Run Mitch Run

Intelligent, articulate, thinks before he speaks, willing to risk putting ideas on the table (not just defend stupid comments), appears to be able to create coalitions -- for all of these reasons (plus the fact that he lives around the corner from me), I want Mitch Landrieu to run for mayor, but I'm watching closely the platform he develops.

Read between the lines (WWL):

Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu says a single levee board may not be the answer. He says, "Whether it's one levee board or two, or what the exact answer is -- remember what we are trying to do is to create a mechanism or a number of mechanisms that protect certain geographic areas from a common threat."

He says what Louisiana needs is an effective plan. "There is no magic to a particular number... what you want to do is make sure congress and the experts know once it's done that we have done a very thoughtful job or protecting one side of the river and the other side of the river, and that we focus just on levees and not on extraneous things."