Thomas Albert (Louisiana)

Thomas Albert

Democratic Party

Education

Medical

Louisiana State University

Personal

Profession

Doctor

Contact

Personal website

Thomas Albert was a Democratic candidate for mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana. Albert was defeated in the primary election on October 14, 2017. Click here to read Albert's campaign themes for 2017.

Biography

Albert received his medical degree from Louisiana State University. He was a professor with the Louisiana State University Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology before starting his private medical practice.

Elections

2017

See also: Municipal elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2017)

The following candidates ran in the primary election for mayor of New Orleans.

Mayor of New Orleans, Primary Election, 2017
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	LaToya Cantrell	39.00%	32,025
	Democratic	Desiree Charbonnet	30.48%	25,028
	Democratic	Michael Bagneris	18.76%	15,405
	Democratic	Troy Henry	6.42%	5,270
	Democratic	Tommie Vassel	1.36%	1,120
	Independent	Hashim Walters	0.56%	462
	Democratic	Thomas Albert	0.56%	456
	Independent	Edward Bruski	0.55%	450
	Democratic	Frank Scurlock	0.47%	385
	No Party	Manny Chevrolet Bruno	0.32%	264
	No Party	Derrick O'Brien Martin	0.29%	238
	Independent	Patrick Van Hoorebeek	0.28%	232
	Democratic	Charles Anderson	0.28%	230
	No Party	Byron Cole	0.26%	212
	No Party	Matthew Hill	0.13%	108
	Democratic	Edward Collins Sr.	0.12%	96
	Democratic	Brandon Dorrington	0.11%	92
	Democratic	Johnese Smith	0.05%	38
Total Votes				82,111
Source: Louisiana Secretary of State, "Saturday, October 14, 2017," accessed October 14, 2017

Campaign themes

2017

Albert's campaign website listed the following themes for 2017:

“	Taxes & Spending Due to a recent jump in the local sales tax rate, at 10.2495%, New Orleans joins Baton Rouge, Chicago, Birmingham and Montgomery at the top of locally-imposed taxes in US cities. This could affect decisions of companies contemplating a move to our city. Taxes in the surrounding suburb cities average 9.75%. High taxation may be locally beneficial during times such as Mardi Gras when tourists arrive and spend freely. This form of sales tax could incentivize thrifty individuals to move to the suburbs or travel across parish borders for lower sales tax on larger purchases, possibly harming New Orleans’ small businesses to some degree. The tax is indeed a “quick buck” for our city, and few taxes are rescinded, but it could slow the growth of the city in the long run. These trends must be closely observed and reported to the populace in clear and honest form. The most recent city budget is a massive volume in excess of 600 pages. Each such publication should be clearly and succinctly described to the public, as if each dime was taken from their pocket and spent. A striking local statistic, and another failure of past administrations, is that almost half of African-American males in New Orleans are unemployed. Without education, without work, and without their income taxes—we are awash in despair. No taxation formula can remedy a lack of maximizing the potential of our children, those who are not raised in an environment, totally unaware that education as the key to success. So, once again, the mantra of a Dr. Albert City Hall would be to educate each child and see a city prosper and its businesses prosper. Sow the seed of education, and watch it grow as a business, career and source of taxation. Outside of the 18-year plan, New Orleans needs a new leader with the mind of a miser, with the mindset they are managing other people’s money under a clear lens that exposes what happened to their hard-earned money taken away by the tax-collector. Decaying Infrastructure The responsibility of infrastructure, from sewage pipe up, rests on the shoulders of the government. The roads that pave this city are in a deplorable state along with the sewage and water lines beneath them. Hurricane Katrina’s destruction has caused the city to be subsidized by over $2 billion from Federal funds, which were to be utilized for road and underground pipe-work throughout much of the city. The use of these public funds must be made available to the public in a concise and TRANSPARENT manner. Each dollar maximized in order to repair or replace broken water pipes and sewerage pipes. Fixing the pipes correctly the first time will allow the roads to last for a much longer (pot hole free) and will save monetarily from repair fees. The repair of streets and underground pipes must be planned in great harmony preventing inefficiency. Any threat of toxic levels of lead in drinking water must be communicated preventively to those potentially affected by disturbed lead pipes. In fact, sampling of all areas of the city by either the city, or the LSU Study, should be communicated in clear form to the public, with urgency. Creative use of properties, especially those still blighted since 2005 must be quickly, legally and effectively assessed for disposition and best use to improve housing, especially for those in the greatest need. Cameras There was once a day when to speed meant you were driving the car. Now citizens are charged with speeding when another person is driving their vehicle, referring to its illegality by city ordinance. Speeding in absentia, per se. No study has shown that traffic cameras have been able to prevent collisions or pedestrian injury in the city. Despite this, more speeding and red-light cameras have been erected. One might argue the benefit of the cameras as a source of new and needed revenue. However, The vendors involved with these cameras appear to be making much more of the profit at the expense of the citizens. One is innocent until proven guilty, but the stationary cameras make one guilty until proven innocent, with no officer of the peace on the site. These cameras should be removed. Violent Crime The increasing tide of vicious, violent crime in our city has reached a boiling point as New Orleans has joined the ranks of other crime-ridden American cities—St. Louis, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago—in embarrassment of our blood on the street. Much has been done in the seven mayoral administrations since the Civil Rights Act to move us from the inhumanity of segregation and American institutional repression. In the late 1960s, there began an exponential rise in first nonviolent, then violent, crime—soaring upwards. Our current mayor makes the dismissive point that this high rate of violent crime, has been with us a “long time.” How long is long? In fact, the exponential surge in murder on our streets actually began around 1970, and reached its bloody apex during the 1990s. Non-violent crime is now again silently increasing exponentially, harboring what may prove to be a terrible repeat of the 1990s. While the outcropping of the Federal consent to decree, necessary following those horrid events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina against innocent citizens in a destroyed city has an unanticipated by-product causing the inability to police to properly act against non-violent crime. Perhaps the increasing murder rate for the past years will soar exponentially again. The new mayor must interview local and other candidates for the best superintendent, and avoid micromanagement of the right person, and let them develop a police force to serve and protect our citizens, aiming to remove those espoused to violence from our streets. There have been 30 people shot on Bourbon since 2010, including two mass shootings, some dying on the world’s most famous street. The recent cruel assaults and murders in our city, including in our gem, the French Quarter, are seen almost instantly viewed worldwide to our chagrin. Our own residents and business owners look in all directions in fear of cowards in groups quickly striking, shooting or stabbing them, possibly murdering them, maybe for a phone or $10. The victim may be left brain-damaged or dead the misled perpetrator either never located, or if located, their life, oftentimes young, lost nearly for a life, maybe terribly meaninglessly, in the prisons. The epidemic of violent crime was even touched upon during the recent 2017 Louisiana Urban League Awards Gala. My plan is to work directly with local state and Federal officials to increase peace officer enforcement efforts, without impinging the constitutional and civil rights of our law-abiding citizens and tourists. One way to do this is through increasing police force technology, studying and implementing new technique and methods of curbing crime, such as some methods already recommended by a progressive citizen, techniques which prove to get more out of every tax dollar spent. As your mayor, in addressing our primary civic problem, I will encourage discussion and community involvement to help us grow and prosper as a safe community. Ultimately, an all-encompassing civic environment of governmental, community, and most importantly family, daily thrust towards our children’s education, is the 18-year and only true solution to disadvantage, despair, poverty, and aimlessness, that leads to rampant violent crime.	”

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See also

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