Alan Gutierrez

Kimberly Williamson Butler spoke at the most recent French Quarter town hall. She laid out her platform for change. She put forward her vision for Mayor.

She fielded questions about Disneyland.

Because John Gregory was there, and he just had to ask.

She presents herself well. She is incredibly photogenic. I adore this snapshot.

Should you find yourself wound up over the latest petty outrage in the rotation, it has been my experience that Frenchman Street is the place to go for reconciliations.

A Times-Picayune article over the weekend, informed those New Orleanians still offline, that jailbird Clerk of Court Kimberly Williamson Butler was running for Mayor of Disneyland.

I write about this in the post Kimberly Williamson Butler. Wonkette picked up the story, but gives little context.

In response to the flap, Kimberly has now removed the trashcan.

That’s right, rather than replace the stock photograph of Disneyland, with a stock photo of the French Quarter, she had the trashcan photoshopped out.

Here’s a blog post that captured the original site. Thank you Jim Hill. Here’s the site now, all better.

She seems to think that people were offended by the trashcan. She removed the trashcan as it were a telltale sign, as if a resident of the city would not be unable to tell them apart.

There are no curved streets in the Quarter.

Okay, granted, Kimberly can’t tell the difference.

The fact is that Kimberly Williamson Butler cannot identify one of the most easily recognizable buroughs of the city she hopes to govern.

Kimberly Williamson Butler is not New Orleans politics as ususal, by the way. She’s not from around here. (Niether am I.) She’s an import and in a league of her own.

According to her Mayoral campaign web site, Clerk of Criminal Court Kimberly Williamson Butler is an adoptive daughter of New Orleans.

Perhaps this is why in the header of her campaign web site, the street sceen in the background is not from the French Quarter, but a stock photograph of Disneyland.

Which begs the imagination thus…

Announcer: “Kimberly Williamson Butler, you’ve just spent three days in Orleans Parish Prison for contempt of court, what are you going to do now?”

Butler: “I’m going to Disneyland!”

Actually, the day she surrendered herself to the authorities is the day she qualified for the Mayoral campaign.

Thank you for the pointer, John Gregory.

Update: From Humid City, I see that Wonkette has blogged this. It must be true.

Update: John Gregory says…

I believe that the person that originally spotted all of this was Michael Dillon. He pointed it out to me, and I sent it to my friend Eric (below) who then passed it on to Justinspace, who made it famous… By the way, it was covered in Saturday’s Times Picayune.

I’d link straight into the Flickr photostream that hosts the Kimberly of Nepal banner, but John only sent me the Flickr static URL.