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A local man Dec. 10 threw his hat into the ring to run for Mayor of New Orleans.
Jonah Bascle (pictured), a wheelchair-bound comedian, announced his candidacy for the 2010 election to choose a new city mayor.
On his website, Bascle wrote, "We need a more honest, transparent, and accountable government! Starting today, I am rolling up my sleeves and stepping up to the challenge of running for Mayor of this great city. "
Bascle said he was prompted to run for the office after "years of frustration involving the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line's lack of access for the disabled."
So far, candidates include: Ed Murray, James Perry, Leslie Jacobs, John Georges, Troy Henry, Rob Couhig, Jerry Jacobs, Nadine Ramsey and Mitch Landrieu, and Manny Chevrolet-Bruno signed up in the final minutes of qualifying Wednesday.
Qualifying continues through Friday afternoon.
The Election is in February with a runoff in March if needed.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From WWL radio in New Orleans:
