The first in many coats of whitewash. Nagin is a hero for getting the feds to do something. Hillary better watch her heinie, by the time the Democrats and MSM (distinction w/o a difference), get done spinning this thing, Nagin will look like outstanding presidential material.
you aint kidding puff piece
"He broke down in tears"
"I was living a pretty good life";Nagin said of his pre-storm days;"I couldn't imagine this in my wildest dreams"
Same story,short version.
For Nagin,it's all about him,and it's never gonna be his fault.He was robbed,don't you see.
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Nagin needed to delegate some of the responsibility to the hands of bus drivers.
That might be all that is keeping the mob from killing him!
People get blamed for little mistakes and people get blamed for BIG mistakes.
This was a BIG mistake.
He didn't do too well with straightening out the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board
The water board is responsible for providing residents with clean drinking water, performing wastewater treatment and disposal and maintaining one of the most extensive and complex drainage systems in the country, .
Payoffs involved in S&WB (Sewerage and Water Board) process, feds say Executive accused of taking kickbacks, Sunday, May 15, 2005 By Gordon Russell Staff writer
A corporate partnership that considered bidding to manage New Orleans' water and sewer operations was secretly paying business executive Gilbert Jackson $1,500 a month because Jackson -- whose employer, the engineering firm Camp Dresser & McKee, was helping draw up the bid specifications -- told company representatives that doing so would help them win the contract, federal prosecutors contend.And he didn't do too wel with straightening out his sonThe revelation, from filings in an unrelated case in Ohio, is the first assertion that payoffs figured in the city's long flirtation with privatizing parts of the Sewerage & Water Board, a five-year process that critics often complained was open to shenanigans.
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Mayor's Son Busted At Bloomies November 28, 2002 -- The teenage son of New Orleans' crime-busting mayor has been arrested in an elaborate credit-card scam at Bloomingdale's.
Cops say Jeremy Nagin, 18, and a pal tried to make off with $800 in clothing and a $500 cell phone by using an altered credit card.
[snip] Authorities say Jeremy Nagin and Nantambu began their scam by stealing a credit card and using a decoding device to decipher its confidential data.
Then, they allegedly used a computer program to graft those numbers onto another credit card, which was used in the Bloomie's theft and in booking a room at the Courtyard by Marriott.
The two were charged with grand larceny, criminal impersonation, criminal possession of stolen property and forgery.
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Take another look. It's not such a bad article!
Two can play at this game. And, danged if I'm not having a ball!
"Now he's a mayor without a city."
"...police are besieged by armed mobs and looters. Flames flare from broken gas lines. Stranded residents have been living in squalor, with no electricity or fresh water. Dead bodies float in the streets."
"...remnants of his government, ...though most top officials have decamped to Baton Rouge, La."
"...three days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, Nagin had been pushed far enough"
"...he went on the radio and told the federal government to "get off your asses"
"He broke down in tears."
"...calm technocrat who likes to make lists of problems and solve them." MUST HAVE LOST THE LIST THAT HAD THE DEFINITION TO MANDATORY EVACUATION.
"It was possibly the highest moment of my life right now," said Jackie Clarkson, a city councilwoman and political ally who represents the French Quarter."
"...faces heavy criticism for failing to evacuate the poorest New Orleans residents swiftly."
"...hasn't had a commanding media presence."
"...the leader of a city can either be seen as rising to the challenge or not seen at all."
"...nearly a week in subhuman conditions in the city's shelters of last resort"
"...many were seething with resentment over the way they'd been treated, and some lashed out at Nagin.
"U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (CLINTON? lol), a Democrat from New Orleans, defended the mayor."
"His job was to sound the alarm down here..."
"... might have avoided twisting the president's tail.
"In politics, I always feel like I'm bridled," Nagin said..."
"Two things made him see red, he said."
"...a cable TV executive at Cox Communications, making $400,000 a year, the darling of the city's business elite...(one local columnist called him a "hottie") who promised change.
"...born in 1956 in New Orleans' Charity Hospital...the hospital is out of food and water, and thugs shot at rescuers who were trying to evacuate its remaining patients last week."
"...Nagin milked his humble origins for all they were worth."
"...a left-hander known for a big curve ball..."
"At various times during his first THREE YEARS in office, Nagin has VOWED to sell off the city's airport, take over the troubled school system and cut the city bureaucracy. NONE OF THAT HAS HAPPENED, but New Orleans' problems with POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND CRIME HAV CONTINUED."
"Those failed promises pale in comparison with the challenges of Katrina."
"Critics say Nagin has made some serious missteps."
"Concerned about the legal ramifications of ordering people to leave their homes...Nagin didn't issue a mandatory evacuation until...less than 24 hours before the storm hit, meaning that up to 100,000 people were stranded."
"In the aftermath, it became apparent that the city hadn't stockpiled enough fuel for rescue vehicles and boats."
"He's not someone whose political support is so deep he'll be able to rely on that."
"Nagin... said he learned long ago to tackle a long list of problems three at a time. When you accomplish them, he said, you move problem number four to the top of the list."
"For now, he's focused on his list: transferring control to the military, COMPLETING THE EVACUATION OF THE CITY (OH, IS IT MANDATORY NOWWWWWWWWWWW?!), containing the floodwaters and then draining them."
"With almost no tax revenue coming in, the government will be broke in two weeks. He's concerned about mosquitoes, and that no one knows yet how many people have died. The list of problems is endless." (BUT HE SAID HE CAN ONLY HANDLE THREE AT A TIME.)
"I was living a pretty good life..." (SO WERE ALOT OF OTHER PEOPLE. IS THIS ALL ABOUT YOU?")
"soldiers on" GIMME A BREAK
No, Demwits, his job was to IMPLEMENT THE FREAKIN EVACUATION PLAN. It even took Bush to sound the alarm. Nagin was watching the Jeffersons at the time.