The face of political power in New Orleans has wire-rimmed glasses & a mustache
by Michelle Krupa - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

City Councilman Jon Johnson found himself running a political gantlet of sorts this week as he made his way down City Hall's first-floor corridor toward the New Orleans City Council chamber. En route to a council committee meeting, Johnson had to pass dozens of property owners who were waiting to go upstairs to Assessor Erroll Williams' office to challenge their latest property tax assessments. The corridor was filled with unhappy taxpayers all week during the annual roll-review period that continues through Monday. Finding some overflow taxpayers sitting in the council chamber, Johnson felt compelled to offer a brief explanation. "From time to time -- and of course I know the same thing happens to him -- but from time to time, people mistake me for Erroll Williams, the assessor," he said. "I just want to say for the record that my name is Jon D. Johnson. I'm a city councilman. I'm not the assessor. "This has been going on for years and years and years," the councilman said. "I normally tell people that I'm a lot better-looking than Erroll Williams, so don't mistake me for him."