Katrina Coverage

From this Nov. 10, 1996 Baton Rouge Advocate article (pay link):

it was [Marc] Morial's get-out-the-vote teams that won the day for Landrieu, President Clinton and Orleans Parish Leader Harry Connick…

For instance, when the management team got word at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday that a GOP tracking poll showed Jenkins ahead, it was time for an instant parade. "Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade," Tucker said. "We found Mary and Marc, got school buses for workers and sound trucks with music and put on a parade to flush out our voters."

…"We moved them into the major housing project areas blowing horns and playing New Orleans music," Tucker said… There were more parades in key areas during "surge time" - late afternoon and evening, when people get off work…

…some of the 1,000 street workers were sent there to knock on doors and ask people to vote…

Previously: Mary Landrieu: schoolbuses are Bush’s fault.

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