New Orleans Public Schools just admitted they put their employees ahead of NO citizens

email response from Alvarez and Marsal | Sept 08, 2005 | Taxrelief

[TaxRelief]

I sent an email to Alvarez and Marsal (business managers of New Orleans Public Schools) and asked them why they did not make the school buses available to evacuate the citizens of New Orleans.

Their answer:

Thank you for your question. School buses were not used as all the NOPS transportation employees were also individuals who evacuated the city. Thanks.

The answer is cryptic, but to the point.

[mewzilla]

Like only employees could drive the buses. What a crock! But thanks for asking and posting the reply.

[dead]

Any competent adult could teach himself to drive a bus in fifteen seconds.

They could have just left the keys.

[Frank_Discussion]

It's starting to sound ominously like the State/Local government drew up plans for such disaster, then simply filed them away without telling anybody else about them. ;(

[Kryptonite]

All the politicians made sure to get themselves out too.

[Uncle Miltie]

Bump for MSM attention (long-shot alert!)

[eyespysomething]

Um, if they drove the busses with evacuees, wouldn't they be evacuated then also? Along with, oh, say, thousands of other people?

These folks were idiots. Let the drivers bring their families.

[linear]

Those individuals could have occupied the driver's seat in the schoolbus, as they were leaving the city.

[mewzilla]

My Hero Is a Bus Thief

God bless that kid.

[Kryptonite]

The media doesn't want to pursue this because it obviously takes away from their ability to bash FEMA and blame Bush. That's why Hastert wants a joint Senate/House investigation, because nobody else is going to get to the truth about why so many people suffered and/or died.

[RobbyS]

Like the 15-year old kind who managed to commander a bus and drive 60 people to Houston.

[planekT]

They (the employees) could have evacuated the city in the buses with people on them.

Duh.

[TaxRelief]

Um, if they drove the buses with evacuees, wouldn't they be evacuated then also?

Perhaps they were concerned about their employees' safety. (ie-the phantom bad guy who would kill everyone on the bus.)

[tophat9000]

OK it official: the term "Chinese's Fire Drill" will now be called a "New Orleans' Hurricane Drill"

[Congressman Billybob]

Wow. Nice work to get that response. Send it out everywhere in the press. Add this comment:

Why didn't the employees evacuate WITH their buses, and WITH a full load of citizens on board?

John / Billybob

[JoJo Gunn]

School buses were not used as all the NOPS transportation employees were also individuals who evacuated the city.

Uh, you reckon at least one driver would've evacuated with his/her bus?

[TaxRelief]

This is the contact form:

http://www.alvarezandmarsalnops.com/form.html