The DUmmies are saying that the mayor had not jurisdiction outside of New Orleans and therefore had no authority to take his people beyond the city limits. But don't all cities that have evacuation plans (like Galveston) involve taking the people beyond the city limits?
Call up the governor to bus the residents to Baton Rouge or lafayette.
The mayor and governor should have had a plan for bus drivers or contractors to bus people out and take them to inland cities in louisiana.
They knew Friday and waited until Sunday when Bush called them to evacuate. Mayor was worried about whether it was legal to order mandatory evacuations typical democrat mindlessness.
You should have had a new orleans police officer on every bus and gone down the 9th ward with bullhorns. Take the bus to a staging area, put state troopers on board and then bus them out to Baton Rouge red cross shelters.
They brought the sick and the poor to New Orleans Superdome with no food, knowing the electricity would go out and the MSM has the nerve to blame Bush.
We need to revolt against the MSM enough is enough.
It doesn't even matter...that's what Governors are for. This idiot knew about ANY defeciency in his plan since last year when he even failed during Ivan. Hell, the ACLU and the homeless advocates warned the mayor that he had the responsibility to move the poor and impoverished out of the city. He responded by saying "our main focus is to get the people out of the city." This was a year ago...and all I see are buses parked in flooded lots.
Jurisdiction? They arent on trial they are evacuating. The DUmmies are desperate to blame Bush
Well, that is when you pick up the phone and call the Governor and ask for the authority needed to safe guard the citizens that you are sworn to protect. The ball
was dropped big time here.
He would have been required to shelter all those he picked up. Got any idea where?
And another thing - who is going to drive these buses? Nobody has yet to answer me that question.
You are talking about civil servants/union employees and you think they will drive around the city and pick up poor people for free? You do know the Mayor can't order them to do that because it is a violation of their labor contract, right?
Everyone seems to forget a) HE'S A NEW MAYOR WHO WAS INVESTIGATING CORRUPTION FROM PREVIOUS NO ADMINISTRATIONS (CLUE HERE: THE LEFT WANTS TO THROW HIM UNDER THE PROVERBIAL BUS) and b) He was lied to by the female Feminazi and her Landrieu mafia about evac plans and NG coming c) he supported the Governor's opponent for Governor (Rindahl) and he supported Bush when he ran against Kerry.
Who are you going to believe? I'll go with Nagin, actually. They played politics and they are trying to kill off a good man who strayed off the plantation one toe at a time.