Ray Nagin headed to Super Bowl XLIV on taxpayers' dime

Dude is going to jail, now its just fricking funny! Jim Letten is slowly working his way to Nagin and trust me, he will get there!

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well the city's team is in the Superbowl. I am diehard conservative, but I think the people that don't want nagin to go, are simply anti nagin.

Isn't Jindal going to be there as well? Joseph Cao is watching it in the White House with Obama.

yes jindal is going. the state has a stake in the team.

exactly...there is a huge difference between privately donated campaign funding and city issued travel funds. i'm betting nagin was awaiting city council approval of a transfer of funds to provide for his attendance.

oh god, not this topic again.


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I hate politicians more and more each day!!! They just live on us like a bunch of damn leeches!!!

my bad...i didn't realize that tickets were his problem. i saw somebody a while back mention that he didn't know if he was going to go, but they didn't specify the reason why. regarding the "amex card" comments, that's all well and good until you have to pay the bill...municipal governments are run on a "line item" basis, meaning all bills are paid out of item specific accounts. so when the amex bill comes due, it would have to be paid out of a travel/meetings type of account. i worked in municipal government budget management/accounting for 12 years. i've seen the bullshite that is manipulated through city councils. it's the main reason i couldn't work there any longer. all in all though, i would have expected all this to be handled in order for nola's mayor to be in attendance.

So?