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Katrina Evacuees In Atlanta Plan To Protest Mardi Gras
WDSU ^ | 12/12/2005

Posted on 12/12/2005 7:34:06 AM PST by LA Woman3

ATLANTA -- Evacuees from New Orleans plan a protest in Atlanta to the city's plan to hold Mardi Gras celebrations in two months.

An angry and raucous crowd of evacuees chastised New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin last week for approving the festival. He told the crowd he actually opposed celebrating the festival but tourism leaders forced his hand.

In Atlanta, a group plans a protest at 2 p.m. Monday on West Peachtree Street ahead of Monday night’s Saints-Falcons game.

Protesters fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter at Mardi Gras will make agencies trying to help evacuees withdraw their help.

The mayor's comments that he was pressured to approve Mardi Gras plans stunned Carnival supporters in the Big Easy, who say they had been assured the mayor was OK with the event.

Ed Muniz is the captain of Endymion, one of the city’s most glamorous parades. He compares Nagin to Sen. John Kerry because Nagin first said he was for something and then against it.

A number of evacuees stuck in hotel rooms and unfamiliar surroundings across the U.S. oppose the celebration. They say they are in no mood to party.

And they fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter will cause some agencies trying to help evacuees to withdraw their help.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: evacuee; katrina; mardigras
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1 posted on 12/12/2005 7:34:06 AM PST by LA Woman3
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To: Ellesu; CajunConservative; caryatid; abb

*ping*


2 posted on 12/12/2005 7:35:51 AM PST by LA Woman3 ("Don't blame me......I voted for Jindal" www.lagop.com)
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To: LA Woman3

And the really sad part is that Nagin will be re-elected in a landslide.....even if someone runs against him but more than likely he'll run unopposed.


3 posted on 12/12/2005 7:37:21 AM PST by El Gran Salseron (The FR Canteen's Resident E. O. M. C. P......)
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To: LA Woman3
Protesters fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter at Mardi Gras will make agencies trying to help evacuees withdraw their help.

Weaning from any teat is always stressful, including that of the government.

4 posted on 12/12/2005 7:37:27 AM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: LA Woman3

I thought there was a pretty fair sized group of homeless people who traveled to NO from Atlanta to help rebuild. Funny how the evacuees from the city want to sit elsewhere and complain.


5 posted on 12/12/2005 7:37:42 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: LA Woman3

I thought Ragin Nagin WANTED Mardi Gras to go on..at least that's what he said right after Katrina..now he says he was for it before he was against it..


6 posted on 12/12/2005 7:38:27 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: LA Woman3
I assume "Endymion" is a krewe, not a parade.

Hey, Atlanta evacuees - here's an idea.

Do a day's work for once in your lives and skip the protest.

7 posted on 12/12/2005 7:39:03 AM PST by wideawake
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To: LA Woman3
Ray Nagin doesn't care about black people.

8 posted on 12/12/2005 7:41:28 AM PST by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: LA Woman3

There are plenty of other cities in Louisiana and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast that will be happy to host the New Orleans Mardi Gras crews for Mardi Gras: Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Alexandria, Shreveport......

Nagin is not satisfied that most of New Orleans was destroyed by Katrina. He wants to make sure that all of it is destroyed by catering to the whining leeches who don't like seeing initiative being rewarded.


9 posted on 12/12/2005 7:42:40 AM PST by RouxStir (Peaceful Muslim?.....The Ultimate Oxymoron.)
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To: LA Woman3

Just call it Kwanza Gras and everyone can revel in their disenfranchisement and call for reparations for both Katrina and slavery.


10 posted on 12/12/2005 7:43:42 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: cripplecreek

"I thought there was a pretty fair sized group of homeless people who traveled to NO from Atlanta to help rebuild. Funny how the evacuees from the city want to sit elsewhere and complain."

Get yourself educated! Only 12 of Jesse's people stayed (maybe less). There was simply no place for them to live unless they slept on the bare ground. FEMA trailers are only going in at a rate of 7 a day although 20,000 are sitting in fields in Mississippi and Louisiana. The utter incompetence of the federal government to manage this disaster shows how vulnerable the country is to a city-wide terrorist attack. Pray that you never have to go through what the residents in the gulf are going through.


11 posted on 12/12/2005 7:45:40 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: GeorgiaDawg32; LA Woman3

He's trying to pander to both groups, like Bill Clinton used to do. Unfortunately for him, the media doesn't like him as much as they did Bill, so he can't get away with it.

If I were him, I would have just admitted the truth and said: New Orleans needs the money from Mardi Gras simply to survive. Remember, many businesses get almost their entire revenue from the celebration!

Where's all the Katrina relief money that was given by the million in the weeks after the hurricane?

And if they want to come back and resettle, why aren't they back? I hear there are plenty of jobs and a huge worker shortage.

Just asking ...

D


12 posted on 12/12/2005 7:46:24 AM PST by daviddennis (;)
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To: RouxStir
There are plenty of other cities in Louisiana and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast that will be happy to host the New Orleans Mardi Gras crews for Mardi Gras: Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Alexandria, Shreveport......

Not to mention the city where Mardi Gras started, Mobile Alabama.

13 posted on 12/12/2005 7:46:26 AM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: LA Woman3

Someone BUY Dem a drink!


14 posted on 12/12/2005 7:47:10 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: daviddennis

that would require they actually do something to help themselves without waiting for the gubmint to come to the rescue..


15 posted on 12/12/2005 7:47:22 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)
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To: LA Woman3

"Protesters fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter at Mardi Gras will make agencies trying to help evacuees withdraw their help."



asshamed?


16 posted on 12/12/2005 7:48:48 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: LA Woman3

Ah wan it, Gimme, Gimme... Complaining former NOLA residents, please get off your handout and get to work rebuilding your city.


17 posted on 12/12/2005 7:51:06 AM PST by Modok (Barking Moonbats - moderates who would rather vote for a liberal McCain)
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To: Kirkwood
The group I saw had nothing to do with Jessie Jackson and took it upon themselves to get there for work.
18 posted on 12/12/2005 7:53:56 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: wideawake

Both


19 posted on 12/12/2005 7:55:57 AM PST by El Gran Salseron (The FR Canteen's Resident E. O. M. C. P......)
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To: houeto

As Mardi Gras is now, would Alabama folks except it?


20 posted on 12/12/2005 7:56:19 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (The opposite of Progress is Congress)
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