs to cancel this one. Either that, or the community needs to get some idea of where the heck this $500/plate money is going.
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Do you know for sure that it's $500/plate? All the materials I've seen have been absent the usual r.s.v.p. card that would have the monetary amount on it.
I saw that, but I haven't been able to confirm anything about tickets or ticket prices on my own, so I've left that out here. Not doubting Eli's post, but I can't let that info be repeated here without having made my own proof.
How about Nagin apologizes for being such a doofus, and the money goes to Squandered Heritage to continue their efforts.
I think we need to get the sponsor list transcribed and posted everywhere and see how fast they run. This event needs to go away like the 2006 anniversary "celebration"
That man is freakin' seriously delusional. Or else he is not catering to folks of sound mind and body. I am starting to wonder if New Orleans isn't truly a microcosm of America with Katrina being our Sept. 11 and Ray being our Bush. Lord.
I agree with Mark. Shame on Bernardo if he pulled a bait and switch. His website boasts of his personal friendship to the mayor; I think the businessmen and women of this town need to be more suspicious of such requests henceforth, if just as a matter of courtesy to the non-tourist customers they may or may not have subsequent to such postings.
Mark, can you (or someone) transcribe that list? I'm working on another aspect of the story at the moment or I'd do it myself. Will link, give full credit, etc. If someone does it, leave a comment here and I'll pick it up.
I'm still hoping to confirm if it is $500 a plate. It's something I've heard that we should be asking about.
better scan of invite here with names clearly legible: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u3G-tyG0CVc/SKSePL9MJ9I/AAAAAAAAAKg/fNLP1dLPGcA/s1600-h/nagin.jpg
The "sponsors" may be running for cover but the TV news is running with it. I believe WDSU, WWL, and FOX all had this story at 5 & 10 pm yesterday, with video. That means C.Ray's PR team must be pushing this. I wonder how the TV stations like being made fools of, and whether they will cover the *real* story, which is now about how many "committee members" are backing away and how citizens plan to use the ceremony as an opportunity to show their outrage at the mayor's LACK of leadership? His re-election is most likely the greatest impediment to recovery since Blanco.
Kevin, I'm so glad you are on this. As an unpaid reporter on this subject my time is minimal. Bills have to be paid. Knowing there is actually someone else on the case hammering for details make me feel much better about this. As to Bernardo, I know him from my days at House of Blues when he used to come in, often with Morial whose photographer he was at the time. All I will say is that I do not like them man one bit. I suggest not just dirt digging on this, bu wholesale excavation. In the new New Orleans we will eventually hunt down the chicanery and hold people accountable! Before the storm we would not have seen this or NOAH get light of day until at least one subsequent administration had gone y. Now we're popping these issues out there much closer to real time. We have a 300 year history of laissez faire attitude about corruption. Lets make that one of the things that got washed away.....
