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Sadly, this is the header image that currently greets visitors to Kimberly Williamson Butler’s campaign website. We don’t know if it was our constant, affectionate coverage, or the less affectionate threats of legal action, but Ms. Butler is no longer enjoying a summer day in the Magic Kingdom in her campaign portrait. MORE »

Above, Butler’s website image as it appeared last week. Below, the image today. In both: Wonderous power of imagination. MORE »

Ah, Kimberly Williamson Butler. In case you forgot, she’s the mayoral candidate in New Orleans whose website featured (jesus, still features) a picture of her grinning happily on a French Quarter street corner that, it seems, exists only in Disneyland. This despite her living in the actual New Orleans, of course. So we can all tell she’s a bit nuts. Unlike us, though, the Walt Disney Corporation is unamused: MORE »

* It turns out that a court does resemble a circus, at least when Jessica Cutler is there, along with a former paramour as plaintiff and an alleged former paramour as defense counsel. Well, not anymore, as defense counsel had to “pull out.” MORE »

Well, since this morning, we’ve confirmed it: that picture of New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Kimberly Williamson Butler was definitely taken in Disneyland. No streets in the French Quarter curve like that, among other obvious discrepancies. Now what kind of campaign would bother to so obviously fake a photo of the candidate standing on a corner in the city he or she actually lives in? Well, the kind of campaign whose candidate may have been too busy spending a couple nights in jail to take a real picture: MORE »

So we don’t have too much of a stake in the New Orleans Mayoral elections and it’s a bit (or a lot) out of our usual purview, but someone sent us this tip that we just can’t pass up. We don’t know much about candidate Kimberly Williamson Butler, but we have been to New Orleans, and, uh, this picture doesn’t quite look right to us:

On the left, the header image of Butler’s campaign website. On the right, a picture of New Orleans Square in Disneyland. And, uh, we’re not sayin’, we’re just sayin’… frankly, we don’t remember what the trash cans looked like in the French Quarter, but the cleanliness of the street and the presence of fannypackin’ middle-Americans has us a wee bit suspicious. MORE »