Posted on 09/08/2005 11:36:07 AM PDT by TaxRelief
Why the congress? Why not a team of prosecutors? A lot of people need to hang for this and I don't mean that metaphorically. A lot of someones have got to pay, and I think it needs to start with that wicked, rotten, corrupt mayor. I think he gave orders that the refurgees were not to be given aid, not even water and I think he needs to spend a good long time in the pen for that. Blanco I think is just clueless. I don't think she meant to get anybody killed, it just worked out that way.
"Like only employees could drive the buses. What a crock! "
If they (City of NO) let anyone other than certified school bus drivers operate those vehicles, they could have(and would have)been sued. Thank shyster lawyers and bureaucrats for that conditioned response. IMO, people should have helped themselves by organizing and driving the busses. Isn't there a photo going around of just such a citizen? And wasn't he arrested for his act of humanitarian kindness?
This, to me, is the issue with them. If the city didn't have this in the contract, then I can't blame the drivers. It's not like the police force quitting. I'd LIKE to think they would have done the job if it was expected of them, but we don't know. At any rate, the city was unprepared. A designated group of off-duty police could have been tapped to drive these buses even if it's not in the labor contract. They had 48 hours to get it done, even if they couldn't drive all the buses at once.
Great job! BTTT.
Then they didn't want to let him in. Must have had the misfortune of running into a Red Crescent volunteer.
You are correct. And they probably hated Nagin for not being leftist enough.
I guess the governor and the legislature in La didn't care enough to step in during the year of negotiations.
Ultimately, people can't be saved from themselves.
If you can't find'em, grind'em.
The evacuation was during the weekend, so they would had to call the bus drivers in to drive the buses. I can't blame the school board, it falls on the mayor to make the decision so that arrangements can be made.
The Evacuation section of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan doesn't even mention the buses.
Anybody happen to save a copy of Nagin's original evac proclamation? I remember there was a good-sized list of exceptions made for essential employees of city agencies. I'm trying to remember whether the school district was included.
Note that the f**kin' a-rats want to have the commission before all the facts like these can be gathered, hell, they want to have it before the crisis is over, with a report by February.
Yep. Can you imagine them not wanting to allow that busload into the Astrodome, no matter HOW they got there!?
Way I saw it, it doesn't matter HOW they arrived, or WHO drove the bus, all that mattered was, they got out of NOLA!
In an earlier thread I recall reading that the School District buses are owned and operated by the State of Louisiana. Is my recollection correct?
That's what happens with unionized systems. Union members first, kids second.
How do I contact Hugh Hewitt?
Liberals love mass transit and can't wait to get us out of our own cars and evil SUV's, but when we really need the mass transit... they're out of town!
Perhaps you would not have, but maybe 30%, or even 50%, of the drivers would have been willing to make a few runs if they had been given the opportunity.
Don't think your headline is justified: the drivers ran away, but that doesn't mean the schools had a policy of not allowing the busses to be used, only that the drivers' absconding made it 'impossible'.
I agree with all the comments here about finding other drivers, though.
And why not? They could just blame it on Bush.
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