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New Orleans Mayor Faces Tough Questions
Washington Post ^ | 09/10/05 | Robert E. Pierre

Posted on 09/09/2005 6:58:46 PM PDT by Pikamax

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9 -- Mayor C. Ray Nagin created many new friends and probably as many enemies for his decision to pointedly chastise both Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) and the Bush administration for talking too much and working too little. Now, however, difficult questions are being directed at the mayor.

Until Nagin spoke out, Yancy Brown, a native of the Big Easy, had little respect for the mayor, whom he considered too corporate and too disconnected from the black community. "He wasn't acting like a brother," said Brown, 60, a former member of the Black Panther organization. But after Nagin defiantly told the feds -- and indirectly President Bush -- to get off their "asses" and do some work, Brown became a fan.

"That's what he's supposed to do," said Brown, who is still doing maintenance work at the Best Western at Poydras and St. Charles, where journalists covering the event have set up residence. "This place was in trouble, Lord have mercy."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: blanco; katrina; lakenagin; nagin; neworleans
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

I like that saying ..nice one ..


81 posted on 09/09/2005 10:00:09 PM PDT by hoboken109
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To: RTINSC

Did he not see the movie, "GET ON THE BUSS"


82 posted on 09/09/2005 10:02:41 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Motherbear

Excusing one creep by blaming another creep, give me a freaken break.


83 posted on 09/09/2005 10:07:13 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: BurbankKarl

Pic of a rogues gallery.


84 posted on 09/09/2005 10:08:45 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Redbob
Is that Landrieu guy Mary's brother? The LA government dope who pops up to speak occasionally and then says he don't have time to play the blame game, has to concentrate upon saving lives. If these cretins had concentrated upon protecting lives, this disgusting scenario would not now be playing out before the world.
85 posted on 09/09/2005 10:16:14 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Pikamax
New Orleans Mayor Faces Tough Questions

It's called sepuku mayor.

86 posted on 09/09/2005 10:18:45 PM PDT by bad company (what the hell happened to the 11th commandment?)
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To: Shermy

Get a life, you are writing like a NO city official, or maybe someone on a Parrish levee board?


87 posted on 09/09/2005 10:19:41 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: frannie

BS, get real, the LA government said if Nagin wanted to order a mandatory evacuation,(this even before Katrina hit) of NO, he had the power to do so.


88 posted on 09/09/2005 10:36:21 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: hoboken109

Was told by the wife tonight that if I didn't back off on this thing, I was going to have an angerism. :>)


89 posted on 09/09/2005 10:41:18 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Pikamax
Even those who approve of the mayor said that the crisis is a reminder of how dependent local officials are on the state and federal government during a crisis. New Nagin supporter Brown, who lost his home and his wife's business in the storm, said the mayor's hands were tied. If he had ordered an earlier evacuation, and enforced it, Brown said, he would have encountered another problem.

"Where are we going to send them?" Brown asked. "If you say mandatory, you got to have somewhere for people to go. He don't control nothing but New Orleans."


Actually, the man has a good point. Nagin could have loaded up the buses and shipped some people out. But to where? If there Governor didn't have adequate shelters for his people, where was he supposed to send them? Just drop them all off on a street corner somewhere? It's easy to say "he could have sent them to Houston." But could he really? Would they have taken them last Saturday?

90 posted on 09/10/2005 12:17:48 AM PDT by montanus
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To: montanus

"Nagin could have loaded up the buses and shipped some people out. But to where?"

Were they just now considering this?

I thought the Mayor and city officials had been studying a possible hurricane hit for years. The buses were mentioned in their "plan," weren't they? Surely they thought about where the buses would go....


91 posted on 09/10/2005 12:33:23 AM PDT by Cedar
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To: Pikamax

"[Nagin] don't control nothing but New Orleans."

This is why, despite any failings on the part of others, it is at the bottom line: BLANCO'S FAULT!


92 posted on 09/10/2005 6:57:43 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Pikamax

"Aaron Broussard, the Jefferson Parish president, told CBS News that the federal government would have to be held accountable for what happened." Somewhere there is a story about the nursing home manager that turned away the buses sent to help Mr. Broussard's friend's mother. Broussard cried during his interview, because he did not have all the facts. He blamed the President and FEMA because he did not know that the nursing home was responsible for the death of its weakest people.


93 posted on 09/10/2005 7:06:23 AM PDT by q_an_a
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To: frankjr
Resignation???

Please don't forget Governor Blanco or is it Governor "Blunder"?

94 posted on 09/10/2005 7:09:53 AM PDT by pointsal
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To: ConservativeGreek

Most of the buses are sittiing in 2 feet of water and have no damage. It is an expensive proposition to mobilize hundreds of buses. NOLA has never deployed their buses to evacuate for any hurricane. Saves money.


95 posted on 09/10/2005 7:30:57 AM PDT by RTINSC
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To: ConservativeGreek

Most of the buses are sittiing in 2 feet of water and have no damage. It is an expensive proposition to mobilize hundreds of buses. NOLA has never deployed their buses to evacuate for any hurricane. Saves money.


96 posted on 09/10/2005 7:32:09 AM PDT by RTINSC
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To: montanus

"Where are we going to send them?" - This is an excuse being tossed about by Democrats to mitigate the mayor's negligence. The buses could have taken people to higher ground, to the Superdome, or for that matter, to the yard where the buses are located now. They are in 2-3 feet of water and not damaged by the storm. At least many people who drowned would have be alive. Uncomfortable, but alive is always the better option.


97 posted on 09/10/2005 7:40:16 AM PDT by RTINSC
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To: Txsleuth
...even though he was the FEMA director for last years Florida hurricanes....

He's also the FEMA director for the current hurrcane response in Mississippi and Alabama, which, AFAIK, is going much better than it is in Louisiana.

98 posted on 09/10/2005 7:44:37 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Pikamax

It is good to see a few questions being raised, though this is a truly incompetent article!!! The reporter manages to omit any references to the FACTs that city planners had already witnessed similar kinds of problems with George and Ivan, already knew they needed to utilize their own BUSES, already wrote an EMERGENCY PLAN which the reporter seems not to know about. Serious questions would be raised by a real reporter -- this guy is just another MSM puff-artist. WHY DIDN'T THE MAYOR AND GOVERNOR ORDER THE EVAC ON SATURDAY, WHY DIDN'T THEY USE THE HUNDREDS OF BUSES AVAILABLE TO THEM, etc. etc.??


99 posted on 09/10/2005 10:06:57 PM PDT by Enchante (Don't put up with Michael Moore-on's slanders anymore!)
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To: Pikamax

Ray Nagin has just bought a home in Dallas. Can anyone imagine Rudy Giuliani, within less than two weeks of 9/11, buying a home in Connecticut???

Granted, I understand he had to find a good place for his family and arrange school etc. Since NOLA will not be functional for quite awhile the analogy with 9/11 is not a close one, BUT, I am talking about leadership. Instead of keeping his family somewhere within the state of LA, which surely would have been possible, he is making a statement for anyone who cares to notice that he has already prepared his own "exit strategy."

Rudy Giuliani he is not.


100 posted on 09/10/2005 10:14:55 PM PDT by Enchante (Don't put up with Michael Moore-on's slanders anymore!)
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