Posted on 12/04/2005 1:12:53 PM PST by rightwinggoth
ATLANTA, Dec. 3 -- Standing in a borrowed auditorium 425 miles from home, the mayor of New Orleans implored displaced constituents Saturday to keep faith, put pressure on Washington policymakers and come home soon.
"I miss y'all," Mayor C. Ray Nagin told more than 2,200 people temporarily living in the Atlanta area. "I want y'all back in the city of New Orleans. Red beans and rice just ain't the same without you. I want you back."
But in a three-hour session marked by tears and outbursts, the response was not encouraging. "Come home?" many yelled back. "To what?"
With New Orleans's 500,000 residents scattered across 44 states, Nagin has embarked on an unprecedented multi-state campaign to find -- and bring home -- the people who cleaned the hotels, sang in the clubs, prayed in the churches and attended the schools decimated three months ago by Hurricane Katrina. Today's session at Morehouse College followed similar town hall-style meetings in Memphis and Houston.
Katrina and its floodwaters not only destroyed large swaths of the Gulf Coast but also uprooted a record number of people, many more than the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s or the Great Depression. Georgia officials estimate between 60,000 and 80,000 New Orleans families have moved to this state. As Nagin struggles to repair streets, restore power and revive industry, the mayor must also confront the harsh reality that many people -- even those who desperately want to return -- say they are not convinced it makes sense now.
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Except you.
Wonder how Nagin enjoyed his jaunt to Jamaica?
As a dog to it's vomit and a pig to it's wallow, so also does a Fool to his folly.
LOL, good one
Has Nagin brought his own family back ?
Are his kids enrolled in NO schools ?
"We have paid our taxes. It's time for them to pay back."
I guess I'm a them, and I wouldn't trust one red cent to Nagin. His statement above reflects his attitude about perpetual entitlement.
Did he promise to send buses for them?
I want to know how he paid for his trip....with his city in ruins and no taxpayers around to pay for his bad leadership I would think he would want to save his money....oops, sorry I was using logic and that is not something a democrat uses....
Everyone over to the Mayor's house, oh that's in Houston, nevermind.
ROTFLMAO!
I wonder if anyone at any of those meetings will ask that!
Oh, gosh. I'm glad I wasn't drinking any coffee, it would've been spewed all over creation by now!
Mayor nagin, a message from a one-time resident of the Big Easy:
ha ha ha-ha hahhh!
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Every Con Artist needs suckers. Nagin knows who his suckers are and is trying to get them to "keep it real" and move on back to his mold-encrusted, vermin-infested hellhole.
ROFL!
Dear Mayor: Take your beans and blow'em out your ears. We're eating steak in Texas!! We ain't all coming back now!!
"Come back if you want to be part of a class action suit- more free money."
He was looking for the REAL killers........
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