Read the entire interview here.
When evacuees at the Superdome were interviewed by the Houston Chronicle, however, here's what they had to say,
"...Warren Cosey, 41, was less charitable. 'Oh, man, he was crying like a baby,' he said.
Next to Cosey in line was Verdell Berry, who complained that he had not seen the mayor all week. 'He never came in and addressed the crowd or nothing,' he said.
Cosey shook his head. 'If he would have come in here, they would have killed him,' he said."
Read the article here.
In addition, there is some question about Nagin's orders immediately following the Hurricane. In an article in the Los Angeles Times, he was quoted while talking to a radio interviewer as follows:
" 'We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater; with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 20 feet. Both airports are underwater,' Mayor Ray Nagin told a radio interviewer.
Nagin evacuated City Hall and ordered everyone who was still in the city - including police officers who were not considered 'central emergency personnel' - to leave."
Read the article here. Nagin, who has been exposed as a "Good-Time Mayor" was way...way...way over his head in this crisis. He had absolutely no clue. As is typical of so many Democrats, his desperate attempts to rewrite history and tweak the timeline involve exaggeration, embellishment, and outright lies. He knows he failed. He knows that people died because of his inaction prior to the storm as well as his disappearing act immediately afterwards.
We'll see how this plays out over the next few weeks but, with the majority of the LSM acting as a pre-emptive PR firm for the DNC, I am not confident that facts will play a significant role in analyzing this tragedy and preventing future replays.
Ray is a stupid, stupid man. That said, did the casino/crime/tourism stringpullers want someone smart?
I WANT AN APOLOGY FROM BLANCO AND NAGIN!!1
APOLOGIZE NOW
"I'm not one of those drug addicts.."
A racist view of the black and poor.