Looks so bad it actually smells bad, too...

No, we're not talking about the ethical lapses of the Bush administration, but that other stalwart Republican, Kenner mayor Phil Capitano:

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee on Thursday opened a criminal investigation into a Kenner tax sale at which the mayor's father bought every property save one because he was first in line.

"What hit me, you can't sell private property on a first-come, first-served basis," Lee said Thursday. "That defies explanation."

Lee said his office conducts tax sales as auctions, with buyers bidding against one another on percentages of property ownership.

This reminds me of a horse race over at Da Track back in the 1980s. It was a slow weekday, and the fifth or sixth race was all local horses. The race starts, and three of the gates don't open, so that the only horses that ran were those owned by either the Roussells or the Dorignacs, the two families who had ownership stakes in the Fair Grounds at the time. Nobody thought for a moment that there was a fix in the works for that race, but boy did it look bad.

With Capitano, things are a bit different. He really is stupid enough to put a fix in for his old man.

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