Jordan Resign
http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/1388/Shelley Midura has issued a public request that D.A. Eddie Jordan resign. The release of Dinneral Shavers murderer, David Bonds and now this most recent Witness Found After DA Dismisses Case. I’ve had it. I’m making moves to go someplace where things work and drug-running isn’t the foundation of the local economy.
Thanks, Shelley ! ( Text of Letter Below)
Update: Friday, July 13th.
In addition to the letter, the online petition started in February seems to be getting new activity. It may actually work. It’s worth a try.
Signal 26 New Orlean’s Police Website
There is also a call for a National Boycott of New Orleans
Editor B. has a good post about his level of frustration, one we all share.
Schroeder exhibits his signature voice of frustration as well People Get Ready. By the way, I sent a very respectful email to the Mayor requesting Jordan’s resignation, I got a similar response from his blackberry today.
Maitri’s covered it too! and as she points out, Varg’skeeping a running tab.
Dear Mr. Jordan:
I am writing to you today to respectfully request that you resign from the office of Orleans Parish District Attorney.
I have no doubts about your intentions or your dedication or your character. By all accounts you are a fine man. But the job of District Attorney is an admittedly difficult one with heavy responsibility and requires more than most fine men are capable of. After the events of the last 48 hours, which have eroded the public’s confidence in your ability to carry out the responsibilities of the District Attorney, I am asking that you resign from office. An elected official’s legitimacy and moral authority to govern is derived from the consent of the governed. I no longer believe you have the consent and support from the public required to perform your duties adequately.
I do not know that there is any excuse for dropping charges against a quintuple murderer without a thorough exhaustion of all possibilities to prevent such a thing from happening. Months ago you and Superintendent Riley pledged to the City Council several reforms and improvements in your lines of communication to ensure that lack of coordination between your offices would no longer lead to dropped cases against those who pose serious threats to our public safety. It has become all too clear that you have been unable to hold up your end of this bargain. Mr. Jordan, you must know as well as any of your fellow New Orleanians the great urgency our city feels in combating the violent crime problem. We have lost the room for these kinds of error. I thank you for your service and your efforts as District Attorney, yet I maintain my request on behalf of my constituents that you resign your office as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Shelley Midura
cc: Mayor C. Ray Nagin
New Orleans City Council
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Thanks, Laureen! Did you check out the boycott of New Orleans suggestion (Editor B has linked to it)?
I noticed Jordan is supposed to announce some reorganizing at some point today. I’ve been watching all this and I find I’m unusually disinterested in the whole thing. I’m of a mind that Jordan should be gone of course. But he’s an ass and I think he’s going to pull a William Jefferson and ride that train out as long as he can.
But more than that, this has gone too far. I mean what did the people of New Orleans expect from a guy who fired a bunch of people based on their race when he first took office, which, if I remember correctly, cost the city millions of dollars.
The thing that’s really been getting to me lately is kind of a silly thing. The elected officials o this state, and even more so, of New Orleans think we’re stupid. Don’t kid yourself, they think you’re stupid, they think I’m stupid, and they are very sure the collective ‘we’ are incapable of being more than a sounding board for their lies and bullshit. And I have to wonder if we’ve collectively done anything to make them think otherwise. I don’t think we have. We may very well have a government that reflects the will of the people.
That being said, how all balls out should I be about him resigning if he really does? It doesn’t change the will of the people. That is the common denominator and it goes unchanged. And this provides the answer to a question that’s been bouncing around my gray mush for weeks: Why isn’t the government afraid of the people? It seems so simple now: they aren’t afraid because they are what the people asked for.
I guess as a politician 49% of the population can just kiss your ass. Thing is, it only takes one person to end your career.
Vote from the roof!
I understand the anger and frustration, but a boycott is a ridiculous idea. How precisly will threatening a key industry benefit the city?