FROM A RECOVERING POLITICIAN
The New Orleans daily newspaper calls it a mandate. They compute about as well as they opine. The election had a 40% Turnout (60% of the Registered Voters couldn’t find a candidate worth coming out to vote for mayor) and Helena Moreno got 55%.Follow the math, 55% of 40% equals 22% of the New Orleans registered voters, and in the opinion of The Times-Picayune, that’s a mandate. It is ...