Diss ain't fair, Nagin

NY Daily News ^ | 8-25-2006 | BY MICHAEL SAUL

[johnny7]

Big Easy boss sez cleanup no worse than WTC

Ragin' Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans defended accusations that he's taking too long to clean up the Big Easy a year after Hurricane Katrina - by taking a cheap shot at New York's recovery from 9/11.

During a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward in New Orleans, the outspoken, blunt and sometimes profane Nagin invoked Ground Zero when a TV reporter pointed out a street that still has flood-damaged cars and a house washed partially into it. "That's all right," Nagin told the correspondent in an interview that will air Sunday night on "60 Minutes." "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later. So let's be fair."

[johnny7]

What'a POS...

[Volunteer]

THIS is the guy they reelected????

I miss New Orleans, but I will never visit as long as this guy is Mayor.

[Zenith]

You don't get NO MO' money.

[fwdude]

This may be old, but...

When asked what he thought about Roe vs. Wade, Mayor Nagin said that he didn't care how the folks in New Orleans got back to their homes.

[SoldierDad]

Seeing how they re-elected this scumbag, schools in N.O. don't seem to be any better than here in California. An ignorant population is easy to manipulate.

[mak5]

That is my attitude exactly. Nagin certainly does not appreciate the help that the rest of the country provided and continues to provide after Katrina and particularly the NYPD and NYFD volunteers who came down to help out.

He can go to he...oh, yeah, he lives there already if he thinks that the rest of the country should help support his sinkhole (in more ways than one).

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, as said on another thread, if Guilliani was still mayor the WTC, in its full glory, would have probably been rebuilt by now.

I am angry that the liberals of NYC have bantied around on this, debating whether to build a peace park, peace tower, kumbaya hut, or whatever. Just rebuild the dang towers. Make them bigger, taller, bolder, better! Show New Yorker perseverance in the face of adversity!

[george76]

Nagin calls Ground Zero a " hole in the ground. "

It is one thing to criticize the NY politicians for their slowness, but Nagin should show some respect for the dead Americans...

or shut up.

[shankbear]

I really hope that Karl Rove, GWB, Halliburton and the CIA do a better job blowing ALL the levees in New Orleans next storm. They did a half ass job and now we have to spend a gazillion friggin dollars to fix that dump of a city. They have to make sure that school bus Nagin is still in town when it happens. No, he will probably be holed up in Dallas again. He is a festering pus filled boil on the butt of humanity and the people of NOLA didn't have the sense to lance it.

[edzo4]

yeah next year thay are going to make parade floats that really do float

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

THIS is the guy they reelected????

Hate to say it, but if I'd lived in NOLA, I'd have voted for him in the runoff. The alternative, Mitch Landrieu, is more boring, but the corruption he and the entire Landrieu family would have brought in would make your head spin. He's not much better, but at least Nagin's idiotic comments make you laugh.

[oldenuff2no]

I gave much more than I could really afford to give. It looks like it all went into someone's pocket. There was a tremendous amount of money given to the red cross and other charities by people just like me. The residents of N O sucked up the "FREE" money like there was no tomorrow but they will not go to work and rebuild their own city. They are having to import Hispanics to get any work done and then they bitch about the change in population.
I think the property should go to those who are willing to work to clean up the mess. If you won't work to restore you own property then you should not get one dime from the government or private charities. One thing is for certain, they will not get another penny out of my pocket!

[kAcknor]

"You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later. So let's be fair."

I'm going to take heat here, but what's wrong with this? It has been five years! We should have a set of buildings 50 stories higher than he WTC standing and open for business by now.

Could it just be that the person saying it is a Idiot? Nagin is a incompetent, but he is correct in this one. New York should have done better that this, and that it can be compared to New Orleans, run by an Idiot, is it's own fault.

[sanjacjake]

The guy is a typcal "Jessie-Al" con artist...we can
outsmart these white boys. New (old) New Orleans
has garnered more money out of this tragedy than all
the other affected states tgether...they still want to
milk it for all it's worth...All the Incometents..
Mayor, Governor, Senators, Congressman..all together
now..."It's Bush's fault"...and the Democrats will play
this up in the November elections...but it may backfire
when they do...Us white boys know what is going on....
and will react accodrdingly,. Jake

[DelphiUser]

>>LEFT LANE ENDS . . . MERGE RIGHT

I like your Tag line!

[SF Republican]

I am glad he was reelected; he was responsible for most of the mess, he should not be allowed to walk away from it.

[johnny7]

I don't know if you caught it... but some shmuck yesterday, posted an Ellis Hennican book review. The book is basically a Giuliani hit-piece... criticizing his handling of 9/11... and how communications were sub-standard prior to.

[deport]

Nagin says things without thinking about how they will sound. No doubt NYC could and should have done some better.... But Nagin could and should have done better himself. Just like the abandoned cars now still littering the streets, he had an offer and could have put it up for bids to remove these cars but he didn't and decided to pay someone to do the chore.... Sounds like a little backdoor activities going on, imo.

Nagin refused car-removal offer

Texas company would have paid New Orleans for flooded vehicles

08:38 AM CST on Monday, March 20, 2006

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS – A Texas company says it offered to pay this city to take tens of thousands of flooded cars off the streets and Mayor Ray Nagin refused the offer.

K&L Auto Crushers of Tyler, a major car crushing company, offered in October to rid the city of its flooded cars and pay $100 per flooded car, K&L's Dan Simpson said.

The city held back because it was apparently concerned that it did not have the legal right to remove the abandoned cars, Mr. Simpson said.

On Sunday, members of Mr. Nagin's press office, most of whom had traveled with him to Atlanta for a mayoral forum, did not immediately respond to an e-mail request seeking comment on K&L's offer.

But the Nagin administration is working on a contract to rid the city of the cars at a cost of $23 million over another six months.

[Young Scholar]

LOL! I never saw that one.

[johnny7]

I remember that...

same old... same old when it comes to NOLA. A few weeks after Katrina... Dennis Hastert let it slip that maybe NOLA shouldn't be rebuilt... then he retracted the statement.

Stupid a$$...