It’s always interesting when you can watch an election campaign unfold in slow motion before your eyes. Without even a fig leaf of secrecy we are getting to see the development of the inevitable wave of attacks against public enemy number one Stacy Head in the great patriotic war to preserve the status quo.
Before you go thinking I am cheering Stacy Head, I am not. I’m not really talking about her at all. What I am talking about is those small time power brokers who have had their hand in the working of the city for fun and profit, and just can’t stand to see the salad days passing them by. By the most fiendish of plots, it seems a number of their favorite pols are no longer in office, and apparently a lack of votes seems to be the problem.
But they are not going to take it lying down. While past election have seen large numbers staying home, they have the solution to boost motivation among the voter, by tossing even larger buckets of whatever slop they can find.
So Tracie Washington puts three cherry picked emails of Stacy Head (what a surprise) up on the internets for public consumption and are just as quickly withdrawn, but not before being saved. But even the TP isn’t quite buying it and deviated from their “journalistic neutrality” which is a euphemism for allowing certain people in certain situations (the logic behind the decision seems to be completely indecipherable, but has something to do with trying to please everyone) to offer complete bullshit without so much as a “but”.
The messages, all written by Councilwoman Stacy Head on her city e-mail account, appeared to have been chosen to cause her maximum personal and political embarrassment.
When the whole email circus was getting underway, Tracie Washington could hardly contain herself. Perhaps she was showing up C Ray exactly what transparency was, but she couldn’t have been more obvious that she was looking to make a political hit. I wrote about that after her WDSU interview in March:
When asked why they only requested the emails of white councilpersons, she was quite clear in her response that “those were the emails she wanted”. Now, in this age of transparency this might constitute a clear answer, but she goes on to give us a pretty good idea of why, “…and if there is incriminating stuff in there, as there must be…” and then catching herself adds, “…well I don’t know.”
1 comments:
Truly a good piece, the best opinion I've read since the Head emails were released.
Nagin acted in concert with Washington on this, someone needs to say that. No way White and Jones release these without checking with the big cheese first. Also, one thing these emails did reveal was that Head was a critic of Jones and White, and look who the main players in the release of these emails are.
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