DA Leon Cannizzaro feels heat of FBI civil rights investigation

I don't know what to make of District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro. The District Attorney's office seems hot as a firecracker right now. With this Beach Corner case reaching the desk of the civil rights division, politicians and civic leaders might be wise to distance themselves from Cannizzaro until the smoke clears. There's an unwritten code in New Orleans of Loyola Law graduates sometimes "sticking together". Cannizzaro’s first assistant Graymond Martin and chief operating officer Val Solino are also Loyola Law graduates. If they're still with the DA's office. That code may get tested as the Justice Department investigation picks up steam. 

Now I'm not privy to all the political calculations going on behind the scenes. Most of the politics centers around money. Sometimes its legal other times it's not. The funny thing is most of the time we're not talking big money. Oliver Thomas went to jail for three years for $20,000 . Dr. McKenna, a local doctor, who recently made a strong showing in the coroner's race did eight months for little to no money. Sherman Copeland and Jon Johnson are two of the few politicians/businessmen in the New Orleans area to do well and not go to jail. They didn't go to jail because they did not break the law. The business deals they do come across are solid. There structured so their financial gain comes off the top. There not crawling on the ground looking for bread crumbs that could put them at odds with the law. That makes Dixiecrats mad as hell. 

So why do politicians like New Orleans city councilwomen Stacy Head hate them so much? It's because they don't play Stacy Head's little game. Head wrote in an email, "Your buddy Cedric showed his true colors last week. He is a typical politico who wants to stay tight with the insiders who have kept NOLA down. He was the council meeting in closed-door meetings with all the typicals like Sherman Copeland." 

"In contract, James showed he has REAL GUTS and voted AGAINST the Cynthias [fellow council members Cynthia Hedge-Morrell and Cynthia Willard-Lewis). He is taking a lot of heat from the black-connected groups - but he did the RIGHT thing. He is NOT a poverty pimp trying to keep a few elite people in power and the rest of his community ignorant and poor."

That's not too bipartisan or post-racial a statement. The point is Head is in opposition to the black business community, period. Unless they play her plantation politics game. It's the same old Dixie game they've been playing for years on you Negro's. While your fighting for scraps and braking the law for crumbs. Their laughing, pointing the finger at you to the media, and doing their dirt behind the scenes. Break those chains baby. The federal government is behind you as long as you're doing the right thing. 

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