Posted on 09/10/2005 9:00:31 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior
In a stark reminder of how drastically Hurricane Katrina has impacted the lives of New Orleanians, Mayor Ray Nagin has purchased a home for his family in Dallas and enrolled his young daughter in school there. Nagin, who spoke with The Times-Picayune by telephone from Dallas, where he has been since Wednesday, said he planned to return to New Orleans on Saturday. He said he will remain in the Crescent City while his family lives for the next six months in Dallas, making occasional visits to his family when possible. Its not clear where Nagin will be living: His home along Bayou St. John suffered massive flooding, the mayor said, although he has not inspected it. In a brief but wide-ranging interview, the mayor reflected on the tragedies of the past two weeks, acknowledging that he may have made some mistakes but said that he hopes others in positions of authority including President George W. Bush and Gov. Kathleen Blanco -- are scrutinized as closely as he and his staff have been. Im not pointing any fingers at anyone, Nagin said. But I was in the fire. I was down there. Where were they? Im confident the truth is gonna come out. But I want everybodys record analyzed just as hard as mine. Listen, this was unprecedented. Nothing has ever happened like this. For people to sit back and say, You should have done this, you should have done that
its Monday morning quarterbacking. They can shoot if they want, but I was there, and I will have the facts.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I think he wants out and wants no part of being re-elected.
By Thomas Lipscomb Published 09/08/2005
As Lake Ponchatrain's waters began to drown his city, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin had the colossal nerve to shout indignantly "Get off your asses, and let's do something" -- and then continued doing nothing himself, but add to the deluge by bursting into tears.
Having been prodded on Saturday into ordering an evacuation by President Bush and the head of the Hurricane Center and then delaying it for seventeen crucial hours until well into Sunday, Mayor Nagin is directly responsible for the AP picture of over 200 unused New Orleans buses marooned in four feet of water that might have evacuated more than 15,000 in one trip alone. Those were the buses that in the Mayor's own plan were to be used to evacuate 100,000 poor the city has long understood had no other means of transportation.
Nagin is also responsible for failing to pre-position generators, food and water, a medical presence and portable toilets for the two sites at the Superdome and Convention Center that he had proclaimed "emergency centers" for tens of thousands of the more than 30% of New Orleanians that lived below the poverty line. And then the Mayor failed to police them...
Follow the link to read the rest.
Hello... Mr. Nagin... anyone home in there? You're the MAYOR OF THE CITY! Governor Blanco is not the mayor. One hopes she was in Baton Rouge where she belongs (until she's kicked out of office for her incompetence, that is). President Bush is the President of the United States of America--he has a whole country to run.
You, sir, are the mayor of NO... you're supposed to be there.
THE IDIOT is gonna run for Govenor of TEXAS!! NOT!
Here's some stuff for the Prosecution!
NAGIN: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here.
I'm like, "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
That's -- they're thinking small, man. And this is a major, major, major deal. And I can't emphasize it enough, man. This is crazy.
Louisiana disaster plan, pg 13, para 5 , dated 01/00
'The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating'...
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
they're thinking small, man!
And now I'm in Dallas! Hows the bus service here?
>But I was in the fire. I was down there. Where were they?<
You lived there, idiot.
Nagin is on Meet the Press tomorrow. I am interested in whether Tim is sympathetic or goes after him, and how Nagin responds.
It could be that Nagin has a lot of inteesting information on Blanco. One can hope, anyway.
Why was there a breakdown at the federal and state level only in Louisiana? This didnt happen in Mississippi. Thats the question. Thats the question of the day.
Maybe because while Blanco needs 24hrs to decide the really urgent matters, giving consideration to political concerns, others just act.
He's still the best mayor NEw Orleans had in a while.
He's saying he has/had no control over the school buses? I thought he did!
Two interesting things nobody on this thread appears to know.
mary Landrieu's aunt is on the orleans parish school board, powerful and supposedly in charge of the use of school buses for emergency evacs.
The Mayor can declare a mandatory evac but according to La Disaster plan, THE GOVERNOR IMPLEMENTS IT.
The Lt Gov, Landrieu, is said to be in charge of the emergency disaster plans in La.
mary landrieu/Blanko both hate Nagin.
Think about it.
Rats never resign.
yup , many of Hizzoner Brass Balls' constituents are in TX,but,this fool is gettin' bad advise
Seems like this should have been part of your EVAUCATION PLAN DUMBASS!
But we didnt have enough buses. I dont control the school buses, and the RTA (Regional Transit Authority) buses as far as I know were positioned high and dry. But 80 percent of the city was not high and dry. Where would we have staged them? And who was going to drive them even if we commandeered them?
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