Brad Pitt for Mayor of NOLA?
No doubting the fact New Orleans is mired in a real swamp. Nearing the four-year anniversary of Katrina, the city is still rebuilding, and a shrinking economy has made this growth as stagnant as Mississippi River mud at low tide.
Enter stage left, Benjamin Button, otherwise known as Brad Pitt, who makes a lucrative living as a movie star and make-believe sweetheart of a tough guy.
His Make It Right Foundation has managed to build 150 sustainable, hurricane-proof, energy-efficient and Frank-Gehry designed homes in the now infamous 9th Ward.
With the New Orleans mayoral race nearing, Pitt’s got a crew of supporters who like the carnivalesque behavior of mindless politics, with an eye for wresting control of the Crescent City’s maddened political atmosphere and changing the face of NOLA politics as it currently exists.
This sounds great in theory, but what will it look like in practice? In considering an answer to this question, consider that Mayor Ray Nagin, the man-in-charge during Hurricane Katrina, has been worse for the City of New Orleans than anyone could have imagined.
Who could possibly be worse than Ray? Except Katrina.
