Mayor Nagin, wife quarantined after flight

WXVT TV ^ | June 7, 2009

[rdl6989]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife have been placed in quarantine after a passenger on their flight to China exhibited flu-like symptoms.

Nagin's press office said a passenger had "signs and symptoms of an influence-like illness suspected to be of the H1N1 subtype." This comes amid continued global concerns about swine flu.

The office said Sunday the couple and a security guard were placed under quarantine in Shanghai as a precaution and were exhibiting no symptoms.

[wombtotomb]

an “influence like” illness? Oy.

[ArmstedFragg]

“An influence like illness” ???

Yep, that’d be Ray, all right.

[al baby]

nagin is still around

[Dallas59]

When it rains it pours...

[lilylangtree]

Hope they quarantined him & his wife in one of the hundreds of school buses that were underwater during Katrina instead of being used to evacuate New Orleaneans. Seems only fair.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

So let me get this straight—the swine flew and got the swine flu. Right?

[ataDude]

He SHOULD be quarantined... and not for swine flu, either.

[billorites]

I've seen the Angel of Death!

[shove_it]

Nagin Shanghaied!

[savedbygrace]

Does Nagin know the cure is chocolate?

[rdl6989]

Correct.

[csvset]

Nagin left for China Friday for an economic development trip. He was then to travel to Australia, where he'd planned to speak on climate change and sustainable building,

WTH? Chocolate City Ray is some sort of expert on "climate change" ?

[outhousepatrol]

He should be drawn and QUARTERED!

[wombtotomb]

yeah, they re elected him. More proof we get the govt we deserve

[Big_Monkey]

That’s all he needs to complete his resume - Typhoid Ray, bringing death and destruction everywhere he goes.

[rdl6989]

[null and void]

If he doesn’t Madam Pomfrey does, when she heard that Remus Lupin had given Harry chocolate after his encounter with Dementors, nodded appovingly and stated that “at last, we have a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher who knows his remedies.”

[Puppage]

Chocolate City Airlines ping!!

[null and void]

He should be drawn and QUARTERED!

French Quartered?

[SES1066]

So was Mayor Nagin, wife and security guard on vacation or was it an official trip and others were with them but not isolated? Has anyone seen any comparisons between New Orleans (Katrina 8/29/05) and Galveston (Ike 9/12/08)? From what I have been reading, Galveston after less than a year is far closer to normal than NO after almost 4 years and much more aid not to mention the larger industrial base and shipping from NO.

So how is Nagin doing - popular as ever? Just shows that maybe you can fool all of the voters all of the time!

[Roscoe Karns]

nagin is still around

yeah and he has a nagin wife.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Galveston is populated by Texans, not government dependent people..

Git ‘R Done is their motto..

[al baby]

I heard they got stimulus money to teach people how to swim

[Vaquero]

[Kimmers]

I read the headline “quarantined after fight”.......that must have knocked down drag out

[Lee N. Field]

Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife have been placed in quarantine

For a good while, right? It's like prison, right?

[pepperdog]

Who pays for this type of idiocy? Nagin doesn't know enough to evacuate a city that sits below sea level when a hurricane is coming. And economics? NO is still in the toilet and the murder capitol of the country. I swear there is a world wide conspiracy to let the fools of the world set the rules of the world...who is funding this? China? Soros? Communists? It's too blatantly obvious to be an accident of nature.

[GnuHere]

Several years too late. Uhhh, take your time with this one, China. We would not want him released too soon and risk introducing a germ into the pristine city of NOLA when he returns.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The alternative was Mitch Landrieu.

[wombtotomb]

man, they gotta find some actual people to run for office there. Seems like the voodoo has ‘em picking some scary characters.....

[OrangeHoof]

Chocolate flu?

[Mila]

"Nagin doesn't know enough to evacuate a city that sits below sea level when a hurricane is coming"

Fortunately for the 80% of New Orleanians who evacuated on their own before Katrina hit, we didn't need Nagin's help.

[squibs]

That’s a “Short Bus”.
Do you think he rode on 1 of those when he was in school?

[Mila]

"The alternative was Mitch Landrieu."

He could not have been worse.

[budwiesest]

I swear there is a world wide conspiracy to let the fools of the world set the rules of the world...

You seeing this too? Glad I'm not alone. Sure would be nice to know the source so it could be pulled out by the roots.

Everything has been turned up-side down for so long I figure there's gotta be a Kennedy at the controls. I'm beginning to feel like Mary Jo.

[MGMSwordsman]

This country has gone so far off the deep end, I could actually see this racist poverty pimp elected as the next POTUS after Zero.

Of course, I don’t think the USA will still be a functioning nation by then.

This country is finished. The only thing that remains to be seen how the coup de grace will be administered.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Mitch would’ve used NOLA to rebuild the corrupt Democrat machine that fell apart after Marc Morial’s departure, so he most certainly would’ve been worse in that regard. A lot of us on FR when the choices for the runoff came out went with Nagin, because he was simply too incompetent to reassemble the machine. Mitch would’ve never have allowed the election of Ang Cao to have occurred.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*Anh Cao

[luvbach1]

They must miss “the chocolate city,” as Nagan calls Nawleans.

[AliVeritas]

Who can take the sunrise, sprinkle it with dew,
Spend stimulus money and eliminate the flu...

The Candyman... oh the Candyman can...

[pepperdog]

Your raise a good point, ultimately we are all responsible for our own safety and well being. Congratulations on being aware and willing to take action when it was needed.

[AlaskaErik]

I can just hear him telling officials that he's too important to be quarantined.

[rdl6989]

Ceeon Quiett, the mayor's director of communications, told CNN that Nagin had been sitting beside a passenger who "exhibited the symptoms of H1N1," but Nagin showed no signs of illness.

How does Nagin's staff know so much about H1N1? LINK

[lightman]

The office said Sunday the couple and a security guard

NO is still a $hithole and broke and the renegin' mayor travels internationally with a security guard?

WTF!?!?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

HA! Perfect. ;-)

[upchuck]

LOL

Bump

[Marysecretary]

Why do people even travel to China? That’s where all this stuff started in the first place.

[John123]

Hey China! I’ll give you five bucks to keep Nagin in permanent quarantine...

[devane617]

...damn! That is funny!