"I personally witnessed him at arm’s length, literally two or three weeks away up in Baton Rouge, two weeks after the storm. He just collapsed onto the ground and leaned up against the wall and said, ‘I did not sign up for this shit.’ And he said it again. ‘I did not sign up for this stuff.’ And I’m thinking, wait a minute, you’re the mayor. You absolutely signed up for whatever comes. But that was his attitude. It was all about him."
In his commentary tonight on WWL-TV, Gambit political editor Clancy DuBos discussed the New Orleans Mother's Day shootings and Thursday night's benefit for "The 19 Fund."
Marlin Gusman's performance on the witness stand and at his news conference showed him to be delusional. He appeared to be channeling Ray Nagin and Richard Nixon.
The 19 Fund benefit at Tipitina's (tonight!), Ola Podrida at the Circle Bar, I Killed My Mother, the Greek Festival, the Asian-Pacific Festival at Audubon Zoo, Redesigning Women at Mid-City Theatre and more.
