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 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As part of a post-Katrina movement to streamline New Orleans' government, candidates for each of the city's seven tax assessor positions are running on a platform of eventually doing away with the jobs they are seeking.
Each has adopted the same nickname — "I.Q." for "I Quit" — to drive home the point on the April 22 ballot. But that plan has run afoul of two judges, who ruled this week that the ballot cannot be used as a political billboard.
Each candidate is promising to use the assessor's annual salary and expenses, estimated at about $90,000 each, to hire a private firm to do assessments. Meanwhile, they would work to consolidate the seven assessors' offices into one.
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