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Ray Nagin: Flooded School Buses Not My Fault
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| Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 12:39 a.m. EDT
Posted on 09/11/2005 2:54:36 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch
The Man In Charge Of School Buses had fled before the hurricane. That explains everything.
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posted on
09/11/2005 2:55:34 AM PDT
by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
To: InvisibleChurch
Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else." Is "somebody else" mayor of New Orleans?
To: InvisibleChurch
In my opinion, Gov. Blanco had more legal authority over the school buses than Mayor Nagin. And she could have deployed the National Guard to drive the buses.
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:02:13 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: InvisibleChurch
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:02:36 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Have You Forgotten?)
To: shuckmaster
Is "somebody else" mayor of New Orleans?
No, but somebody else will be mayor after next election!
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:02:50 AM PDT
by
BILL_C
(Those who don't understand the lessons of History are bound to repeat them.)
To: The Red Zone
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:03:21 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(There's nothing that "MORE COWBELL!" can't fix.......)
To: InvisibleChurch; All
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:04:34 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: InvisibleChurch
I understand that the school buses don't have lavatories (neither do cars, Mr. Nagin), which is one of the reasons he gave for not using them, but what a stupid waste of gasoline to bring in Greyhounds when buses are already in the vicinity. If you don't know whose fault it is that the National Guard wasn't available as drivers by now, Mr. Mayor, you certainly don't need to be in charge of a city. If an 18 year-old who didn't know how to drive a bus managed to anyway, how is it there weren't any other evacuees who were capable?
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:05:57 AM PDT
by
skr
To: InvisibleChurch
Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else." Perhaps in his mind the POTUS should have driven those buses... I think if he said "Bush should have", the MSM will agree and it will become a headline...
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:06:29 AM PDT
by
paudio
(Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
To: InvisibleChurch
"All I can do is [say] that I was dealing with it as a mayor... So he was smoking crack in a hotel room?
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:07:49 AM PDT
by
rickmichaels
(Support America, Buy American)
To: InvisibleChurch
"It's not my fault boo hoo" ....Mayor Numbskull Nagin
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:08:24 AM PDT
by
guitarnick40
( The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is to put an f'n liberal in charge.)
To: InvisibleChurch
FOR EBAY AUCTION: MAYOR NAGIN'S FACE MYSTICALLY RENDERED ON A PIECE OF TOAST!
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:12:51 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Have You Forgotten?)
To: InvisibleChurch
It's not my fault and besides, I had to leave the city for four days to buy a house and register my kid for school. Just unbelievable.
What I want to know is... What is the class action lawsuit gonna be like for all those families who lost a family member because of his inaction?
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:16:02 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: InvisibleChurch
Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else." There is a reason for local governments to have in place an emergency plan Mr. Nagin, one is to protect human life, and in the case of New Orleans that plan provided guidance as to what responsibilities were the mayor's. So is it true to say you did not know what your responsibilities were and failed to follow the plan or did you know the plan existed and failed to implement the plan?
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:16:10 AM PDT
by
EBH
(Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
To: InvisibleChurch; dixiechick2000; devolve; onyx; OXENinFLA; potlatch; DoughtyOne; EagleUSA; ...
It's a question for 'SOMEBODY ELSE' . .
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday that it wasn't his fault city school buses weren't mobilized to facilitate the Hurricane Katrina evacuation he ordered.
Appearing on NBC's "Dateline," Nagin was asked by host Stone Phillips: "What was mobilized? I mean were national guard troops in position.
Were helicopters standing by?
Were buses ready to take people away?"
"No. None of that," the Big Easy mayor replied.
"Why is that?" an incredulous Phillips asked.
Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else."
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:20:22 AM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
To: InvisibleChurch
The questions that need to be asked...
Were school and public buses part of the evacuation plan?
If not, why not?
If so, what was the manning plan to have drivers available and what was the marshaling plan to get them loaded.
Base on what I have read in the last 12 days it appears the buses were part of the plan but I haven't read the plan myself. The breakdown appears to be that Nagin and Blanco and their respective staffs failed to have a viable manning plan. This level of planning and detail should not be the job of FEMA.
I don't understand why a reporter hasn't gone to another hurricane endangered city (Wilmington looks good right now) and asked something like the above questions and what the mayor (and governors) expectations are of FEMA. Compare and contrast with Katrina.
To: backhoe
Thanks - and great job, sir!
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:21:13 AM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
To: InvisibleChurch
I've decided that, as with many of the Democrats in, for example, California, these two (Nagin and Blanco) got "elected" into office because they fulfilled the niche requirements of who ~should be~ in office and that is: feminists and racial minorities. Regardless of qualifications and character.
Not that those two generalized types should not hold office or otherwise be elected but that the stereotypes only go so far to get anything done and mostly when stereotypes are elected, when there's no other substance there, they just fill out the office, sit in the chair, make a big show. We can now see that that's about it for these two, specifically: they arrived by way of fulfilling a stereotype but had little to nothing else to offer.
There's no leadership. Leadership is what they're supposed to provide once in office.
Nagin's responses are among the most cruelly stupid I've yet to hear/read...he can laugh and be cute and a pretty man and all but, given the amount of suffering, damages and even deaths in a city he was supposed to be leading away from those dastardly happenings, he's looking quite criminal to my view. Like a stupid criminal, nothing more, and that's very bad.
If and when anyone can figure out why this stupid guy would ever reason his way to deny the use of school buses readily available -- in trying to contend with a life-or-death situation -- while demanding "air conditioning" in other buses that were no where to be seen, please let me know. Sometimes stupid is tragically criminal, and this is one of those times.
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:21:56 AM PDT
by
BIRDS
To: InvisibleChurch
Great Googly Moogly! I can't believe this man is getting away with this.
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posted on
09/11/2005 3:22:08 AM PDT
by
Maeve
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