Posted on 09/06/2005 6:19:29 PM PDT by angkor
In Louisiana, anything is possible. Even Democrats can be prosecuted in New Orleans if they cross the corrupt political machine and are deemed expendable.
But, I doubt anything will happen unless the Democrats come under such scrutiny that they need some scapegoats.
This is epic. This is a GREAT GREAT find.
Damn them, but kudos to you for finding the smoking gun.
Buckhead would be proud.
Over here, sweetie!
thanks! Awesome find.
If that happened, I suspect Nagin would be complaining about it to cover himself. He seems real big on passing the buck.
Well, at least Gray Davis's antics never cost anyone their lives as far as I know.......maybe I need to send an apology to him!
You just have to read this !
Several Board officials actually involved in the negotiations are named in the minutes, e.g.:
"Ms. Bowers: We have been meeting with City entities about the hurricane preparedness and we have talked to them about our buses. .... Benita Cochran and the head of transportation and the head of Security have been participating in these meetings, too."
Perhaps some enterprising reporter will ask them what happened. Why the dithering?
Great find. Google or someone is busy erasing and getting rid of this link.
I tried twice to copy the section re Hurricanes and School Buses.
Each time my computer locked up on me saying the site was gone.
I couldn't find it on Yahoo Search.
Hopefully some can find on way back or whatever and post that section with the printer commands.
I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.
The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.
Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:
5. 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.
Try this link, it may have been my search terms and browser type (opera) embedded in the earlier URL:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:-NDJWqbkSEUJ:www.nops.k12.la.us/content/board/minutes/2005/bmin060905.pdf
If that doesn't work I'll clean and repost. It's still there. Anyway I've saved it locally.
This was not the understanding of the Orleans Parish School Board in their June 9 2005 meeting, and the minutes clearly show that without any ambiguity. They had come to no such agreement on the use of school buses with the City of New Orleans.
"Ms. Bowers: We have been meeting with City entities about the hurricane preparedness and we have talked to them about our buses. We still have not defined how many they want. They have agreed to indemnify the School Board for using the buses. They said if our bus drivers volunteer then they will make arrangements to take the families of the bus drivers and offer them secure places. They are talking about having City Officers on buses also. There is a good bit of planning that is underway. Benita Cochran and the head of transportation and the head of Security have been participating in these meetings, too. We are trying to stay on top it. This does need review."
That was even worse. Something is not compatible with my SBC/Yahoo connections.
I had to old stop codes to get out of the site after it collapsed on me, reboot the computer and run some removal programs.
Thanks, but I will stay away from the site.
I'm glad that you have it saved.
It's a direct link to the Google cache, which is the only place it exists.
The New Orleans Public Schools web site is gone, replaced by this:
http://www.nops.k12.la.us/content/board/minutes/2005/bmin060905.pdf.
It appears the left is monitoring what you are posting. I tried this at 10:07 am PDT, and I got the following message.
The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
bump
They even had fuel preparations for the buses that were never used.
My read is that they were in process of negotiating with the City, and fuel is something they were to discuss in thir next meeting.
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